Nicoletta Romeo

List of John Benjamins publications in which Nicoletta Romeo is involved.

Title

Aspect in Burmese: Meaning and function

Nicoletta Romeo

The book presents an overview of the aspectual system of Burmese, and it focuses on the analysis and description of the meaning and function of some aspectual markers which are among the most commonly used in the language. The analysis highlights a few important facts. Firstly, these markers, which… read more

[Studies in Language Companion Series, 96] 2008. xv, 289 pp.

Article

Romeo, Nicoletta 2009 The grammaticalised use of the Burmese verbs la ‘come’ and thwà ‘go’ Cross-linguistic Semantics of Tense, Aspect, and Modality, Hogeweg, Lotte, Helen de Hoop and Andrej L. Malchukov (eds.), pp. 131–154 | Article

This paper describes the grammatical uses of the Burmese motion verbs la ‘come’ and thwà ‘go’. The verbal markers -la ‘come’ and thwà ‘go’ fulfil different functionsaccording to (1) the semantics of the verb they modify, (2) the way in whichevents are represented in the clause/sentence, and (3) the… read more