Elisabeth Verhoeven

List of John Benjamins publications in which Elisabeth Verhoeven is involved.

Title

Experiential Constructions in Yucatec Maya: A typologically based analysis of a functional domain in a Mayan language

Elisabeth Verhoeven

This book combines a fieldwork-based language-specific analysis with a typological investigation. It offers a detailed and comprehensive analysis of the form and semantics of experiencer constructions in Yucatec, the Mayan language of the Yucatecan peninsula in Mexico. Since the linguistic… read more

[Studies in Language Companion Series, 87] 2007. xiv, 380 pp.

Articles

Verhoeven, Elisabeth 2017 Scales or features in verb meaning? Verb classes as predictors of syntactic behavior Current trends in analyzing syntactic variation, De Cuypere, Ludovic, Clara Vanderschueren and Gert de Sutter (eds.), pp. 165–194 | Article

Several syntactic properties of verbal heads are accounted for through their semantic properties. Verbal features such as agentivity, volitionality, stativity etc. have been proven a useful tool for predicting several aspects of their syntactic behavior such as passivization, auxiliary selection… read more

Verhoeven, Elisabeth 2010 Transitivity in Chinese experiencer object verbs Transitivity: Form, Meaning, Acquisition, and Processing, Brandt, Patrick and Marco García García (eds.), pp. 95–118 | Article

This article discusses semantic and syntactic properties of experiencer object constructions in Chinese. Cross-linguistically, experiencer object verbs have been shown to display some special semanto-syntactic properties which distinguish them from canonical transitive verbs. This has led to the… read more

Lehmann, Christian and Elisabeth Verhoeven 2006 Extraversive transitivization in Yucatec Maya and the nature of the applicative Case, Valency and Transitivity, Kulikov, Leonid, Andrej L. Malchukov and Peter de Swart (eds.), pp. 465–493 | Article