This book provides an in-depth typological account of the forms, functions, and histories of seri...

The typological classification of languages is an important research area, and impacts on many ot...

This volume offers a comprehensive account of the typology of noun classification across the worl...

Discusses the concept 'word' and its applicability in a range of typologically diverse languages.

This book provides the first exhaustive cross-linguistic typological study of how languages deal ...

The present volume examines the ways in which linguistic traits may change in a contact situation...

This book is a cross-linguistic examination of the different grammatical means languages employ t...

An overview of one of the richest and most complex linguistic regions in the world, the Amazon Ba...

Distinguished scholars examine the phenomena of passives and causatives in languages from around ...

Almost all languages have some grammatical means for categorizing nouns. This book provides a com...

A serial verb construction is a sequence of verbs which acts together as one. This oustanding boo...

Distinguished scholars examine the phenomena of passives and causatives in languages from around ...