This study provides a systematic overview of articles and article systems in the world's
languages using a sample of 104 languages. Articles can be classified into 10 types …

We present a detailed manual for a pragmatic, ie meaning-based, method for the information-
structural analysis of naturally attested data, which is built on the idea that for any assertion …

This book proposes a corpus-driven approach to language contact based on the study of
endangered languages. Drawing on variationist and language contact frameworks, it …

At the beginning of his seminal review of the phonological characteristics of Australian
languages, Evans (1995a: 723) refers to the “classical period” in the description of …

To clarify the role of prosodic phrasing in the emergence of phrase structure, it is necessary
to be clear as to how syntactic phrasing relates to prosodic phrasing. The core proposal here …

In Catalan,/n/deletes in word-final position when it is preceded by a stressed vowel. In this
paper, we present an analysis that combines the representations of Strict CV and the …

This article examines whether Australian languages generally lack clear noun phrase
structures, as has sometimes been argued in the literature. We break up the notion of NP …

A production experiment was run to examine how information structure and verbal
semantics affect word ordering and nuclear stress placement in intransitive sentences in …

Australian languages have had a significant impact on the theoretical and typological stage
over the last 50 years, particularly in the areas of nonconfigurationality and phrase structure …

This is a reference grammar of Enxet Sur, an indigenous language of the Paraguayan Gran
Chaco, and one of six recognized languages in the Enlhet-Enenlhet (EE, or Mascoyan) …