Split Possession: An areal-linguistic study of the alienability correlation and related phenomena in the languages of Europe
Thomas Stolz, Sonja Kettler, Cornelia Stroh and Aina Urdze
[Studies in Language Companion Series, 101] 2008. x, 546 pp.
Aina Urdze
List of John Benjamins publications for which Aina Urdze plays a role.
Title
Subjects Semantics | Syntax | Theoretical linguistics
Articles
2017 Spatial interrogatives: Typology and dynamics (with special focus on the development from Latin to Romance) Space in Diachrony, Luraghi, Silvia, Tatiana Nikitina and Chiara Zanchi (eds.), pp. 207–240 | Chapter
This paper explores the diachronic behavior of the paradigms of the spatial interrogatives where, whither, and whence in forty-five contemporary Romance varieties by way of comparing them to the facts reported for their common ancestor: Latin. It is shown that the vast majority of the paradigms… read more
2015 When some dots turn a different color…: Thoughts on how (not) to determine whether or not reduplication is universal The Why and How of Total Reduplication: Current Issues and New Perspectives, Rossi, Daniela (ed.), pp. 795–834 | Article
This paper examines some of the problems which arise in connection with the question of whether or not reduplication is a language universal. The point of departure of the study is Moravcsik’s (1978) seminal paper on reduplicative constructions in cross-linguistic perspective. In the main body of… read more