Why our use of language is highly creative yet also constrained We use words and phrases
creatively to express ourselves in ever-changing contexts, readily extending language …

This is the first full study of how people refer to entities in natural discourse. It contributes to
the understanding of both linguistic diversity and the cognitive underpinnings of language …

Corpus-based studies have become increasingly common in linguistic typology over recent
years, amounting to the emergence of a new field that we call corpus-based typology. The …

Real-time language comprehension is a principal cognitive ability and thereby relates to
central properties of the human cognitive architecture. Yet how do the presumably universal …

The central issue of Newmeyer's new book is at the very core of language typological
research: how are similarities and differences among languages to be described and how …

Typology as a discipline In the past century, typology was mostly used as an alternative
method of pursuing one of the same goals as generative grammar: to determine the limits of …

3.1 Preliminaries 29 3.1. 1 On the identification of purpose clause constructions 29 3.1. 2 On
the quantitative analysis of constructions 33 3.2 Coding of the situation: The form of the verb …

Over the past two decades, linguistic typology has been moving increasingly away from its
original goal of classifying languages into ideal types that would be constrained by …

This paper discusses a multidimensional probabilistic semantic map of lexical motion verb
stems based on data collected from parallel texts (viz. translations of the Gospel according to …

This volume is dedicated to exploring the crossroads where complex sentences and
information management–more specifically information structure (IS) and reference tracking …