Paula Radetzky

List of John Benjamins publications for which Paula Radetzky plays a role.

Article

Radetzky, Paula and Tomoko Yamashita Smith 2010 An areal and cross-linguistic study of benefactive and malefactive constructionsBenefactives and Malefactives: Typological perspectives and case studies, Zúñiga, Fernando and Seppo Kittilä (eds.), pp. 97–120 | Article
In this study, we compare languages of Europe with those in Asia, establishing a two-part typology of strategies that these languages use to express notions of benefactivity and malefactivity. Languages in Europe have a generalized and semantically underspecified affectedness construction as the… read more