Based on Bernard Comrie's much praised The World's Major Languages, this is a key guide to an imp...

Earlier empirical studies on valency have looked at the phenomenon either in individual languages...

In this scholarly volume, each of the living Slavonic languages are analysed and described in dep...

A general account of the languages of the Soviet Union, one of the most diverse multinational and...

Frontmatter -- Foreword -- Contents -- Introduction -- Constraints on gaps: is the parser a signi...

Bernard Comrie introduces readers to the range of variation found in tense systems across the lan...

An introduction to the general linguistic study of aspect. Topics covered include the relation of...

The volume is relevant to the current regional and international discussion on endangered languag...

Research on language universals and research on linguistic typology are not antagonistic, but rat...

The concept of semantic roles has been central to linguistic theory for many decades. More specif...

The studies in this book represent the rich, diverse and substantial research being conducted tod...

Earlier empirical studies on valency have looked at the phenomenon either in individual languages...