Francesca Merlan
List of John Benjamins publications for which Francesca Merlan plays a role.
Articles
2017 Flexibles and polyvalence in Ku Waru: A developmental perspective Lexical Polycategoriality: Cross-linguistic, cross-theoretical and language acquisition approaches, Vapnarsky, Valentina and Edy Veneziano (eds.), pp. 307–341 | Chapter
This chapter concerns the nature and universality of word classes and their relation to syntagmatic types. Having thought through these issues on the basis of material from a Papuan language, Ku Waru, of the Western Highlands of Papua New Guinea, in this paper we make use of child language… read more
2016 Correlation of textual and spatial reference: This and that Land and Language in Cape York Peninsula and the Gulf Country, Verstraete, Jean-Christophe and Diane Hafner (eds.), pp. 199–218 | Article
This paper considers spatial/textual overlaps in the system of the three basic demonstrative categories, roughly translatable as ‘this’, ‘that’ and ‘yonder’ in Jawoyn, a Gunwinyguan language of the upper Northern Territory. The paper especially focuses on the proximal (‘this’) demonstrative in… read more
1997 New Guinea ‘Classificatory Verbs’ and Australian Noun Classification: A Typological Comparison Nominal Classification in Aboriginal Australia, Harvey, Mark and Nicholas Reid (eds.), pp. 63–104 | Article