Grammar, syntax and morphology

Presents a ''process relation framework'' to explain the more complex, previously unaccounted for cases of non-finiteness in clause structure.

The approach to language and grammar that motivates this book is unabashedly functional; grammar is not just a system of empty rules, it is a means to an end, an instrument for constructing concise coherent communication.

De Lingua Latina X has never been so courageously edited nor so daringly translated as in this long-awaited sequel to Taylor’s Declinatio (SiHoLS 2).

The ten volumes of Handbook of Pragmatics Highlights focus on the most salient topics in the field of pragmatics, thus dividing its wide interdisciplinary spectrum in a transparent and manageable way.

Clearly written and comprehensive in scope, this is an essential guide to syntax in Hungarian.

The annual Going Romance conference is the major European discussion forum for theoretically relevant research on Romance languages where current ideas about language in general and about Romance languages in particular are tested.

Split constructions are very widespread in natural languages.

In the last decade a profound change has occurred in linguistic science.

Although the grammatical expression of reciprocal (or 'mutual') situations in the languages of the world has received a surprising amount of attention in recent years, so far no comprehensive study specifically dealing with the historical development and synchronic structure of English reciprocal constructions has been published.

This book provides a theory of first language acquisition in the syntactic framework of the theory of Universal Grammar.

This book focuses on abstract entity anaphora in argumentative texts with Asher's (1993) Segmented Discourse Representation Theory (SDRT) as the theoretical framework, investigating its pragmatic features and exploring its referent interpretation.

This book provides a state of the art collection of constructional research on syntactic structures in German.

The grammaticalized expression of negation is a linguistic universal.

Beiträge aus Forschung und Anwendung– Jürg Fleischer: "Qualität hat seinen Preis Preis": Genus-insensitives 'sein' im Gegenwartsdeutschen.

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

This book provides substantial new results in a novel field of research examining the syntactic and semantic consequences of event structure.

Pompeu Fabra (1868-1948) is renowned as the person who reformed and codified modern Catalan, giving it the condition of a normativised language of culture that proved fit to meet all the challenges of the twentieth century.

Emirati Arabic: A Comprehensive Grammar offers readers a reference tool for discovering and studying in detail the specific dialect of Arabic spoken in the United Arab Emirates.

This book posits a universal syntactic constraint (FPC) for code switching, using as its basis a study of different types of code-switching between French, Moroccan Arabic and Standard Arabic in a language contact situation.

Despite intensive research, negation remains elusive.

First published in 1967.

Refreshed and updated, the fifth edition of this core textbook offers a clear and engaging introduction to the building blocks of the English language, namely its words, sounds and sentences.

Examining a key issue in second language acquisition (SLA) research, this book explores the relation between second language (L2) production and comprehension at the level of processing.

Before Emotion: The Language of Feeling, 400-1800 advances current interdisciplinary research in the history of emotions through in-depth studies of the European language of emotion from late antiquity to the modern period.

In today's global commerce and communication, linguistic diversity is in steady decline across the world as speakers of smaller languages adopt dominant forms.

Recent trends in syntax and morphology have shown the great importance of doing research on variation in closely related languages.

This book provides a detailed and up to date review of the framework of phases (Chomsky 2000 and subsequent work).