In this chapter, we undertake a cross-linguistic examination of bridging constructions, which
we define as the sequence of two clauses: the first clause (called the reference clause) ends …

Many descriptive grammars report the use of a linguistic pattern at the interface between
discourse and syntax which is known generally as tail-head linkage. This volume takes an …

Extraordinary change is under way in the Alto Urubamba Valley, a vital and turbulent corner
of the Andean-Amazonian borderland of southern Peru. Here, tens of thousands of Quechua …

In the Southern Peruvian Amazon, agricultural migrants from the Andes have brought
Quechua and Andean Spanish into the traditional Amazonian territory of Matsigenka …

The Luyia Bantu language Logoori shows a genre-based split in bridging construction
distribution. Examination of a small corpus of Logoori texts of various genres told by diverse …

This paper treats bridging constructions in the Tsezic languages (Bezhta, Hunzib, Khwarshi,
Hinuq, and Tsez) of the Nakh-Daghestanian language family. We describe the syntactic and …

Chez les Matsigenka de l'Amazonie péruvienne, l'opposition topologique fondamentale
entre l'amont (katonko) et l'aval (kamatikya) des cours d'eau est à l'intersection d'un double …

This paper describes tail-head linkage (THL) in Papuan Malay, spoken in coastal West
Papua. Four aspects are examined, the compositional, relational and functional properties …