Language learning: grammar, vocabulary and pronunciation

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This book is a detailed high-quality descriptive grammar of the endangered Cavinena language (less than 1200 speakers), spoken in the Amazonian rainforest of Lowland Bolivia, an area where the indigenous languages are virtually unknown.

This volume addresses the constructional variability with transitive and causative verbs from the point of view of their respective action and motion patterns.

The articles in this volume analyse the noun phrase within the framework of Functional Discourse Grammar (FDG), the successor to Simon C.

Descriptive grammars are our main vehicle for documenting and analysing the linguistic structure of the world's 6,000 languages.

This volume, which represents a major advance on Simon Dik's final statement of the theory (1997), lays the foundation for the future evolution of FG towards a Functional Discourse Grammar.

This book analyzes the form and function of the English passive from a verb-based point of view.