Carol Lord

List of John Benjamins publications in which Carol Lord is involved.

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Historical Change in Serial Verb Constructions

Carol Lord

This work examines both historical and comparative evidence in documenting the sweep of diachronic change in the context of serial verb constructions. Using a wide range of data from languages of West Africa, Asia and the Caribbean, it demonstrates how shifts in meaning and usage result in… read more

[Typological Studies in Language, 26] 1993. x, 273 pp.

Articles (5) | Order by:

Lord, Carol and Louisa Benson Craig 2004 13. Conjunction and concatenation in Sgaw Karen: Familiarity, frequency, and conceptual unity Coordinating Constructions, Haspelmath, Martin (ed.), pp. 357–370 | Chapter

1.Introduction

2. Functions of a comitative conjunction

3. Noun coordination

4. Modifier coordination

5. Verb coordination

6. Purposive concatetations

7. Idiomatic concatenations

8. Conclusions

Lord, Carol 2002 Are subordinate clauses more difficult? Complex Sentences in Grammar and Discourse: Essays in honor of Sandra A. Thompson, Bybee, Joan L. and Michael Noonan (eds.), pp. 223–233 | Article

Lord, Carol, Foong Ha Yap and Shoichi Iwasaki 2002 Grammaticalization of ‘give’: African and Asian perspectives New Reflections on Grammaticalization, Wischer, Ilse and Gabriele Diewald (eds.), pp. 217–235 | Article

Lord, Carol and Kathleen Dahlgren 1997 Participant and Event Anaphora in Newspaper Articles Essays on Language Function and Language Type: Dedicated to T. Givón, Bybee, Joan L., John Haiman † and Sandra A. Thompson (eds.), pp. 323–356 | Article

Lord, Carol 1984 Comments on the paper by Eckman Language Universals and Second Language Acquisition, Rutherford, William E. (ed.), pp. 106–108 | Article