Refreshed and updated, the fifth edition of this core textbook offers a clear and engaging introduction to the building blocks of the English language, namely its words, sounds and sentences.
This volume brings together current research in theoretical syntax and its interfaces in the Polynesian language family, with chapters focusing on Hawaiian, MA ori, Niuean, Samoan, and Tongan.
Proposing a new approach to the study of language, this book argues for the need to consider syntax in context and to engage with a wider variety of perspectives that better reflect the modern world and the changes to our language prompted by increased cultural diversity, the prevalence of social media, AI, and more.
Proposing a new approach to the study of language, this book argues for the need to consider syntax in context and to engage with a wider variety of perspectives that better reflect the modern world and the changes to our language prompted by increased cultural diversity, the prevalence of social media, AI, and more.
This book implements a multidisciplinary approach in describing language both in its ontogenetic development and in its close interrelationship with other human subsystems such as thought, memory, and activity, with a focus on the semantic component of the evolutionary-synthetic theory.
La Gramatica analitica avanzada: Construyendo significados en espanol ofrece una cobertura descriptiva amplia de los temas gramaticales fundamentales del espanol, a la vez que proporciona un tratamiento detallado de las estrategias de analisis necesarias para que los lectores puedan desarrollar sus destrezas analiticas y su propio pensamiento gramatical.
La Gramatica analitica avanzada: Construyendo significados en espanol ofrece una cobertura descriptiva amplia de los temas gramaticales fundamentales del espanol, a la vez que proporciona un tratamiento detallado de las estrategias de analisis necesarias para que los lectores puedan desarrollar sus destrezas analiticas y su propio pensamiento gramatical.
Looking at everyday Mandarin Chinese conversations, this book provides a comprehensive examination of the practices used in producing Chinese increments.
Im Laufe ihrer wissenschaftlichen Karriere hat Christina Gansel Forschungsbeiträge zu verschiedenen linguistischen Arbeitsfeldern veröffentlicht; von ihren Anfängen in der Grammatikforschung, über Forschungen im Kontext der Semantik von Verben, bis hin zu umfassenden Arbeiten im Bereich der Textlinguistik.
A Comprehensive and Comparative Grammar of English Creoles provides a detailed, comprehensive description of the morphology, grammar, and syntax of a selected number of English creoles, including those spoken on both sides of the Atlantic and the Pacific.
A Comprehensive and Comparative Grammar of English Creoles provides a detailed, comprehensive description of the morphology, grammar, and syntax of a selected number of English creoles, including those spoken on both sides of the Atlantic and the Pacific.
This collection of original essays addresses salient issues in a range of empirical and conceptual analyses, providing detailed case studies of phenomena in Bantu languages and robust and interesting discussions on the structure of the noun phrase.
This collection of original essays addresses salient issues in a range of empirical and conceptual analyses, providing detailed case studies of phenomena in Bantu languages and robust and interesting discussions on the structure of the noun phrase.
"Bürger*innen" oder "Bürgerinnen und Bürger" müsse es heißen, weil sonst die Bürgerinnen "unsichtbar" blieben und so die Welt nicht besser werden könne – jeder darf glauben, was er will.
This book documents an understudied phenomenon in Austronesian languages, namely the existence of recurrent submorphemic sound-meaning associations of the general form -CVC.
This book explores the major theories of generative grammar from a historical perspective, providing an overview of the evolution of this linguistic framework.
"Wie du in 3 Monaten eine neue Sprache lernst" ist ein äußerst praktischer Leitfaden, der dem Leser hilft, sein Sprachlernziel in kürzester Zeit zu erreichen.
This volume brings together distinguished scholars from all over the world to present an authoritative, thorough, and yet accessible state-of-the-art survey of current issues in pragmatics.
Research on left periphery phenomena has increased in the last 20 years, resulting in consistent studies from a wide range of languages and a fruitful debate on the functional projections within the CP system.
