This paper reasserts the fundamental conceptual distinction between language-particular
categories of individual languages, defined within particular systems, and comparative …

A new contribution to linguistic theory, this book presents a formal framework for the analysis
of word structure in human language. It sets forth the network of hypotheses constituting …

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

Sometimes dismissed as linguistically epiphenomenal, inflectional paradigms are, in reality,
the interface of a language's morphology with its syntax and semantics. Drawing on …

In a serial verb construction (SVC), two or more verbs combine in a single clause without
any morphosyntactic marking of linking or subordination. However, the way in which …

Human language offers rich ways to track, compare, and engage the attentional and
epistemic states of interlocutors. While this task is central to everyday communication, our …

Nominal classification remains a fascinating topic but in order to make further progress we
need greater clarity of definition and analysis. Taking a Canonical Typology approach, we …

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 …

We address variable morphotactics, the phenomenon of order variability of morphs, in the
context of inflectional morphology. Based on an extended discussion of cross-linguistic …

Engagement systems encode the relative accessibility of an entity or state of affairs to the
speaker and addressee, and are thus underpinned by our social cognitive capacities. In our …