Ora Matushansky

List of John Benjamins publications in which Ora Matushansky is involved.

Title

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.

Article

Matushansky, Ora 2021 Intersecting location and possession Into adpositions: New formal perspectives on the structure of the PP and its variation, Acedo-Matellán, Víctor, Theresa Biberauer, Jaume Mateu and Anna Pineda (eds.), pp. 174–213 | Article

The focus of this paper is the possessive relation arising in several configurations between the complement of a locative preposition (u ‘at/by’ and k(o) ‘towards’ in Russian, bij ‘by’ in Dutch and la ‘to/at’ in Romanian, henceforth, u-preposition, heading a u-PP) and another NP in the same… read more