Doctoral students are routinely told by their supervisors that they should delimit their topic,
realize that they need not state their opinion on every important issue in linguistics and that …

This book presents a typological survey and analysis of the co-compound construction. This
understudied phenomenon is essentially a compound whose meaning is the result of …

This volume provides a detailed analysis of language contact in North Africa and explores
the historical presence of the languages used in the region, including the different varieties …

My starting point in this contribution is the observation that apparently the great majority of
universal morphosyntactic asymmetries are economically motivated and thus exemplify the …

This book contains the results of our research project on Alienablity/Inalienability in Europe
(“Alienabilität/Inalienabilität in Europa”) financed by the German Science Foundation (“Deut …

All living beings try to save effort, and humans are no exception. This groundbreaking book
shows how we save time and energy during communication by unconsciously making …

This paper argues that alienability contrasts in adnominal possessive constructions should
not be explained by iconicity of distance, but by predictability due to the higher relative …

The goal of this paper is to present a short overview of possessive NPs in the European
languages, with two main foci:• the structural types of possessive NPs in the European …

Which criteria can be invoked to identify compounds? This paper suggests a quadripartite
approach which carefully distinguishes between compounds and phrases, by treating the …

Some languages around the Pacific have multiple possessive classes of alienable
constructions using appositive nouns or classifiers. This pattern differs from the most …