Impersonal human reference in Sign Languages
Edited by Gemma Barberà and Patricia Cabredo Hofherr
Special issue of Sign Language & Linguistics 21:2 (2018) v, 216 pp.
Patricia Cabredo Hofherr
List of John Benjamins publications in which Patricia Cabredo Hofherr is involved.
Titles
Adjectives: Formal analyses in syntax and semantics
Edited by Patricia Cabredo Hofherr and Ora Matushansky
Adjectives are comparatively less well studied than the lexical categories of nouns and verbs. The present volume brings together studies in the syntax and semantics of adjectives. Four of the contributions investigate the syntax of adjectives in a variety of languages (English, French, Mandarin… read more[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 153] 2010. vii, 335 pp.
2018 Impersonal human reference in sign languages: Introduction and questionnaire Impersonal human reference in Sign Languages, Barberà, Gemma and Patricia Cabredo Hofherr (eds.), pp. 183–203 | Introduction
2018 Agent-backgrounding in Catalan Sign Language (LSC) Impersonal human reference in Sign Languages, Barberà, Gemma and Patricia Cabredo Hofherr (eds.), pp. 334–348 | Article
This paper examines backgrounding strategies for human agents in Catalan Sign Language, that is, constructions featuring human agents that are non-referential. We identify and analyze four types of agent-backgrounding strategies: subjectless constructions, indefinite pronouns, the impersonal… read more
2012 Preposition-determiner amalgams in German and French at the syntax-morphology interface Comparative Germanic Syntax: The state of the art, Ackema, Peter, Rhona Alcorn, Caroline Heycock, Dany Jaspers, Jeroen van Craenenbroeck and Guido Vanden Wyngaerd (eds.), pp. 99–132 | Article
The present paper examines preposition+determiner amalgams in French and German. I show that French and German P+D amalgams differ with respect to coordination: while German amalgams are transparent for coordination, French amalgams block certain coordinations. I propose that this is due to ta… read more
2010 Adjectives: An introduction Adjectives: Formal analyses in syntax and semantics, Cabredo Hofherr, Patricia and Ora Matushansky (eds.), pp. 1–26 | Article
2010 Implicit agentivity without agents in the syntax: A crosslinguistic analysis of SE-verbs Edges, Heads, and Projections: Interface properties, Di Sciullo, Anna Maria and Virginia Hill (eds.), pp. 47–66 | Article
This paper defends a unified characterization of se-verbs and argues that the passive and middle readings are contextually triggered. The analysis points out that the derivations of agents is independent of the edge properties of ‘little’ v, and thus deviates from Raposo & Uriagereka (1996). The… read more