Samira Verhees
List of John Benjamins publications in which Samira Verhees is involved.
Articles
2019 General converbs in Andi Studies in Language 43:1, pp. 195–230 | Article
This paper describes the semantic and morphosyntactic properties of general converb constructions in Andi, a language of the Avar-Andic group of the East Caucasian language family. There are two general converbs in Andi, both of which are homophonous with a finite verb form (the aorist and the… read more
2018 Chapter 12. The perfect in Avar and Andi: Cross-linguistic variation among two closely-related East Caucasian languages Tense, Aspect, Modality, and Evidentiality: Crosslinguistic perspectives, Ayoun, Dalila, Agnès Celle and Laure Lansari (eds.), pp. 261–280 | Chapter
This chapter deals with perfect forms of the verb in Avar and Andi, two East Caucasian languages. The presence of an ergative agent is shown to be an important parameter in distinguishing resultative constructions from resultative perfects in these languages. This distinction is relevant to… read more