Aina Urdze

List of John Benjamins publications in which Aina Urdze is involved.

Title

Split Possession: An areal-linguistic study of the alienability correlation and related phenomena in the languages of Europe

Thomas Stolz, Sonja Kettler, Cornelia Stroh and Aina Urdze

This book is a functional-typological study of possession splits in European languages. It shows that genetically and structurally diverse languages such as Icelandic, Welsh, and Maltese display possessive systems which are sensitive to semantically based distinctions reminiscent of the… read more

[Studies in Language Companion Series, 101] 2008. x, 546 pp.

Articles

Stolz, Thomas, Nataliya Levkovych and Aina Urdze 2017 Spatial interrogatives: Typology and dynamics (with special focus on the development from Latin to Romance) Space in Diachrony, Luraghi, Silvia, Tatiana Nikitina and Chiara Zanchi (eds.), pp. 207–240 | Chapter

This paper explores the diachronic behavior of the paradigms of the spatial interrogatives where, whither, and whence in forty-five contemporary Romance varieties by way of comparing them to the facts reported for their common ancestor: Latin. It is shown that the vast majority of the paradigms… read more

Stolz, Thomas, Aina Urdze, Julia Nintemann and Marina Tsareva 2015 When some dots turn a different color…: Thoughts on how (not) to determine whether or not reduplication is universal The Why and How of Total Reduplication: Current Issues and New Perspectives, Rossi, Daniela (ed.), pp. 795–834 | Article

This paper examines some of the problems which arise in connection with the question of whether or not reduplication is a language universal. The point of departure of the study is Moravcsik’s (1978) seminal paper on reduplicative constructions in cross-linguistic perspective. In the main body of… read more