It is generally held that noun processing is specifically sub-served by temporal areas, while
the neural underpinnings of verb processing are located in the frontal lobe. However, this …

Noun/verb dissociations in the literature defy interpretation due to the confound between
lexical category and semantic meaning; nouns and verbs typically describe concrete objects …

A referential hierarchy is a scalar representation of types of referents or referring
expressions that are ranked according to their deictic, semantic, and/or discourse-pragmatic …

Mundari, an Austroasiatic language of India (Munda family), has often been cited as an
example of a language without word classes, where a single word can function as noun …

The present study investigates the Nanwang dialect of the Puyuma language, spoken by the
people in Nanwang and Paoshang Suburbs of Taitung City in southern Taiwan. The aim of …

This book is an in-depth study of the voice systems of Totoli, Balinese, Indonesian, and
Tagalog, which shows that the symmetrical nature of these systems poses a problem to …

The Austronesian languages comprise a vast family with some 1,268 members spanning
half of the globe, from Rapanui (Easter Island) on its Eastern boundary, to Malagasy …

This paper considers the question of the extent to which Malay/Indonesian dialects manifest
a voice system similar to the so-called “Philippine-type”,“symmetric” voice systems (the voice …

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) …

This study deals with transitivity and actancy structure in Formosan and Philippine
languages. Based on textual analyses of two Formosan languages (Kavalan and Atayal) …