Grammar, syntax and morphology

Following crucial insights on the functional structure of the clause and recent developments within the cartographic projects and minimalism, this book addresses various central themes in Italian and Romance syntax ranging from verb syntax and the syntax of verb-related phenomena of agreement and cliticization, to word order issues and their status in discourse contexts.

Hands-on, theory-neutral and non-technical, this textbook is a basic introduction to the structure of English words and sentences.

Frontiers of Phonology is a collection of essays that present a selective overview of trends in the linguistic analysis of sound structure.

Elly van Gelderen provides examples of linguistic cycles from a number of languages and language families, along with an account of the linguistic cycle in terms of minimalist economy principles.

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.

Vor neun Jahren haben wir in den Linguistischen Berichten eine neue Rubrik etabliert, in der etablierte Forscherinnen und Forscher in unregelmäßigen Abständen 'Aktuelle Tendenzen in der Linguistik' vorstellen.

Tommo So is a Dogon language with approximately 60,000 speakers in Mali, West Africa.

Basic German: A Grammar and Workbook comprises an accessible reference grammar and related exercises in a single volume.

The second edition of Fundamentals of Arabic Grammar provides an authoritative guide to fusha Arabic grammar.

The book puts forth an exciting hypothesis for the typologist.

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

This book uncovers properties of focus association with 'only' by examining the interaction between the particle and bare (or "e;evaluative"e;) gradable terms.

The internal bootstrapps for establishing the grammatical system of a human language build an essential topic in language acquisition research.

There is a growing awareness of the significance of constructions in grammar in the world's languages.

Recent years saw a growing interest in the study of subjectivity, as the linguistic expression of speaker involvement.

A defence of the parametric approach to linguistic variation, set within the framework of the Minimalist Program.

The aim of this book, first published in 1979, is to provide a sound basic introduction to the study of grammar within linguistics.

This book examines the cross-linguistic expression of changes of location or state, taking as a starting point Talmy's typological generalization that classifies languages as either 'satellite-framed' or 'verb-framed'.

Originally published between 1986 and 1994 the books in this set discuss, analyse and examine various word formation processes in Japanese and English and the process whereby a modern colloquial style of written Japanese was developed in the context of the overall modernization of Japan.

This book offers a comprehensive overview of the syntactic variation of the dialects of Spanish.

This book analyzes the linguistic diversity of South America based on approaches deeply rooted in the tradition of formal grammar.

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

First published in 1985.

The second volume of the two-volume set The Fruits of Empirical Linguistics focuses on the linguistic outcomes of empirical linguistics.

A long established and highly regarded account of all aspects of the English verb taking account of recent work on tense, phase and aspect, and of the author's own research.

This book sheds new light on Appositive Relative Clauses (ARCs), a structure that is generally studied from a merely syntactic point of view, in opposition to Determinative (or Restrictive) Relative Clauses (DRCs).

A new edition of the ground-breaking undergraduate textbook on modern Standard English grammar, now completely rewritten and updated.

First published in 1936, this book is intended to provide an outline of Anglo-Saxon grammar for beginners, focusing on well-selected, succinctly stated rules rather than giving a detailed survey.

First published in 2003.

Lexical-Functional Syntax, 2nd Edition, the definitive text for Lexical Functional Grammar (LFG) with a focus on syntax, is updated to reflect recent developments in the field.

Zielgruppe: Anfänger und Fortgeschrittene; Linguisten, insbesondere Slavisten.

Introducing English Grammar provides a basic grounding in English grammar, without going into too much detail or theory, and will lay the foundation for further grammatical studies.

These papers from the 1987 Typology Symposium - a follow-up to the 1985 meeting in Moscow - deal with the relevance of typology for historical linguistics.

The contributions to the book "e;Communicating Gender in Context"e; deal not only with grammatical gender, but also with discursive procedures for constructing gender as a relevant social category in text and context.

Brings together a set of studies that explore the dynamics of conversation between sellers and customers in shop interactions.

This monograph examines how language contributes to the social coordination of actions in talk-in-interaction.