Grammar, syntax and morphology

Starosta describes the formal properties of lexicase theory and its historical and metatheoretical relations to other current grammatical frameworks.

The universalist view that acquisition of phonology is guided by universal principles has been the dominant position for decades.

Corpus Linguistics for Grammar provides an accessible and practical introduction to the use of corpus linguistics to analyse grammar, demonstrating the wider application of corpus data and providing readers with all the skills and information they need to carry out their own corpus-based research.

First published in 1900, this was the first of two volumes of the magnum opus from pioneer assyriologist and linguist Rev.

According to Chomsky, to learn a language is to develop a grammar for it - a generative grammar which assigns a definite structure and a definite meaning to each of a definite set of sentences.

Coordination is a syntactic construction which occurs in most languages.

Punctuation Revisited is an advanced, comprehensive guide to the importance of punctuation in conveying meaning and augmenting the power of a message.

The elaboration of linguistic theories depends on the existence of adequate descriptions of particular languages; otherwise theories will be poorly grounded on empirical data.

This book offers the first comprehensive account of the development of the Romanian morphological system.

This book investigates the nature and properties of roots, the core elements of word meaning.

A model of grammar using several independent, simultaneous modules, which allows each module to be simpler than the current theory.

This book teaches the basics of the structure of the English language with plentiful extracts from novels, poems and plays, so that literature students learn how to identify parts of speech and discuss their effects.

This monograph aims to close the gap in our knowledge of the nature and pace of grammatical change during the formative period of today’s Indo-Aryan languages.

Approaching creole studies from contrasting standpoints, this book offers new insights into language variation and contact-induced change.

This book is a research monograph that investigates the crosslinguistic distribution of multiple determiners.

The contents of the volume prove the vitality of cognitive linguistic studies of figuration when combined with new research methodologies, in tandem with other disciplines, and also when applied to an ever broader range of topics.

First published in 1975, this title provides an introduction to the study of the novel.

Combining the fields of phraseology and contrastive analysis, this book describes how patterns, defined as recurrent word-combinations with semantic unity, behave cross-linguistically.

The papers in this volume address central issues in the study of Plurality and Quantification from three different perspectives: * Algebraic approaches to Plurals and Quantification * Distributivity and Collectivity: Theoretical Foundations * Distributivity and Collectivity: Empirical Investigations Algebraic approaches to the semantics of natural languages were in- dependently introduced for the study of generalized quantification, pred- ication, intensionality, mass terms and plurality.

English for Journalists has established itself as an invaluable guide to the basics of English in newsrooms the world over, focusing on the essential aspects of writing, from reporting speech to the house styles and jargon central to the language of journalism.

First published in 1970, Dictionary of World Literary Terms brings together in one volume authoritative definitions of literary terms, forms and techniques, figures of speech and detailed notes on the history and development of the literatures and literary movements of the world.

This collective volume focuses on the crucial role of formal evidence in recognizing and explaining instances of grammaticalization.

This monograph fills a gap in our understanding of a so-called free word order language.

The third volume of Modern Cantonese aims to broaden learners' Cantonese language skills by teaching students how to deal with, discuss, persuade, and summarize topics related to sophisticated work-related situations.

This work is a reference grammar of Hup, a member of the Nadahup family (also known as Maku or Vaupes-Japura), which is spoken in the fascinatingly multilingual Vaupes region of the northwest Amazon.

Policies concerning language use are increasingly tested in an age of frequent migration and cultural synthesis.

Die Arbeit untersucht den Einfluss der Grammatiker des siebzehnten Jahrhunderts auf die Ausbildung einer Norm der deutschen Schriftsprache.

Der Dependenzgrammatik wird vorgeworfen, daß sie nur auf die Valenzforschung des Verbs, des Substantivs oder des Adjektivs beschränkt geblieben sei.

Adriana Belletti here collects work presented by top scholars at a workshop at the University of Siena in connection with a visit by Noam Chomsky.

In the humanities and social sciences, context is one of those terms which is frequently used and frequently referred to, but hardly made explicit.

Explores how to disrupt banal inequalities through writing in ways which are accessible and challenge current social linguistic regimes.

This is the very first publication mapping onomatopoeia in the languages of the world.

Although in the early days of generative linguistics Slovenian was rarely called on in the development of theoretical models, the attention it gets has subsequently grown, so that by now it has contributed to generative linguistics a fair share of theoretically important data.