Grammar, syntax and morphology

Originally published in 1992, Turkic Oral Poetry provides an expert introduction to the oral epic traditions of the Turkic peoples of central Asia.

First published in 1976.

Textual Parameters in Older Languages takes a contemporary approach to the inherent limitations of using older texts as data for linguistic analysis, drawing on methods of text analysis, pragmatics and sociolinguistics to supplement traditional historical and philological methods.

First published in 1997, this book addresses the question: What is the interpretation of English there-existential construction?

This handbook provides broad coverage of the languages indigenous to North America, with special focus on typologically interesting features and areal characteristics, surveys of current work, and topics of particular importance to communities.

English Vocabulary: The Basics offers a clear, non-jargonistic introduction to English vocabulary, the way linguists classify and explain it, and the place of vocabulary in our overall picture of the language, and in society.

This controversial new book addresses the linguistic problems around compounds: words which sit on the borderline of syntax and morphology.

The Study of Words introduces the study of word structure, also known as morphology, without assuming any prior knowledge of linguistics.

This volume constitutes what is perhaps the most thorough description of a creole language to date.

First published in 1986, this book focuses on Anaphoric relations in the English and French languages, a phenomenon that involves a complex interaction between grammar and discourse.

This study, first published in 1990, presents a comprehensive description of the comparative constructions of Spanish and French, and shows that the apparently numerous differences in their syntactic realisations can be accounted for by general constraints on the expression of comparison.

Is the passive a unified universal phenomenon?

First published in 1986.

Austronesian languages have long raised interesting questions for generative theories of syntax and morphology.

A Grammar of Dolakha Newar is the first fully comprehensive reference grammar of a Newar variety.

This book develops a unified theory of structural case and applies it to data from more than twenty unrelated languages.

Explores the Korean language from both a syntactic and semantic perspective, combining mainstream ideas from minimalist syntax and formal semantics.

This textbook introduces the field of linguistics, demonstrating syntactic categories, morphological structures, phonological/metric structures, syllable structures, and varieties of English in an accessible way by using portions of song lyrics from popular music.

Yufa!

First published in 1975, this title provides an introduction to the study of the novel.

Since the advent of syntactic cartography, left sentence peripheries have begun to take center stage in linguistic research.

This book presents a detailed examination of the most important arguments for a process-based theory of morphology and offers a highly-constrained alternative to the powerful mechanisms proposed in processual theories of morphology.

This monograph gives a unified account of the syntactic distribution of subjunctive mood across languages, including Romance, Balkan (South Slavic and Modern Greek), and Hungarian, among others.

Explains universal concepts of language structure to help students preparing to study a foreign language.

This book indicates that the nature and function of de is one of the core issues in the study of Chinese grammar.

Part of the Otto Jespersen collected English Writings Collection, originally published in 1894, this volume is to a certain extent an English translation of Jespersens' 'Studier over Engelske Kasus, nted en Indledning: Freniskridt i Sproget', which was to the University of Copenhagen in February, 1891 on the development of English Language, but with some notable revisions when translated to English.

Syntactic dependencies are often non-local: They can involve two positions in a syntactic structure whose correspondence cannot be captured by invoking concepts like minimal clause or predicate/argument structure.

Le présent recueil rassemble douze études consacrées à des problèmes de syntaxe verbale et à certains faits fondamentaux de lexique et de grammaire.

The Sinitic Languages is the quintessence of Mieczyslaw Jerzy Kunstler's thirty years of research into the Chinese languages.