Grammar, syntax and morphology

European Portuguese, like other Romance languages, display a great amount of word order variation.

This volume presents articles that focus on the application of formal models in the study of language in a variety of innovative ways, and is dedicated to Jacques Moeschler, professor at University of Geneva, to mark the occasion of his 60th birthday.

The scholarly articles included in this volume represent significant contributions to the fields of formal and descriptive syntax, conversational analysis and speech act theory, as well as language development and bilingualism.

This book is an innovative guide to quantitative, corpus-based research in historical and diachronic linguistics.

Explores English grammar through three real-world applications of language development, language disorders and dialects.

This is a comprehensive grammar of the Papuan language Bunaq as spoken in the district of Lamaknen.

This edition brings together some lesser known grammaticalization paths travelled by 'come' and 'go' in familiar and less familiar languages.

First published in 1988, this book examines the aspects of pragmatic competence involving the class of preposing constructions in English.

Generative phonology aims to formalise two distinct aspects of phonological processes: the functional and the representational.

First published in 1992, Vocabularies of Public Life explores the revolution that has taken place in our understanding of contemporary culture and decodes a number of the symbols which now dominate public life.

The Hungarian Nominal Functional Sequence combines the methods of syntactic cartography with evidence from compositional semantics in a comprehensive exploration of the structure of Noun Phrases.

An exploration of how the language faculty can be studied as exact science, providing its conceptual basis and experimental demonstration.

Fully updated and revised, this fourth edition of Halliday's Introduction to Functional Grammar explains the principles of systemic functional grammar, enabling the reader to understand and apply them in any context.

The purpose of Point of View, first published in 1990, is twofold: from the perspective of linguistics, to analyse the discourse structure of texts; from the perspective of literary studies, to explain certain non-linguistic aspects of the texts in terms of linguistic form.

Gramatica fundamental del espanol abarca una amplia gama de temas relacionados con la morfologia, la sintaxis y la escritura del espanol.

Turkish is spoken by about fifty million people in Turkey and is the co-official language of Cyprus.

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 volume collects eleven papers written between 1991 and 2016, some of them unpublished, which explore various aspects of the architecture of grammar in a minimalist perspective.

This collection of papers reports our attempt to sketch how Japanese grammar can be represented in a constraint-based formalism.

This volume provides an important contribution to the study of vocabulary and its relationship to English for Specific Purposes (ESP) research and teaching.

This handbook offers an in depth and comprehensive state of the art survey of the linguistic domains of modality and mood.

First published in 1987, this book is an attempt to re-establish semiotic on the basis of principles consistent with its past history, rather than the 'cultural semiotics' of the European tradition, and especially with the guiding ideas of Peirce and Morris.

As the second volume of a two-volume set that presents a comprehensive syntactical picture of Singapore Mandarin, this title analyses various expressions relating to number, quantity, time and place, composite sentences and the characteristics and standardisation of Singapore Mandarin.

This unique guide to teaching English Language empowers teachers to lead a successful course that will encourage students to be independent and analytical linguists.

The purpose of this edited volume is to study the structure of the inflectional field and the left peripheral field of clauses, often described as the systems of IP (Inflection Phrase, a syntactic category used to describe clauses without complement clauses) and CP (Complementizer Phrase, a word of phrase marking a complement clause).

The Teacher's Guide to Grammar is unique in focusing directly on the aspects of grammar that teachers need to know.

This book presents a framework for the linguistic analysis of speech and a computer program to process the results of this analysis.

This book presents a study of various important aspects of Tamazight Berber syntax within the generative tradition.

The volume is dedicated to the German linguist Wolfgang Ullrich "e;Gustav"e; Wurzel (1940-2001), who has influenced linguistic thought in his work on paradigm-based morphology.

Comparative linguistics and grammaticalization theory both belong to the broader category of historical linguistics, yet few linguists practice both.

Exhaustivity, Contrastivity, and the Semantics of Mandarin Cleft-related Structures investigates the semantics of the cleft and cleft-related structures in Mandarin, which, over several decades, have presented analytical challenges for semantic theory.

The Element describes the continued technological transformations that are incrementally, but radically, changing everyday life practices.

This book traces the changes in argument alignment that have taken place in Aramaic during its 3000-year documented history.

This volume offers a Lexical-Functional Grammar (LFG) analysis of the morphosyntax of Barayin, a Chadic language spoken by about 6000 people in the Guera region of Chad.

A guide to the structure of Icelandic, focusing on characteristics that have contributed greatly to syntactic research.