Anaïd Donabédian
List of John Benjamins publications in which Anaïd Donabédian is involved.
Yearbook
ISSN 0774-5141 | E‑ISSN 1569‑9676
Title
Topicality and the Shaping of Grammar: New perspectives from lesser-studied languages
Edited by Enrique L. Palancar, Claudine Chamoreau and Anaïd Donabédian
This volume places topicality at the very heart of grammatical explanation, drawing on richly annotated discourse corpora from lesser-studied languages across the Americas and beyond. Through nine original studies, it demonstrates how aspects of discourse relevance (rather than just abstract… read more[Typological Studies in Language, 137] 2026. vii, 340 pp. + index
Articles
2026 Chapter 6. Word order, anaphora, and topicality in Eastern Armenian Topicality and the Shaping of Grammar: New perspectives from lesser-studied languages, Palancar, Enrique L., Claudine Chamoreau and Anaïd Donabédian (eds.), pp. 188–218 | Chapter
The main aim of this study was to use the methodologies of Du Bois (1987) and Givón (1983) to investigate the relationships between various features associated with topicality (role (A, S, O), humanness, givenness, person, topic persistence (TP), referential distance (RD)) and the type and… read more
2026 Introduction Topicality and the Shaping of Grammar: New perspectives from lesser-studied languages, Palancar, Enrique L., Claudine Chamoreau and Anaïd Donabédian (eds.), pp. 1–7 | Chapter
2016 The aorist in Modern Armenian: Core values and contextual meanings Aspectuality and Temporality: Descriptive and theoretical issues, Guentchéva, Zlatka (ed.), pp. 375–412 | Article
With a remarkably stable morphology since Classical Armenian, the aorist has a very special place in the TMA system of Modern Armenian: since all tenses need either a particle or an auxiliary to be actualized, the aorist is the only synthetic, self-actualized form. The aim of this paper is to… read more