Abstract
Linguistic typology is an all-embracing discipline central for inductively-based cross-linguistic generalizations, supported by language facts. Firsthand investigation of previously undescribed languages from regions known for their linguistic diversity helps expand our knowledge about the nature of language and the parameters of cross-linguistic variation. We explore the options of marking commands in a non-main clause and the issue of associative non-singular number in Yalaku and in Manambu (from Papua New Guinea), before turning to nominal aspect and non-propositional evidentiality (exemplified with Tariana and Jarawara, from Brazilian Amazonia). Previously undescribed languages help typologists expand and test our analytic frameworks
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- Frontmatter
- Editorial
- The empirical turn and its consequences for theoretical syntax
- Linguistic typology in action: how to know more
- Large language models are better than theoretical linguists at theoretical linguistics
- On the goals of theoretical linguistics
- Social meaning
- Large Language Models and theoretical linguistics
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- Speech and sign: the whole human language
- Cross-linguistic insights in the theory of semantics and its interface with syntax
- Reflections on the grammatical view of scalar implicatures