In this talk I discuss how language description benefits from typological frameworks, but language specific morphosyntactic criteria must take precedence over typological expectations (Haspelmath 2020 ...
Last week, we started discussing the differences between a phrase, clause and a sentence. We defined a phrase as a group of words without a subject and a predicate, though standing together to form a ...
Today’s topic is going to be a bit technical. Although it centres on three common grammatical elements, it involves some technicalities, the type we usually want to as much as possible play down in ...