Pascal Boyeldieu
List of John Benjamins publications in which Pascal Boyeldieu is involved.
Articles
2017 Chapter 9. Expressing similarity in Yulu and other Sara-Bongo-Bagirmi languages (Central Africa) Similative and Equative Constructions: A cross-linguistic perspective, Treis, Yvonne and Martine Vanhove (eds.), pp. 239–258 | Chapter
Yulu – a Sara-Bongo-Bagirmi (SBB) language of the Central African Republic and South Sudan – expresses similarity by means of two related morphemes, namelybə̏ ~ bȅ‘like, as’, andbȅndē‘like, as, as if’. The second, presumably a compound form has a wider use: it may introduce a proper name, a… read more
2008 From semantic change to polysemy: The cases of 'meat/animal' and 'drink' From Polysemy to Semantic Change: Towards a typology of lexical semantic associations, Vanhove, Martine (ed.), pp. 303–315 | Article
The present section deals with the semantic affinities of two (groups of) concepts, namely “meat/animal” and “drink”. Though not related, they contrast two different approaches in the domain of semantic parallels: while various data concerning “meat/animal” naturally lead to a historical approach,… read more