Sheila Dooley

List of John Benjamins publications in which Sheila Dooley is involved.

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Verb First: On the syntax of verb-initial languages

Edited by Andrew Carnie, Heidi Harley and Sheila Dooley

This collection of papers brings together the most recent crosslinguistic research on the syntax of verb-initial languages. Authors with a variety of theoretical perspectives pursue the questions of how verb-initial order is derived, and how these derivations play into the characteristic syntax of… read more

[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 73] 2005. xiv, 431 pp.

Articles (4) | Order by:

Dooley, Sheila 2022 Review of Hoffmann (2019): English Comparative Correlatives: Diachronic and Synchronic Variation at the Lexicon-Syntax Interface Constructions and Frames 14:2, pp. 337–345 | Review

Foreman, John and Sheila Dooley 2015 Chapter 12. Causative morphology in Macuiltianguis Zapotec Valence Changes in Zapotec: Synchrony, diachrony, typology, Operstein, Natalie and Aaron Huey Sonnenschein (eds.), pp. 237–280 | Article

Kaufman (1994–2007) reconstructs three different protoZapotec causative morphemes: *(s)se, *o, and *k. Reflexes of all three are found in the modern Northern Zapotec language of Macuiltianguis Zapotec (MacZ). However, in MacZ they are not all valency increasing morphemes associated with causative… read more

Dooley, Sheila and Ferdinand de Haan 2009 2. On the nature of the approximative expression NUM-odd Time and Again: Theoretical perspectives on formal linguistics, Lewis, William D., Simin Karimi, Heidi Harley and Scott O. Farrar (eds.), pp. 37–53 | Article

In this paper, the morphology, syntax, semantics, and diachrony of expressions liketwenty-odd are described, based on the results of a corpus study which considers data from the British National Corpus, the Oxford English Dictionary, and Google. The -odd suffix appears most frequently with twenty,… read more

Carnie, Andrew, Sheila Dooley and Heidi Harley 2005 Introduction: When verbs come first Verb First: On the syntax of verb-initial languages, Carnie, Andrew, Heidi Harley and Sheila Dooley (eds.), pp. 1–5 | Miscellaneous