Grammar, syntax and morphology

This book offers a contemporary look at Somali from the standpoint of its major varieties and provides a comprehensive account of the language that is grounded in linguistic theory and the latest scholarship.

Research on left periphery phenomena has increased in the last 20 years, resulting in consistent studies from a wide range of languages and a fruitful debate on the functional projections within the CP system.

The book examines the category Number from a variety of linguistic perspectives.

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.

This book explores the major theories of generative grammar from a historical perspective, providing an overview of the evolution of this linguistic framework.

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.

Dieses Handbuch präsentiert erstmals anhand zahlreicher Beispiele grammatische Mittel und Strukturen, die in der deutschen Standardsprache alternierend verwendet werden können, ohne dass sich dadurch die Äußerung inhaltlich wesentlich ändert.

This book presents every inflectional pattern in the Greek New Testament, explaining the pattern in terms of a formula, showing how principles of phonetic change alter the application of the formula, and giving every word which follows each inflectional pattern.

Repetition is a well-studied phenomenon in morphology and lexicology but has received less attention on the syntactic level.

This book extends the traditional research perspective of single sentences and contexts to the textual structure of real discourse materials.

This resource supports TESOL preservice and in-service teachers and curriculum designers in teaching pronunciation more effectively.

Este estudio lingüístico examina la frecuencia de uso del sujeto pronombre personal (SPP) en el español de Bogotá Colombia en niños monolingües entre los cinco y ocho años.

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.

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.

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.

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.