Renée Lambert-Brétière

List of John Benjamins publications for which Renée Lambert-Brétière plays a role.

Articles

Lambert-Brétière, Renée 2021 How to smell without a verb “to smell” in Fon The Linguistics of Olfaction: Typological and Diachronic Approaches to Synchronic Diversity, Jędrzejowski, Łukasz and Przemysław Staniewski (eds.), pp. 199–220 | Chapter

This chapter presents an overview of the constructions used in Fon, a Kwa language spoken in Benin, to express olfaction. There is no verb meaning expressly ‘to smell’ in this language, and the lexicon dedicated to this sensory modality is rather poor, even if a few ideophones are found to… read more

Lefebvre, Claire and Renée Lambert-Brétière 2014 A note on the Haitian double-object construction and the relabelling-based account of creole genesis Journal of Pidgin and Creole Languages 29:1, pp. 143–156 | Article

Lambert-Brétière, Renée 2009 Serializing languages as satellite-framed: The case of Fon Annual Review of Cognitive Linguistics: Volume 7, Ruiz de Mendoza Ibáñez, Francisco José (ed.), pp. 1–29 | Article

Languages expressing motion events through serial verb constructions are categorized in various ways according to the typology of motion events. This paper challenges the typological classification of serializing languages by proposing that a serializing language like Fon is better analyzed as a… read more