Emilia Melara

List of John Benjamins publications in which Emilia Melara is involved.

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Melara, Emilia 2025 Chapter 3. Mauritian root modals are raising verbs New Perspectives on Mauritian Creole and Reunion Creole: Standardization, grammar and language use, Alleesaib, Muhsina and Julie Lefort (eds.), pp. 96–118 | Chapter
In Mauritian Creole, the forms kapav and bizin are interpreted as epistemic or root modals depending on where they appear. They express root modality before the verb and epistemic modality preceding TMA markers. I argue that Mauritian Creole root modals are raising verbs that select VoiceP. I… read more
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