In many languages, the objects of transitive verbs are either marked by grammatical case or
agreement on the verb, or they remain unmarked: this is differential object marking. This …

The aim of this work is to describe the different ways languages express focus and to explain
why languages use exactly these ways. I give a detailed account of focus in three …

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 …

Sanzhi Dargwa belongs to the Dargwa (Dargi) languages (ISO dar; Glottocode sanz1248)
which form a subgroup of the East Caucasian (Nakh-Dagestanian) language family. Sanzhi …

This study investigates the linguistic realization of information structure (IS) in Turkish.
Following Vallduvı́ and Engdahl [Linguistics 34 (1996) 459], Hoffman (Hoffman, B., 1995 …

In Classical Greek Syntax: Wackernagel's Law in Herodotus, David Goldstein offers the first
theoretically-informed study of second-position clitics in Ancient Greek and challenges the …

This dissertation deals with dislocation structures, particularly with Clitic Right Dislocation
and with Clitic Left Dislocation. The main guideline of the analysis is that the form of syntactic …

A production study is presented that investigates the effects of word order and information
structural context on the prosodic realization of declarative sentences in Hindi. Previous …

This book examines several thousand examples of tense-aspect stem participles in the
Rigveda, and the passages in which they appear, in terms of both their syntax and …

Con gurational languages like English and non-con gurational languages like Russian use
both syntax and prosody to encode discourse functions. This crucial interaction of syntax …