In a range of Indo-European languages (Romance, Albanian, Iranian, Indo-Aryan), the same
oblique case ('dative') is associated with indirect objects and with animate/definite direct …

Differential object marking (DOM), which involves a contrast between zero marking and
accusative marking by means of an originally dative postposition, appeared in Indo-Aryan …

Dieser Band ist der diachronen Syntax gewidmet, einem relativ unerforschten Bereich
innerhalb der Linguistik. In sieben Kapiteln diskutiert die Autorin die syntaktischen …

This paper presents a framework which connects case assignment with the semantics of
argument realization. Broad notions of agency and affectedness are decomposed into more …

This paper seeks to determine to what extent there is cross-linguistic evidence for
postulating clusters of predicate-specific semantic roles such as experiencer, cognizer …

The aim of this article is to account for tense/aspect and mood based differential subject and
object marking. We propose an analysis in terms of an optimization procedure between two …

Bayesian phylogenetic methods have been gaining traction and currency in historical
linguistics, as their potential for uncovering elements of language change is increasingly …

The Hindukush Indo-Aryan ('Dardic') languages (Pakistan, Afghanistan, Kashmir) display a
great range of variation in alignment patterns. The diversity is primarily evidenced in the …

Предисловия редко пишут перед тем, как начать писать книгу. Обычно—и эта книга не
является исключением—предисловие оказывается последним содержательным …

In recent years alignment splits have attracted much attention in the linguistic literature. The
best known case of alignment splits is split ergativity conditioned by different types of …