Agreement is among the most widely-researched issues in theoretical linguistics. In this
introduction, we critically review some of the key issues, focussing on typological …

Since Du Bois's (1987b) seminal paper, ergative alignment in morphosyntax has been
claimed to correlate with a characteristic constellation of argument realization in discourse …

This article opens a volume of detailed descriptions of grammatical relations in thirteen
languages. It begins by outlining new developments in the research on grammatical …

Apart from common cases of differential argument marking, referential hierarchies affect
argument marking in two ways:(a) through hierarchical marking, where markers compete for …

This paper proposes a diachronic typology for the various patterns that have been referred
to as Hierarchical Alignment or Inverse Alignment. Previous typological studies have tried to …

This paper discusses the emergence and demise of verbal person-number indexes on the
basis of a sample of 310 languages. First, qualitative evidence is provided to show that there …

This paper introduces the topic and the contributions of this special issue. While lexical
restrictions are well-studied for grammatical relations defining argument coding (case …

Despite its alleged relative stability, grammatical gender has nevertheless been completely
lost in a number of languages. Through the analysis of three case studies (Afrikaans …

This data management use case describes AUTOTYP, a large-scale research program with
goals in both quantitative and qualitative typology. 1 It was launched in 1996 by Balthasar …

Language encodes into morphology part of the information present in the referential world.
Some features are marked in the great majority of languages, such as the numerosity of the …