Cynthia A. Johnson
List of John Benjamins publications in which Cynthia A. Johnson is involved.
Articles
2019 Argument structure, conceptual metaphor and semantic change: How to succeed in Indo-European without really trying Diachronica 36:4, pp. 463–507 | Article
In contrast to grammaticalization studies of lexical verbs changing into auxiliaries, the realm of semantic changes associated with lexical verbs is an understudied area of historical semantics. We concentrate on the emergence of verbs of success from more semantically concrete verbs, uncovering… read more
2016 Review of Walkden (2014): Syntactic reconstruction and Proto-Germanic Diachronica 33:1, pp. 138–143 | Review
2014 Morphology and syntax … and semantics … and pragmatics: Deconstructing “semantic agreement” Morphology and its interfaces: Syntax, semantics and the lexicon, Amiot, Dany, Delphine Tribout, Natalia Grabar, Cédric Patin and Fayssal Tayalati (eds.), pp. 306–321 | Article
Agreement minimally involves interaction between morphology and syntax, as a target’s features vary according to the morphological form of a controller in a given syntactic context. However, semantics can also play a role, and the term “semantic agreement” has been used to describe various… read more