There is a large body of research indicating that speakers of (familiar) European languages
tend to encode and conceptualize space from an egocentric perspective, but linguistic …

When speakers of different languages interact, they are likely to influence each other:
contact leaves traces in the linguistic record, which in turn can reveal geographical areas of …

The Amazon basin is one of the most linguistically diverse regions on earth. With some 300
indigenous languages corresponding to over fifty distinct lineages, the diversity of language …

Demonstratives are a typologically well-established, elementary and possibly universal
grammatical category. In this article we provide a concise and yet comprehensive analysis of …

This volume explores the multiple aspects of morphological complexity, investigating
primarily whether certain aspects of morphology can be considered more complex than …

This article examines whether Australian languages generally lack clear noun phrase
structures, as has sometimes been argued in the literature. We break up the notion of NP …

Recent typological and areal studies of demonstratives, such as Himmelmann (1997),
Diessel (1999, 2006), Dixon (2003), Güldemann (2008) and Krasnoukhova (2012), have …

This dissertation is a study of the semantics of adnominal possession crosslinguistically.
This chapter introduces the topic and structure of the thesis. In section 1.1, I introduce the …

The South American continent offers many exciting opportunities for scholars concerned
with the study of human language. Through a boom in the description of the indigenous …

Abstract Indigenous people across South America tend to be multilingual, and South
American languages exhibit historical contact effects that suggest multilingualism has long …