John R. Roberts

List of John Benjamins publications in which John R. Roberts is involved.

Roberts, John R. 2012 Serial verbs in English: An RRG analysis of catenative verb constructions Functions of Language 19:2, pp. 201–234 | Article

Serial verb constructions (SVCs) are found in Creole languages and in the languages of West Africa, Southeast Asia, Amazonia, Oceania, and New Guinea. In this article we examine catenative verb constructions (CVCs) in English from a Role and Reference Grammar perspective and compare them with SVCs. read more

Roberts, John R. 2011 Review of Van Valin (2008): Investigations of the syntax-semantics-pragmatics interface Functions of Language 18:1, pp. 108–118 | Review

Roberts, John R. 2001 Impersonal constructions in Amele Non-canonical Marking of Subjects and Objects, Aikhenvald, Alexandra Y., R.M.W. Dixon and Masayuki Onishi (eds.), pp. 201–250 | Article

Roberts, John R. 1998 GIVE in Amele The Linguistics of Giving, Newman, John (ed.), pp. 1–34 | Article

Roberts, John R. 1993 Haiman, John. Hua-English Dictionary Studies in Language 17:2, pp. 504–506 | Squib

Andersen, T. David and John R. Roberts 1991 Hodiernal vs. Nondiernal Studies in Language 15:2, pp. 295–299 | Article