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

Agreement is among the most widely-researched issues in theoretical linguistics. In this
introduction, we critically review some of the key issues, focussing on typological …

This dissertation presents the results of a typological study that investigated the global
distribution of antipassive constructions, as well as the distribution of the relevant …

We show that the same Universal Grammar mechanism of Agree can have two quite
different grammatical effects: normal agreement in person-number-gender features, or …

This thesis is a corpus-based, quantitative, and typological analysis of the functions of Early
Slavic participle constructions and their finite competitors ($ jegda $-'when'-clauses). The …

Switch reference systems occur in a number of languages spoken in a contiguous area in
western South America, across language families, and even across macro culture areas …

Person and gender are typical agreement features within the clause, and crosslinguistically
they are frequently part of one and the same agreement system and even expressed …

Abstract In Aikanã and Kwaza, neighbouring endangered isolate languages of Rondônia,
Brazil, sentences can include chains of medial clauses and end with a predicate in a matrix …

Switch-reference is a family of grammatical devices whose primary function is to indicate
whether two linked clauses have coreferential pivots, where the pivot is a prominent …

Languages can encode temporal subordination lexically, via subordinating conjunctions,
and morphologically, by marking the relation on the predicate. Systematic cross-linguistic …