Veneeta Dayal
List of John Benjamins publications in which Veneeta Dayal is involved.
Articles
2022 Definiteness and argument position in the interpretation of bare nouns: From L1 Mandarin to L2 English Generative SLA in the Age of Minimalism: Features, interfaces, and beyond, Leal, Tania, Elena Shimanskaya and Casilde A. Isabelli (eds.), pp. 67–92 | Chapter
We investigate the hypothesis that nouns in article-less languages are unambiguous with respect to definiteness, an unambiguity that is evident in the interpretation of ungrammatical “bare” or article-less singular nouns in L2 English. Specifically, we tested the hypothesis that bare nouns in L2… read more
2004 The universal force of free choice any Linguistic Variation Yearbook 2004, Pica, Pierre (ed.), pp. 5–40 | Article
This paper adds to the ongoing debate about the quantificational status of English FC any. It argues that any is a universal, though its universality is such that it can be conjoined with an existential statement. This is established by showing, first of all, that various properties that are… read more
2000 Scope Marking: Cross-Linguistic Variation In Indirect Dependency Wh-Scope Marking, Lutz, Uli, Gereon Müller and Arnim von Stechow (eds.), pp. 157–193 | Article