Gavin Bembridge
List of John Benjamins publications in which Gavin Bembridge is involved.
Articles
2022 ASL negative incorporation as negative suppletion Sign Language & Linguistics 25:2, pp. 135–162 | Article
While there are several analyses of negation in American Sign Language (ASL), the phenomenon of negative incorporation has been overlooked in the generative literature, except for Sandler’s (1999) phonological analysis. The phonological approach makes several useful generalizations but is not… read more
2022 Chapter 12. Formality by distance in Spanish and Catalan Points of Convergence in Romance Linguistics: Papers selected from the 48th Linguistic Symposium on Romance Languages (LSRL 48), Toronto, 25-28 April 2018, Alboiu, Gabriela and Ruth King (eds.), pp. 207–222 | Chapter
Unlike the pragmatic literature, a pronoun’s ability to distinguish levels of formality has received relatively little dedicated attention in the syntactic literature. One definition of formality from the politeness literature defines it as social distance (Brown & Levinson 1987). We take the… read more