The nineteenth-century conception that linguistic structure was to be explained by recourse
to the histories of languages was largely abandoned with the rise of synchronic theories in …

The article offers information on the morphology and syntax of Mayan languages. It focuses
on core verbal complex, including roots, stem formation and voice. It focuses on ergative …

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 …

This paper looks at two different aspect splits in Neo-Aramaic languages that are unusual in
that they do not involve any ergativity. Instead, these splits are characterized by agreement …

This dissertation probes the nature of the syntactic operation of Agree through the lens of the
morphosyntax of Amahuaca, an endangered Panoan language of the Peruvian Amazon. I …

In this thesis, I propose the hypothesis that ergative Case in certain languages may be
assigned to a DP which would be otherwise Case-less within a certain domain. In this …

In ergative constructions, the agent of a transitive verb is in the ergative case and the theme
is in the absolutive case. By contrast, in biabsolutive constructions, both the agent and …

This volume explores the grammar of Niuean, an endangered Polynesian language spoken
on the island of Niue and in New Zealand, with a focus on the issue of predication. Since …

Palauan (Austronesian) displays a pattern of differential object marking that is limited to the
imperfective aspect. In the imperfective, human and/or specific objects are overtly marked. In …

The mechanisms underlying ergative case assignment have long been debated, with
inherent and dependent theories of ergative case emerging as two of the most prominent …