Ashwini Deo
List of John Benjamins publications for which Ashwini Deo plays a role.
Articles
2020 The Progressive-to-Imperfective shift: Contextually determined variation in Rioplatense, Iberian, and Mexican Altiplano Spanish Hispanic Linguistics: Current issues and new directions, Morales-Front, Alfonso, Michael J. Ferreira, Ronald P. Leow and Cristina Sanz (eds.), pp. 119–136 | Chapter
Spanish has two markers (claimed to be in free alternation) to convey that an event is in progress at reference time: the Simple Present (e.g., canta, ‘sings’) and the Present Progressive (e.g., está cantando, ‘is singing’). Based on evidence from sentence acceptability studies in three… read more
2012 Complement Coercion: Distinguishing between type-shifting and pragmatic inferencing The Mental Lexicon 7:1, pp. 58–76 | Article
Although Complement Coercion has been systematically associated with computational cost, there remains a serious confound in the experimental evidence built up in previous studies. The confound arises from the fact that lexico-semantic differences within the set of verbs assumed to involve coercion… read more
2010 Chapter 8. A new methodology for the study of aspect in contact: Past and progressive in Indian English Aspect in Grammatical Variation, Walker, James A. (ed.), pp. 111–130 | Article