This book introduces the principles and practice of writing a comprehensive reference
grammar. Several thousand distinct languages are currently spoken across the globe, each …

The partitive of negation, ie partitive marking of NPs under the scope of negation, is known
to be found in some European languages, namely Finnic, Baltic, Slavic and Basque. Based …

Mavea is a severely endangered Oceanic language spoken by about 32 people in northern
Vanuatu, on the east coast of Espiritu Santo. Although a lot still remains to be discovered …

This thesis discusses topics in the grammar of Lelepa, an Oceanic language spoken by
about 500 people on the islands of Lelepa and Efate in the centre of the Vanuatu …

This dissertation is a descriptive grammar of Kove, an Austronesian language spoken in the
West New Britain Province of Papua New Guinea. Kove is primarily spoken in 18 villages …

This thesis investigates the syntactic structure of DP (determiner phrase) in Central Kurdish
within the Minimalist Program (Chomsky 1995, and subsequent work). It explores the syntax …

This dissertation presents the results of a language documentation project carried out in
Rapa Iti, the southernmost island of French Polynesia. It first highlights the indigenous …

In many languages, indefinite expressions are known to have restricted access to core
argument functions. This article focuses on the accessibility hierarchy of indefinite …

Proper names are considered as a special sub-category of nouns because they are used to
refer to entities in the world and often behave grammatically like common nouns. This …

This thesis examines the verbal system of Tagalog through an event structure analysis,
arguing that “focus forms” exhibited by base predicates are expressions of different event …