Eva Schultze-Berndt
List of John Benjamins publications in which Eva Schultze-Berndt is involved.
2026 Chapter 24. Information structure and the agent-first preference: A corpus-based case study of a free word order language The Documentarist Turn: From observable linguistic behaviour to typological generalizations, Riesberg, Sonja, Uta Reinöhl and Birgit Hellwig (eds.), pp. 671–703 | Chapter
This paper investigates correlations between information structure and constituent order patterns in transitive clauses extracted from recorded texts in Jaminjung-Ngaliwurru, an Australian language of the Mirndi family without a dominant constituent order at clause level. In transitive clauses… read more
2017 Two classes of verbs in Northern Australian languages: Implications for the typology of polycategoriality Lexical Polycategoriality: Cross-linguistic, cross-theoretical and language acquisition approaches, Vapnarsky, Valentina and Edy Veneziano (eds.), pp. 243–271 | Chapter
This paper discusses some of the implications for the typology of parts of speech – including the notion of polycategoriality – of the existence, in some Australian languages, of two clearly distinct lexical categories which meet the common definition of “verb”. Both appear exclusively in… read more
2003 Constructions in language description The Interaction of Data, Description, and Theory in Linguistics: Functional perspectives, McGregor, William B. (ed.), pp. 269–310 | Article
This paper addresses some rarely-discussed theoretical and methodological issues in the application of a monostratal, construction-based linguistic model to language description. Constructions, in this approach, are defined as complex, schematic signs which are non-compositional, i.e. which have… read more
2001 Ideophone-like characteristics of uninflected predicates in Jaminjung (Australia) Ideophones, Voeltz, F.K. Erhard and Christa Kilian-Hatz (eds.), pp. 355–373 | Article