This book is based on the results of research in language typology, and motivated by the
need for a theory to explain them. Croft proposes intimate links between syntactic and …

The grammatical category of voice covers a wide range of phenomena, including
causatives, applicatives, passives, antipassives, middles, and others. Drawing on data from …

A number of disparate approaches to language, ranging from cognitive linguistics to
stochastic implementations of optimality theory, have challenged the classical distinction …

Page 1 OXFORD STUDIES IN COMPARATIVE SYNTAX Checking Theory and Grammatical
Functions in Universal Grammar Hiroyuki Ura Page 2 Checking Theory and Grammatical …

In this paper, I will argue for the existence of two different types of antipassive. The first, and
also most common type of antipassive is best described in terms of semantic and pragmatic …

A major tenet of much research in generative grammar is that there exists a set of universal
properties that are common to all languages (principles), and that even the differences that …

This paper argues for and develops an ergative analysis of Tagalog. Determining whether a
language is ergative or accusative is the result of examining the case marking alignment in …

Case is a conjectured syntactic property of noun phrases that accounts for aspects of their
distribution and form that do not otherwise follow from their PF and LF content (Chomsky …

This book presents an innovative theory of syntactic categories and the lexical classes they
define. It revives the traditional idea that these are to be distinguished notionally …

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) …