▪ Abstract The New Guinea region is the most linguistically diverse region in the world, with
some 1000 languages in an area smaller than 900,000 km2. There are about three dozen …

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 …

Accessing Noun-Phrase Antecedents offers a radical shift in the analysis of discourse
anaphora, from a purely pragmatic account to a cognitive account, in terms of processing …

The distance between linguistic expressions may be an iconically motivated index of the
conceptual distance between the terms or events which they denote. But the length of an …

The factors cross-linguistically relevant to clause linkage are surveyed in the form of a
couple of continua. These pertain to: 1. the integration of one clause into the other …

The Rhaeto-Romance languages have been known as such to the linguistic community
since the pioneering studies of Ascoli and Gartner over a century ago. There has never been …

In central cases of switch-reference, a marker on the verb of one clause is used to indicate
whether its subject has the same or different reference from the subject of an adjacent …

Causatives and Causation is the first comprehensive study of causative constructions found
in the world's languages. This important new research, based on a data base of more than …

Understanding any communication depends on the listener or reader recognizing that some
words refer to what has already been said or written (his, its, he, there, etc.). This mode of …

Free adjuncts and absolutes typically function as adverbial clauses which are not overtly
specified for any particular adverbial relation. The book is a non-formal, corpus based study …