This volume provides descriptive sketches of the Papuan languages scattered over the
islands of Timor, Alor, and Pantar at the western perimeter of Melanesia. Timor-Alor-Pantar …

This book is a grammar of Kalamang, a Papuan language of western New Guinea in the
east of Indonesia. It is spoken by around 130 people in the villages Mas and Antalisa on the …

Constructions with multiple verbal elements have posed a long-standing challenge to
linguistic analysis. Most studies of verb serialisation have been confined to single languages …

Makalero and Makasae are spoken in the eastern part of East Timor. According to the 2010
population census of East Timor's Direcção Nacional de Estatística, Makasae (ISO 639-3 …

This paper focuses on a particular use of the item zehu 'that's it'in spoken Israeli Hebrew, in
which it functions as a secondary interjection that conveys the meanings of “completion” and …

Fataluku (ISO 639-3 code: ddg) is spoken in Timor-Leste's easternmost district, Lautém. It is
referred to by its speakers as Fatalukunu, which translates as 'correct speech'(fata 'correct' …

Differential locative marking is found in languages all over the world. Toponyms, in
particular, are well known to often require less locative marking than other types of nouns …

This study of the acquisition of A-quantification focuses on the A-quantifier saai3 'all'in
Cantonese, which is suffixed to a verb or a preposition to quantify over various constituents …

Although the term “complex predicates” is well established in linguistics, it is still a
theoretical challenge. Complex predicates are generally defined as sequences of …

This study investigates whether Cantonese-speaking preschoolers are sensitive to the
semantic differences between universal quantification and perfectivity under the …