Grammar, syntax and morphology

Old English is the name given to the language spoken by the Germanic inhabitants of Britain till about the time of the Conquest, or, according to some scholars, till about 1100.

The volume brings together the papers read at the international conference on Romance Objects organized by the Linguistics Department of the Roma Tre University.

Providing an engaging, accessible and practically-focused introduction to cognitive grammar, this book demonstrates how central cognitive grammar principles can be used in stylistic analyses.

This book presents the first systematic typological analysis of applicatives across African, American Indian, and East Asian languages.

Marit Julien investigates the relation between morphology and syntax, or more specifically, the relation between the form of inflected verbs and the position of those verbs.

This book presents corpus-based research on functional syntax.

It is not entirely clear if modern Chinese is a monosyllabic or disyllabic language.

This volume provides a guide to what we know about the interplay between prosody-stress, phrasing, and melody-and interpretation-felicity in discourse, inferences, and emphasis.

This book provides linguists with a clear, critical, and comprehensive overview of theoretical and experimental work on information structure.

Featuring contributions from an international team of leading and up-and-coming scholars, this innovative volume provides a comprehensive sociolinguistic picture of current spoken British English based on the Spoken BNC2014, a brand new corpus of British speech.

An innovative exploration of the interface between grammar, meaning and form.

This book documents modern Baba Malay, a critically endangered Austronesian-based contact language with a Sinitic substrate.

In this study the author not only comments on some of the important processes in the syntax of the Mojave language but also provides the reader with an introduction to a language whose grammar had, previous to the titles publication in 1976, never been described.

An Introduction to Korean Linguistics is a valuable and comprehensive text for those with an interest in Korean linguistics.

Aims to reorient the study of language by taking into serious consideration the perspective on linguistic matters taken by lay speakers themselves, as a response to the now inescapable conclusion that traditional linguistic theory, with its focus on revealing 'the facts of language in general', cannot handle the necessary indeterminacy of what is said and understood.

This book is an investigation of Arabic derivational morphology that focuses on the relationship between verb meaning and linguistic form.

Martin Hilpert combines construction grammar and advanced corpus-based methodology into a new way of studying language change.

The first full-length treatment of the history of comment clauses in English, providing a complex conception of their development.

In this volume, Ray Jackendoff and Jenny Audring embark on a major reconceptualization of linguistic theory as seen through the lens of morphology.

In diesem Buch werden deutsche und englische Satzstrukturen kontrastiv untersucht, und zwar in typologischer Hinsicht.

The papers in this collection derive from the Annual Symposia on Arabic Linguistics held in Stanford (1999) and Berkeley (2000).

A comprehensive and accessible 2004 textbook on syntactic analysis, working within the ''Lexical Functional Grammar'' framework.

Working with Arabic Prepositions: Structures and Functions is a reference book focusing on Arabic prepositions, their structure and usage.

This volume contains selected papers from the 5th ICLC, Amsterdam 1997.

Lexical Priming proposes a radical new theory of the lexicon, which amounts to a completely new theory of language based on how words are used in the real world.

The issue of permanence and change of word-order patterns has long been debated in both historical linguistics and structural theories.

Rochelle Lieber discusses the lexical semantics of word formation in a systematic way, allowing the reader to explore the nature of affixal polysemy.

How do new ways of encoding valence alternations emerge, how and why do they spread, and what are the consequences of their emergence and spread for already existing patterns?

Provides a linguistic description of the patterns used by children when acquiring African American English.

This book is Prof.