Based on extensive and diverse material from 70 languages, and covering a range of
previously undiscussed problems, this book provides a thorough analysis of how …

The first book-length treatment of its type, Ultimate Attainment in Second Language
Acquisition is a case study with a solid theoretical grounding that examines the language of …

3.1 Preliminaries 29 3.1. 1 On the identification of purpose clause constructions 29 3.1. 2 On
the quantitative analysis of constructions 33 3.2 Coding of the situation: The form of the verb …

Este libro tiene tres objetivos: presentar la lengua mapuche a un público no especialista,
dar una visión de conjunto de sus estructuras fundamentales y entregar antecedentes …

In the recent typological literature on non-finite verb forms—converbs, infinitives, action
nominals and participles—these forms have been defined both in terms of (i) their …

A long‐standing assumption in linguistic analysis is that different languages and
constructions can be described in terms of the same grammatical categories and relations …

The notion of finiteness inherited from the traditional grammar and based on morphological
criteria has been ill defined. While some typologists doubt the universality of the …

This book presents a general overview of our current knowledge of language development
in children. All the principal strands of language development are covered, including …

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