Martine Bruil
List of John Benjamins publications for which Martine Bruil plays a role.
Articles
2021 The Ecuadorian Spanish benefactive and its inherent aspect: A reconstruction Spanish in Context 18:3, pp. 459–478 | Article
The Spanish benefactive verbal periphrasis dar ‘give’ + gerund is unique to the Spanish spoken in Ecuador and it seems to have emerged in the historical Ecuadorian context of multilingualism. The analysis presented sheds light to the intricacies of the construction, taking into consideration the… read more
2019 Chapter 10. The rise of the nominalizations: The case of the grammaticalization of clause types in Ecuadorian Siona Nominalization in Languages of the Americas, Zariquiey, Roberto, Masayoshi Shibatani and David W. Fleck (eds.), pp. 391–417 | Chapter
The nominalization of verbs in Ecuadorian Siona is carried out by nominal classifiers. The major types of nominalization in the language are event nominalization and subject nominalization. Object nominalization needs additional morphology. When verbs are not nominalized they carry portmanteau… read more
2018 The development of the portmanteau verbal morphology in Ecuadorian Siona: A story of the formal merger of linguistic categories The Evolution of Argument Coding Patterns in South American Languages, Guillaume, Antoine and Spike Gildea (eds.), pp. 128–167 | Article
Subject marking in the Western Tukanoan language Ecuadorian Siona is part of a complex system of portmanteau morphology that also marks tense and clause type. This system shows a remarkable number of regularities that hint that it might be possible to tease apart these functions. Synchronically,… read more