John David Storment
List of John Benjamins publications in which John David Storment is involved.
Articles
2025 Predicate nominals in Tshila Linguistic Variation 25:2, pp. 375–416 | Article
Tshila /tshílà/ is a Kalahari Khoe language spoken in central-southeastern Botswana by approximately 300 people (Schwab & Collins 2024). It is an SOV language. Tshila has a copular predicate nominal construction with the word order [Noun Noun COP]. The nouns in this language can vary in size… read more
2021 Going city: Directional predicates and preposition incorporation in youth vernaculars of Dutch Linguistics in the Netherlands 2021, Dingemanse, Mark, Eva van Lier and Jorrig Vogels (eds.), pp. 65–80 | Article
In certain varieties of Dutch spoken among young people, the preposition and determiner in locative and directional PPs can sometimes be omitted. We argue on the basis of language data taken from Twitter and intuitions of young speakers of Dutch that nominal arguments in these constructions do… read more