Grammar, syntax and morphology

Implicatures in Discourse examines Spanish conversations and oral narratives in order to seek support for a pragmatic theory of anaphora.

In a number of languages, the speaker must specify the evidence for every statement whether seen, or heard, or inferred from indirect evidence, or learnt from someone else.

Accessibility and Acceptability in Technical Manuals is written for an audience with a general interest in readability studies, linguistics and technical writing.

Asymmetry in Grammar: Syntax and Semantics brings to fore the centrality of asymmetry in DP, VP and CP.

Asymmetry in Grammar: Morphology, Phonology and Acquisition presents evidence that asymmetry, as a property of linguistic relations, is salient in grammar.

The cross-linguistic differences documented in studies of relative clause attachment offer an invaluable opportunity to examine a particular aspect of bilingual sentence processing: Do bilinguals process their two languages as if they were monolingual speakers of each?

This volume is a collection of articles which present the results of investigations into the grammar, semantics and pragmatics of deictic expressions in several languages.

The present volume, originally prepared to celebrate Jan Firbas' 80th birthday, unfortunately is presented only belatedly, to commemorate one of the most outstanding personalities of functional and structural linguistics.

This book argues against the existence of complementation in colloquial Indonesian, and discusses the ramifications of these findings for a discourse-functional understanding of grammatical categories and linguistic structure.

Address term systems and their diachronic developments are discussed in a wide range of European languages in this volume.

The focus of this collection of essays is on the acquisition of so called vulnerable and invulnerable grammatical domains in multilingualism.

This is the first of a two-volume selection of refereed and revised papers, originally presented at the international conference From NP to DP at the University of Antwerp.

This is the second of a two-volume selection of refereed and revised papers, originally presented at the special workshop of the international conference From NP to DP at the University of Antwerp.

This is the first English version of a text out of print for more than 40 years, summarising the positions and key concepts of an influential stream of linguistic thought.

This book and its companion volume present a detailed guide to three major structural-functional theories: Functional Grammar, Role and Reference Grammar and Systemic Functional Grammar.

Like its companion volume, this book offers a detailed description and comparison of three major structural-functional theories: Functional Grammar, Role and Reference Grammar and Systemic Functional Grammar, illustrated throughout with corpus-derived examples from English and other languages.

German and Dutch verb constructions show a rich array of syntactic phenomena that have so far been underexposed in the literature, despite the fact that they have proved to be a source of substantial problems in theoretical grammar.

Typological differences in the formation of multiple Wh-questions are well-known.

Twenty-one articles from the 31st LSRL investigate cutting-edge issues and interfaces across phonology, pragmatics, sociolinguistics, semantics, and syntax in multiple dialects of such Romance languages as Catalan, French, Creole French, and Spanish, both old and modern.

This volume contains 22 of the papers presented at the 5th Conference on Afroasiatic Languages (CAL 5) held at Universite Paris VII in June 2000.

This book offers an in-depth treatment of a variety of morpho-syntactic issues in Cape Verdean Creole (CVC) both from a descriptive and theoretical perspective.

This book offers a new account of the transitive particle verb construction in English.

The present volume provides a cross-linguistic perspective on the development of tense-aspect in L2 acquisition.

Definition is a basic activity of language, of particular importance to linguists because of its use of language to describe itself.

This book proposes that subjective expression shapes grammatical and lexical patterning in American English conversation.

This book focuses on how participants in Japanese conversation negotiate and achieve joint courses of action within a single turn at talk.

Preferred Argument Structure offers a profound insight into the relationship between language use and grammatical structure.

This volume presents both an analysis of how identities are built, represented and negotiated in narrative, as well as a theoretical reflection on the links between narrative discourse and identity construction.

This book offers new data on the acquisition of functional categories in early child speech.

This book is the first corpus-based description of epistemic stance in conversational American English.

This book explores how speakers of Japanese organize their messages into coherent units as they jointly and interactively construct conversational discourse.

In many East Asian languages, despite the prevalent occurrence of implicit reference, reference management is largely achieved without recourse to familiar agreement features.

Prepositions and cases constitute a fruitful field of research for semantics.

This book introduces beginning students and non-specialists to the diversity and richness of African languages.

Standard conceptions of Locality aim to establish that a dependency between two positions may not span too long a distance.

In the humanities and social sciences, context is one of those terms which is frequently used and frequently referred to, but hardly made explicit.

The present work provides a detailed analysis of chain formation and locality conditions imposed on it within the Minimalist Program.

This book proposes a framework for describing languages through the description of relationships among lexicon, morphology, syntax, and phonology.

This book provides a number of studies of different aspects of Swedish child language.

Grammaticalization is an important concept in general and typological linguistics and a prominent type of explanation in historical linguistics.

The basic idea behind this volume is to probe the nature of grammaticalization.

This is the first of two volumes of papers selected from those given at the 12th International Conference on English Historical Linguistics.

Adverbials have become an important testing ground for research on the interfaces between syntax, semantics, and pragmatics.

This book provides much detail on the changes involving the grammaticalization of personal and relative pronouns, topicalized nominals, complementizers, adverbs, prepositions, modals, perception verbs, and aspectual markers.

Current Trends in the Pragmatics of Spanish provides the reader with a representative spectrum of current research in the most dynamic areas of the pragmatics of Spanish.

This is the first book on coordinating constructions that adopts a broad cross-linguistic perspective.

This book examines in detail the acceptability status of sentences in the following five English constructions, and elucidates the syntactic, semantic, and functional requirements that the constructions must satisfy in order to be appropriately used: There-Construction, (One's) Way Construction, Cognate Object Construction, Pseudo-Passive Construction, and Extraposition from Subject NPs.

This volume emphasizes a new line of thinking in generative grammar which acknowledges that certain synchronic properties of languages can only be fully understood if diachronic data is taken into consideration.

Volume 1 of Non-nominative Subjects (NNSs) presents the most recent research on this topic from a wide range of languages from diverse language families of the world, with ample data and in-depth analysis.

Volume 2 of Non-nominative Subjects (NNSs) presents the most recent research on this topic from a wide range of languages from diverse language families of the world, with ample data and in-depth analysis.