Elly van Gelderen provides examples of linguistic cycles from a number of languages and
language families, along with an account of the linguistic cycle in terms of minimalist …

In many languages, the objects of transitive verbs are either marked by grammatical case or
agreement on the verb, or they remain unmarked: this is differential object marking. This …

A referential hierarchy is a scalar representation of types of referents or referring
expressions that are ranked according to their deictic, semantic, and/or discourse-pragmatic …

In this introductory article we provide an overview of the range of the phenomena that can be
referred to as differential argument marking (DAM). We begin with an overview of the …

Information structure has been one of the central topics of recent linguistic research. This
review discusses a wide range of current approaches with particular reference to African …

Two strategies of case marking in natural languages are discussed. These are defined as
two violable constraints whose effects are shown to converge in the case of differential …

Argument coding splits such as differential (= split) object marking and split ergative marking
have long been known to be universal tendencies, but the generalizations have not been …

All living beings try to save effort, and humans are no exception. This groundbreaking book
shows how we save time and energy during communication by unconsciously making …

This book provides both language-specific and cross-linguistic comparative analyses of
phenomena relating to person, case and case-marking, and agreement. It offers an explicit …

The Space of Case Page 1 The Space of Case Sander Lestrade Page 2 Printing: Ipskamp
drukkers Cover design: Lotte Holman ISBN 978-90-9025746-4 NUR 616 Copyright c 2010 by …