The articles in this volume present original research on the encoding of meaning in a variety of constructions and languages. Many of the contributions take the

Language is a system of communication in which grammatical structures function to express meaning in context. While all languages can achieve the same basic com

The left periphery of clausal structures has been a prominent topic of research in generative linguistics during the last decades. Closer examination of its pro

The volume explores the semantics of nominalizations from different theoretical points of view: formal and lexical semantics, cognitive-functional grammar, lexi

Studies on the syntactic consequences of event type in languages have shown that "Aktionsart" plays a role in Universal Grammar. This book contributes to the ex