Why do groups of speakers in certain times and places come up with new varieties of
languages? What are the social settings that determine whether a mixed language, a pidgin …

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 …

It is widely acknowledged that developments in bilingual individuals parallel, and ultimately
underlie, those taking place in the course of contact-induced change. In this paper we …

One of the most under‑researched constructions to appear in Goldberg's (1995) monograph
was the construction known as the transitive construction, an argu‑ment structure …

Southern Min is a major Chinese language of wider communication in many countries of
Southeast Asia with a conservative estimate of seven million speakers in this region, the …

The morpheme 'give'is among the most well-studied lexical items in the realm of
grammaticalization. This study sets out to provide a typological and areal analysis of the …

A distinctive syntactic feature of the Chaozhou dialect group is the use of the same
morpheme in the passive and in certain intransitive constructions. In the Jieyang variety, the …

This paper examines five syntactic functions performed by the double object verb [pei35] 畀
(meaning 'to give') in the Cantonese dialects:(a) Indirect object marker;(b) beneficiary …

This paper examines the relationship between middle and passive voice constructions in
Korean, in particular how they have come to share the same grammatical marker-eci. Based …

It is common knowledge that the words corresponding to GIVE in serializing languages like
hây and gěi in Thai and Mandarin Chinese, respectively, have multiple uses. Owing to the …