Thera Marie Crane
List of John Benjamins publications in which Thera Marie Crane is involved.
Articles
2025 What can be said? Variation among expressions of modal possibility in a South African language cluster Studies in Language 49:1, pp. 44–92 | Article
We employ a cluster approach to explore the comparative semantic maps of several markers of modal possibility – the “potential” prefix nga‑ and expressions meaning, roughly, ‘know how to’ and ‘be able to’ – in four South African Nguni languages: isiNdebele, isiZulu, isiXhosa, Siswati. We also… read more
2024 Doing things with grammar: Presupposition accommodation across grammatical categories Functions of Language 31:2, pp. 166–207 | Article
This paper studies the way utterances project properties of the interactional context via the choice of grammatical indexicals. Our analysis is an original combination of existing theoretical developments including notions of grammatical indexicality (Silverstein 1976), of the relational… read more
2015 The roles of Dissociative and (Non-)Completive morphology in structuring Totela (Bantu) narratives Beyond Aspect: The expression of discourse functions in African languages, Payne, Doris L. and Shahar Shirtz (eds.), pp. 145–176 | Article
In Totela, infinitive-based ‘narrative’ morphology alternates with forms inflected for tense and aspect. While narrative morphology can depict sequential events, inflected forms are used with both non-sequential and sequential event predicates. When inflected forms appear, especially in contexts… read more