Languages with sortal classifiers (clf) are distributed across the world, with a large
concentration in East and South (east) Asia. Across the world's classifier languages, few are …

This typological study based on data from a parallel text corpus is a two-step investigation of
selectives (“topic markers”). First, a set of selectives in 81 languages from all continents is …

This book is a grammatical overview of the Dimasa language (known autonymically as Grao
Dima/IPA ɡɾawdima/; ISO 639-3), which is Tibeto-Burman (Trans-Himalayan) language …

This chapter provides a formal and semantic typology of the highly elaborate spatial deictic
systems involving an elevation component found in the Alor-Pantar languages. The systems …

The Kachin are a multilingual ethnic group, inhabiting the northern part of Myanmar and
parts of Yunnan Province in China, where they are subsumed under the name **gpo. In this …

In the last few decades, researchers have grown much interest in analyzing the structure of
the NP in various domains. Dwelling on Quirk et al's (1985) framework on NP complexities …

The thesis highlights two desiderata. First, it seeks to establish the articulated structures for
**gpo clauses and noun phrases. Second, it aims to offer analyses for a number of …

Abstract In English demonstratives cannot co-occur with articles, so it is assumed that
demonstratives should be treated as determiners (D). In some other languages, such as …

At least since the 1970s, topic has been widely recognized to reflect an important category in
most different approaches to linguistics. However, researchers have never agreed about …

Notre étude porte sur la proposition relative prénominale (Prpré), dans le cadre de la
typologique et du modèle minimaliste de la grammaire générative. Le premier chapitre pose …