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The Oxford Guide to Australian Languages

Claire Bowern

The Oxford Guide to Australian Languages is a wide-ranging reference work that explores the more than 550 traditional and new Indigenous languages of Australia. Australian languages have long played an important role in diachronic and synchronic linguistics and are a...

Primitives of Phonological Structure

Bert Botma , Florian Breit , Marc Van Oostendorp , Marijn Van 'T Veer

This book brings together phonologists working in different areas to explore key questions relating to phonological primitives, the basic building blocks that are at the heart of phonological structure and over which phonological computations are carried out. Whether...

Understanding Human Time

Kasia M. Jaszczolt

This book explores the time that we (think we) experience and the concept of time in our beliefs, our knowledge, and our fears. We believe that time passes, we know that death is inevitable, we fear that we are going to be late. How do these human feelings and...

The Oxford Handbook of Ethiopian Languages

Zelealem Leyew , Ronny Meyer , Bedilu Wakjira

This handbook provides a comprehensive account of the languages spoken in Ethiopia, exploring both their structures and features and their function and use in society. The first part of the volume provides background and general information relating to Ethiopian...

The Oxford Handbook of Ethiopian Languages

Zelealem Leyew , Ronny Meyer , Bedilu Wakjira

This handbook provides a comprehensive account of the languages spoken in Ethiopia, exploring both their structures and features and their function and use in society. The first part of the volume provides background and general information relating to Ethiopian...

The Typological Diversity of Morphomes

Borja Herce

This is an open access title available under the terms of a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 International licence. It is free to read at Oxford Academic and offered as a free PDF download from OUP and selected open access locations. This is the first typologically-oriented book-length...

Understanding Human Time

Kasia M. Jaszczolt

This book explores the time that we (think we) experience and the concept of time in our beliefs, our knowledge, and our fears. We believe that time passes, we know that death is inevitable, we fear that we are going to be late. How do these human feelings and...

Ancient and Medieval Thought on Greek Enclitics

Philomen Probert , Stephanie Roussou

This book has two complementary aims: to improve our grasp of the ideas about Greek enclitics that ancient and medieval scholars have passed down to us, and to show how a close examination of these sources yields new answers to questions concerning the facts of the...

Word Prominence in Languages with Complex Morphologies

Ksenia Bogomolets , Harry Van Der Hulst

This volume focuses on the theoretical and analytical challenges that languages with complex morphologies pose for the theory and typology of word-level prosodic phenomena. The morphological complexity and phonological length that are characteristic of words in these...

From Perception to Communication

Robin Cooper

This is an open access title available under the terms of a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 International licence. It is free to read at Oxford Scholarship Online and offered as a free PDF download from OUP and selected open access locations. This book characterizes a notion of type...

Germanic Phylogeny

Frederik Hartmann

This book provides a computational re-evaluation of the genealogical relations between the early Germanic families and of their diversification from their most recent common ancestor, Proto-Germanic. It also proposes a novel computational approach to the problem of...

Pseudo-Noun Incorporation and Differential Object Marking

Imke Driemel

This book provides a detailed cross-linguistic study of pseudo-noun incorporation, a phenomenon whereby an argument forms a 'closer than usual' relation with the verb. Imke Driemel draws on data from Tamil, Mongolian, Korean, Turkish, and German, and applies diagnostic...

Actuality Inferences

Prerna Nadathur

This book investigates the phenomenon of actuality inferences, in which claims of ability are-in certain temporal contexts-interpreted as descriptions of actual events, instead of as descriptions of potentialities or possibilities. Although actuality inferences...

The Study of Bilingual Language Processing

Nan Jiang

This book offers a detailed account of the issues, models, and outcomes of research into the cognition of bilingualism. The first chapter identifies the most important characteristics of this research and its historical developments, before the main part of the book...

Pseudo-Noun Incorporation and Differential Object Marking

Imke Driemel

This book provides a detailed cross-linguistic study of pseudo-noun incorporation, a phenomenon whereby an argument forms a 'closer than usual' relation with the verb. Imke Driemel draws on data from Tamil, Mongolian, Korean, Turkish, and German, and applies diagnostic...

Ancient and Medieval Thought on Greek Enclitics

Philomen Probert , Stephanie Roussou

This book has two complementary aims: to improve our grasp of the ideas about Greek enclitics that ancient and medieval scholars have passed down to us, and to show how a close examination of these sources yields new answers to questions concerning the facts of the...

Ikpana Interrogatives

Bertille Baron , Philip T. Duncan , Jason Kandybowicz , Hironori Katsuda

This book documents the interrogative system of Ikpana, an endangered indigenous Ghana-Togo Mountain language of eastern Ghana also known as Logba. The system is notable in several respects. It exhibits features that buck certain typological trends, act as...

Growing into Language

Ruth A. Berman , Liliana Tolchinsky

Angles of Object Agreement

Mark De Vos , Andrew Nevins , Anita Peti-Stantic , Jana Willer-Gold

This volume draws on insights from a range of theoretical perspectives to explore objects, agreement, and their intersecting angles, based on novel data from multiple language families. The recent expansion of agreement theories has revealed new ways of integrating...

Negation and Negative Dependencies

Hedde Zeijlstra

This book presents a novel overarching account of negation and negative dependencies, based on novel data from language variation, language acquisition, and language change. Negation is a universal property of natural language, but languages can significantly differ in...