Grammar, syntax and morphology

This is an essential guide to using digital resources in the study of English language and linguistics.

This volume offers theoretically informed surveys of topics that have figured prominently in morphosyntactic and syntactic research into Romance languages and dialects.

Current, comprehensive and written by leading scholars, this corpus-based reference work is the definitive guide to Chinese grammar.

First published in 1970, The Origin and Development of the Bengali Language (Vol.

An introduction to the study of syntax that also introduces students to the principles of scientific theorizing.

In the last few years categorial grammars have been the focus of dramatically expanded interest and activity, both theoretical and computational.

Anaphora: A Reference Guide is a collection of essays that report on the major results of recent research in anaphora and set the stage for further inquiry.

This book explores several topics in Cree morphology, syntax and discourse structure.

The Routledge Advanced Persian Course: Farsi Shirin Ast 3 aims to help students of higher-level proficiency continue elevating their proficiency level to achieve near-native level.

This guide is based on a study of referees' reports and letters from journal editors on the reasons why papers written by non-native researchers are rejected due to problems with English usage, style and grammar.

Much recent influential work within Generative grammar argues that syntax plays a key role in grammar and meaning composition, whereas the role of the lexicon is minimal.

A concise historical survey of structural lingustics, charting its development from the 1870s to the 1990s.

This guide provides brief descriptions and evaluations of the best reference grammars and comprehensive works on the syntax of contemporary French, Italian, Portuguese, Spanish, Catalan, and Rumanian.

Presents three frameworks for studying morphology, offering different insights into the meaning of compounds.

Studies on the syntactic consequences of event type in languages have shown that Aktionsart plays a role in Universal Grammar.

Keine ausführliche Beschreibung für "Phrynichos' Ekloge" verfügbar.

This study focusses on affixation and auxiliaries in Igbo, drawing on data mainly from Onicha (Onitsha) Igbo.

This simple introduction to the history of the German language seeks to provide students who have some knowledge of modern German, but no knowledge either of its development or of linguistic theories, with a short account of the essential factors - chronological, geographical and linguistic - and their interrelation.

This book develops a minimalist approach to cross-linguistic morphosyntactic variation.

The earliest use of the term "e;grammaticalization"e; was to refer to the process whereby lexical words of a language (such as English keep in "e;he keeps bees"e;) become grammatical forms (such as the auxiliary in "e;he keeps looking at me"e;).

This volume examines how the displacement property of language is characterized in formal terms under the Minimalist Program and to what extent this proposed characterization of it can explain relevant displacement properties.

The Korean Verb - Structured and Complete provides an in-depth, systematic, and structured presentation of the Korean verb and its verb forms, a notoriously complex area for learners of the language.

This is a sequel to the author's Semitic and Indo-European: The Principal Etymologies (1995).

First published in 1991.

The pervasive use of dislocations (as in Le chocolat, c'est bon) is a key characteristic of spoken French.

A pioneering book establishing the foundations for research into word-formation typology.

Volume 1 of African Languages include articles originally published in 1975 and written in French and English on educational, literary, cultural, historical and socio-linguistic aspects of language in Africa, as well as descriptive and comparative studies.

This volume focuses on the relation between theory and description by examining aspects of transitivity in different languages.

In this monograph, the nature of processing strategies is explored in some detail, with an attempt to cut through the maze of often contradictory and confused proposals concerning the nature and form of various strategies.

Situated at the crossroads of dialectology, sociolinguistics and contact linguistics, this volume provides a first comprehensive description of the morphosyntactic inventory of the variety of English spoken on Jersey, the largest of the Channel Islands.

Originally published in 1940 this book focusses on the three main groups of Eastern Sudanic languages, namely Moru-Madi, Bong-Baka-Bagirmi and Ndogo-Sere.

Die Analyse des Imperativs stellt vor allem für die generative Syntaxtheorie eine Herausforderung dar.

This book is the first comprehensive comparative-historical survey of patterns of alternation in the Romance verb which appear to be 'autonomously morphological': although they can be shown to be persistent through time, they have long ceased to be conditioned by any phonological or functional determinant.

First published in 1987.