In most languages we find'little words' which resemble a full word, but which cannot stand on
their own. Instead they have to'lean on'a neighbouring word, like the'd,'ve and …

This book argues (a) that there is no principled way to distinguish inflection and derivation
and (b) that this fatally undermines conventional approaches to morphology. Conceptual …

This interdisciplinary new work explores one of the central theoretical problems in
linguistics: learnability. The authors, from different backgrounds—-linguistics, philosophy …

This paper surveys the origins of the total of twenty-seven directional case markers in the
European branches of the Uralic language family. In an attempt to resolve a number of …

This dissertation investigates nominal and clausal structure in Ch'ol, a Mayan language of
southern Mexico. I take as an empirical basis the interpretation of bare nouns and extraction …

Lexical-Functional Grammar has been consistent over the past 4+ decades about its
conception of syntactic structure and the sorts of rules that license it. However, despite being …

This work is a descriptive grammar of Denjongke, or Sikkimese Bhutia (also known as Lhoke
or Sikkimese)(ISO 639-3 sip), an underdescribed and endangered Tibeto-Burman, Tibetic …

Particles are not peripheral categories, nor are their behaviours arbitrary or accidental. They
play a crucial role in unfolding structural skeletons and making syntax predictable, yet at the …

This book presents new data and a formal analysis of the inflectional system and syntax of
Kayardild, a typologically striking language of Northern Australia. It sets forth arguments for …

Australian languages have had a significant impact on the theoretical and typological stage
over the last 50 years, particularly in the areas of nonconfigurationality and phrase structure …