Lexical Polycategoriality: Cross-linguistic, cross-theoretical and language acquisition approaches
Edited by Valentina Vapnarsky and Edy Veneziano
[Studies in Language Companion Series, 182] 2017. xiii, 479 pp.
Valentina Vapnarsky
List of John Benjamins publications for which Valentina Vapnarsky plays a role.
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Subjects Language acquisition | Morphology | Psycholinguistics | Semantics | Syntax | Theoretical linguistics
Articles
2017 Polycategoriality and hybridity across Mayan languages: Action nouns and ergative splits Lexical Polycategoriality: Cross-linguistic, cross-theoretical and language acquisition approaches, Vapnarsky, Valentina and Edy Veneziano (eds.), pp. 101–153 | Chapter
This article presents a comparative study of Mayan languages belonging to three different branches (Cholan, Tseltalan and Yucatecan), with respect to polycategoriality. Mayan languages appear to be particularly interesting for exploring polycategoriality for several structural reasons, as well as… read more
2017 Lexical Polycategoriality: Cross-linguistic, cross-theoretical and language acquisition approaches: An introduction Lexical Polycategoriality: Cross-linguistic, cross-theoretical and language acquisition approaches, Vapnarsky, Valentina and Edy Veneziano (eds.), pp. 1–31 | Chapter
2016 No escape from the future: Temporal frames and prediction in Yucatec Maya* Aspectuality and Temporality: Descriptive and theoretical issues, Guentchéva, Zlatka (ed.), pp. 643–678 | Article
This article deals with debated questions on the semantics and cognition of temporality: the existence of tenseless languages, the cultural variability of the representation of the future and the plurality of temporal frames and its contextdependency. It explores the hypothesis that even in… read more