In many languages, the objects of transitive verbs are either marked by grammatical case or
agreement on the verb, or they remain unmarked: this is differential object marking. This …

This paper discusses a number of problems associated with the widely accepted analysis of
differential object marking (DOM) as reflecting the semantic markedness of highly …

This study is a grammatical description of Wutun (ISO 639-3 WUH), a distinct local form of
Northwest Mandarin spoken by approximately 4000 people in Upper Wutun, Lower Wutun …

The case-marking systems of Tibeto-Burman languages are a longstanding problem in both
synchronic description and analysis and historical reconstruction. Early research on the …

The terms “(clause) chaining” and “converbal constructions” are used for the classification of
similar types of clause linkage. Chaining is generally used for constructions which do not …

There are more native speakers of Sino-Tibetan languages than of any other language
family in the world. Records of these languages are among the oldest for any human …

This article discusses three variable coding properties of Spanish objects: flagging (a-
marking vs. ø-marking), indexing (clitic doubling vs. no doubling), and clitic case form …

Tibeto-Burman is one of the world's greatest language families, second only to Indo-
European in terms of populations of speakers. Advances made in the course of the decade …

This paper argues that Nepali is neither a fully ergative language nor a simple split-ergative
language conditioned by tense/aspect, because the language shows a more complex case …

The present paper discusses the marking of objects in ditransitive clauses. On the basis of
the factors conditioning the marking, three strategies are distinguished. These are labeled …