How does a child become bilingual? The answer to this intriguing question remains largely
a mystery, not least because it has been far less extensively researched than the process of …

Most of the time we communicate using language without considering the complex activity
we are undertaking, forming words and sentences in a split second. This book introduces …

Introduction China possesses rich linguistic resources which remain relatively untapped: the
ten main Sinitic languages or dialect groups account for roughly 93% of the population …

It is widely acknowledged that developments in bilingual individuals parallel, and ultimately
underlie, those taking place in the course of contact-induced change. In this paper we …

After defining applicative periphrases as constructions in which a verb (the verb-operator)
acts as a valency operator licensing the expression of an additional participant fulfilling a …

The present paper aims at testing four criteria for the distinction between primary vs.
secondary grammaticalization in East and mainland Southeast Asian languages. These …

In serial verb constructions (SVCs), multiple independent lexical verbs are combined in a
mono-clausal construction. SVCs express a range of grammatical meanings and are …

The benefactive construction dar+ gerund is used in the North Andean region only and is
unknown elsewhere in the Spanish-speaking world. Based on the analysis of spontaneous …

This paper justifies the different part-of-speech assignments for Mandarin gei in five of its
different uses: verbal, preverbal, postverbal, postobject, and purposive, and challenges the …

The morpheme 'give'is among the most well-studied lexical items in the realm of
grammaticalization. This study sets out to provide a typological and areal analysis of the …