The aim of this article is to provide an overview of the main sources of antipassive
constructions based on a 120-language sample. The sample includes the 48 languages …

In this review article, I propose a new organization of the data in Yap, Grunow-Hårsta &
Wrona (2011)'s edited volume on nominalization in about sixty Asian languages. The …

Cognitively oriented approaches to the study of language standardly use synchronic
distributional evidence to make assumptions both about the psychological mechanisms that …

While it is not uncommon for verb-final (sov) languages such as Japanese and Korean to
deploy a wide range of sentence final particles, given the frequent reanalysis of their (post) …

This paper addresses the emergence and development of the Chinese cleft construction,
with particular attention to the period from Early Archaic Chinese through Late Medieval …

David Bradley has a long-standing interest in the Sino-Tibetan languages, and his many
significant contributions to the study of these languages have advanced our knowledge in …

This paper aims to explain the development of “zhě” serving as a conditional marker mainly
in Late Archaic Chinese and to show that the conditional marker “zhě” derives from the …

This dissertation focuses on Yukuna (ISO 693-3: ycn, Glottocode: yucu1253), an Arawak
language of Colombian Amazonia. Yukuna is a definitely endangered, understudied …

This paper examines the life-cycle of versatile nominalizers in Chinese, with special
attention to how they develop into attitudinal stance markers. Based on cross-dialectal and …

Typological universals are skewed distributional patterns whereby languages recurrently
display certain grammatical patterns as opposed to others. Explanations for these patterns …