Against the background of the past half century s typological and generative work on comparative syntax, this volume brings together 16 papers considering what

This book offers a comparative study of the Germanic languages. It promotes a new approach to the OV vs. VO classification, according to which all clauses have

This book explores the nature of finiteness, one of most commonly used notions in descriptive and theoretical linguistics but possibly one of the least understo

Is the passive a unified universal phenomenon? The claim derived from this volume is that the passive, if not universal, has become unified according to functio