The terms S (intransitive), A, P (transitive), as well as T and R (ditransitive) have been used
since the 1970s to allow linguists to characterize the differences between major alignment …

This thesis explores transparent and opaque interactions of operations in Minimalist syntax
in order to gain insights into the nature of elementary operations and their mode of …

This book provides a comprehensive typological account of voice syncretism, focusing on
resemblance in formal verbal marking between two or more of the following seven voices …

This book traces the changes in argument alignment that have taken place in Aramaic
during its 3000-year documented history. Eastern Aramaic dialects first developed tense …

This dissertation describes Eastern Geshiza, a previously insufficiently known Trans-
Himalayan (Sino-Tibetan) Horpa language spoken primarily in eastern Geshiza Valley of …

A central aspect of human experience and communication is understanding events in terms
of agent (“doer”) and patient (“undergoer” of action) roles. These event roles are rooted in …

With morphological and syntactic argument properties, some arguments behave alike (ie,
they align with each other) while others do not. Such alignment patterns have received …

The Space of Case Page 1 The Space of Case Sander Lestrade Page 2 Printing: Ipskamp
drukkers Cover design: Lotte Holman ISBN 978-90-9025746-4 NUR 616 Copyright c 2010 by …

The fact that some languages extensively use suffixes and prefixes to convey grammatical
meaning (eg subject-verb agreement) poses a challenge to most current human language …

If a language develops differential subject or differential object marking by case or
adpositions, this is widely hypothesized to result from a universal effect of referential scales …