This volume presents the Egyptian-Coptic language in cross-linguistic (‘typological’) perspective. It is aimed at linguists of all stripes, especially typol

While there are languages that code a particular grammatical role (e.g. subject or direct object) in one and the same way across the board, many more languages

This volume explores the way in which grammaticalization processes - whereby lexical words eventually become markers of grammatical categories - converge and di

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The book is the first large-scale typological study of participles, based on data from more than 100 languages. Its main aim is to model the diversity of non-fi