Alexandra Y. Aikhenvald is Professor and Associate Director of the Research Centre for Linguistic Typology at La Trobe University. She has worked on descriptive and historical aspects of Berber languages and published, in Russian, a grammar of Modern Hebrew (1990). She is a major authority on typological and areal features of South American languages, particularly of the Arawak family: Bare (1995, based on work with the last speaker, who has since died), Warekena (1998), and Tariana (2003). Her monographs include Classifiers: a Typology of Noun Categorization Devices (2000, 2003), Language Contact in Amazonia (2002) and Evidentiality (2004), all published by OUP. She is currently working on a reference grammar of Manambu, from the Sepik area of New Guinea.

R.M.W. Dixon is Professor and Director of the Research Centre for Linguistic Typology at La Trobe University. He has published grammars of a number of Australian languages (including Dyirbal and Yidiñ), in addition to A Grammar of Boumaa Fijian (1988), The Jarawara Language of Southern Amazonia (2004) and A Semantic Approach to English Grammar (2005). His works on typological theory include Where have All the Adjectives Gone? and Other Essays (1982) and Ergativity (1994). His essay The Rise and Fall of Languages (1997) expounded a punctuated equilibrium model for language development which is the basis for his detailed case study Australian Languages: their Nature and Development (2002). He is currently working on an extensive study of the basic linguistic theory.

• 1: Alexandra Y. Aikhenvald: Serial Verb Constructions in Typological Perspective


• 2: Stephen Matthews: On Serial Verb Constructions in Cantonese


• 3: Birgit Hellwig: Serial Verb Constructions in Goemai


• 4: Christa Kilian-Hatz: Serial Verb Constructions in Khwe (Central-Khoisan)


• 5: Felix K. Ameka: Ewe Serial Verb Constructions in their Grammatical Context


• 6: David B. Solnit: Verb Serialization in Eastern Kayah Li


• 7: A.V.N. Diller: Thai Serial Verbs: Cohesion and Culture


• 8: Alexandra Y. Aikhenvald: Serial Verb Constructions in Tariana


• 9: Andrew Ingram: Serial Verb Constructions in Dumo


• 10: Alexandre Francois: Serial Verb Constructions in Mwotlap


• 11: John Hajek: Serial Verbs in Tetun Dili


• 12: Frantisek Lichtenberk: Serial Verb Constructions in Toqabaqita


• 13: Roberto Zavala: Serial Verbs in Olutec (Mixean)


• 14: Willem J. de Reuse: Serial Verbs in Lakota (Siouan)


• 15: Azeb Amha and Gerrit J. Dimmendaal: Verbal Compounding in Wolaitta


• 16: R. M. W. Dixon: Serial Verb Constructions: Conspectus and Coda


• Index of Authors


• Index of Subjects


• Index of Languages, Language Families, and Areas