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Introduction When one takes a functional approach to the study of natural languages, the ultimate questions one is interested in can be formulated as: How does

Over the last decades, it has been hotly debated whether and how compounds, i.e. word-formations, and phrases differ from each other. The book discusses this is

This monograph constitutes the first comprehensive investigation of reciprocal constructions and related phenomena in the world’s languages. Reciprocal constr

This monograph explores the different types of clausal relations in the world’s languages. In the recent literature, there have been claims that the strict di