Nicolas Tournadre
List of John Benjamins publications for which Nicolas Tournadre plays a role.
Articles
2021 Chapter 7. The semantics of the verb give in Tibetan: The development of the transfer construction and the honorific domain Give Constructions across Languages, Bouveret, Myriam (ed.), pp. 175–193 | Chapter
This paper aims to examine the behaviour of the equivalents of ‘give’ in Lhasa Tibetan in order to confirm, qualify or invalidate the universal tendencies that previous cross-linguistic research has unveiled (Newman 1996, Ed., 1997). We will first explore the semantic relations between the… read more
2016 The future tenses in the Tibetic languages: Diachronic and dialectal perspectives Aspectuality and Temporality: Descriptive and theoretical issues, Guentchéva, Zlatka (ed.), pp. 625–642 | Article
In this paper, I will present the various types of futures in the Tibetic languages and their relationship to other tenses, aspects and modalities. Tibetic languages constitute a compact family of languages derived from Old Tibetan spoken in six countries (China, India, Bhutan, Nepal, Pakistan and… read more
2014 Towards a new approach to evidentiality: Issues and directions for research Linguistics of the Tibeto-Burman Area 37:2, pp. 240–263 | Article
Evidentiality is often defined as the grammatical means of expressing information source. This paper argues for a broader definition of evidentials, as close work documenting languages has shown that simply saying evidentials mark source of information does not capture all of the actual uses of… read more