This monograph discusses scalar verb classes. It tests theories of linguistic form and meaning, arguments and thematic roles, using Estonian data. The analyses
Lexical Functional Grammar (LFG) is a nontransformational theory of linguistic structure, first developed in the 1970s by Joan Bresnan and Ronald M. Kaplan, whi
This book deals with atypical predicate-argument relations. Although the relations between predicates, especially verbal, and their arguments have been long stu
Argument-marking, morphological partitives have been the topic of language specific studies, while no cross-linguistic or typological analyses have been conduct
The grammaticalized expression of negation is a linguistic universal. This volume deals with negation in the Uralic language family in a typological perspective