Ia Navarro

List of John Benjamins publications in which Ia Navarro is involved.

Title

Verb Valency Changes: Theoretical and typological perspectives

Edited by Albert Álvarez González and Ia Navarro

This volume surveys a variety of verb valency change phenomena among diverse languages and from diverse theoretical viewpoints. It offers typological studies comparing languages in topics like applicative polysemy, complex predicate formation and locative alternation, but also works describing the… read more

[Typological Studies in Language, 120] 2017. xv, 310 pp.

Article

Navarro, Ia 2017 The semantics of Nahuatl tla- constructions Verb Valency Changes: Theoretical and typological perspectives, Álvarez González, Albert and Ia Navarro (eds.), pp. 107–132 | Chapter

Nahuatl tla- constructions are described as complex predicates formed by a verbal base and an unspecified object pronoun that has weakened its formal status in favor of an abstract semantic contribution. We propose that the formal status of tla- is that of a defective pronoun, which fails to make a… read more