This paper surveys the occurrence of gender and numeral classifiers in the languages of the
world and evaluates statistically whether there is a complexity tradeoff between these two …

The aim of this article is to provide an overview of the main sources of antipassive
constructions based on a 120-language sample. The sample includes the 48 languages …

Темой настоящей диссертации является типология глагольных форм императива
(повелительного наклонения) в языках мира. Таким образом, работа носит в первую …

Almost all studies on the phonetics of oral stop voicing patterns focus on languages with a
voicing distinction. This gives rise to some debate regarding which aspects of voicing …

This paper presents and discusses the first Universal Dependencies treebank for the
Apurin\~ a language. The treebank contains 76 fully annotated sentences, applies 14 parts …

In languages in which there is an opposition between realis and irrealis markers, directives
(ie forms encoding positive directive situations: imperatives, hortatives, jussives, etc.) …

I describe a typological gap in case and agreement alignment in ditransitive constructions. In
languages in which verbal agreement is controlled by the subject and at most one object …

Do creoles constitute a distinct type of language? One of the peculiarities of the field of
creole studies is that a majority of creolists are uncomfortable with the idea that the …

While more and more data are now available on languages rich in nominalizations, such as
those of Latin America, the literature on nominalization is mainly synchronically orientented …

Antipassive constructions may be polysemous, with aspectual and modal functions other
than patient demotion, and may differ with respect to the way agents and patients are coded …