Grammar, syntax and morphology

Structuring Sense explores the difference between words however defined and structures however constructed.

This book considers the phenomenon of sluicing.

This book is all about ellipsis in natural language - the phenomena in which words and phrases go missing in the linguistic signal, but are nonethe less interpreted by the receiver, eg in the following sentence, the second instance of read is understood whether or not it is spoken Claire read a book and Heather [read] a magazine.

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

In this book John A.

This book presents a model of event structure for the analysis of aspectual constructions and argument structure constructions in English and other languages.

Exponence refers to the mapping of morphosyntactic structure to phonological representations, a research area which is not only highly controversial, but also approached in fundamentally different ways in theoretical morphology and phonology.

This book examines how word order variations in language can be regulated by various factors in cyclic syntax.

This book explores sets of movement cases in medieval Italian from 1200 to 1315.

This book brings together many of Peter Culicover's most significant observations on the nature of syntax and its place within the architecture of human language.

Possession and Ownership brings together linguists and anthropologists in a series of cross-linguistic explorations of expressions used to denote possession and ownership, concepts central to most if not all the varied cultures and ideologies of humankind.

This book is a cross-linguistic investigation of resumptive pronouns and related phenomena.

This book explores grammatical gender in the Romance languages and dialects and its evolution from Latin.

This book presents new data and a formal analysis of the inflectional system and syntax of Kayardild, a typologically striking language of Northern Australia.

What is grammar?

This book offers detailed empirical coverage of the syntax and semantics of Plains Cree, an Algonquian language of western Canada.

This book, by leading scholars, represents some of the main work in progress in biolinguistics.

This volume addresses some of the most important approaches to the following key questions in contemporary generative syntactic theory: What are the operations available for (syntactic) structure-building in natural languages?

Diagnosis is an essential part of scientific research.

Basic Linguistic Theory provides a fundamental characterization of the nature of human languages and a comprehensive guide to their description and analysis.

This book examines the distribution and interpretation of anaphors and pronouns.

This book advances research on grammatical change and shows the breadth and liveliness of the field.

This book presents a comprehensive review of theoretical work on the linguistics and psycholinguistics of compound words and combines it with a series of surveys of compounding in a variety of languages from a wide range of language families.

This book draws together nine original investigations by leading linguists and promising young scholars on the syntax of complementizers (eg that in She said that she would) and their phrases.

This book presents the first comprehensive description of the Manambu language of Papua New Guinea.

This book examines the grammatical changes that took place in the transition from Latin to the Romance languages.

This volume presents new work by leading researchers on central themes in the study of event structure: the nature and representation of telicity, change, and the notion of state.

This book, by leading scholars, represents some of the main work in progress in biolinguistics.

In this book leading scholars provide state-of-the-art overviews of approaches to the formal expression of information structure in natural language and its interaction with general principles of human cognition and communication.

This book is a cross-linguistic examination of the different grammatical means languages employ to represent a general set of semantic relations between clauses.

This book provides a readable and clearly articulated introduction to the field of Cognitive Linguistics.

This book is the first comprehensive account of the phonology and morphology of Arabic.

This book provides a readable and clearly articulated introduction to the field of Cognitive Linguistics.

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This book presents a critical overview of current work on linguistic features and establishes new bases for their use in the study and understanding of language.

How does human language work?

This book explores the empirical and theoretical aspects of constituent structure in natural language syntax.

This book makes an original contribution to the understanding of perception verbs and the treatment of argument structure, and offers new insights on lexical causation, evidentiality, and processes of cognition.

This pioneering study is based on an analysis of over 200 languages, including African, Amerindian, Australian, Austronesian, Indo-European and Eurasian (Altaic, Caucasian, Chukotko-Kamchatkan, Dravidian, Uralic), Papuan, and Sino-Tibetan.

In this book leading scholars provide state-of-the-art overviews of approaches to the formal expression of information structure in natural language and its interaction with general principles of human cognition and communication.

The Logic of Language opens a new perspective on logic.

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How Words Mean introduces a new approach to the role of words and other linguistic units in the construction of meaning.

This book explores the nature of sentential stress, how it is assigned and its interaction with information structure.

This book is a cross-linguistic examination of the different grammatical means languages employ to represent a general set of semantic relations between clauses.

This is the first comprehensive treatment of the strategies employed in the world's languages to express predicative possession, as in "e;the boy has a bat"e;.

This book reviews interdisciplinary work on the mental processing of syntax and morphology.

This book of new work by leading international scholars considers developments in the study of diachronic linguistics and linguistic theory, including those concerned with the very definition of language change in the biolinguistic framework, parametric change in a minimalist conception of grammar, the tension between the observed gradual nature of language change and the binary nature of parameters, and whether syntactic change can be triggered internally or requires the external stimuli produced by phonological or morphological change or through language contact.

James Higginbotham's work on tense, aspect, and indexicality discusses the principles governing demonstrative, temporal, and indexical expressions in natural language and presents new ideas in the semantics of sentence structure.