Louise McNally
List of John Benjamins publications in which Louise McNally is involved.
Articles
2026 The anatomy of a verb: Tear, rasgar , and lexical equivalence Languages in Contrast 26:1, pp. 85–108 | Article
Figurative polysemy, in which a word’s original meaning is extended into domains for which it did not originally apply, is a pervasive property of human language. Previous research using cross-linguistic (English/Spanish) data has shown that an important set of similarities and differences in… read more
2017 On the scalar properties and telicity of degree achievements Boundaries, Phases and Interfaces: Case studies in honor of Violeta Demonte, Fernández-Soriano, Olga, Elena Castroviejo Miró and Isabel Pérez-Jiménez (eds.), pp. 173–192 | Chapter
Kennedy & Levin (2008) argue that the aspectual properties of so-called degree achievement (DA) verbs (e.g. darken) can largely be predicted from the scale structure of the adjectives to which they are derivationally related (e.g. dark). Specifically, when the adjective is evaluated on a scale that… read more