Delia Bentley

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List of John Benjamins publications for which Delia Bentley plays a role.

Title

Historical Linguistics 1995: Volume 1: General issues and non-Germanic Languages.. Selected papers from the 12th International Conference on Historical Linguistics, Manchester, August 1995

Edited by John Charles Smith and Delia Bentley

[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 161] 2000. xii, 438 pp.

Subjects Historical linguistics

Articles (4) | Order by:

Bentley, Delia and Kiyoko Toratani 2023 Reflections on the study of language: An interview with Robert D. Van Valin, Jr. Review of Cognitive Linguistics 21:2, pp. 576–595 | Discussion

This article reports an interview with Robert D. Van Valin, Jr., which was held on March 2, 2023, with follow-up e-mail exchanges. Robert Van Valin is the primary developer of Role and Reference Grammar (RRG), a syntactic theory whose principles and commitments intersect with those of Cognitive… read more

Bentley, Delia 2008 The interplay of focus structure and syntax: Evidence from two sister languages Investigations of the Syntax–Semantics–Pragmatics Interface, Van Valin Jr., Robert D. (ed.), pp. 263–284 | Article

I examine Italian and Sicilian main-clause word order drawing upon Van Valin (1993, 1999, 2005) and Van Valin & LaPolla (1997). Van Valin’s (1999) hypothesis on the typology of the interplay of focus structure and syntax is corroborated by micro-parametric variation. Although Italian is subject to… read more

Bentley, Delia and Thórhallur Eythórsson 2001 Alternation according to person in Italo-Romance Historical Linguistics 1999: Selected papers from the 14th International Conference on Historical Linguistics, Vancouver, 9–13 August 1999, Brinton, Laurel J. (ed.), pp. 63–74 | Article

Bentley, Delia 2000 Metonymy and Metaphor in the Evolution of Modal Verbs: Evidence from Italo-Romance Modal Verbs in Germanic and Romance Languages, Auwera, Johan van der and Patrick Dendale (eds.), pp. 1–22 | Article

Abstract. The semantic development of the Italo-Romance outcomes of habeo (plus particle) and infinitive does not involve any dramatic changes. The earliest attestations of Sardinian áere a already express prototypical futurity (alongside deontic modality). On the other hand, a number of minimal… read more