Typological Studies in Language – serie
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Investigating Language Isolates
Typological and diachronic perspectives
Av Iker Salaberri, Dorota Krajewska m. fl.
Inbunden, 2025
1864 kr
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Language isolates provide unique insights into human history and linguistic diversity. Nevertheless, isolates have been studied less exhaustively than non-isolates. The eleven papers gathered in this volume provide new methodological tools in order to better understand isolates, including a …
Layered Approach to Habitual Constructions
Av Sune Gregersen, Kees Hengeveld
Inbunden, 2026
1785 kr
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Habitual constructions, such as those based on English used to and Spanish soler, are linguistic expressions denoting situations that typically occur. This volume proposes a novel approach to such expressions, arguing that habituality is not a unified semantic category, but rather a family of …
Topicality and the Shaping of Grammar
New perspectives from lesser-studied languages
Av Enrique L. Palancar, Claudine Chamoreau m. fl.
Inbunden, 2026
1785 kr
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This volume places topicality at the very heart of grammatical explanation, drawing on richly annotated discourse corpora from lesser-studied languages across the Americas and beyond. Through nine original studies, it demonstrates how aspects of discourse relevance (rather than just abstract …
Diachronic and Typological Perspectives on Anticausativization
Av Guglielmo Inglese, Giulia Mazzola m. fl.
Inbunden, 2026
1927 kr
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The study of the causal-noncausal alternation offers a unique window onto how languages represent causal relations and event structure. Among the strategies used to encode this alternation, anticausative markers, which overtly signal noncausal situations, have received considerably less attention …
