This is the first full study of how people refer to entities in natural discourse. It contributes to
the understanding of both linguistic diversity and the cognitive underpinnings of language …

This is the first comprehensive treatment of the strategies employed in the world's languages
to express predicative possession, as in" the boy has a bat". It presents the results of the …

Tuvan is one of the archaic Turkic languages. A powerful Mongolic influence means that it
possibly also has more Mongolic elements than other Turkic languages. Results of the …

The terms “(clause) chaining” and “converbal constructions” are used for the classification of
similar types of clause linkage. Chaining is generally used for constructions which do not …

Certain languages make extensive use of clause chaining, which is here characterized by
the possibility of long sequences of foreground clauses with operator dependence …

The use of generic verbs of speech in functions not related to their primary meaning, such as
to introduce complements or adjuncts, is cross-linguistically widespread; it is also …

Das Buch befasst sich mit den Konverbien eines im Altaigebiet gesprochenen Dialekts des
Tuwinischen. Das Tuwinische ist eine turkische Sprache, deren Hauptverbreitungsgebiet …

In this contribution we discuss three different approaches to grammatical relations (GR), all
situated within the functional-typological paradigm. Taking the major distinctions from these …

The use of generic verbs of speech in functions not related to their primary meaning, such as
to introduce complements or adjuncts, is cross-linguistically widespread; it is also …

Some languages with switch-reference use same-subject markers in structures where the
internal possessor of one subject corefers with another subject, but the subjects do not …