Grammar, syntax and morphology

In this volume, Germen de Haan gives a multi-faceted view of the syntax, sociolinguistics, and phonology of West-Frisian.

In their book, the authors describe the usage of and attitudes towards English in Asia since the 19th century, as well as the creative and dynamic ways in which Asians of the 21st century continually reinvent the lexicon of English, and the lexicons of their native tongues.

Switch reference is a grammatical process that marks a referential relationship between arguments of two (or more) verbs.

This book investigates the prosodic phrasing of parentheticals in spoken English and implications for a theory of the syntax-prosody interface.

Mini-set C: Language & Literature re-issues a century of publishing in 8 volumes originally published between 1896 and 1989 and covers phonetics, grammar and syntax of the Japanese language as well as some of its most iconic literature and drama.

The study of language acquisition has taken on new meaning in the last decade.

The book examines the category Number from a variety of linguistic perspectives.

The Routledge Handbook of Arabic Linguistics introduces readers to the major facets of research on Arabic and of the linguistic situation in the Arabic-speaking world.

Polarity sensitivity is a ubiquitous phenomenon involving expressions such as anybody, nobody, ever, never, somebody and their counterparts in other languages.

Escrito inteiramente em portugues, o Manual de fonetica e fonologia da lingua portuguesa e uma obra que abrange todos os aspectos foneticos e fonologicos desse idioma, inclusive as questoes de fonetica acustica e auditiva, fonotatica e tracos suprassegmentais, que a maioria dos livros didaticos nao aborda.

This book explores the relationship between linguistic universals and second language acquisition.

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This festschrift volume brings together important contributions by expert syntacticians across the globe on tense and finiteness, adjectives, dative and ergative case, acquisition of case, and other topics both within the domain of Dravidian linguistics and in the broader theoretical understanding of cross-linguistic data.

This is the first book to address formulaic language directly and provide a foundation of knowledge for graduates and researchers in early stages of study of this important language phenomenon.

This volume presents the first results of a long-term research project, funded by the Italian government, which aims at mapping out the fine functional structure of sentences, nominal phrases, and other major phrases making up sentences.

This volume approaches the interaction of evidentiality with some other related categories, such as modality and mirativity, from an innovative angle: its connection to informational configuration.

First published in 1954, this title is a companion to The Anatomy of Poetry as a literary guide for the student reader.

First published in 1985.

El lexico-gramatica del espanol ofrece una aproximacion alternativa al estudio de la gramatica avanzada del espanol.

This book sheds new light on the form and function of morphemes in construction of words in the Bengali language.

First published in 1986, this book draws together analyses of English and German.

This volume, which has textbook character, is intended to provide an in-depth introduction to different theoretical and methodological research frameworks concerned with the role of item-specific grammatical and lexical behaviour.

Beiträge aus Forschung und Anwendung – Miriam Brinkmann, Antonia Fünter, Laura d'Aurizio & Natascha Müller: Die Repräsentation von Genus im Französischen: Psycholinguistische Evidenz für ein dreigliedriges System Abstract: Previous studies generally considered grammatical gender in French as a binary system, con-sisting of a masculine and a feminine gender, both reflected beyond the nouns themselves on e.

This book develops a theory of the morpheme in the framework of Distributed Morphology.

The Logic of Language opens a new perspective on logic.

Italian Words: A Practical Introduction to the Italian Lexical System offers a detailed description of the Italian lexicon, explaining the organization of Italian words in a system and the function of this system.

This book analyzes--in terms of branching--the pervasive reorganization of Latin syntactic and morphological structures: in the development from Latin to French, a shift can be observed from the archaic, left-branching structures (which Latin inherited from Proto-Indo-European) to modern right-branching equivalents.

This study, first published in 1985, analyses aspects of the syntax of K'ekchi, a Mayan language spoken in Guatemala.

Collective nouns such asmajorite or foulehave long been of interest to linguists for their unusual semantic properties, and provide a valuable source of new data on the evolution of French grammar.

Este libro se centra en la expresión de cambios en español mediante los verbos pseudo-copulativos hacerse, volverse, ponerse y quedarse (por ejemplo, "Juan se hace viejo").

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This book examines one of the allegedly unique features of human language: structure sensitivity.

Illustrative exegetical insights from the Greek New TestamentLearning Greek is a difficult task, and the payoff may not be readily apparent.

This book is a detailed study of the possessive semantic space within the framework of construction grammar.

This volume brings together articles that are focused on segmental, syllabic and morphological aspects of creole words, thus contributing to the ongoing debates about the nature of phonology and morphology and their role in emergence and development of these languages.

This volume and its companion oneRethinking grammaticalization: New perspectives offer a selection of papers from the Third International Conference New Reflections on Grammaticalization, held at the University of Santiago de Compostela in July 2005.