Ditransitive constructions are syntactic constructions with three arguments, an agent (A), a
theme (T), and a recipient (R), which express an event of possessive transfer …

In this article, I propose that the concept of (argument) indexing is more useful in typology
(and typically also in language description) than the commonly used concepts of pronoun …

The terms S (intransitive), A, P (transitive), as well as T and R (ditransitive) have been used
since the 1970s to allow linguists to characterize the differences between major alignment …

In this introductory article we provide an overview of the range of the phenomena that can be
referred to as differential argument marking (DAM). We begin with an overview of the …

This study investigates adverbial clauses from a cross-linguistic perspective. In line with
other recent typological research in the context of complex sentences and clause-linkage, it …

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 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 …

This grammar provides the first comprehensive grammatical description of Yakkha, a Sino-
Tibetan language of the Kiranti branch. Yakkha is spoken by about 14,000 speakers in …

It is often taken for granted that languages have a large number of transitive verbs, or even
that the typical two-argument verb is transitive. And indeed, this paper will provide further …

A key notion in understanding language is' possible word (lexeme)'. While there are
lexemes that are internally homogeneous and externally consistent, we find others with …