Maud Devos

List of John Benjamins publications in which Maud Devos is involved.

Articles

Devos, Maud and Daniël Van Olmen 2013 Describing and explaining the variation of Bantu imperatives and prohibitives Studies in Language 37:1, pp. 1–57 | Article

This paper describes Bantu imperatival and prohibitival speech acts. The study is set against the background of the formal instability of directives and grammaticalization theory. On the basis of a sample of 100 languages, we conclude that imperatival strategies are limited to imperatives,… read more

Devos, Maud and Jenneke van der Wal 2010 ‘Go’ on a rare grammaticalisation path to focus Linguistics in the Netherlands 2010, Kampen, Jacqueline van and Rick Nouwen (eds.), pp. 45–58 | Article