The grammatical category of voice covers a wide range of phenomena, including
causatives, applicatives, passives, antipassives, middles, and others. Drawing on data from …

This book provides a comprehensive typological account of voice syncretism, focusing on
resemblance in formal verbal marking between two or more of the following seven voices …

This grammar provides the first comprehensive grammatical description of Yakkha, a Sino-
Tibetan language of the Kiranti branch. Yakkha is spoken by about 14,000 speakers in …

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

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 …

This article provides an overview of the history of grammaticalisation in Sinitic languages. It
discusses the evolution of the disposal or object marking constructions, passive and …

The present contribution suggests how grammaticalization theory may contribute to
establishing remote linguistic relationships, more particularly to distinguishing genealogical …

This monograph investigates how Japanese employs different structures found in the
grammatical voice, both synchronically and diachronically. The Japanese voice system …

In this paper, we examine the characteristics of unaccusative 'give'constructions in Chinese,
and additionally identify the pathways for their emergence in some Chinese dialects, in …

ya33ya33giveFurthermore, the existence of two distinct constructions for the benefactive and
the malefactive in Jinghpo conforms to Radetzky & Smith's claim (2010: 116) that this is an …