Almost all languages have some ways of categorizing nouns. Languages of South-East Asia
have classifiers used with numerals, while most Indo-European languages have two or three …

The main function of language is to convey meaning. Therefore, argues Bernd Heine in
these pages, the question of why language is structured the way it is must first of all be …

This book develops a bold new approach to universal grammar, based on research findings
of the natural semantic metalanguage (NSM) program. The key idea is that universal …

This thesis primarily provides an overview of Ewe grammar and a detailed investigation of
the meanings of specific grammatical constructions and illocutionary devices in the …

This book examines the motivational link between form and meaning in a range of linguistic
structures which occur in Paraguayan Guaraní and which are directly or indirectly …

This paper argues that alienability contrasts in adnominal possessive constructions should
not be explained by iconicity of distance, but by predictability due to the higher relative …

A somewhat typologically informed grammatical description of the Apurinã language is
provided, including historical, socio-cultural, demographic and geographic information about …

The goal of this paper is to present a short overview of possessive NPs in the European
languages, with two main foci:• the structural types of possessive NPs in the European …

This dissertation deals with the structure of the Noun Phrase (henceforth: NP) in a sample of
55 indigenous languages of South America. This chapter gives a concise introduction to the …

The present work is a slightly revised version of my doctoral dissertation submitted to the
Australian National University. The volume presents an analysis of the pho? nology …