Catherine O'Connor
List of John Benjamins publications for which Catherine O'Connor plays a role.
Articles
2014 Non-promotional passives and unspecified subject constructions: Navigating the typological Kuiper Belt Perspectives on Linguistic Structure and Context: Studies in honor of Knud Lambrecht, Katz Bourns, Stacey and Lindsy L. Myers (eds.), pp. 17–38 | Article
The passive construction, one of the most scrutinized across varying theoretical and typological perspectives, sometimes gives rise to disagreements among linguists about the membership of particular cases. “Non-promotional” passives are a key example: they lack overt subjects but govern accusative… read more
2013 Nominal categories and the expression of possession: A cross-linguistic study of probabilistic tendencies and categorical constraints Morphosyntactic Categories and the Expression of Possession, Börjars, Kersti, David Denison and Alan K. Scott (eds.), pp. 89–122 | Article
In this cross-linguistic study we present parallels between (a) the stochastic patterns found in corpus studies of English prenominal possessives, and (b) the rule-governed, categorical features of a highly constrained prenominal possessive construction found in some Germanic, Slavic, and Romance… read more