Benjamin Slade
List of John Benjamins publications in which Benjamin Slade is involved.
2020 Anatomy of Hungarian aspectual particles Approaches to Hungarian: Volume 16: Papers from the 2017 Budapest Conference, Hegedűs, Veronika and Irene Vogel (eds.), pp. 25–46 | Chapter
The paper explores a common core of meaning that various aspectual adverbials in Hungarian (including megint, ismét ‘again’, még ‘still’) share. It is proposed that there is a general definition for various aspectual elements related to times and events. We suggest that some components of those… read more
2019 Quantifier particle environments Linguistic Variation 19:2, pp. 280–351 | Article
I examine the set of environments in which KA-type quantifier particles appear crosslinguistically. These environments include interrogatives, disjunctions, indefinites, all of which arguably involve elements with Hamblin-type ‘alternative’ semantic values. I show that if KA-particles are… read more
2018 Overstanding Idren: Special features of Rasta Talk morphology Journal of Pidgin and Creole Languages 33:2, pp. 280–306 | Article
This study examines two distinctive neologistic processes within Rasta Talk. (1) Overstanding is morphological refashioning of a word that replaces morphemes (actual or perceived) which are misaligned with respect to the connotations of the word itself. Thus the word understanding, bearing… read more
2013 The diachrony of light and auxiliary verbs in Indo-Aryan Diachronica 30:4, pp. 531–578 | Article
This study examines the historical development of light verbs in Indo-Aryan. I investigate the origins of the modern Indo-Aryan compound verb construction, and compare this construction with other light verb constructions in Indo-Aryan. Examination of the antecedents of the Indo-Aryan compound… read more