Grammar, syntax and morphology

This volume explores the multiple aspects of morphological complexity, investigating primarily whether certain aspects of morphology can be considered more complex than others, and how that complexity can be measured.

Strong linguistic and ecological pressures are gradually pushing Koromfe, the local language spoken in the north of Burkina Faso, West Africa, towards extinction.

The book provides an account of English inversion, a construction that displays perplexing idiosyncrasies at the level of semantics, phonology, syntax, and pragmatics.

This book addresses the question of how in-situ wh-phrases are licensed from a minimalist perspective in which the basic assumptions about narrow syntax need to be reduced to the bare minimum.

This book argues convincingly against the widespread opinion that very few syntactic studies were carried out before the 1950s.

Clitics are grammatical elements that are treated as independent words in syntax but form a phonological unit with the word that precedes or follows it.

This book reflects on key questions of enduring interest on the nature of syntax, bringing together Grant Goodall's previous publications and new work exploring how syntactic representations are structured and the affordances of experimental techniques in studying them.

At a superficial examination, English has different types of nominals with similar meaning and distribution: (1)a.

This is the fourth in a series of publications on Zambian languages and grammar.

This book offers detailed empirical coverage of the syntax and semantics of Plains Cree, an Algonquian language of western Canada.

The concept of semantic roles has been central to linguistic theory for many decades.

This book is the final volume of a four-volume set on modern Chinese complex sentences, assessing the key attributes, related sentence structures, and semantic and pragmatic relevance of complex sentences.

This volume brings together seven eminently original attempts to answer a sorely neglected question: What are adjectives?

This volume explores the syntax, semantics, and morphology of -ble adjectives within Distributed Morphology.

This book makes a fundamental contribution to phonology, linguistic typology, and the nature of the human language faculty.

The idea of this book on "e;Neglected Aspects of Motion-Event Description"e; comes from the observation that, over the last 30 years, much attention has been devoted to the manner/path divide in relation to the distinction between Verb-Framed and Satellite-Framed languages.

Originally published in 1991 Redefining Translation looks at the practical results and theory of translation as a key area for all those investigating language and culture.

Understanding Development and Disorder in Cantonese using Language Sample Analysis brings together 20 years of research on typical development and Development Language Disorder (DLD) in Cantonese.

Language is in large part about the description of events occurring in the world around us.

Mimetic words, also known as 'sound-symbolic words', 'ideophones' or more popularly as 'onomatopoeia', constitute an important subset of the Japanese lexicon; we find them as well in the lexicons of other Asian languages and sub-Saharan African languages.

This volume contains twelve chapters on the derivation of and the correlates to verb initial word order.

Madurese is a major regional language of Indonesia, with some 14 million speakers, mainly on the island of Madura and adjacent parts of Java, making it the fourth largest language of Indonesia after Indonesian, Javanese, and Sundanese.

The contributions to The Fruits of Empirical Linguistics.

Intended for the absolute beginner, Introducing Phonetics and Phonology requires no previous background in linguistics, phonetics or phonology.

Western missionaries contributed largely to Chinese lexicography.

No detailed description available for "e;Lectures on Government and Binding"e;.

An argument that complex cardinals are not extra-linguistic but built using standard syntax and standard principles of semantic composition.

This book presents a functional analysis of a notion which has gained considerable importance in cognitive and functional linguistics over the last couple of decades, namely 'prototypical transitivity'.

All of the articles in this volume focus on the interaction of form and meaning.

First published in 1982, this book looks at a wide variety of issues concerning the vast field of study that is 'semiotics.

First published in 1986, the purpose of this dictionary is to clarify the technology behind nuclear jargon.

First published in 1987, this book broke new ground in research on inflectional morphology.