Helga Schröder
List of John Benjamins publications in which Helga Schröder is involved.
Articles
2024 Chapter 14. Verbal lexicalization and cultural domains in Toposa Anthropological Linguistics: Perspectives from Africa, Hollington, Andrea, Alice Mitchell and Nico Nassenstein (eds.), pp. 367–392 | Chapter
Toposa, an Eastern Nilotic language of South Sudan, packages a great deal of semantic information in verb roots. This chapter investigates whether lexicalization processes in the verb can be linked to the emergence of cultural “schemas”, “frames” or “scenarios” (Goddard & Wierzbicka, 2014). The… read more
2016 Reference assignment in pronominal argument languages: A relevance-theoretic perspective Relevance Theory: Recent developments, current challenges and future directions, Padilla Cruz, Manuel (ed.), pp. 81–102 | Article
Using data from Toposa and Kiswahili, this article demonstrates that the reference assignment in pronominal languages does not only constrain the process of identifying the intended referent, but the pronominal marking on the verb also assists with disambiguating whether a nominal expression has… read more