Grammar, syntax and morphology

A unique examination of the features of language: how features vary between languages and also how they work.

Few issues in the history of the language sciences have been an object of as much discussion and controversy as linguistic categories.

Practical Chinese Usage offers post-beginner to near advanced students of Chinese a guide to the most frequently misused and confusing words in the language.

Should I say "e;He is taller than I"e; or "e;He is taller than me?

First published in 1996.

Provides a fresh perspective on the cross-linguistic properties of complex predicates, considering how additional words contribute to the overall meaning.

In this volume, international experts in negation provide a comprehensive overview of cross-linguistic and philosophical research in the field, as well as accounts of more recent results from experimental linguistics, psycholinguistics, and neuroscience.

Leading linguists and psycholinguists use cutting-edge experimental techniques to investigate one of the central phenomena of linguistics, ''island effects''.

Explores how comparative correlative constructions behave in English and how these change over time and space.

This Handbook represents the development of research and the current level of knowledge in the fields of syntactic theory and syntax analysis.

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

This book presents a development of Jean Lowenstamm's idea that phonological constituent structure can be reduced to a strict sequence of non-branching Onsets and non-branching Nuclei.

Reports on joint work by researchers from different theoretical and linguistic backgrounds offer new insights on the interaction of linguistic code and context in language production and comprehension.

In studies of copular clauses, the relation between specificational and predicative clauses has been a contentious issue.

This study is concerned with the use of the English modals (may, might,can, could, shall, should, will, would and must) in adverbial, relative and complement clauses.

This book grew out of a concern we have had that very many theoretical and descriptive work on the Kwa languages were not accessible to the general linguistic community.

Pedagogical Grammar and Grammar Pedagogy in Chinese as a Second Language is the first book in the field of Chinese as a second language that brings together one overview article and eleven research studies surrounding the key words "e;grammar"e; "e;pedagogy"e; and "e;Chinese as a second language.

This work is essentially based on grammaticalization theory - a branch of linguistics which has gained prominence since the 1980s.

This descriptive grammar provides a uniquely comprehensive description of Maori, the East Polynesian language of the indigenous people of New Zealand.

This volume contains 21 new and original contributions to the study of formal semantics, written by distinguished experts in response to landmark papers in the field.

Punctuation Revisited is an advanced, comprehensive guide to the importance of punctuation in conveying meaning and augmenting the power of a message.

This book presents a comprehensive picture of reflexive pronouns from both a theoretical and experimental perspective, using the well-researched languages of English, German, Dutch, Chinese, Japanese and Korean.

Originally published in 1937, this book is a practical manual of Kanuri which will be of use to both the layman and the linguist.

Regimes of Derivation in Syntax and Morphology presents a theory of the architecture of the human linguistic system that differs from all current theories on four key points.

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

This book examines personal names, including given and acquired (or nick-) names, and how they were used in Anglo-Saxon England.

The first systematic, comprehensive description of the evolution of Greek at the crucial transitional stage from medieval to modern.

Over the years, a major strand of Miyagawa's research has been to study how syntax, case marking, and argument structure interact.

The first volume of this pair, The Classification of Bantu Languages, originally published in 1948, investigates the questions arising out of the use of the term Bantu.

The aim of this volume is to bring together researchers interested in investigating the role that Discourse Markers play in language production and comprehension from an experimental or corpus-based perspective.

This book is the first extensive study on French Quantification in the field of Syntax.

Parenthesis has recently seen a considerable surge in interest.

This book is the first full evaluation of the Proto-Australian hypothesis, which proposes that most Australian languages have a common ancestor: Proto-Australian [PA].

Pangkhua is an endangered Tibeto-Burman language, spoken by about 2000 people in Chittagong Hill Tracts, Bangladesh.

Element Theory (ET) covers a range of approaches that consider privativity a central tenet defining the internal structure of segments.

This book presents a detailed analysis of the Chinese pivotal constructions (PVCs) and their diachronic developments from a constructionalist perspective, with the focus on the growth of the constructional hierarchies of these constructions and the changes with respect to both the form and meaning properties over time.

In the historical development of many languages of the IE phylum the loss of inflectional morphology led to the development of a configurational syntax, where syntactic position marked syntactic role.