Grammar, syntax and morphology

This book provides an accessible and original account of null subject phenomena, and encompasses the most recent findings and developments.

La lingüística contrastiva ha entrado en crisis porque su utilidad fue seriamente cuestionada tanto para la enseñanza de segundas lenguas como para la traducción.

This book examines symmetric aspects of three core mechanisms in minimalist syntax: merge, move and labeling.

This book is a volume in the Penn Press Anniversary Collection.

Explains the multimodal connections of text, image, space, body, sound and speech, in both old and new computer-mediated communication systems.

Vorwort – Nina-Kristin Meister & Markus Steinbach: Barrierefreie Publikationen – Beiträge aus Forschung und Anwendung - Clare Patterson, Umesh Patil, Caterina Ventura, Maria Lialiou, Petra B.

This comprehensive examination of tense and grammatical aspect provides fascinating insight into how languages indicate distinctions of time.

Subject and Object in Modern English, first published in 1979, deals with subjects in the English language (one of the two main constituents of a clause), first comparing two possible notions of derived subject and then re-examining some derived subjects which had been assumed to be underlying subjects as well.

This collection showcases the contributions of the study of endangered and understudied languages to historical linguistic analysis, and the broader relevance of diachronic approaches toward developing better informed approaches to language documentation and description.

presupposition fails, we now give a short introduction into Unification Grammar.

Argues that biology plays a more central role in language acquisition than teaching or learning.

Russian Nouns of Common Gender in Use is a unique collection of more than 150 nouns that mainly have grammatical features of the feminine gender, but refer to both male and female persons.

Negation has always been and still is a central topic in typological studies and theoretical research.

First published in 1991, this book looks at tense in English, one of the most controversial areas of grammar.

Focusing mainly on classifiers, Numeral Classifiers and Classifier Languages offers a deep investigation of three major classifier languages: Chinese, Japanese, and Korean.

This volume (1976) contains a fac simile reprint of the original 1890 edition of Stengel’s Chronologisches Verzeichnis Französischer Grammatiken.

This volume reflects the centrality of the existential construction in current linguistic research and offers studies that both consolidate and challenge established research agendas.

An innovative and unified grammar of sentence intonation, applied to six Romance languages (French, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, Catalan and Romanian).

This work, first published in 1985, is an analysis of the syntax of the Albanian verb complex.

This textbook provides a detailed introduction to the study of Latin from the perspective of contemporary linguistics.

This monograph presents the first comprehensive diachronic account of copular and passive verb constructions in Old and Middle English.

The culmination of more than a decade of research, this compelling volume offers a fresh approach for applying functional linguistics to assess student performance, to inform the teaching and learning of Chinese and to design curriculum and teaching materials.

This book is the result of over 50 years of research, and it represents an intellectual journey.

With reports from several studies showing the benefits of teaching young children about morphemes, this book is essential reading for anyone concerned with helping children to read and write.

This handbook deals with research into the nature of events, and how we use language to describe events.

Persian, or Farsi, is one of the world's oldest languages.

The realization of information structural units has been intriguing as information packaging has reflections in the semantic, pragmatic, syntactic and prosodic domains.

This 2002 book is the first overview in English of the structure, history, typology and dialects of Romani.

Originally published in 1945, this volume represented the first to classify Bantu languages.

This book proposes Meaning-order Approach to Pedagogical Grammar (MAP Grammar) as a practical pedagogical approach in ESL and EFL contexts.

Fillers are items that speakers insert in spontaneous speech as a repair strategy.

This highly accessible book presents an overview of English morphology for all those involved in the English-language teaching industry.

What is the trigger for displacement phenomena in natural language syntax?

This volume investigates the linguistic and semantic encodings and conceptions of space in the East-Polynesian language Marquesan by focusing on the great variety of language- and culture-specific ways of referring to space, thus documenting an essential part of human behaviour and everyday communication in a South Pacific island population.