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 GruyterThe 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 GruyterIt has long been observed that many languages from all over the world require that certain grammatical categories (e.g., person, number, tense, modality) occur in the “second position” of a clause...
Keywords: Australian languages, auxiliary, clitic, clitic cluster, cliticisation, focus, Garrwa, grammaticalisation, information packaging, pronoun, second position, tense-aspect-modality, Wambaya, Warlpiri, word order
12/2006 | Linguistic Typology, Walter de Gruyter