Ewa D. Zakrzewska
List of John Benjamins publications in which Ewa D. Zakrzewska is involved.
2026 Chapter 12. A layered approach to habitual constructions: Typological generalizations A Layered Approach to Habitual Constructions, Gregersen, Sune and Kees Hengeveld (eds.), pp. 372–385 | Chapter
This chapter presents typological generalizations that can be derived from a comparison of the data presented in Chapters 2–11 in this volume. The languages are compared in the light of the two predictions presented in Chapter 1: (i) across and within languages, dedicated habitual expressions… read more
2026 Chapter 2. The habitual construction in Sahidic Coptic A Layered Approach to Habitual Constructions, Gregersen, Sune and Kees Hengeveld (eds.), pp. 42–79 | Chapter
This chapter offers the first synchronic functional analysis of the Habitual in Sahidic Coptic. It is based on six recently edited or re-edited textual sources. We demonstrate that the semantically prototypical Habitual, marked by the morpheme šare/ša= or its alternants, occurs in the narrative… read more
2017 Complex verbs in Bohairic Coptic: Language contact and valency Argument Realisation in Complex Predicates and Complex Events: Verb-verb constructions at the syntax-semantic interface, Nolan, Brian and Elke Diedrichsen (eds.), pp. 213–244 | Article
This chapter discusses second argument markers in Bohairic Coptic complex verbs constructed with the light verbs er‑ ‘do, make’ and ti- ‘give’ and typically used to integrate verbal borrowings from Greek. The question is examined if Coptic argument marking can be considered a replica of Greek… read more
2015 GIVE an its arguments in Bohairic Coptic Causation, Permission, and Transfer: Argument realisation in GET, TAKE, PUT, GIVE and LET verbs, Nolan, Brian, Gudrun Rawoens and Elke Diedrichsen (eds.), pp. 227–252 | Article
The subject of this chapter is the competition between two prepositional markers of the Recipient, n- (the dedicated ‘dative’ marker) and e- (basically a marker of the allative), as used with the verb ti ‘give’ and some of its derivates, especially performative verbs, in Bohairic Coptic. The… read more


