In this talk I discuss how language description benefits from typological frameworks, but language specific morphosyntactic criteria must take precedence over typological expectations (Haspelmath 2020 ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract Pulleyblank 1987 has provided us the means of understanding clause structure in Classical Chinese. Herein his work will be the basis of a ...

Journal of Linguistics has as its goal to publish articles that make a clear contribution to current debate in all branches of theoretical linguistics. The journal also provides an excellent survey of ...