INTRODUCTION Human speech manifests itself in spectacular diversity, ranging from ubiquitous
sounds such as “m” and “a” to the rare click consonants in some languages of southern …

Typology as a discipline In the past century, typology was mostly used as an alternative
method of pursuing one of the same goals as generative grammar: to determine the limits of …

Phonology and syntax represent two layers of sound combination central to language's
expressive power. Comparative animal studies represent one approach to understand the …

Languages tend to encode events from the perspective of agents, placing them first and in
simpler forms than patients. This agent bias is mirrored by cognition: Agents are more quickly …

Cross-linguistic variation in the forms and categories of inflectional morphology is so great
that ‘inflection’cannot be defined by simply generalizing over attested inflectional systems or …

This article outlines the typological variables that define or condition specific grammatical
relations (GRs). It specifically discusses the relational roles and the referential properties of …

Over the past two decades, linguistic typology has been moving increasingly away from its
original goal of classifying languages into ideal types that would be constrained by …

In Prosodic Phonology, domains for the application of phonological patterns are commonly
modeled as a Prosodic Hierarchy. The theory predicts, among other things, that (i) prosodic …

Do principles of language processing in the brain affect the way grammar evolves over time
or is language change just a matter of socio-historical contingency? While the balance of …

This article demonstrates prefix permutability in Chintang (Sino-Tibetan, Nepal) that is not
constrained by any semantic or morphosyntactic structure, or by any dialect, sociolect, or …