This book analyzes structures in (early) Indo-European languages that traditionally have been difficult to account for: impersonal verbs, ""mihi est"" constructions to express possession, ""mihi est"" constructions in combination with a nominal form of the verb, and absolute con…
This volume is a collection of articles concerned with the typology of valency and valence change in a large and diversified sample of languages that display ergative alignment in their grammar. The sample of languages represented in these descriptive contributions covers most o…
This volume is a collection of articles concerned with the typology of valency and valence change in a large and diversified sample of languages that display ergative alignment in their grammar. The sample of languages represented in these descriptive contributions covers most o…