This paper examines a wide range of nominalization strategies found in Asian languages,
and identifies robust grammaticalization pathways that trace the life of versatile …

This study reviews extended uses of nominalization constructions in a wide range of Asian
languages. It combines typological and diachronic perspectives, and traces how …

In this review article, I propose a new organization of the data in Yap, Grunow-Hårsta &
Wrona (2011)'s edited volume on nominalization in about sixty Asian languages. The …

1. 0 On this study 1.1 The Lamaholot language 1.1. 1 Flores Island 1.1. 2 Central Malayo-
Polynesian 1.1. 3 Surrounding languages and sociolinguistic situations 1.1. 4 Lamaholot …

This paper explores the use of demonstratives in non-embedded clausal nominalisations.
We present data and analysis from three Papuan languages of the Timor-Alor-Pantar family …

The present study investigates the use and development of demonstratives that follow head
word, postposed demonstratives, which are characteristic of eastern Finnic and North …

Information structure is tied up closely with predication in predicate-initial Philippine-type
languages. In these languages, subjects are presupposed and the predicate position …

We propose a functional category of People Referring Expressions, or PREs, which cuts
across multiple lexical categories and which makes essential reference to the act of referring …

In this paper, we investigate how Korean-ki and-m nominalization constructions have come
to also express speaker stance. We first identify the semantic distinctions between Korean-ki …

The suffix‑nya is one of the most frequent and polysemic suffixes in Indonesian. It can
provide definite determination and topicalization. The “Verb‑nya “, which often appears in a …