Charlotte Hemmings
List of John Benjamins publications in which Charlotte Hemmings is involved.
Articles
2025 Grammaticalization of kidė as a similative marker in Contemporary Enggano Similatives: Semantic sources, pathways, and types of usage, Kisiel, Anna, Hélène Vassiliadou, Valentina Benigni, Beatrice Bernasconi, Lieselotte Brems and Dejan Stosic (eds.), pp. 276–298 | Article
This paper presents a case study of similatives in Enggano, an Austronesian language spoken in Sumatra, Indonesia. It compares and contrasts the expression of similarity in Old Enggano versus Contemporary Enggano using legacy materials collected in 1930s, and a modern corpus collected since 2018… read more
2021 Chapter 18. When an antipassive isn’t an antipassive anymore: The Actor Voice construction in Kelabit Antipassive: Typology, diachrony, and related constructions, Janic, Katarzyna and Alena Witzlack-Makarevich (eds.), pp. 579–620 | Chapter
This paper presents the Actor Voice (av) construction in Kelabit, a Western Austronesian language spoken in Northern Sarawak, Malaysia. It compares Kelabit av with prototypical antipassives and related constructions in the more conservative Western Austronesian languages, using case studies of… read more
2021 Alignment shift as functional markedness reversal Journal of Historical Linguistics 11:2, pp. 299–341 | Article
In this paper, we propose treating alignment shift as a process of functional markedness reversal in the domain of semantically transitive constructions. We illustrate how this approach allows us to capture similarities between the alignment shifts in Eskimo-Aleut and Western Austronesian… read more