This article examines the variations in determiner phrase (DP) and classifiers in Southeast
Asian languages. It describes the internal structure of DP and addresses the specific …

Nominal Arguments in Language Variation investigates nominal arguments in classifier
languages, refuting the long-held claim that classifier languages do not have overt article …

Determiners and bare nouns raise questions about the interface between morphosyntax and
semantics. On the syntactic side, the primary issue is whether bare nouns have a null …

Bangla has commonly been assumed to be an SOV wh-in-situ language. Here it is
suggested that both of these characterizations are incorrect and that Bangla actually has …

Martin Joos's famous statement that “(l) anguages can differ from each other without limit
and in unpredictable ways”(Joos 1957: 96) is often misrepresented as an assertion …

Classifier languages are often described as lacking genuine number morphology and
treating all common nouns, including those conceptually count, as an unindividuated mass …

This paper is concerned with the expression of kind, definite, and indefinite readings in
Bangla. Bangla is a classifier language and allows bare nominal arguments to have kind …

Recent research on definiteness has shown that languages can distinguish between an
anaphoric and a uniqueness-based notion of definiteness. This distinction may be marked …

Natural language uses first and second person pronouns to refer to the speaker and
addressee. This dissertation takes as its starting point the view that speaker and addressee …

This dissertation has two central foci:(i) it examines the behavioral contrasts of perspective-
sensitive elements such as evidentials in questions and assertions;(ii) it investigates the …