Transitivity is often analyzed from the point of view of the formal and functional factors that
shape morphosyntax. The contribution of language contact is not often highlighted. This …

There is crosslinguistic evidence that verbs of 'coming'and 'going'are prone to
grammaticalize into sequential markers and, more generally, into textual connectives. This …

This paper is an outline of some major transitivity-related issues and of some possible
solutions, discussed in the literature in the last twenty years or so. Building on the previous …

What does it mean for a language to have flexible constituent order, and what are the
sources of variation in this domain, both within and across languages? This thesis …

North America north of Mexico is home to around 275 distinct languages, comprising over
55 distinct genetic groups.(Numbers are necessarily approximate because of the variation in …

Starting with Wilkins (1996), the role of morphology in language-contact situations has been
gaining significance for the understanding of morphology and language contact. Initially, the …

Questions about diachronic change as it relates to tense and aspect (TA) range from the
general, such as “How do TA systems come about?” and “How do TA systems change over …

The volume presents new insights into two basic theoretical issues hotly debated in recent
work on grammaticalization and language contact: grammatical replication and grammatical …

We investigate transitivity prominence of verbs across signed and spoken languages, based
on data from both valency dictionaries and corpora. Our methodology relies on the …

This paper critically discusses and contrasts some of the different conceptualisations of
transitivity that have been presented in the literature, and argues that transitivity as a …