This book presents a grammar description of Dhao, an endangered Austronesian language spoken by about 3000 people on Ndao Island in Eastern Indonesia. It is a member of the Sumba-Hawu subgroup in the Austronesian family and displays an intensive contact with nearby Kupang Malay …
This book concerns the early history of the English modals, in particular their morphosyntactic and semantic development in the Old English (c. ad 800?1100) and Middle English (c. ad 1100?1500) periods. The English modals have played an important role in both synchronic and diac…
"This thesis investigates the grammar of Makhuwa-Enahara, a Bantu language spoken in the north of Mozambique. The information structure is an influential factor in this language, determining the word order and the use of special conjugations known as conjoint and disjoint verb f…
The syntax of subject pronouns in heritage languages: innovation and complexification' aims to investigate syntactic change in heritage languages, focussing on discourse features involved in the distribution of different types of subject pronouns. The author investigates how dif…
Dutch allows a certain degree of freedom in the placement of definite objects with respect to that of adverbs in the middle-field of the clause. This phenomenon is known as scrambling. Dutch scrambling has been studied extensively over the past decades, yet the incentives to scr…
