This dissertation investigates the nature of the Philippine-type voice system and two
associated diachronic questions:(i) what is the nature of noun-verb (nominalizer-voice affix) …

The syllable is a natural unit of organization in spoken language whose strongest cross-
linguistic patterns are often explained in terms of a universal preference for the CV structure …

This dissertation presents the results of a typological study that investigated the global
distribution of antipassive constructions, as well as the distribution of the relevant …

The word level in the sense of Lexical Phonology and Stratal OT, here referred to as the l-
phonemic level, is a linguistically significant level of representation, which captures what …

Recent descriptive and typological research on antipassives has allowed many existing
claims about antipassives to be reevaluated. Although there is still debate about which …

This paper provides a diachronic typology of what we call 'heterogeneous plurals', an
overarching term comprising associative plurals (expressions meaning X [person] & …

An Updated Typology of Causative Constructions: Form-Function Mappings in Hupa (California
Athabaskan), Chungli Ao (Tibeto-Burm Page 1 An Updated Typology of Causative …

This paper re‐examines the evidence for early contacts between Proto‐Indo‐European
(PIE) and the languages of the Caucasus. Although we were not able to find certain proofs of …

The patterning of/v/in Russian and other languages has long posed a problem for
phonological theory because of its ambiguous classification with respect to the feature …

Frequency asymmetries within a minimal grammatical domain create offline associations
that languages tend to exploit for a more efficient encoding. We explore cross-linguistic …