Some reference grammars and cross‐linguistic works describe all elements that are not
clear‐cut words as “clitics.” As a consequence of this practice, the class of suggested clitics …

Mainland Southeast Asia (hereafter: MSEA) can be broadly defined as the area occupied by
present day Cambodia, Laos, Peninsular Malaysia, Thailand, Myanmar, and Vietnam, along …

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 …

Creoles have long been the subject of debate in linguistics, with many conflicting views, both
on how they are formed, and what their political and linguistic status should be. Indeed, over …

Ideophones have been recognized in modern linguistics at least since 1935, but they still lie
far outside the concerns of mainstream (Western) linguistic debate, in part because they are …

Clause structure is the most widely-studied phenomenon within syntactic theory, because it
refers to how words and phrases are embedded within a sentence, their relationships to …

Abstract is study explores grammatical markers with meanings similar to the English
perfect tense and words like already, as found in numerous languages across the world, and …

This volume examines the conflicting factors that shape the content and form of grammatical
rules in language usage. Speakers and addressees need to contend with these rules when …

This study is based on a sample of 116 languages from the Mainland East and Southeast
Asian linguistic area. Its first objective is to examine four distinct synchronic patterns of areal …

Honorifics are grammaticalized reflexes of politeness, often recruiting existing featural
values (eg French recruits plural vous for polite address, and German, third person plural …