Grammar, syntax and morphology

This book presents new work on how Merge and formal features, two basic factors in the Minimalist Program, should determine the syntactic computation of natural language.

This book presents a cross-linguistic investigation of the behaviour of negation in gapping sentences.

This book addresses the fundamental issues in the phase-based approach to the mental computation of language that have arisen from the recent developments in the Minimalist Program.

This book addresses recent developments in the study of quantifier phrases, nominalizations, and the linking definite determiner.

This comprehensive account of the history of Chinese lexicography is the first book on the subject to be published in English.

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

This important contribution to the Minimalist Program offers a comprehensive theory of locality and new insights into phrase structure and syntactic cartography.

Derek Nurse looks at variations in the form and function of tense and aspect in Bantu, a branch of Niger-Congo, the world's largest language phylum.

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

In this book, Peter Culicover introduces the analysis of natural language within the broader question of how language works - of how people use languages to configure words and morphemes in order to express meanings.

This book examines the evidence for the development of adnominal genitives (the knight's sword, the nun's priest's tale, etc.

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

Akkadian is one of the earliest attested languages and the oldest recorded Semitic language.

How does human language work?

This book explores the wide variety of cases in which the plural of nouns is lexical.

This book is the first systematic account of the syntax and semantics of names.

The languages and dialects of Europe, this book shows, are becoming increasingly alike.

This book addresses fundamental issues in linguistic theory, including the relation between formal and cognitive approaches, the autonomy of syntax, the content of universal grammar, and the value of generative and functional approaches to grammar.

The role of structural case in syntax is arguably one of the most controversial topics in syntactic theory with important implications for semantic theory.

Prosodic morphology concerns the interaction of morphological and phonological determinants of linguistic form and the degree to which one determines the other.

This book investigates the way grammar deals with the representation of aspectual (aktionsart) concepts, focussing on issues of the lexicon-syntax interface.

This is the most comprehensive survey ever published of auxiliary verb constructions, as in 'he could have been going to drink it' and 'she does eat cheese'.

This book deals with one aspect of Greek and Proto-Indo-European nominal morphology, the formation, inflection and semantics of s-stem nouns and adjectives.

The accent of many Greek words has long been considered arbitrary, but Philomen Probert points to some striking correlations between accentuation and a word's synchronic morphological transparency, and between accentuation and word frequency, that give clues to the prehistory of the accent system.

This book presents the first cross-linguistic study of the phenomenon of infixation, typically associated in English with words like "e;im-bloody-possible"e;, and found in all the world's major linguistic families.

This volume of new work explores the forms and functions of serial verbs.

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

This book describes the historical emergence and spread of the to-infinitive in English.

This book explores the interface between syntax and the other components of the grammar, in particular phonology, morphology, and argument structure.

In this outstanding collection of new work the methods and theories of formal syntax are focussed on grammatical variation and change.

This groundbreaking book offers a new and compelling perspective on the structure of human language.

This book shows that every language has an adjective class and examines how these vary in size and character.

On the basis of a cross-linguistic study of more than 250 languages, this book brings to light several fascinating characteristics of pronouns.

This reader collects and introduces important work in linguistics, computer science, artificial intelligence, and computational linguistics on the use of linguistic devices in natural languages to situate events in time: whether they are past, present, or future; whether they are real or hypothetical; when an event might have occurred, and how long it could have lasted.

The phenomena discussed by the authors range from synthetic compounding in English to agreement alternations in Arabic and complementizer agreement in dialects of Dutch.

In some languages every statement must contain a specification of the type of evidence on which it is based: for example, whether the speaker saw it, or heard it, or inferred it from indirect evidence, or learnt it from someone else.

Patrick Farrell shows how grammatical relations are characterized in competing theories of grammar and reveals the different theories' merits and limitations.

This introduction to the role of information structure in grammar discusses a wide range of phenomena on the syntax-information structure interface.

A collection of the best work by philosophers, cognitive scientists, and linguists on grammatical gradience and linguistic uncertainty - such as when warm becomes hot, how many grains make a heap, and when a puddle becomes a pond - introduced, explained, contextualized, and indexed.

"e;Jasanoff comes up with some of the strongest arguments yet made for assuming that Indo-European languages other than Hittite and Tocharian underwent a substantial period of common development, and this needs to be fitted into any model of the dispersal of the language family.

This book shows how grammar helps people communicate and looks at the ways grammar and meaning interrelate.

Semantic alignment refers to a type of language that has two means of morphosyntactically encoding the arguments of intransitive predicates, typically treating these as an agent or as a patient of a transitive predicate, or else by a means of a treatment that varies according to lexical aspect.

The pervasive use of dislocations (as in Le chocolat, c'est bon) is a key characteristic of spoken French.

Geert Booij's popular textbook examines how words are formed, compounded, and inflected in different languages.

This is the first exhaustive investigation of gradience in syntax, conceived of as grammatical indeterminacy.

A recurrent issue in linguistic theory and psychology concerns the cognitive status of memorized lists and their internal structure.

Phi-features, such as person, number, and gender, present a rare opportunity for syntacticians, morphologists and semanticists to collaborate on a research enterprise in which they all have an equal stake and which they all approach with data and insights from their own fields.

This book explores the nature of finiteness, one of most commonly used notions in descriptive and theoretical linguistics but possibly one of the least understood.

In this volume leading researchers present new work on the semantics and pragmatics of adjectives and adverbs, and their interfaces with syntax.

This is the first comprehensive treatment of Latin extra-paradigmatic verb forms, that is, verb forms which cannot easily be assigned to any particular tense in the Latin verbal system.