Grammar, syntax and morphology

Diagnosis is an essential part of scientific research.

Basic Linguistic Theory provides a fundamental characterization of the nature of human languages and a comprehensive guide to their description and analysis.

This book examines the distribution and interpretation of anaphors and pronouns.

This book presents the state of the art in research on grammaticalization, the process by which lexical items acquire grammatical function, grammatical items get additional functions, and grammars are created.

This book advances research on grammatical change and shows the breadth and liveliness of the field.

This book presents a comprehensive review of theoretical work on the linguistics and psycholinguistics of compound words and combines it with a series of surveys of compounding in a variety of languages from a wide range of language families.

This book draws together nine original investigations by leading linguists and promising young scholars on the syntax of complementizers (eg that in She said that she would) and their phrases.

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

This book examines the grammatical changes that took place in the transition from Latin to the Romance languages.

This volume presents new work by leading researchers on central themes in the study of event structure: the nature and representation of telicity, change, and the notion of state.

This book, by leading scholars, represents some of the main work in progress in biolinguistics.

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.

This book is a cross-linguistic examination of the different grammatical means languages employ to represent a general set of semantic relations between clauses.

This book provides a readable and clearly articulated introduction to the field of Cognitive Linguistics.

This book is the first comprehensive account of the phonology and morphology of Arabic.

This book is an English version of two series of highly acclaimed introductory lectures given by the great Swiss linguist and classical philologist Jacob Wackernagel (1853-1938) at the University of Basle in 1918-19 on aspects of Greek, Latin, and German as languages.

This book provides a readable and clearly articulated introduction to the field of Cognitive Linguistics.

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This book presents a critical overview of current work on linguistic features and establishes new bases for their use in the study and understanding of language.

How does human language work?

This book explores the empirical and theoretical aspects of constituent structure in natural language syntax.

This book makes an original contribution to the understanding of perception verbs and the treatment of argument structure, and offers new insights on lexical causation, evidentiality, and processes of cognition.

This pioneering study is based on an analysis of over 200 languages, including African, Amerindian, Australian, Austronesian, Indo-European and Eurasian (Altaic, Caucasian, Chukotko-Kamchatkan, Dravidian, Uralic), Papuan, and Sino-Tibetan.

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.

The Logic of Language opens a new perspective on logic.

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How Words Mean introduces a new approach to the role of words and other linguistic units in the construction of meaning.

This book explores the nature of sentential stress, how it is assigned and its interaction with information structure.

This book is a cross-linguistic examination of the different grammatical means languages employ to represent a general set of semantic relations between clauses.

This is the first comprehensive treatment of the strategies employed in the world's languages to express predicative possession, as in "e;the boy has a bat"e;.

This book reviews interdisciplinary work on the mental processing of syntax and morphology.

This book of new work by leading international scholars considers developments in the study of diachronic linguistics and linguistic theory, including those concerned with the very definition of language change in the biolinguistic framework, parametric change in a minimalist conception of grammar, the tension between the observed gradual nature of language change and the binary nature of parameters, and whether syntactic change can be triggered internally or requires the external stimuli produced by phonological or morphological change or through language contact.

James Higginbotham's work on tense, aspect, and indexicality discusses the principles governing demonstrative, temporal, and indexical expressions in natural language and presents new ideas in the semantics of sentence structure.

This book is the first comprehensive account of the phonology and morphology of Arabic.

This book is the first comprehensive presentation of Functional Discourse Grammar, a new and important theory of language structure.

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?