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The resilient dative and other remarkable cases in Scandinavian vernaculars

In this paper we look at the case systems in three Scandinavian vernaculars spoken in Sweden, viz. Elfdalian, Skelleftemål and Vätömål in relation to (i) problems concerning possible case systems and ways in which they can break down; (ii) earlier claims about case hierarchies; (iii) the interaction of case, number and definiteness in nominal paradigms...

Keywords: case, nominal paradigm, definiteness, number, markedness

01/2006 | STUF – Sprachtypologie und Universalienforschung, Akademie Verlag

Suppletion in personal pronouns: Theory versus practice, and the place of reproducibility in typology

Reference grammars often set out the personal pronouns in paradigms similar to those of nouns...

Keywords: animacy hierarchy, associative, case, count?mass, database, inclusive?exclusive, inflection, minimal?augmented, number, paradigm, personal pronoun, plural, pronoun, reproducibility, suppletion, syncretism

06/2005 | Linguistic Typology, Walter de Gruyter

A typological overview of Mwotlap, an Oceanic language of Vanuatu

The typologist reader is presented here with an overview of the most interesting characteristics of Mwotlap, an Oceanic language of Vanuatu...

Keywords: actionality, animacy, aspect, clause combining, deixis, Mwotlap, negation, number, incorporation, Oceanic, possession, predication, pronoun, referentiality, serial verbs, valency change, vowel harmony

06/2005 | Linguistic Typology, Walter de Gruyter

Pluralization in sign and in speech: A cross-modal typological study

Spoken languages employ various strategies to mark the plural of nouns, the most important ones being affixation, reduplication, and zero marking; within one language, different strategies and/or different morphological markers may be used, depending on lexical, phonological, or morphological properties of the base noun...

Keywords: agreement, allomorphy, German Sign Language, inflection, number, numeral classifier, plural, reduplication, sign language

10/2006 | Linguistic Typology, Walter de Gruyter

Multifunctional agreement patterns in Bantu and the possibility of genderless nouns

It is generally assumed that all nouns belong to a gender in gender languages and that this constitutes a fundamental difference between gender systems and systems of noun classifiers...

Keywords: agreement, animacy, article, Bantu, borrowing, Eton, gender, kin term, noun class, number, proper name, referentiality