Relative clauses play a hugely important role in analysing the structure of sentences. This
book provides the first evidence that a unified analysis of the different types of relative …

The main goal of the present work consists in providing a first large scale typological
investigation (based on a 246-language sample) of the phenomenon known as …

The goal of this paper is to address the following questions:(i) What is the inventory of
morphological “contributors” to verb tone paradigms?(ii) What happens if the different …

A particular challenge for the generalized double-headed analysis of relative clauses (RCs)
proposed in Cinque (2003, 2008) 1 is posed by “Headless”(or Free) RCs, especially under …

The languages of the world characteristically have morphological strategies both to classify
nouns and signify to both speakers and hearers aspects of their semantics. These strategies …

As a follow-up study to the global comparison of spatial interrogatives (Studia Typologica
20), the present book examines the spatial declarative counterparts which are provided by …

This chapter gives a preliminary phonetic and pragmatic description of four clicks used as
verbal gestures in Laal, a language isolate of southern Chad whose regular phonemic …

. درخواست کنید یک نسخه از آن را ( با نویسنده با تماس توانید می ، برای شما Page 1 Because of
copyright limitations, the following paper is a pre-publication version. The published version …‎

In this chapter we survey the most important properties and issues that arise in the prosodic
systems of sub-Saharan Africa. While our emphasis will be on the vast Niger-Congo (NC) …

This thesis provides a first large-scale typological study on the phenomenon known as
pluractionality in cross-linguistic perspective (sample of 241 languages). The aim of this …