Grammar, syntax and morphology

Changing socio-political landscapes, the dynamics of ‘glocalisation’, among other factors, are spawning new policy attitudes towards multilingualism, and again putting language planning (LP) on the map – in a manner reminiscent of the 1960s and 1970s.

The present volume is a collection of fifteen original articles that include descriptive, typological and/or theoretical studies of a number of morphosyntactic phenomena, such as case, transitivity, grammaticalization, valency alternations, etc.

External Possession Constructions (EPCs) are found in nearly all parts of the world and across widely divergent language families.

The importance of reflexive markers in the study of language structure cannot be underestimated: they participate in the coding of the argument structure of a clause; in the coding of semantic relations between arguments and verbs; in the coding of the relationship between arguments; in the coding of aspect; in the coding of point of view; and in the Coding of the information structure of a clause.

The theoretical issues addressed in the present volume are semantic and cognitive properties of reciprocal events, syntactic properties of reciprocals, and the relationship of reciprocals to other grammatical categories.

All languages have demonstratives, but their form, meaning and use vary tremendously across the languages of the world.

Comparative linguistics and grammaticalization theory both belong to the broader category of historical linguistics, yet few linguists practice both.

This monograph, which evolved from the first linguistic dissertation to be written on Chaha (an Ethiopian Semitic language), is also the first book to deal exclusively with the phonology and morphology of the language.

Language Acquisition and the Form of the Grammar attempts to re-think the ideal organization of the grammar, given its need to be learned.

Wh-movement and the theory of feature-checking argues that cross-linguistic variation in wh-constructions reduces to the availability of different lexical instantiations of a +wh C0 both across languages and within a single language, and the way in which such lexical elements are syntactically identified, either via movement or base-generation.

This book offers a new account of particle verbs in German and Dutch by looking at the conditions under which a non-morphological structure may exhibit “word-like” properties.

This monograph offers an in depth investigation of nominalization processes across languages e.

This book reports a research program into one of the most controversial questions in the syntax - processing interface: The behavior of the parser at gap positions.

Volume 1 of Approaches to Bootstrapping focuses on early word learning and syntactic development with special emphasis on the bootstrapping mechanisms by which the child using properties of the speech input enters the native linguistic system.

Research on the interplay between language structure and language use has shown that grammar is shaped, maintained, and modified by language use.

The eleven selected contributions making up this volume deal with grammatical relations, their coding and behavioral properties, and the change that these properties have undergone in different languages.

A mainstay of functional linguistics has been the claim that linguistic elements and patterns that are frequently used in discourse become conventionalized as grammar.

In some languages every subject is marked in the same way, and also every object.

Few linguistic concepts are more elusive than ‘possession’.

English Sentence Analysis: An introductory course is designed as a 10-week course for students of English Language and Literature, Linguistics, or other language related fields.

This work demonstrates that what is commonly called ‘preterite decay in Upper German’ (PS; cf.

This new edition of Syntax: A functional-typological introduction is at many points radically revised.

This new edition of Syntax: A functional-typological introduction is at many points radically revised.

This volume is devoted to the central cases relating to the basic oppositions between subject-object and agent-patient, viz.

This volume focuses on two main topics: comparative morphology (i.

This volume offers a selection of papers from the Eleventh International Conference on English Historical Linguistics held at the University of Santiago de Compostela.

This is the second of a three-volume comprehensive reference work on "e;Gender across Languages"e;, which provides systematic descriptions of various categories of gender (grammatical, lexical, referential, social) in 30 languages of diverse genetic, typological and socio-cultural backgrounds.

This book is a collection of articles on the properties of the verb in Turkish as the core element of clause structure, by linguists from different parts of the world.

This book takes up a variety of general syntactic topics, which either yield different solutions in German, in particular, or which lead to different conclusions for theory formation.

Two issues little discussed in the generative literature are the internal structure of pronouns and what it is in Syntax that triggers pronominal reference.

This book provides a broad overview of the issues relevant for the study of syntax of modals and their interaction with the verbal system.

This volume presents a collection of papers of recent generative research into the properties of phrasal and feature movement, which explore these key syntactic phenomena from different angles and across languages.

This book offers a completely new analysis of the syntax and semantics of transitive reflexive sentences in German, which is embedded in the major phenomenon of the middle voice in Indo-European languages.

As a typical interface phenomenon, clitics have become increasingly important in linguistic theory during the last decade.

The contributions of this thematic collection center around the typology of pronominal paradigms, the generation of syntactic and semantic representations for constructions containing pronouns, and the neurological underpinnings for linguistic distinctions that are relevant for the production and interpretation of these constructions.

Lexical effects on language processing are currently a major focus of attention in studies of sentence comprehension.

This book concerns particles that are used as responses in conversations.

This study provides a consistent description and explanation of the syntax, the semantics and the pragmatics of Spanish mood.

There are few aspects of language which are more problematic than its discourse particles.

Much is known about the grammar of the modistae and about its eclipse; this book sets out to trace its rise.

The area around the Baltic Sea has for millennia been a meeting-place for people of different origins.

The area around the Baltic Sea has for millennia been a meeting-place for people of different origins.

While there have been many attempts in the literature to account for the semantics and syntax of individual German(ic)prefixes, this is the first time that the prefixes have been analysed in a unified way and a framework established that is capable of relating the prefixes to each other and to other areas of the grammar.

This volume presents fifteen original papers dealing with various aspects of causative constructions ranging from morphology to semantics with emphasis on language data from Central and South America.

The contributions in this volume cover a wide range of theoretical and methodological issues and raise a number of new questions that indicate the future direction of grammaticalization studies.

The growing interest in prepositions is reflected by this impressive collection of papers from leading scholars of various fields.

The papers in this volume in honor of Sandra Annear Thompson deal with complex sentences, an important topic in Thompson’s career.

This volume presents a collection of articles reporting on new research carried out within the theoretical framework of generative grammar on the comparative syntax of the Germanic languages.

The Interfaces: Deriving and Interpreting Omitted Structures is a collection of never-before-published papers that explore the nature of the interfaces of syntax with semantics, phonology, and discourse.

The contributions making up this volume in honor of Eloise Jelinek are written from a formalist perspective that deals with stereotypically functionalist questions about language.