Grammar, syntax and morphology

This book is a theoretically oriented, comparative study of noun phrases and their semantic and morpho-syntactic properties.

This book provides a comprehensive treatment of the syntax and semantics of a single linguistic phenomenon - the NP-strategy for expressing reciprocity - in synchronic, diachronic, and typological perspectives.

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

The last three decades have seen the emergence of Construction Grammar as a major research paradigm in linguistics.

This monograph studies stative predicates from a neo-constructionist perspective and integrates them in a comprehensive theory of event and argument structure.

Egophoricity refers to the grammaticalised encoding of personal knowledge or involvement of a conscious self in a represented event or situation.

Since its foundation in the 1980's, Construction Grammar has been crossing the traditionally imposed borders.

In this research monograph, Johannes Mursell discusses the syntactic impact of information-structural features on agreement.

This book is a collection of seven articles published in the past decade by the author.

Capitalizing on the by now widely accepted idea of the construction-specific and language-specific nature of grammatical relations, the editors of the volume developed a modern framework for systematically capturing all sorts of variations in grammatical relations.

This book presents a corpus-based investigation of verbal projection in detective stories and their translations.

This book presents corpus-based research on functional syntax.

This book addresses the three fundamental properties of V-V resultative constructions in Mandarin Chinese: their generation, their syntactic structure, and their alternations.

There is an ever-growing body of work on New Englishes, and the time has come to take stock of how research on varieties of English is carried out.

By comparing English, Spanish and Chinese, this book shows how Systemic Functional Linguistics can address issues in language description.

An accessible introduction to Chinese grammar that focuses on patterns and rules, and their similarities and differences with English.

A coherent and engaging introduction to generative syntax by a leading figure in the field, with no prior knowledge required.

A readable introduction to English syntax and syntactic theory, argumentation and description, suitable for students with little prior knowledge.

Revised edition of a seminal introduction to language contact, providing an overview of the field and its most recent developments.

Cyclical language change is a linguistic process by which a word, phrase, or part of the grammar loses its meaning or function and is then replaced by another.

Cyclical language change is a linguistic process by which a word, phrase, or part of the grammar loses its meaning or function and is then replaced by another.

This textbook introduces the field of linguistics, demonstrating syntactic categories, morphological structures, phonological/metric structures, syllable structures, and varieties of English in an accessible way by using portions of song lyrics from popular music.

This textbook introduces the field of linguistics, demonstrating syntactic categories, morphological structures, phonological/metric structures, syllable structures, and varieties of English in an accessible way by using portions of song lyrics from popular music.

This volume approaches the interaction of evidentiality with some other related categories, such as modality and mirativity, from an innovative angle: its connection to informational configuration.

This collection presents novel insights into the micro- and macro-variation of causal clauses from a cross-linguistic perspective.

Clitics, those "e;funny little words"e; like English contracted future tense and pluperfect tense/conditional mood markers ('ll and 'd) or French pronominal objects (le 'him', la 'her', lui 'to him/her', etc.

This book aims at investigating discourse phenomena (i.

An accessible introduction to Chinese grammar that focuses on patterns and rules, and their similarities and differences with English.

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

This book is an introduction to the relationship between the morphosyntactic properties of sentences and their associated illocutionary forces or force potentials.

This book is an introduction to the relationship between the morphosyntactic properties of sentences and their associated illocutionary forces or force potentials.

Xenolinguistics brings together biologists, anthropologists, linguists, and other experts specializing in language and communication to explore what non-human, non-Earthbound language might look like.

This book brings together research in cognitive linguistics and experimental psychology to construct a psychologically plausible account of grammar as a mental network.

This book brings together research in cognitive linguistics and experimental psychology to construct a psychologically plausible account of grammar as a mental network.

Xenolinguistics brings together biologists, anthropologists, linguists, and other experts specializing in language and communication to explore what non-human, non-Earthbound language might look like.

Taking a multi-theoretical approach, this book offers the first in-depth study of the function and development of evaluative of-binomials.

As the second volume of a two-volume set that studies the Chinese rhyme tables, this book seeks to reconstruct the ancient rhyme tables based on the extant materials and findings.

This grammar of English embraces major lexical, phonological, syntactic structures and interfaces.

As the second volume of a two-volume set that studies the Chinese rhyme tables, this book seeks to reconstruct the ancient rhyme tables based on the extant materials and findings.

Constructions in Spanish is the first book-length English-language volume in the field of usage-based and Cognitive Construction Grammar dedicated exclusively to Spanish.

Constructions in Spanish is the first book-length English-language volume in the field of usage-based and Cognitive Construction Grammar dedicated exclusively to Spanish.

No detailed description available for "e;The Pragmatics of Word Order"e;.

A comprehensive and integrated approach to referring expressions and their typical and atypical use in different language contexts.

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 comprehensive and integrated approach to referring expressions and their typical and atypical use in different language contexts.

Cheyenne: An Analysis of Clause Linkage provides a detailed description of Cheyenne syntax, semantics, and pragmatics, notably on its nominal and verbal system and in both simple and complex sentences.

Cheyenne: An Analysis of Clause Linkage provides a detailed description of Cheyenne syntax, semantics, and pragmatics, notably on its nominal and verbal system and in both simple and complex sentences.

The Element describes the continued technological transformations that are incrementally, but radically, changing everyday life practices.