Language Universals and Variation (Hardcover)

Preface Quirky Alternations of Transitivity: The Case of Ingestive Predicates by Mengistu Amberber Explaining Clitic Variation in Spanish by Jose Camacho and Liliana Sanchez Slavic Passives, Bantu Passives, and Human Cognition by Peter Kipka The Split VP Hypothesis: Evidence from Language Acquisition by Masatoshi Koizumi Syntactic Constraints in a "Free Word Order" Language by Mary Laughren On the Range and Variety of Cases Assigned by Adpositions by Alan Libert Optimality and Three Western Austronesian Case Systems by Anna Machlachlan Affixes, Clitics, and Bantu Morphosyntax by Sam Mchombo Two Types of Wh-in-situ by Masanori Nakamura Vowel Place Contrasts by Keren Rice References Index of Authors Index of Languages and Language Families Subject Index