Grammar, syntax and morphology

Although the morphology and lexicon of Hebrew are reasonably well understood, its syntax has long been a neglected area of study.

This book is the first comprehensive corpus study of element order in Old English and Old High German, which brings to light numerous differences between these two closely related languages.

Provides a comprehensive, theoretical analysis of the semantics of English prepositions.

This book is relevant for phonologists, morphologists, Slavists and cognitive linguists, and addresses two questions: How can the morphology-phonology interface be accommodated in cognitive linguistics?

Volume 5 (1) of African Languages originally published in 1979, is a special issue focussing on the Bantu languages in Tanzania.

This book is designed especially for the literary student of English, and provides a single compact grammar primarily concerned with Classical Old English, rather than the other Old English dialects.

During most of the 20th century, the classical Saussurean distinction between language usage and language structure remained untranscendable in much linguistic theory.

This volume has arisen from the 26th International LAUD Symposium on “Humboldt and Whorf Revisited.

This handbook provides a comprehensive account of current research on the finite-state morphology of Georgian and enables the reader to enter quickly into Georgian morphosyntax and its computational processing.

The study of grammaticalization raises a number of fundamental theoretical issues pertaining to the relation of langue and parole, creativity and automatic coding, synchrony and diachrony, categoriality and continua, typological characteristics and language-specific forms, etc.

What did eighth-century Japanese sound like?

This work, first published in 1995, is primarily addressed to phonologists interested in speech and to speech engineers interested in phonology, two groups of people with very different expectations about what constitutes a convincing, rigorous study.

This addition to the Cognitive Science and Second Language Acquisition series presents a comprehensive review of the latest research findings on sentence processing in second language acquisition.

A comprehensive survey and analysis of the structure of modern Germanic languages and dialects.

This book deals with the interpretation of adverbially quantified sentences containing definite DPs and Free Relatives (FR) Thereby, it concentrates on the origins of Quantificational Variability Effects (QVEs), i.

This volume brings together exciting research on the relationship between syntax and information structure, developing an interface-based approach.

This book examines symmetric aspects of three core mechanisms in minimalist syntax: merge, move and labeling.

This book argues that the assumption that grammatical relations are both necessary and universal is an unwarranted generalization.

This is the first major study of any Chapakuran language and makes an important contribution to linguistic theory.

An examination of the structure of language and how it obeys physical and mathematical laws.

This volume explores the progress of cross-linguistic research into the structure of complex nominals since the publication of Chomsky's 'Remarks on Nominalization' in 1970.

Presents an exploration of human language from the perspective of the natural sciences.

Few issues in the history of the language sciences have been an object of as much discussion and controversy as linguistic categories.

Time is a constitutive element of everyday interaction: all verbal interaction is produced and interpreted in time.