Clause Linking and Clause Hierarchy: Syntax and pragmatics
Edited by Isabelle Bril
[Studies in Language Companion Series, 121] 2010. viii, 632 pp.
Isabelle Bril
List of John Benjamins publications for which Isabelle Bril plays a role.
Title
Subjects Pragmatics | Semantics | Syntax | Theoretical linguistics
Articles
2020 Indefinite expressions and accessibility hierarchy to core argument functions in a sample of Austronesian languages (and beyond) Studies in Language 44:2, pp. 407–460 | Article
In many languages, indefinite expressions are known to have restricted access to core argument functions. This article focuses on the accessibility hierarchy of indefinite expressions to subject and object functions in a sample of Austronesian languages. Aiming at some comparative analysis, some… read more
2017 Lexical and syntactic categories in Nêlêmwa (New Caledonia) and some other Austronesian languages: Fluid vs. rigid categoriality Lexical Polycategoriality: Cross-linguistic, cross-theoretical and language acquisition approaches, Vapnarsky, Valentina and Edy Veneziano (eds.), pp. 207–242 | Chapter
In contrast with various Austronesian languages (especially Formosan, Philippine, Polynesian) for which lexical roots are claimed to be functionally unspecified or precategorial, lexical bases in Nêlêmwa (New Caledonia) evidence a clear noun/verb opposition, identifiable by distinctive… read more
2017 Roots and stems in Amis and Nêlêmwa (Austronesian): Lexical categories and functional flexibility Lexical flexibility in Oceanic languages, Lier, Eva van (ed.), pp. 358–407 | Article
In constrast with Nêlêmwa (Oceanic, New Caledonia) whose lexemes are most generally subcategorised as nouns or verbs and undergo category-changing derivations, in Amis (Formosan), roots are pervasively categorially neutral, yet they contain semantic features and instructions that allow or… read more
2016 Tense, aspect and mood in Nêlêmwa (New Caledonia): Encoding events, processes and states Aspectuality and Temporality: Descriptive and theoretical issues, Guentchéva, Zlatka (ed.), pp. 63–108 | Article
Nêlêmwa is an Aspect-Mood oriented language; verbs are unmarked for tense, time reference is expressed by chronology and time adverbs. Aspect hinges on three notions: events (in the aorist), states, and processes. One focus is the contrast between the perfect and the aorist. Bare aorist verb forms… read more
2014 Chapter 7. Number and numeration in Nêlêmwa and Zuanga (New Caledonia): Ontologies, definiteness and pragmatics Number – Constructions and Semantics: Case studies from Africa, Amazonia, India and Oceania, Storch, Anne and Gerrit J. Dimmendaal (eds.), pp. 167–198 | Article
In contrast with some other Austronesian languages, number (i.e. singular, dual, paucal, plural) in Nêlêmwa and Zuanga is generally not marked by inflectional morphology. NP number is marked by demonstrative determiners which also mark definiteness. Numeration makes obligatory use of numeral… read more
2010 Informational and referential hierarchy: Clause-linking strategies in Austronesian-Oceanic languages Clause Linking and Clause Hierarchy: Syntax and pragmatics, Bril, Isabelle (ed.), pp. 269–312 | Article
This paper analyses clause-linking strategies in mostly Austronesian languages, with particular focus on the functions of informational and referential hierarchy strategies in the architecture of complex clauses. Informational (topic, focus) hierarchy and its markers, structure clauses as… read more
2010 Editor’s introduction: The syntax and pragmatics of clause linkage and clause hierarchy: Some new perspectives Clause Linking and Clause Hierarchy: Syntax and pragmatics, Bril, Isabelle (ed.), pp. 1–24 | Article
2007 34. Polysemy of the reciprocal marker in Nêlêmwa Reciprocal Constructions, Nedjalkov, Vladimir P. (ed.), pp. 1479–1509 | Chapter
2004 17. Coordination strategies and inclusory constructions in New Caledonian and other Oceanic languages Coordinating Constructions, Haspelmath, Martin (ed.), pp. 499–533 | Chapter
1.Introduction
1.1 Oceanic languages
1.2 Introduction to Nêlêmwa
2. Noun phrase coordination in Nêlêmwa
2.1 The general dependency marker me ‘and’
2.2 The animate, inclusory NP coordinator ma ‘and, with’
2.3 The additive coordinator ka ~ xa ‘and, also, too’
3.… read more