Grammar, syntax and morphology

This volume brings together seven eminently original attempts to answer a sorely neglected question: What are adjectives?

Situated at the interface between corpus linguistics and Systemic Functional Linguistics, this volume focuses on conjunctive markers expressing contrast in English and French.

Personal pronouns in Japanese form a heterogeneous category.

Was Tesniere the founding father of dependency grammar or merely a culmination point in its long history?

This monograph explores the grammar of modifier PPs in Japanese, concentrating on their word order.

This monograph answers the rarely discussed questions of why complicated grammatical case phenomena exist in Korean and what the connection is between the case forms and their functions.

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 explores how Diachronic Construction Grammar can shed new light on changes in a central and well-researched domain of grammar, namely modality.

Theoretical linguistics in the generative tradition has payed much attention to issues related to silence ?

This book offers new perspectives into the description of the form, meaning and function of Pragmatic Markers, Discourse Markers and Modal Particles in a number of different languages, along with new methods for identifying their 'prototypical' instances in situated language contexts, often based on cross-linguistic comparisons.

Focusing on objects, this book aims at contributing to the on-going inquiry into modelling structures with missing arguments.

This monograph proposes a comparative approach to all the ways of denoting 'more than one' entity, from collective and aggregate nouns (with the first-ever typology), to count plurals, partly substantivised adjectives and conjoined NPs.

Dedicated to John B.

This volume presents a collection of seven peer-reviewed articles on Arabic phonetics, phonology, syntax, semantics, and applied linguistics.

This book is the first on Cantonese that deals with the grammaticalization phenomenon systematically.

This book investigates the role that ambiguous evidence can play in the acquisition of syntax.

This book opens with Angelika Kratzer and Luigi Rizzi talking about contemporary issues, such as non-recursiveness of focus and the semantics of topics.

The volume focuses on body part terms as the vehicle of embodied cognition and conceptualization.

Category change, broadly defined as the shift from one word class to another, is often studied as part of other changes, such as grammaticalization or lexicalization, but not in its own right.

In recent years, issues of verbal valency, valency alternations and verb classes have seen a new upsurge of interest from a variety of perspectives.

The polarity of a sentence is crucial for its meaning.

This volume brings together a collection of original articles investigating state-of-the-art themes in morphology.

Imperatives and directive strategies have intrigued both formalists and functionalists.

The articles compiled in this volume offer new insights into the wealth of prosodic and syntactic phenomena involved in the encoding of information structure categories.

The aim of this book is to give the first large-scale typological investigation of pluractionality in the languages of the world.

This book is the first comprehensive corpus study of element order in Old English and Old High German, which brings to light numerous differences between these two closely related languages.

This volume offers a critical appraisal of the tension between theory and empirical evidence in research on information structure.

Interest in non-canonically case-marked subjects has been unceasing since the groundbreaking work of Andrews and Masica in the late 70's who were the first to document the existence of syntactic subjects in another morphological case than the nominative.

The papers in this volume cover a wide range of interrelated syntactic phenomena, from the history of core arguments, to complements and non-finite clauses, elements in the clause periphery, as well as elements with potential scope over complete sentences and even larger discourse chunks.

In this book, the traditional definition of 'grammaticalization' is challenged in the light of current developments in grammar theory.

This book is a collection of eleven research articles which altogether serve as a contribution to the study of verb complementation and other constructions, an area of investigation which bridges observations on the spectrum of lexico-grammar, syntax, and semantics.

This book sheds new light on the puzzle of psychological predicates in a cross-linguistic perspective by looking at them from a variety of angles at the interfaces between event structure, lexical and viewpoint aspect, syntax and information structure.

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.

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.

This book focuses on the linguistic perspective of classical Chinese poetry and its changes and development in diff erent historical periods.