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

This volume offers a comprehensive account of the typology of noun classification across the worl...

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...

In some languages words tend to be rather short but in others they may be dauntingly long. In thi...

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

The Amazon Basin is arguably both one of the least-known and the most complex linguistic regions ...

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

This book considers how and why forms and meanings of different languages at different times may ...

This is a comprehensive reference grammar of Tariana, an endangered Arawak language from a remote...

The speakers of Tariana, an endangered Arawak language from the northwest Amazonian jungle, tradi...

Every society thrives on stories, legends and myths. This volume explores the linguistic devices ...

A complement clause is used instead of a noun phrase; for example one can say either I heard (the...

A state-of-the-art view of present-day linguistic typology, focussing on universal tendencies acr...

This is a book about the multi-faceted notion of gender. Gender differences form the basis for fa...

This volume offers a systematic crosslinguistic account of evidentiality, the linguistic encoding...

This book focuses on the form and the function of commands-directive speech acts such as pleas, e...

Linguist Alexandra Aikhenvald draws on a lifetime of fieldwork to reveal the mysteries and magic ...

This volume offers a thorough, systematic, and crosslinguistic account of evidentiality, the ling...

The volume brings together important essays on syntax and semantics by Aikhenvald and Dixon. It f...

This book surveys multi-verb constructions in multiple languages from the Americas, showing a ver...

This book explores the expression of information source, inferences, assumptions, probability and...

This volume examines the concept of 'word' as a phonological unit and as an item with both meanin...

Every language has a way of talking about seeing, hearing, smelling, tasting and touching. In abo...

The volume brings together important essays on syntax and semantics by Aikhenvald and Dixon. It f...

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

This book explores the expression of information source, inferences, assumptions, probability and...

In a number of languages, scattered across the world, every statement must contain a specificatio...

This book considers how and why forms and meanings of different languages at different times may ...

Linguists and anthropologists explore the intriguing variety of possessive phrases denoting owner...

This book provides an in-depth typological account of the forms, functions, and histories of seri...

This book is the first exhaustive cross-linguistic study of imperatives and commands. It makes a ...

This book shows that every language has an adjective class and examines how these vary in size an...

A serial verb construction (sometimes just called serial verb) is a sequence of verbs which acts ...

Knowledge can be expressed in language using a plethora of grammatical means. Four major groups o...

The volume explores the integration of language and society as reflected in the grammar of a lang...

This book provides an in-depth typological account of the forms, functions, and histories of seri...

Language and place are intimately connected: depending on where we are, what the context is and w...

This volume takes a typological approach to clause chaining, a fascinating feature of the grammar...

This book explores the range of noun categorization devices found in the languages of the world, ...