RS Kayne - Studies in Chinese linguistics, 2016 - sciendo.com
On the basis of considerations involving complementizers, sentence-final particles, need, aspect, tense, focus and topic, agreement morphemes, determiners, verbrelated particles …
There are far more syntactically distinct languages than we might have thought; yet there are far fewer than there might have been. Questions of Syntax collects sixteen papers authored …
A Finholt - Glossa: a journal of general linguistics, 2024 - glossa-journal.org
It is cross-linguistically common to find a distinction between “temporary” vs.“permanent” states in copular verbs, eg, Spanish estar and ser (see Deo et al. 2017). In Mashi …
This dissertation explores the nature of the copula through a typological investigation of copular variation in the expression of non-verbal predication in five Great Lakes Bantu …
This thesis contributes to the debate on the link between a transitive verb corresponding to'need'and the verb of possession in the world's languages. Specifically, I analyze data …