Grammar, syntax and morphology

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.

This innovative grammar text is an ideal resource for writers, language students, and classroom teachers who need an accessible refresher in a step-by-step guide to essential grammar.

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

A thoroughly revised and updated 2003 edition of this general introduction to grammaticalization.

Originally published in 1991, this book examines the process whereby a modern colloquial style of written Japanese was developed in the context of the overall modernization of Japan.

This comprehensive account of the history of Chinese lexicography is the first book on the subject to be published in English.

This is the first guide and introduction to the extraordinary range of languages in Amazonia, which include some of the most the most fascinating in the world and many of which are now teetering on the edge of extinction.

This volume is the first of its kind to offer a detailed, monographic treatment of Semitic genealogical classification.

The case-studies assembled in these two volumes span a lifetime of research into the diachrony of grammar.

What determines whether we say She gave him a book instead of She gave a book to him?

The focus on communication in TBLT often comes at the expense of form.

An examination of the relationship between structure and meaning in words.

This volume focuses on the interface of different motivating factors that contribute to language change.

American English Grammar introduces students to American English in detail, from parts of speech, phrases, and clauses to punctuation and explaining (and debunking) numerous "e;rules of correctness,"e; integrating its discussion of Standard American grammar with thorough coverage of the past sixty years' worth of work on African American English and other ethnic and regional non-Standard varieties.

Nachdem in Teil 1 der Buchreihe ganz allgemein der Frage nachgegangen wird, ob die deutsche Sprache – die bekanntlich als schwer und schwierig gilt –, wirklich schwer und schwierig ist und im zweiten Teil etwas spezieller die Tiefen der Grammatik mit ihrem Funktionieren erkundet werden, steht in Teil 3 eine einzige konkrete Frage im Mittelpunkt: Ignoriert die Sprache die Geschlechter einiger Mitmenschen oder ignorieren einige Mitmenschen bei den Geschlechtern die Grammatik der Sprache?

A cutting-edge work, this book analyses the grammar of interactional language with a focus on discourse markers and their typology.

This volume aims to extend both the range of analyses and the database on nominal classification systems.

This edited book examines conditionals from a number of interdisciplinary perspectives, drawing on research from fields as diverse as linguistics, psychology, philosophy and logic.

English Grammar for International Studies is designed for students taking international programmes in higher vocational education, such as Business and Management Studies, International Marketing, International Finance, Business Administration, International Communication and Media, Finance and Banking, Hotel and Facility, and Tourism.

The most up-to-date A-Z resource available for English grammar, this dictionary provides concise definitions and explanations of hundreds of terms.

The origins of Basque dialects, a highly disputed area of research in Basque studies, are examined.

Slang Across Societies is an introductory reference work and textbook which aims to acquaint readers with key themes in the study of youth, criminal and colloquial language practices.

This book provides a detailed study and a novel Minimalist account of copular sentences in Russian, focusing on case marking alternations (nominative vs.

This volume presents papers given at the second Symposium on the History of Arabic Grammar (Nijmegen, 1987).

This book offers fresh perspectives on "e;shared grammaticalization"e;, a state whereby two or more languages have the source and the target of a grammaticalization process in common.

The papers in this tightly focused collection all report recent research on aspects of rendaku ('sequential voicing'), the well-known morphophonemic phenomenon in Japanese that affects initial consonants of non-initial elements in complex words (mostly compounds).

The Korean Verb - Structured and Complete provides an in-depth, systematic, and structured presentation of the Korean verb and its verb forms, a notoriously complex area for learners of the language.

First published in 1983, this book represents an effort to lay the groundwork for a general approach to lexical semantics that pays heed to the needs of a theory of discourse interpretation, a theory of compositional semantics, and a theory of lexical rules.

Corpus Linguistics for Grammar provides an accessible and practical introduction to the use of corpus linguistics to analyse grammar, demonstrating the wider application of corpus data and providing readers with all the skills and information they need to carry out their own corpus-based research.

No detailed description available for "e;A Grammar of Wardaman"e;.

The contributions in this volume present cutting-edge theoretical and structural analyses of issues surrounding German-language islands, or Sprachinseln, throughout the world.

"e;Taking as its theme the interaction between Italian and other languages, and marking the 50th anniversary of the publication of Weinreich's seminal Languages in Contact, this volume provides an up-to-date survey of the role of linguistic and cultural interaction in the process of language change.

This book contains the first in-depth corpus-based description of structural nativization at the lexis-grammar interface in Indian English, the largest institutionalized second-language variety of English world-wide.