Jessica Denniss

List of John Benjamins publications for which Jessica Denniss plays a role.

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Denniss, Jessica 2021 Chapter 4. Aspect and modality in Pama-Nyungan antipassivesAntipassive: Typology, diachrony, and related constructions, Janic, Katarzyna and Alena Witzlack-Makarevich (eds.), pp. 97–148 | Chapter
I present data from Pama-Nyungan languages that display aspectual and modal readings in the antipassive construction, and propose that antipassives contain a predicate-internal aspectual morpheme that derives an atelic predicate. Taking a modal approach to aspect unifies the aspectual and modal… read more