Language is one of the most fundamental defining features of the human being, and
scholars have been trying to capture its essentials for thousands of years. One way of doing …

English already and the perfect aspect are both acceptable in many of the same
environments. For example, both can express the recent past, an experiential reading, or a …

Recent literature has debated the nature and robustness of distinctions between pronominal
tenses and existential tenses, between absolute tenses and relative tenses, and between …

The focus of this thesis is the description and analysis of clausal complementation in
Sundanese, an Austronesian language spoken in Indonesia. The thesis examined a range …

This paper provides a first complete description of pure possibility and pure necessity
modals in the Paciran dialect of Javanese, based on a wide variety of fieldwork tools such as …

This dissertation examines a number of syntactic and semantic aspects of the full set of TAM
(tense-aspect-modal) markers in the dialect of Paciran Javanese (Western Malayo …

Innu-aimûn morphosyntax includes operations of multiple head-movement triggered by
attracting heads of several categorial types. This pattern is illustrated, and contrasted with …

Cole et al. find that auxiliary fronting in yes–no questions divides auxiliaries in the dialect of
Peranakan Javanese as spoken in Semarang, Central Java, Indonesia into two types: low …

Javanese interactions are bound by politeness speech levels. Ngoko, the lowest form,
reflects the interactions between close equals, or persons of higher status towards those of …

In this paper, we discuss how written questionnaires for targeted constructions can be a
beneficial tool for comparative linguistic field research through two case studies on …