This book presents a construction-based, typological analysis of applicatives in 85 western Austronesian languages, showing how these verbal constructions developed from earlier Philippine-type symmetrical voice alternations, retaining key inherited...Daugiau...
Accompanied by a documentary corpus, this is the first ever comprehensive description of the grammar of Western Subanon, a highly endangered indigenous Austronesian minority language in the southern Philippines. The volume provides comprehensive cove...Daugiau...
This book examines the diverse prosody of compound nouns in Kansai Japanese and the insights that can be gained from them for theories of the syntax-prosody interface, with a special focus on compounds with particularly variable, potentially endanger...Daugiau...
Japanese is definitely one of the best-known languages in typological literature. For example, typologists often assume that Japanese is a nominative-accusative language. However, it is often overlooked that Japanese, or more precisely, Tokyo Japane...Daugiau...
