Bradley McDonnell
List of John Benjamins publications in which Bradley McDonnell is involved.
Articles
2026 Chapter 21. What’s a passive in Besemah? The Documentarist Turn: From observable linguistic behaviour to typological generalizations, Riesberg, Sonja, Uta Reinöhl and Birgit Hellwig (eds.), pp. 572–609 | Chapter
In languages of western Indonesia with symmetrical voice systems, apparent passive constructions often display overlapping features with transitive P-oriented voice (PV) constructions. Drawing on a corpus of everyday conversations in Besemah, this chapter demonstrates that it is untenable to… read more
2023 Universal quantifiers, focus, and grammatical relations in Besemah Studies in Language 47:2, pp. 422–462 | Article
This article describes adverbial universal quantification in Besemah, a little-described Malayic language of southwest Sumatra, and how the syntactic position of the quantifier relates to grammatical relations and information structure. Given previous descriptions of the relationship between… read more
2020 Chapter 10. The pragmatics of ‘light nouns’ in Besemah The ‘Noun Phrase’ across Languages: An emergent unit in interaction, Ono, Tsuyoshi and Sandra A. Thompson (eds.), pp. 237–270 | Chapter
Perhaps the most widely discussed aspect of the NP in western Austronesian languages is the relative clause, which is described in terms of its syntactic relation to the noun it modifies. It is expressed by a ‘relativizer’ and a so-called ‘gap’ in the modifying clause that is co-referential with… read more