Few issues in the history of the language sciences have been an object of as much discussion and controversy as linguistic categories. The eleven articles inclu

The eleven articles included in this volume tackle the issue of categories from a wide range of perspectives and with different foci.

Here, Comrie (linguistics, U. of Southern Cal.) is particularly concerned with syntactico-semantic universals, devoting chapters to word order, case marking, re

Linguistic variation is a topic of ongoing interest to the field. Its description and its explanations continue to intrigue scholars from many different backgro