The typological classification of languages is an important research area, and impacts on many ot...

Almost all languages have some grammatical means for categorizing nouns. This book provides a com...

Discusses the concept 'word' and its applicability in a range of typologically diverse languages.

Distinguished scholars examine the phenomena of passives and causatives in languages from around ...

A serial verb construction is a sequence of verbs which acts together as one. This oustanding boo...

This book provides the first exhaustive cross-linguistic typological study of how languages deal ...

The present volume examines the ways in which linguistic traits may change in a contact situation...

An overview of one of the richest and most complex linguistic regions in the world, the Amazon Ba...

Discusses the concept 'word' and its applicability in a range of typologically diverse languages.

This book explores the variety of types of complementation found across the languages of the worl...

The studies in this volume suggest that every language has an adjective class, but these vary in ...

This book is a cross-linguistic examination of the different grammatical means languages employ t...