Corpus-based studies have become increasingly common in linguistic typology over recent
years, amounting to the emergence of a new field that we call corpus-based typology. The …

Differences in language use and structures between signed and spoken languages have
often been attributed to so-called language “modality.” Indeed, this is derived from the …

Do signers of different signed languages establish and maintain reference the same way?
Here we compare how signers of five Western deaf signed languages coordinate fully …

Abstract Language and social cognition come together in communication, but their relation
has been intensely contested. Here, I argue that these two distinctively human abilities are …

This textbook introduces the fundamental concepts and methods of corpus linguistics for
students approaching this topic for the first time, putting specific emphasis on the enormous …

Investigations of quotatives are essential for understanding how humans talk about talking.
However, comparison of quotatives and other communicative phenomena have been …

This paper presents the design rationale and pilot demonstration of the GramAdapt Social
Contact questionnaire; a research tool developed for collecting global comparative …

It has been argued that speakers employ morphosyntactic structures such as
presentationals and left-dislocations (Lambrecht 1994) to establish new entities in discourse …

I469 Lichtenberk 1996). This hypothesis is tested against spoken corpus data from twelve
diverse languages. While the use of specific morphosyntactic structures does correlate with …