Hierarchy and Interaction of Verbal Categories across LanguagesViktor S. Xrakovskij & Andrey L. Malchukov (eds.)The Institute for Linguistic Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences (ILS RAS); The Institute for Linguistic Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences (ILS RAS); Johannes Gutenberg UniversityThe volume presents a typology of interaction of verbal categories, including the question of (in)compatibility of individual categories or their values (‘grammemes’), as well as the question of meaning shifts of individual verbal grammemes occurring in particular combinations.The volume also raises, more tentatively, the question of the Universal Hierarchy of verbal categories and its role in constraining combinations of individual grammemes.Apart from a typological overview and a questionnaire designed by the editors, the volume includes 18 contributions dealing with interaction of verbal categories in individual languages (Ancient Greek, Arabic, Armenian, Basque, Chinese, Chukchi, French, Gban, Even, Khmer, Lithuanian, Nanai, Old Javanese, Ossetic, Paraguayan Guarani, Russian, Tagalog, Tundra and Forest Enets), written by leading experts, which serve as a pilot database for the proposed typological generalizations.ISBN 9783969390702 (Hardbound). LINCOM Studies in Language Typology 34. 470pp. 2021.Aspects of the grammar of namesEmpirical case studies and theoretical topicsNataliya Levkovych & Julia Nintemann (eds.)University of BremenThe articles of this volume contribute to the research of the grammar of names, a newly established and constantly growing linguistic field. Concentrating on two onymic categories, viz. person names (anthroponyms) and place names (toponyms), the five studies give insights into several aspects of the grammar of names, e.g. the position of onyms in the grammar system of a given language, morphosyntactic distinctive features of names, or the use of articles with onyms. The empirical evidence (synchronic as well as diachronic language data) for these studies comes primarily from Austronesian, Siouan, and Romance languages. Two in-depth studies on anthroponyms in a Siouan language spoken in North America and toponyms in an Austronesian language of Micronesia, respectively, are framed by comparative and typological surveys. By providing insight into the grammar of names both of individual languages and from a typological perspective, it is shown that onyms do not always share the same features as common nouns, although they are often treated as a subcategory of these. This volume thus contributes to the discussion on whether onyms can be subsumed under the same notion as common nouns or rather comprise a category on their own.ISBN 9783969390078 (Hardbound). LINCOM Studies in Language Typology 33. 191pp. 2020.A Comparison of Grammaticalization in Shan and ThaiDaniel Peter LossInspired by previous research into Tai syntactic change and grammaticalization (Diller 2001), this study looked at two closely related Tai languages – Shan and Thai – with the aim of better understanding grammaticalization in each language. The starting point for this research was the extensive literature on Standard Thai grammaticalization from which the researcher compiled several grammaticalized morphemes (grams), for the purpose of comparison with Shan. This study also adopted an approach based on Post (2007), which entailed the use of two genre-specific corpora of each language to compare the relative frequencies of analogous grams. Despite many similarities, the comparison revealed some differences between Shan and Thai grams in areas of verb-phrase and noun-phrase syntax. This study lays out the findings of this comparison by showing the areas of the comparison and findings on Shan, where it differed from Standard Thai. It ends with some brief ideas and suggestions for more comparative grammatical research.ISBN 9783862889310. LINCOM Studies in Language Typology 32. 186pp. 2019.