Grammar, syntax and morphology

The articles in this volume deal with various phenomena which have been covered traditionally by the term scrambling.

This book provides a critical review of the development of generative grammar, both transformational and non-transformational, from the early 1960s to the present, and presents contemporary results in the context of an overall evaluation of recent research in the field.

This textbook describes the approaches to phonology that are most relevant to communication disorders.

German and Dutch verb constructions show a rich array of syntactic phenomena that have so far been underexposed in the literature, despite the fact that they have proved to be a source of substantial problems in theoretical grammar.

El propósito de este libro es analizar la evolución de varias clases de adverbios y locuciones adverbiales que se caracterizan por haber adquirido funciones discursivas relevantes en las sucesivas etapas de su desarrollo histórico: los adverbios de foco, los adverbios de tópico y los adverbios y locuciones adverbiales modificadores de la enunciación y del enunciado.

This landmark volume is the first work specifically designed to explore the extent to which striking surface morpho-syntactic similarities between Bantu and Romance languages actually represent similar syntactic structures.

This volume contains a selection of refereed and revised papers, originally presented at the 30th Linguistic Symposium on Romance Languages, representing the areas of syntax, semantics, their interfaces, and second language acquisition.

Hindi: An Essential Grammar is a practical reference guide to the core structures and features of modern Hindi.

On Understanding Grammar covers the interdependencies among the various aspects of linguistics and the human language.

Natural language understanding is central to the goals of artificial intelligence.

Explores the nature of formulaic language.

This indispensable volume contains articles that represent the best of Huang's work on the syntax-semantics interface over the last two decades.

Rather than simply a record of proceedings (3rd International Conference on Functional Grammar, Amsterdam, June 1988), this volume contains revised and expanded papers from the conference and other papers inspired by the lively discussion there.

A comprehensive overview of syntactic islands.

This book studies the syntax of switch-reference and its implications for the theory of grammar.

The Earliest English provides a student-friendly introduction to Old English and the earliest periods of the history of the English Language as it evolved before 1215.

This book is a significant novelty in the scientific and editorial landscape.

Fundamentals of Arabic Grammar provides an authoritative guide to Modern Standard Arabic (MSA) grammar.

This book is a research monograph that explores the implications of the strongest minimalist thesis from an antisymmetric perspective.

This book focuses on how participants in Japanese conversation negotiate and achieve joint courses of action within a single turn at talk.

First published in 1987, this book broke new ground in research on inflectional morphology.

The central concern of this title, first published in 1994, is the syntactic nature of negation in Universal Grammar, and its relation to other functional elements in the Syntax.

This book provides a typological overview of the different manifestations of grammaticalized case systems in African languages.

This is the latest addition to a group of handbooks covering the field of morphology, alongside The Oxford Handbook of Case (2008), The Oxford Handbook of Compounding (2009), and The Oxford Handbook of Derivational Morphology (2014).

Nama is a Papuan language spoken by around 1200 people in the Morehead district of southern New Guinea.

A revival of interest in morphology has occurred during recent years.

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First published in 1997, this book focuses on the semantics of definite and indefinite descriptions - taking the presuppositional theory of definiteness and indefiniteness proposed by Heim as a starting point.

Wolffs »Disquisitio philosophica de loquela« entstand 1703 als akademische Zweckschrift, spricht aber eine große Vielzahl an Themen an, die einen lebendigen Eindruck von den Diskussionen und dem wissenschaftlichen Aufbruch zu Beginn des 18.

There are few aspects of language which are more problematic than its discourse particles.

This Element shows how Cognitive Grammar sharpens our understanding of language change through seven case studies from Russian.

This monograph, which evolved from the first linguistic dissertation to be written on Chaha (an Ethiopian Semitic language), is also the first book to deal exclusively with the phonology and morphology of the language.

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.

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.