Morphological inventories and structures of languages in contact can converge by means of
either increasing formal similarity (MAT borrowing), or structural congruence (PAT …

This is the first full study of how people refer to entities in natural discourse. It contributes to
the understanding of both linguistic diversity and the cognitive underpinnings of language …

" Victor Golla has been the leading scholar of California Indian languages for most of his
professional life, and this book shows why. His ability to synthesize centuries of fieldwork …

An Introduction to Syntactic Analysis and Theory offers beginning students a comprehensive
overview of and introduction to our current understanding of the rules and principles that …

Most of the time we communicate using language without considering the complex activity
we are undertaking, forming words and sentences in a split second. This book introduces …

This article discusses A-licensing and case from a minimalist perspective, pursuing the idea
that argument NPs cyclically enter a number of A-relations, rather than just a single one …

This dissertation describes Eastern Geshiza, a previously insufficiently known Trans-
Himalayan (Sino-Tibetan) Horpa language spoken primarily in eastern Geshiza Valley of …

This paper compares the concept pair indexing/flagging with the well-known concept pair
head/dependent marking that is widely used in typology. It shows that a general concept of …

In Tongues of Fire, Nancy Farriss investigates the role of language and translation in the
creation of Mexican Christianity during the first centuries of colonial rule. Spanish …

This dissertation deals with the structure of the Noun Phrase (henceforth: NP) in a sample of
55 indigenous languages of South America. This chapter gives a concise introduction to the …