In some languages every statement must contain a specification of the type of evidence on
which it is based: for example, whether the speaker saw it, or heard it, or inferred it from …

This is the most comprehensive survey ever published of auxiliary verb constructions, as
in'he could have been going to drink it'and'she does eat cheese'. Drawing on a database of …

Topographical deixis refers to a variety of spatial-environmental deixis, in which typically
distal reference to entities is made in terms of a set of topographically-anchored referential …

Abstract-English The term 'Jespersen Cycle'refers to the renewal of negative markers in
languages. When a language is involved in a Jespersen Cycle, the original negative marker …

Manipur is primarily the home of various speakers of Tibeto-Burman languages. Aside from
the Tibeto-Burman speakers, there are substantial numbers of Indo-Aryan and Dravidian …

Abstract 'Topographical deixis' refers to a variety of spatial‐environmental deixis in which
typically distal reference to entities is made in terms of a set of topographically‐anchored …

This dissertation explores the nature and extent of retroflex consonant harmony in South
Asia. Using statistics calculated over lexical databases from a broad sample of languages …

It is common among the more-or-less synthetic and agglutinating Tibeto-Burman (TB)
languages of the Eastern Himalaya2 to› nd large sets of semantically rich predicate …

Sino-Tibetan is a highly diverse language family, in which a wide range of morphological
phenomena and profiles may be found. The family is generally seen as split into two major …

In this contribution we discuss three different approaches to grammatical relations (GR), all
situated within the functional-typological paradigm. Taking the major distinctions from these …