Ljuba N. Veselinova

List of John Benjamins publications in which Ljuba N. Veselinova is involved.

Title

Suppletion in Verb Paradigms: Bits and pieces of the puzzle

Ljuba N. Veselinova

This book examines stem change in verb paradigms, as in English go 'go.PRESENT' vs. went 'go.PAST', a phenomenon referred to as suppletion in current linguistic theory. The work is based on a broad sample of 193 languages, and examines this long neglected phenomenon from a typological perspective.… read more

[Typological Studies in Language, 67] 2006. xviii, 236 pp.

Articles

Veselinova, Ljuba N. 2016 The negative existential cycle viewed through the lens of comparative data Cyclical Change Continued, Gelderen, Elly van (ed.), pp. 139–188 | Article

In this paper a family-based sample is used in order to test the model of evolution of standard negation markers from negative existentials suggested by Croft (1991) and known as the Negative Existential Cycle (NEC). The comparative data collected here were analyzed and classified following the… read more

Veselinova, Ljuba N. 2015 Special negators in the Uralic languages: Synchrony, diachrony and interaction with standard negation Negation in Uralic Languages, Miestamo, Matti, Anne Tamm and Beáta Wagner-Nagy (eds.), pp. 547–600 | Article

This study covers data from 26 Uralic languages and has both a synchronic and a diachronic orientation. The synchronic part includes a detailed description of the negation strategies in sentences such as (i) Mary is not a nurse and (ii) There are no wild cats. The negators used in such clauses are… read more