Source-Goal (a)symmetries across languages
Edited by Anetta Kopecka and Marine Vuillermet
Special issue of Studies in Language 45:1 (2021) v, 275 pp.
Marine Vuillermet
List of John Benjamins publications for which Marine Vuillermet plays a role.
Titles
Subjects Functional linguistics | Theoretical linguistics | Typology
Morphology and emotions across the world's languages
Edited by Maïa Ponsonnet and Marine Vuillermet
Special issue of Studies in Language 42:1 (2018) v, 295 pp.
Subjects Functional linguistics | Theoretical linguistics | Typology
2025 Is there a typological profile of isolates? Investigating Language Isolates: Typological and diachronic perspectives, Salaberri, Iker, Dorota Krajewska, Ekaitz Santazilia and Eneko Zuloaga (eds.), pp. 22–47 | Chapter
Across the linguistic literature, one occasionally encounters claims of typological differences between isolates and non-isolates, but these are often vague, and tend to use isolates as proxies for small community size, hunter-gatherer societies, and/or socially/geographically isolated languages. read more
2021 Source-Goal (a)symmetries across languages: Goal (a)symmetries across languages Source-Goal (a)symmetries across languages, Kopecka, Anetta and Marine Vuillermet (eds.), pp. 2–35 | Introduction
2021 Source-Goal asymmetries in Ese Ejja Source-Goal (a)symmetries across languages, Kopecka, Anetta and Marine Vuillermet (eds.), pp. 235–275 | Article
Ese Ejja (Takanan) is an endangered language spoken in the Bolivian and Peruvian lowlands. The paper examines the expression of Source and Goal in this Amazonian language and focuses on three types of Source-Goal asymmetries. The first asymmetry concerns the higher number of Goal adnominals than… read more
2018 Introduction: Morphology and emotions: A preliminary typology Morphology and emotions across the world's languages, Ponsonnet, Maïa and Marine Vuillermet (eds.), pp. 1–16 | Introduction
This volume presents nine chapters dealing with emotionally loaded morphology over four continents. The collection is the result of a workshop on “morphology and emotions” (MorphÉm) held by the first author at Dynamique du Langage (CNRS) in Lyon on 29–30 April 2015. In this introduction, we… read more
2018 Grammatical fear morphemes in Ese Ejja: Making the case for a morphosemantic apprehensional domain Morphology and emotions across the world's languages, Ponsonnet, Maïa and Marine Vuillermet (eds.), pp. 256–293 | Article
Grammatical morphemes dedicated to emotions have been little described so far, except for surprise, which may be instantiated in a mirative category. It has even been suggested that an equivalent grammatical encoding for other basic emotions does not seem to occur crosslinguistically. This paper… read more
2014 Two types of incorporation in Ese Ejja (Takanan) Word Formation in South American Languages, Danielsen, Swintha, Katja Hannss and Fernando Zúñiga (eds.), pp. 113–142 | Article
Ese Ejja is an Amazonian language that displays two types of noun incorporation. The first type is typical of the Amazonian area: it occurs within verb predicates, is restricted to inalienable nouns and has no influence on the valency of the verbal predicate. The second type is unusual in that it… read more
2014 The multiple coreference systems in the Ese Ejja subordinate clauses Information Structure and Reference Tracking in Complex Sentences, Gijn, Rik van, Jeremy Hammond, Dejan Matić, Saskia van Putten and Ana Vilacy Galucio (eds.), pp. 341–372 | Article
In Ese Ejja, an ergative Takanan language spoken in Peru and Bolivia, four subordinators with three allomorphs each mark referential congruence or incongruence vis-à-vis their matrix clause. While same-subject/different-subject systems in subordinate clauses are well attested crosslinguistically,… read more