The grammatical category of voice covers a wide range of phenomena, including
causatives, applicatives, passives, antipassives, middles, and others. Drawing on data from …

This book provides a unique, up-to-date survey of individual Uralic languages and sub-
groupings from Finnish to Selkup. Spoken by more than 25 million native speakers, the …

This dissertation shows how languages differ in their morphosyntactic sensitivity to
variations in the semantics of direct objects. Whereas some languages reflect semantic …

The present dissertation is devoted to the documentation of Shipibo-Konibo (SK), a Panoan
language from the Peruvian Amazon, and is divided into two parts. Part I offers the first …

This book provides a comprehensive typological account of voice syncretism, focusing on
resemblance in formal verbal marking between two or more of the following seven voices …

This article attempts to lay the conceptual foundations of voice phenomena, ranging from the
familiar active/passive contrast to the ergative/antipassive opposition, as well as voice …

Ancient Greek is commonly considered a'synthetic'or'inflectional'language, that is, a
language with a high morpheme-per-word ratio. Nevertheless, already at the earliest stages …

This dissertation presents the results of a typological study that investigated the global
distribution of antipassive constructions, as well as the distribution of the relevant …

The paper addresses the relation between transitivity parameters, as formulated by Hopper
and Thompson, and transitivity alternations (ie alternations in case-marking patterns). It is …

We will provide a bidirectional Optimality Theoretic approach for fluid differential case
marking, in particular fluid differential subject marking. Our claim is that although there is no …