Grammar, syntax and morphology

This volume provides a state-of-the-art account of research into datives and other morphological cases.

First Published in 2004.

This monograph presents the first in-depth empirical and theoretical study of determiner sharing in German, addressing both its language-specific properties and its comparative syntax.

Every grammar has to a greater or lesser extent a functional aspect.

This book defines and explains, in straightforward language, metaphorical stories using examples from sources such as conversations, speeches, and editorial cartoons.

Maku: A Comprehensive Grammar is a comprehensive reference grammar of the Maku language, spoken by the jukudeitse who once lived in Venezuela and Brazil.

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.

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This book is a collection of seven articles published in the past decade by the author.

Despite a history of hundreds of years of research analysing aspects of English grammar, there are still open problems which continue to baffle language researchers today.

This volume, originally published in Russian in 2012, is one of the few larger works on Nivkh (Gilyak), an underinvestigated endangered Paleosiberian language-isolate, that have appeared lately.

Das Buch enthält eine ohne Spezialkenntnisse verständliche Einführung in die problematische Geschichte der Laryngaltheorie, ferner ausführliche Einführungen in die phonologischen, indogermanistischen und germanistischen Grundlagen.

The volume aims at a universal definition of modality or "e;illocutionary/speaker's perspective force"e; that is strong enough to capture the entire range of different subtypes and varieties of modalities in different languages.

Linguistic variation, loosely defined as the wholesale processes whereby patterns of language structures exhibit divergent distributions within and across languages, has traditionally been the object of research of at least two branches of linguistics: variationist sociolinguistics and linguistic typology.

The cognitive concept of prominence is increasingly seen as key to understanding the organisation of grammar.

First published in 1942, this dictionary was designed to help civilians and members of H.

This book investigates the existential clause (EC) from a cross-linguistic perspective and within the framework of Systemic Functional Linguistics.

Writing Systems and Phonetics provides students with a critical understanding of the writing systems of the world.

This volume focuses on word formation processes in smaller and so far underrepresented indigenous languages of South America.

English Complex Words is a lively, essential companion for multilingual explorations of word-formation processes, both in English and across 40 other languages.

This volume offers detailed accounts of current research in grammatical number in language.

The study of the linguistic reflexes of aspect has been an active field of research in various sub-disciplines of linguistics, such as syntax, semantics (including discourse theory) and acquisition studies.

This book brings together contributions which address a wide range of issues regarding resumption, gathering evidence from a great variety of languages including Welsh, Breton, Irish, Scottish Gaelic, French, Vata, Hebrew, Jordanian and Palestinian Arabic.

Structure and Function of the Arabic Verb is a corpus-based study that unveils the morpho-syntax and the semantics of the Arabic verb.

The highly frequent word items TO and OF are often conceived merely as prepositions, carrying little meaning in themselves.

Old English is the name given to the language spoken by the Germanic inhabitants of Britain till about the time of the Conquest, or, according to some scholars, till about 1100.

Vowel Harmony and Correspondence Theory covers the major issues in the generative analysis of vowel harmony and vowel harmony typology.

Thinking Welsh focuses on how common English words, phrases and constructions map onto Welsh, and highlights the key areas of difference and difficulty in these mapping operations.

This volume presents thirteen original papers dealing with various aspects of two related areas of research of major concern to linguists of all theoretical persuasions: voice and grammatical relations.

The Manual of Galician Linguistics provides a comprehensive and accessible overview of the current situation of the Galician language and introduces its readers to the most important topics of current linguistic research on Galician.

Why is 'Why' Unique?

The focus on communication in TBLT often comes at the expense of form.

In order to bring some minimal amount of order to the chaos that almost inevitably attends the use of the word 'existential' in a linguistic investigation, the author reserved the term existential sentence (ES) to designate all and only those English sentences in which there appears an occurrence of the unstressed, non-deictic, 'existential' there.

Work in morphology is typically concerned with productive word formation and regular inflection, in any event with open class categories such as verbs, nouns, and adjectives, and their various forms.

This book presents an account of object shift, a word order phenomenon found in most of the Scandinavian languages where an object occurs unexpectedly to the left and not to the right of a sentential adverbial.

Presents a theory of quantity implicatures, a type of pragmatic inference which is widely debated in linguistics, philosophy, and psychology.

The first introduction to clitics, providing a complete summary of their properties and their uses.