The fundamental importance of lexical categories is uncontroversial within both formal and
functional approaches to grammatical analysis. But despite the familiarity of this topic and its …

The goal of this paper is to provide the basic outline of a typological study of definite articles,
on the basis of both formal and notional criteria, with a focus on European languages. In …

This study provides a systematic overview of articles and article systems in the world's
languages using a sample of 104 languages. Articles can be classified into 10 types …

We take up Boas's commitment to the establishment of a large corpus of texts from the
indigenous languages and peoples of the Americas, examining what we take to be his …

Empirical evidence is at the heart of research on natural language meaning. Surprisingly,
however, discussions of what constitutes evidence in research on meaning are almost non …

This paper shows why it is not a contradiction to say that each language is structurally
unique and must be described with its own categories, but language description profits …

1. INTRODUCTION. Davis, Gillon, and Matthewson (DG&M; 2014) argue that 'hypothesis-
driven fieldwork has led to a more complete and accurate picture of linguistic diversity than …

The study of cross-linguistic word-class variability and its limits needs to be based on clear
comparative concepts because languages have different grammatical structures. This …

Exploring the phenomenon of'mixed categories', this book is the first in-depth study of the
way in which languages can use a noun, as opposed to an adjective, to modify another …

There are far more syntactically distinct languages than we might have thought; yet there are
far fewer than there might have been. Questions of Syntax collects sixteen papers authored …