The book investigates a variety of grammatical categories related to evidentiality within language, such as aspect and person. It also discusses the cognitive and sociolinguistic consequences of evidentiality in a…

This book is the first exhaustive cross-linguistic study of imperatives and commands. It makes a significant and original contribution to the understanding of their morphological, syntactic, semantic, and pragmatic characteristics…

Studies the phenomenon across languages of different typological and genetic profiles. This book follows a unified typological approach and avoids formalisms. It is of interest to students, at graduate level…

Narratives, legends, and stories are a key to cultural knowledge and cultural heritage across languages of the world. Cultural changes and new means of communication affect narratives and their structures…

Considers how and why forms and meanings of different languages at different times may resemble each other. This book investigates the relationship between areal diffusion and the genetic development of…

The Amazon Basin is the least known and most complex linguistic region in the world today. Its 300-plus languages show properties that challenge received ideas about linguistic universals. This book…

This book explores the expression of information source, inferences, assumptions, probability and possibility, and gradations of doubt and beliefs across a wide range of languages in different cultural settings. Like…

This book provides an in-depth typological account of the forms, functions, and histories of serial verb constructions, in which several verbs combine to form a single predicate. It uses an…