This paper discusses foundational issues in nominalization, focusing on empirical,
conceptual, and theoretical problems that have plagued the field for years. Current …

Evidentiality–a grammatical expression of information source (,)–is often expressed on a
clausal level, and its marking is associated with the verb. In a few languages, a noun phrase …

Engagement systems encode the relative accessibility of an entity or state of affairs to the
speaker and addressee, and are thus underpinned by our social cognitive capacities. In our …

Clause structure is the most widely-studied phenomenon within syntactic theory, because it
refers to how words and phrases are embedded within a sentence, their relationships to …

In A Grammar of Murui (Bue), Katarzyna Wojtylak provides the first complete description of
Murui, an endangered Witotoan language, spoken by the Murui-Muina (Witoto) people from …

Agents have been claimed to be universally more prominent than verbal arguments with
other thematic roles. Perhaps the strongest claim in this regard is that agents have a …

Within the grammar of the world's languages, knowledge can be expressed in various ways.
We focus on the grammatical expression of four major groups of meanings related to …

In recent years,“stance” has become increasingly an important locus for research within the
functional, pragmatic, cognitive, sociolinguistic and interactional paradigms. Stance may be …

Some languages constrain the recursive embedding of NPs to some specific
morphosyntactic types, allowing it, for example, only with genitives but not with bare …

The paper presents the emerging alternative to the field of Information Structure, termed
here Multifactorial Information Management (MIM). This framework regards the process of …