This book considers how forms and meanings of different languages at different times may
resemble one another and what the explanation is for this. The author aims (a) to explain and …

In some languages every statement must contain a specification of the type of evidence on
which it is based: for example, whether the speaker saw it, or heard it, or inferred it from …

This volume consists of a number of detailed case studies of transitivity across a selection of
languages–from North, Central and South America, New Guinea, Australia, the China/…

In some languages words tend to be rather short but in others they may be dauntingly long.
In this book, a distinguished international group of scholars discuss the concept'word'and its …

The range of mirative meanings across the world's languages subsumes sudden discovery,
surprise, and unprepared mind of the speaker (and also the audience or the main character …

A serial verb construction (SVC) is a sequence of verbs which act together as a single predicate,
without any overt marker of coordination, subordination, or syntactic dependency of any …

This book shows that every language has an adjective class and examines how these vary
in size and character. The opening chapter considers current generalizations about the …

Languages can resemble each other in categories, constructions, and meanings, and in the
actual forms used to express them. 1 Categories can be similar because they are universal—…

Almost all languages have some ways of categorizing nouns. Languages of South-East
Asia have classifiers used with numerals, while most Indo-European languages have two or …

Languages can be similar in many ways-they can resemble each other in categories,
constructions and meanings, and in the actual forms used to express these. A shared feature may …