This paper discusses foundational issues in nominalization, focusing on empirical,
conceptual, and theoretical problems that have plagued the field for years. Current …

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 …

This paper examines a wide range of nominalization strategies found in Asian languages,
and identifies robust grammaticalization pathways that trace the life of versatile …

This chapter demonstrates a 'top-down'approach to describing Mandarin Chinese from a
systemic functional linguistic perspective. This approach takes meaning made at the level of …

Shibatani (2017) in the syntax volume of this handbook series offers a bold new analysis of
Japanese nominalization that distinguishes between lexical and grammatical …

While it is not uncommon for verb-final (sov) languages such as Japanese and Korean to
deploy a wide range of sentence final particles, given the frequent reanalysis of their (post) …

This paper addresses the emergence and development of the Chinese cleft construction,
with particular attention to the period from Early Archaic Chinese through Late Medieval …

This paper explores the use of demonstratives in non-embedded clausal nominalisations.
We present data and analysis from three Papuan languages of the Timor-Alor-Pantar family …

The Burmese particle hmá expresses cleft-like exhaustivity in some contexts but a scalar,
even-like meaning in other contexts. We propose that hmá is uniformly a not-at-issue scalar …

This dissertation provides a description and analysis of the syntax of Kawahíva, a critically
endangered Tupí-Guaraní language spoken by approximately 560 people in the Brazilian …