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 …

All languages have demonstratives, but their form, meaning and use vary tremendously
across the languages of the world. Some languages have only a few demonstrative …

The paper presents a general framework for the semantic analysis of nominal plural
expressions and assigns a place among them to a lesser-known construction: associative …

Number marking on nouns is an inflectional category that languages apparently can do
without. On the other hand, some languages or language families tend to have extremely …

The main goal of the present work consists in providing a first large scale typological
investigation (based on a 246-language sample) of the phenomenon known as …

It is well known that there are many languages that exhibit a reflexive-reciprocal polysemy,
with one and the same morphosyntactic means serving the two functions; see eg …

In this article, I propose a constraint-based account of ordering restrictions on subject
agreement affixes. Different orderings of subject agreement, crosslinguistically and in single …

A morphosyntactic peculiarity that separates proper names from (most) other noun types is
their ability to occur in a special type of plural, called associative plural, whose meaning is X …

This dissertation investigates the interactions between gender and number and gender and
evaluative morphology in a sample of 100 African languages, and provides a method for …

This paper aims to give a cross‐linguistic overview of pluractionality. Pluractionality is
defined as a structural modification of the verb indicating the presence of multiple events …