Some languages have both gender and classifiers, contrary to what was once believed
possible. We use these interesting languages as a unique window onto nominal …

Overabundance is defined as the situation in which two (or more) inflectional forms are
available to realize the same cell in an inflectional paradigm. The paper presents a general …

Linguistics, and typology in particular, can have a bright future. We justify this optimism by
discussing comparability from two angles. First, we take the opportunity presented by this …

The present article analyzes the non-formal (semantic and pragmatic) and formal (phonetic,
morphological, and syntactic) profile of Conative Animal Calls (CACs)–a subtype of conative …

Offering a detailed investigation of three Mauritian Creole pragmatic markers based on one
of the verba dicendi, dir 'say', in a corpus of spoken discourse, this article sets out to offer a …

Exploring the phenomenon of'mixed categories', this book is the first in-depth study of the
way in which languages can use a noun, as opposed to an adjective, to modify another …

Multiple exponence is the multiple marking of the same feature or category within a single
word. Distributed exponence is the occurrence of morphological structure such that …

Investigating the complexity of grammatical gender begins with the question: What are the
dimensions of variation? This question is addressed by Canonical Typology, which provides …

Abstract The Papuan language Mian allows us to refine the typology of nominal
classification. Mian has two candidate classification systems, differing completely in their …

Abstract The Turkic language Kazakh has a remarkably large set of eighteen auxiliary verbs,
which express various tense-aspect-modality (TAM) values in combination with a lexical …