Harriet Sheppard
List of John Benjamins publications in which Harriet Sheppard is involved.
Articles
2024 What counts as a relevant gesture in the study of multimodal event expressions? Gesture 23:3, pp. 217–258 | Article
This article explores how methodological decisions about which gestures to include impact the analysis of multimodal event representation. Gestures commonly temporally align with semantically co-expressive speech. However, when we consider not single concepts but whole events the picture gets… read more
2022 Cross-linguistic patterns in the lexicalisation of bring and take Studies in Language 46:4, pp. 934–993 | Article
This study investigates the linguistic expression of bring and take events and more generally of the semantic domain of directed caused accompanied motion (‘directed CAM’) across a sample of eight languages of the Pacific and the Americas. Unlike English, the majority of languages in our sample… read more
2022 Directed caused accompanied motion events in Sudest, an Oceanic language with classificatory verbs Caused Accompanied Motion: Bringing and taking events in a cross-linguistic perspective, Margetts, Anna, Sonja Riesberg and Birgit Hellwig (eds.), pp. 187–217 | Chapter
This chapter explores the expression of directed caused accompanied motion events (directed CAM) in Sudest, an Austronesian language of Vanatɨna and Yeina Islands, Papua New Guinea. Directed CAM expressions in Sudest typically involve a caused motion verb in combination with a directional… read more