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This volume is a collection of articles dealing with the linguistic category of possession and its expression in languages spoken in Europe and North and Centra

This pioneering work draws on on data from over 400 languages from a wide range of language families to establish a typology of four basic types of predicative

The main function of language is to convey meaning. The question of why language is structured the way it is, Heine here argues, has therefore to be answered fi

This is the first book-length functional-typologically inspired crosslinguistic study of comitatives and related categories such as the instrumental. On the bas

Kagayanen is a resilient Austronesian>Greater Central Philippine>Manobo language spoken by about 30,000 individuals, mostly in Palawan province in the Philippin