Valentina Vapnarsky

List of John Benjamins publications in which Valentina Vapnarsky is involved.

Title

Lexical Polycategoriality: Cross-linguistic, cross-theoretical and language acquisition approaches

Edited by Valentina Vapnarsky and Edy Veneziano

This book presents a collection of chapters on the nature, flexibility and acquisition of lexical categories. These long-debated issues are looked at anew by exploring the hypothesis of lexical polycategoriality –according to which lexical forms are not fully, or univocally, specified for lexical… read more

[Studies in Language Companion Series, 182] 2017. xiii, 479 pp.

Articles

Lois, Ximena, Valentina Vapnarsky, Cédric Becquey and Aurore Monod Becquelin 2017 Polycategoriality and hybridity across Mayan languages: Action nouns and ergative splits Lexical Polycategoriality: Cross-linguistic, cross-theoretical and language acquisition approaches, Vapnarsky, Valentina and Edy Veneziano (eds.), pp. 101–153 | Chapter

This article presents a comparative study of Mayan languages belonging to three different branches (Cholan, Tseltalan and Yucatecan), with respect to polycategoriality. Mayan languages appear to be particularly interesting for exploring polycategoriality for several structural reasons, as well as… read more

Vapnarsky, Valentina and Edy Veneziano 2017 Lexical Polycategoriality: Cross-linguistic, cross-theoretical and language acquisition approaches: An introduction Lexical Polycategoriality: Cross-linguistic, cross-theoretical and language acquisition approaches, Vapnarsky, Valentina and Edy Veneziano (eds.), pp. 1–31 | Chapter

Vapnarsky, Valentina 2016 No escape from the future: Temporal frames and prediction in Yucatec Maya* Aspectuality and Temporality: Descriptive and theoretical issues, Guentchéva, Zlatka (ed.), pp. 643–678 | Article

This article deals with debated questions on the semantics and cognition of temporality: the existence of tenseless languages, the cultural variability of the representation of the future and the plurality of temporal frames and its contextdependency. It explores the hypothesis that even in… read more