Edited by Enrique L. Palancar, Claudine Chamoreau and Anaïd Donabédian
This volume places topicality at the very heart of grammatical explanation, drawing on richly annotated discourse corpora from lesser-studied languages across the Americas and beyond. Through nine original studies, it demonstrates how aspects of discourse relevance (rather than just abstract… read more
Edited by Albert Álvarez González, Zarina Estrada-Fernández and Claudine Chamoreau
This volume surveys the phenomenon of syntactic complexity in a diversity of languages and from a diversity of theoretical perspectives. The topics include clause combining strategies such as relative, complement, and adverbial clauses, serialization, clausal nominalizations, but also the switch… read more
Edited by Claudine Chamoreau and Zarina Estrada-Fernández
This volume addresses the relation between finiteness and nominalization, which is far more complex than the simple opposition finite-nonfinite. The contributions analyze finiteness cross-linguistically from both synchronic and diachronic perspectives, focusing on a number of topics that has not… read more
This volume is at the cross-roads between two research traditions dealing with language change: contact linguistics and language variation and change. It starts out from the notion that linguistic variation is still a little researched area in most contact-induced language change studies. Intending… read more
In Pesh (ISO 639-3 pay; Honduras, Chibchan), arguments show interesting patterns of differential case marking. While arguments are expressed more frequently without a case marker (87%), in this paper my goal is to explore the conditions under which an argument is flagged with case marking. The… read more
This paper describes, in synchrony, the use, form, and position of the linking devices with ka in coordinating phrases and clauses and in subordinate clauses. This study also explores the relation between the different occurrences of ka and investigates a diachronic common source. Taking into… read more
This paper focuses on the multifunctionality and polysemy of the marker =kánin Pesh, a Chibchan language spoken in Honduras. This multifunctional marker appears in two types of context. First, it appears in noun phrases. In this context, =kánfunctions as a case marker and is encliticised to a noun… read more
On the continuum of finiteness that can characterize clauses, Purepecha is one of the languages in which the predicates of both independent and dependent clauses are usually finite. Some non-finite dependent clauses have been observed. The predicate is converted to a non-finite form by means of the… read more
This paper introduces two linguistic fields dealing with language change: contact linguistics and sociolinguistic research on variation. It argues that although there is no language change without variation, linguistic variation is still an opaque area, a blind spot, for most contact-induced… read more
