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

" This book reconstructs what the earliest grammars might have been and shows how they
could have led to the languages of modern humankind." Like other biological phenomena …

Reciprocal constructions arguably denote the most complex event type to be expressed in
most languages by regular grammatical means. A clause like John and Mary love/chase …

The aim of this article is twofold:(a) to offer a detailed analysis of reciprocal constructions in
German and Japanese against the background of a preliminary typology of such …

11.1 Case 1. Languages with (one or more) syntactic reciprocal markers only 11.2 Case 2.
Languages with (one or more) morphological and clitic markers only 11.3 Case 3 …

0.1 Objectif Tenter d'appréhender le phénomène de l'antipassif revient à se confronter à la
question majeure de la relation entre le type d'alignement et d'autres aspects de …

Looking at the structure of reflexive and reciprocal markers in African languages, a number
of questions arise, like the following: Why do reflexive and/or reciprocal markers sometimes …

In this paper, we turn to languaging, defined here as activity in which wordings play a part.
On such a view, while activity is paramount, people also orient to acts of vocalization as …

An insight into the existence of lexical reciprocals can already be gained from the reading of
O. Jespersen's “The Philosophy of Grammar”(1924). As he pointed out in the course of …

This book is an investigation of Arabic derivational morphology that focuses on the
relationship between verb meaning and linguistic form. Beginning with the ground form, the …