Alice Vittrant
List of John Benjamins publications in which Alice Vittrant is involved.
Articles
2022 Chapter 4. Deictic directionals revisited in the light of advances in typology Neglected Aspects of Motion-Event Description: Deixis, asymmetries, constructions, Sarda, Laure and Benjamin Fagard (eds.), pp. 69–94 | Chapter
This study explores the issue of Associated Motion (hereafter AM) in five languages spoken in Africa and Asia. We investigate grammatical morphemes whose function is to add a motion process to the event encoded in the verb expressing the main (non-motion) event, and to specify the temporal… read more
2009 Acquisitive modals Cross-linguistic Semantics of Tense, Aspect, and Modality, Hogeweg, Lotte, Helen de Hoop and Andrej L. Malchukov (eds.), pp. 271–302 | Article
The paper explores the fact that ‘get’ etymons may acquire modal meanings. It tries to fit this fact into the modal map proposal of van der Auwera & Plungian (1998) and concludes that the map has to be revised, in part because the lexical input, the predicates meaning ‘get/acquire’ allow more than… read more
2009 Review of Romeo (2008): Aspect in Burmese. Meaning and function Studies in Language 33:3, pp. 766–775 | Review