Maud Devos
List of John Benjamins publications for which Maud Devos plays a role.
Articles
2013 Describing and explaining the variation of Bantu imperatives and prohibitives Studies in Language 37:1, pp. 1–57 | Article
This paper describes Bantu imperatival and prohibitival speech acts. The study is set against the background of the formal instability of directives and grammaticalization theory. On the basis of a sample of 100 languages, we conclude that imperatival strategies are limited to imperatives,… read more
2010 ‘Go’ on a rare grammaticalisation path to focus Linguistics in the Netherlands 2010, Kampen, Jacqueline van and Rick Nouwen (eds.), pp. 45–58 | Article