In this talk I discuss how language description benefits from typological frameworks, but language specific morphosyntactic criteria must take precedence over typological expectations (Haspelmath 2020 ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract Pulleyblank 1987 has provided us the means of understanding clause structure in Classical Chinese. Herein his work will be the basis of a ...

Insubordination in language and grammar refers to an intriguing phenomenon whereby constructions typically designated as subordinate are repurposed to function independently in discourse. Such clauses ...

This paper examines three subordinate clause types in Sk̲wx̲wu7mesh: nominalized clauses, conjunctive clauses and /u/ clauses. These three clause types overlap in their syntactic functions. The first ...