This dissertation examines the origins of Hawai'i Creole English (HCE), a language
otherwise known to its speakers as “Pidgin” and one which now serves as a vernacular for …

The rich and inspiring literature on nominal determination of the last decades testifies to the
considerable interest in questions related to determination (see, eg Hawkins 1978; van der …

The focus of this special edition is the syntactic nature of the poorly understood group of
elements designated particles in the descriptive, typological and generative literature. To …

1.1 Aim Classifier constructions (CLCs) of the form [Numeral-Classifier-Noun], or one of its
permutations, have occupied a central stage in studies of language typology, syntax and …

The ba construction in Chinese has been one of the most-debated topics among many
linguists. This is due to its complexity, the semantic factors involved, issues regarding …

The first Westerners to learn and describe Cantonese were Protestant missionaries who
arrived in China in the 19 th century. Given the almost total lack of local linguistic tools, they …

The aim of this thesis is to seek to establish a correlation between ontogeny and phylogeny
in language development, suggesting that there are strong syntactic parallels between first …

This paper is a comparative study of the morphosyntax of the constituents referred as noun
phrases (NPs) in traditional grammar, and it focuses on empirical data from English and …

Datives: structural vs. inherent — abstract vs. morphological — autonomous vs. combinatory —
universally vs. language-spec Page 1 Datives Pages 3–46 of Datives and Other Cases: Between …

This dissertation is a comparative study of the morphosyntax of the constituents referred to
as noun phrases in traditional grammar. In line with Abney's (1987) Determiner Phrase (DP) …