Grammar, syntax and morphology

This handbook explores multiple facets of the study of word classes, also known as parts of speech or lexical categories.

This volume showcases the contributions that formal experimental methods can make to syntactic research in the 21st century.

This volume focuses on the theoretical and analytical challenges that languages with complex morphologies pose for the theory and typology of word-level prosodic phenomena.

The Acquisition of Anaphora in Child Mandarin explores how Mandarin-speaking children's interpretation of the reflexive ziji and their use of null arguments can be understood under the notions of locality and prominence.

The Acquisition of Anaphora in Child Mandarin explores how Mandarin-speaking children's interpretation of the reflexive ziji and their use of null arguments can be understood under the notions of locality and prominence.

This volume showcases the contributions that formal experimental methods can make to syntactic research in the 21st century.

Egypt in the early Byzantine period was a bilingual country where Greek and Egyptian (Coptic) were used alongside each other.

Egypt in the early Byzantine period was a bilingual country where Greek and Egyptian (Coptic) were used alongside each other.

This textbook is intended to give students a quick start in using theory to address syntactic questions.

This book investigates the properties of Latin nouns that have a systematic correspondence with a clause structure - referred to as verbal nouns - on the basis of data from a range of text types, both narrative and technical.

This volume brings together new work on prosody and prosodic interfaces from international experts in the field.

This volume brings together work from leading specialists in Indo-European languages to explore the macro- and micro-dynamic factors that contribute to variation and change in alignment and argument realization.

This book examines how speakers of Ibero-Romance 'do things' with conversational units of language, paying particular attention to what they do with i) vocatives, interjections, and particles; and ii) illocutionary complementizers, items that look like subordinators but behave differently.

This volume explores the grammatical properties of body-part expressions across a range of languages and language families in the Americas, including Arawakan, Eastern Tukano, Mataguayan, Panoan, and Takanan.

This book explores syntactic and semantic change in three types of construction in Spanish and Portuguese: (i) complex determiner phrases with clausal adjunction (el hecho de, o facto de), (ii) complex prepositions/complementizers and complex connectives (sin embargo de/sem embargo de, so(b) pena de), and (iii) complex predicates containing light verbs (dar consejo/conselho de).

This book presents a novel overarching account of negation and negative dependencies, based on novel data from language variation, language acquisition, and language change.

Ruslan Mitkov's highly successful Oxford Handbook of Computational Linguistics has been substantially revised and expanded in this second edition.

Ruslan Mitkov's highly successful Oxford Handbook of Computational Linguistics has been substantially revised and expanded in this second edition.

Vorwort – Nina-Kristin Meister & Markus Steinbach: Geleitwort der alten Redaktion zum Herausgeberwechsel – Marco Coniglio & Eric Fuß: Geleitwort der neuen Redaktion zum Herausgeberwechsel Beiträge aus Forschung und Anwendung – Milica Lazovic: Simulierte innere Rede als Ressource in der Sprachlernberatung für DaF.

This textbook is intended to give students a quick start in using theory to address syntactic questions.

Cartographic Representations: Syntactic Computations and Interface Properties investigates the intricate interactions between syntax and other components of the grammar, including semantics, pragmatics, morphology, and prosody.

This handbook offers a detailed account of grammatical gender and classifiers, two closely related linguistic phenomena that are used to subcategorize the nominal system in many languages of the world.

This handbook brings together in a single volume detailed accounts of all facets of the Italian language from a wide range of perspectives.

This book investigates the morphosyntactic, semantic, and pragmatic properties of language, and the interactions between them, from the perspective of Optimality Theory.

This handbook brings together in a single volume detailed accounts of all facets of the Italian language from a wide range of perspectives.

This volume presents the most wide-ranging treatment available today of the Malayo-Polynesian languages of Southeast Asia and their outliers, a group of more than 800 languages belonging to the wider Austronesian family.

This book offers a comprehensive account of the phonological structure of modern Turkish within the framework of recent linguistic models.

This volume investigates a wide range of topics in the study of Gothic, the oldest Germanic language to be attested in any substantial texts, some three centuries before the earliest Old English.

This book is the first to present a comprehensive theory of non-canonical questions, those question types that do not (only) request information from the addressee, but rather (additionally) tell us something about the speaker's epistemic and/or emotional state, such as can't-find-the-value questions, echo questions, rhetorical questions, and surprise questions.

The Oxford Handbook of Languages of the Caucasus is an introduction to and overview of the linguistically diverse languages of southern Russia, Georgia, Azerbaijan, and Armenia.

While Verb-third (V3) patterns have long been studied in verb-second (V2) languages, a similar pattern in which an initial adverbial constituent is resumed by a clause-internal element has been much less studied.

While Verb-third (V3) patterns have long been studied in verb-second (V2) languages, a similar pattern in which an initial adverbial constituent is resumed by a clause-internal element has been much less studied.

This volume explores the role that functional elements play in syntactic change and investigates the semantic and functional features that are the driving force behind those changes.

This volume brings together contributions from leading specialists in syntax and morphology to explore the complex relation between periphrasis and inflexion from both a synchronic and diachronic perspective.

This volume examines subordinate wh-clauses that lack an interrogative interpretation, particularly those in which the wh-word seems to deviate from its literal meaning.

The Syntax of Dutch presents a synthesis of current thinking on Dutch syntax.

This book explains how Mandarin Chinese often leaves the subject unspoken and how readers can still work out 'who' or 'what' is being talked about by identifying patterns in connected discourse.

In chapters encompassing phonology, reading and writing, the lexicon, morphology, syntax, and semantics, Acquisition of Korean: The state of the art offers a comprehensive overview of research in each area, along with cutting-edge original studies.

The Syntax of Dutch presents a synthesis of current thinking on Dutch syntax.

This book explains how Mandarin Chinese often leaves the subject unspoken and how readers can still work out 'who' or 'what' is being talked about by identifying patterns in connected discourse.

In chapters encompassing phonology, reading and writing, the lexicon, morphology, syntax, and semantics, Acquisition of Korean: The state of the art offers a comprehensive overview of research in each area, along with cutting-edge original studies.

This book deals with the category of case and where to place it in grammar.

This book provides a thorough yet approachable history of the Scots language, a close relative of Standard English with around 1.

This book provides a thorough yet approachable history of the Scots language, a close relative of Standard English with around 1.

This book explores person markers, the linguistic elements that provide points of reference to speech-act participants.

Meaning and the Lexicon brings together 35 years of pathbreaking work on language by Ray Jackendoff.

This textbook introduces fundamental concepts and results in the theory of first language acquisition, bringing together linguistic phenomena on the one hand and learning and cognitive development on the other.

This volume explores the nature of ellipsis, the core phenomenon that results in various types of omission in sentences.

This survey explores interactions between syntax and discourse, through a case study of patterns of extraction from coordinate structures.

This book focuses on the linguistic representation of temporality in the verbal domain and its interaction with the syntax and semantics of verbs, arguments, and modifiers.