Kilu von Prince
List of John Benjamins publications in which Kilu von Prince is involved.
Articles
2025 When (not) to establish a new category: The case of perfect, ‘already’ and iamitives Studies in Language 49:3, pp. 546–586 | Article
In this paper, we take stock of our linguistic tools to investigate potential markers of the perfect and ‘already’, and challenge the necessity of assuming the existence of the category of iamitives (Olsson 2013). Iamitives are said to have a core meaning of change-of-state, similar to… read more
2019 Expressing possibility in two Oceanic languages Studies in Language 43:3, pp. 628–667 | Article
In this paper, we offer the first detailed description of expressions of possibility in the Oceanic languages Daakaka and Saliba-Logea. We show that in these languages basic expressions of possibility are bi-clausal. This suggests that, depending on their intended scope, typological studies of… read more
2017 Dozing eyes and drunken faces: Nominalized psycho-collocations in Daakaka (Vanuatu) Lexical flexibility in Oceanic languages, Lier, Eva van (ed.), pp. 502–520 | Article
Like many languages of the world, the Oceanic language Daakaka (Vanuatu) uses idiomatic combinations of body-part terms and verbs to express emotions, medical conditions and related concepts. However, languages differ in how they express the same concepts nominally. I will contrast the… read more