Grammar, syntax and morphology

This book documents an understudied phenomenon in Austronesian languages, namely the existence of recurrent submorphemic sound-meaning associations of the general form -CVC.

Turkisms in South Slavonic Literature is a comparative analysis of Turkish loanwords in seventeenth- and eighteenth-century Bosnian and Bulgarian Franciscan sources.

Overt subjects are usually considered as a property of finite clauses.

This thoroughly revised third edition of Finnish: An Essential Grammar is grounded in fundamental insights of modern linguistics and incorporates some of the latest achievements in the description of written and spoken Finnish.

Georgian: A Comprehensive Grammar constitutes a complete reference work addressing all major elements of modern Georgian grammar and usage.

Focusing on the special forms and Europeanized grammar of modern Chinese, this is the final volume of a classic on modern Chinese grammar by WANG Li, one of the most distinguished Chinese linguists.

The aim of this book, first published in 1979, is to provide a sound basic introduction to the study of grammar within linguistics.

Routledge Library Editions: Linguistics brings together as one set, mini-sets, or individual volumes, a series of previously out-of-print classics from a variety of academic imprints.

In studies of copular clauses, the relation between specificational and predicative clauses has been a contentious issue.

Keine ausführliche Beschreibung für "Die Fragmente des Grammatikers Philoxenos" verfügbar.

This book provides a detailed but accessible introduction to the development of the German language from the earliest reconstructable prehistory to the present day.

This book presents the first comprehensive reference on noun declensions in Modern Irish.

McGraw-Hill's Dictionary of American Idioms is the most comprehensive reference of its kind, bar none.

The study of the interaction between syntax and information structure has attracted a great deal of attention since the publication of foundational works on this subject such as Enric Vallduvi's (1992) The Informational Component and Knud Lambrecht's (1994) Information Structure and Sentence Form.

This study explores the grammar of focus particles in German.

Korean Morphosyntax: Focusing on Clitics and Their Roles in Syntax presents a theory-neutral comprehensive analysis of Korean morphosyntax for advanced students and scholars of Korean language and linguistics.

This book argues that many of the most prominent features of oral epic poetry in a number of traditions can best be understood as adaptations or stylizations of conversational language use, and advances the claim that if we can understand how conversation is structured, it will aid our understanding of oral traditions.

This is a series which aims to meet the need for books on modern English that are both up-to-date and authoritative.

Anybody who reads or writes Chinese characters knows that they obey a grammar of sorts: though numerous, they are built out of a much smaller set of constituents, often interpretable in meaning or pronunciation, that are themselves built out of an even smaller set of strokes.

Chinese grammar is characterized by its simple structure, lack of inflections, and wide use of monosyllabic morphemes.

Based on data from a wide range of languages, the book discusses the ways in which case interacts with meaning.

The book will appeal to scholars and advanced students of morphology, syntax, computational linguistics and natural language processing (NLP).

Jews have long employed a rich, intricate, image-filled Hebrew vocabulary to express both their deepest beliefs and the specific details of their daily religious lives.

This book brings together new work by leading syntactic theorists from the USA and Europe on a central aspect of syntactic and morphological theory: it explores the role of agreement morphology in the morphosyntactic realization of a verb's arguments.

This authoritative introduction explores the four main non-transformational syntactic frameworks: Head-driven Phrase Structure Grammar, Lexical-Functional Grammar, Categorial Grammar, and Simpler Syntax.

This volume explores word order change within the framework of diachronic generative syntax.

Explores categories, constructions, and change in the syntax of English, both past and present, methodologically and theoretically.

The subject of this study, first published in 1979, is the role of the complementizer in English syntax and its implications for syntactic theory.

This volume presents some of the latest research in Frame Semantics, including work in computational lexicography as developed within the FrameNet project.

Negation is one of the main functions in human communication.

This book presents a 100% novel approach to phraseology: A language-universal deductive calculus of all theoretically possible phraseological expressions (= phrasemes) is proposed, implemented in 51 rigorously defined notions.

This volume sets out to provide a semantics for the "e;future-directed opining verbs"e;, a novel class whose members are used to describe subjects' externally attested opinions toward future possibilities.

This volume presents a selection of papers from the 3rd Conference on Afroasiatic Languages, held in Sophia Antipolis, France, in 1996.