This is the first book-length functional-typologically inspired crosslinguistic study of comitatives and related categories such as the instrumental. On the bas

In his (1921) book, Language, Sapir made the famous observation, “All grammars leak” (38). By this he meant that within the systematic paradigms, rules and

This volume presents an up-to-date cognitive-linguistic account of the Finnish cases that would serve the interests of an international audience. As the Finnish

The chapters of this volume scrutinize the interplay of different combinations of case, animacy and semantic roles, thus contributing to our understanding of th

Semantic roles have continued to intrigue linguists for more than four decades now, starting with determining their kind and number, with their morphological ex