Grammar, syntax and morphology

First published in 1984, The Passive surveys a wide range of different constructions, which have all been termed 'passives' by linguists, using data from a large number of genetically and typologically diverse languages.

First published in 1984, The Passive surveys a wide range of different constructions, which have all been termed 'passives' by linguists, using data from a large number of genetically and typologically diverse languages.

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.

Incidental language acquisition is the language that is learned informally, outside the constraints of the typical classroom, and vocabulary is one of the key elements in language learning and knowledge.

This volume is the first handbook devoted entirely to the multitude of frameworks adopted in the field of morphology, including Minimalism, Optimality Theory, Network Morphology, Cognitive Grammar, and Canonical Typology.

Long trusted as the most comprehensive, up to date, and user friendly grammar book available, French Grammar and Usage is a complete guide to French as it is written and spoken today.

Every society thrives on stories, legends and myths.

The cognitive concept of prominence is increasingly seen as key to understanding the organisation of grammar.

This book represents a detailed discussion and corpus analysis of Theme in English and German originals and translations.

Understanding the evolution of language within the context of deep human history requires interdisciplinary work between linguists and scientists from a wide range of academic disciplines (e.

In the Iranic-Semitic-Turkic contact area, where many languages are described as verb-final, 'Targets' (Goals, Recipients, etc.

Felicity Meakins was awarded the Kenneth L.

Linguistic variation, loosely defined as the wholesale processes whereby patterns of language structures exhibit divergent distributions within and across languages, has traditionally been the object of research of at least two branches of linguistics: variationist sociolinguistics and linguistic typology.

This is the fourth in a series of publications on Zambian languages and grammar.

Generalmente, recitamos las preposiciones sin convicción, con un rítmico y terco juego de vocales y de consonantes que se unen y se desunen monótonamente, y siempre nos olvidamos de alguna o resucitamos otras que descansan en paz hace mucho tiempo.

Lo que escribimos es, sin duda, espejo de lo que somos.

Con este libro, nos adentraremos en una gran aventura: la de saber puntuar, la de entender el significado de cada signo de puntuación, la de concienciar —como bien dice José Antonio Millán— que puntuar «es un arte, un reto: una necesidad.

Siempre abiertos a los cambios dentro del sistema gramatical, con nuestra disciplina lingüística debemos lograr que la lengua sea un verdadero vehículo de comunicación.

¿Qué valor tiene no usar mayúsculas o minúsculas cuando corresponde hacerlo?

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

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

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

This book discusses the morphological properties of intonation, building on past research to support the long-recognized relationship between the functions and meanings of discourse particles and the functions and meanings of intonation.

This edited book focuses on non-classical logics and their applications, highlighting the rapid advances and the new perspectives that are emerging in this area.

This book compares the historical development of ideas about language in two major traditions of linguistic scholarship from either end of Eurasia - the Graeco-Roman and the Sinitic - as well as their interaction in the modern era.

This book presents corpus-based research on functional syntax.

This book explains why cognitive linguistics offers a plausible theoretical framework for a systematic and unified analysis of the syntax and semantics of particle verbs.

This work argues that cause events, being the most tangible component of emotion, provide a rich dimension of how emotions should be classified.

This book defines Chinese middle constructions as generic constructions, with their highest syntactically saturated argument always understood as an arbitrary one.

This festschrift volume brings together important contributions by expert syntacticians across the globe on tense and finiteness, adjectives, dative and ergative case, acquisition of case, and other topics both within the domain of Dravidian linguistics and in the broader theoretical understanding of cross-linguistic data.

This book examines in detail the forms and functions of clause combination in English.

The Landmarks Series is a research and publications outfit funded by the Landmarks Research Foundation to publish recent outstanding doctoral dissertations on any aspect of Nigerian linguistics, languages, literatures and cultures.

This study focusses on affixation and auxiliaries in Igbo, drawing on data mainly from Onicha (Onitsha) Igbo.

In twenty-five chapters this book covers phonology, morphology, syntax and semantics.

The book establishes 28 phonemic consonants and 7 vowels, as well as lexical and grammatical tones in Igala.

This book is all about the captivating ability that the human language has to express intricately logical (mathematical) meanings using tiny (microsemantic) morphemes as utilities.

This volume sets out to provide a semantics for the "e;future-directed opining verbs"e;, a novel class whose members are used to describe subjects' externally attested opinions toward future possibilities.