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Wataru Nakamura Editor

Delia Bentley is Professor of Romance Linguistics at the University of Manchester. She is the author of Split intransitivity in Italian (Mouton, 2006) and a co-author of Existentials and Locatives in Romance Dialects of Italy (OUP, 2015). Ricardo Mairal-Usón is Full Professor of Linguistics at Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia since 2002. He has co-authored or co-edited a number of books including Nuevas perspectivas en Gramática Funcional (Ariel, 1999), which was awarded the Nation Research Price AEDEAN 1999, and Linguistic Universals (with Gil, CUP, 2006). Wataru Nakamura is Associate Professor of Applied Linguistics at Tohoku University. He is the editor of New Perspectives in Role and Reference Grammar (CSP, 2011) and the co-editor of Objectivization and Subjectivization: Typology of Voice Systems (National Museum of Ethnology, 2012). Robert D. Van Valin, Jr. is Professor Emeritus in the Departments of Linguistics at the University at Buffalo (SUNY) and the Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf. He is the co-author of Functional Syntax and Universal Grammar (CUP, 1984), the co-author of Syntax (CUP, 1997), and the author of Exploring the Syntax-Semantics Interface (CUP, 2005).