This book is based on the results of research in language typology, and motivated by the
need for a theory to explain them. Croft proposes intimate links between syntactic and …

" Comparison of the grammars of human languages reveals systematic patterns of variation.
Typology and universals research uncovers those patterns to formulate universal constraints …

Although there is only one ergative language in Europe (Basque), perhaps one-quarter of
the world's languages show ergative properties, and pose considerable difficulties for many …

The Routledge Dictionary of Language and Linguistics is a unique reference work for
students and teachers of linguistics. The highly regarded second edition of the Lexikon der …

We have argued that dynamically defined articulatory gestures are the appropriate units to
serve as the atoms of phonological representation. Gestures are a natural unit, not only …

State University ofNew York, Albany Noun incorporation is perhaps the most nearly syntactic
of all morphological processes. Examination of the phenomenon across a large number of …

Language is one of the most fundamental defining features of the human being, and
scholars have been trying to capture its essentials for thousands of years. One way of doing …

The set of person and number features necessary to characterize the pronominal paradigms
of the world's languages is highly constrained, and their interaction is demonstrably …

Projective contents, which include presuppositional inferences and Potts's (2005)
conventional implicatures, are contents that may project when a construction is embedded …

This book presents a model of event structure for the analysis of aspectual constructions and
argument structure constructions in English and other languages. Representing the …