Grammar, syntax and morphology

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Every human language has some syntactic means of distinguishing a negative from a non-negative sentence; in other words, every speaker's syntactic competence provides a means to express sentential negation.

First published in 1990.

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ThisBloomsbury Companion is the most wide-ranging, state-of-the-art resourceto a key area of contemporary linguistics.

This volume is intended as a celebration of Kristin Davidse's work and its impact within the broad traditions of cognitive, functional and usage-based grammars.

The newly-emerging field of theoretically informed but simultaneously empirically based syntax is dynamic but little-represented in the literature.

This book proposes that the two "e;independent"e; conditions on argumenthood, namely, case and referentiality, are strongly correlated and have to be associated with each other in syntax as syntactic features.

This book explores the wide variety of cases in which the plural of nouns is lexical.

This volume brings together scholars of diverse theoretical persuasions who all share an interest in capturing the role that nominal determination and reference assignment play in the complicated interplay between thought, language and communication.

This book is the third volume of a four-volume set on modern Chinese complex sentences, with a focus on adversative complex sentences and relevant forms.

Missionary Grammars and the Language of Translation in Korea (1876-1910) embraces the Enlightenment period in Korea (1876-1910) after the opening of the so-called Hermit Nation in describing the Korean language and missionary works.

This volume is the first handbook devoted entirely to the multitude of frameworks adopted in the field of morphology, including Minimalism, Optimality Theory, Network Morphology, Cognitive Grammar, and Canonical Typology.

This volume presents a collection of 23 papers by renowned linguists on current research in the field of theoretical linguistics.

The aim of the book is to collect and make available to the public recent studies on Roumanian in the framework of Generative Grammar.

Ancient Greek is commonly considered a 'synthetic' or 'inflectional' language, that is, a language with a high morpheme-per-word ratio.

In this volume, the author reviews the results of research on language performance and proposes a model of production and comprehension.

This book investigates a set of marginal syntactic structures which have been singularly influential in the development of generative theory, spotlighting lesser-studied languages of the Indic family while emphasizing implications for linguistic theory more broadly.

This volume offers a thorough, systematic, and crosslinguistic account of evidentiality, the linguistic encoding of the source of information on which a statement is based.

This volume offers theoretically informed surveys of topics that have figured prominently in morphosyntactic and syntactic research into Romance languages and dialects.

For the purposes of this volume, originally published in 1954, two southern zones of Bantu have been included - south of the Zambesi and east of the Kalahari.

This book provides the first comprehensive overview of the syntax of old Romanian written in English and targeted at a non-Romanian readership.

Locality is a key concept not only in linguistic theorizing, but in explaining pattern of acquisition and patterns of recovery in garden path sentences, as well.

Fillers are items that speakers insert in spontaneous speech as a repair strategy.

There are far more syntactically distinct languages than we might have thought; yet there are far fewer than there might have been.

Introducing English Syntax provides a basic introduction to syntax for students studying English as a foreign language at university.

This book unpacks coordination in the context of the Strong Minimalist Thesis (SMT), offering a new proposal for addressing this longstanding puzzle within research on Generative Grammar.

First published in 1983, the aim of this book is to diagnose linguists' failure to advance satisfactory theories of lexical meaning, then to propose the requirements that such a theory should meet and, drawing on work in philosophy and psychology, to take the first steps towards satisfying these requirements.

This book presents the latest work in the field of complementation studies.

This study is devoted to the analysis of Italian idioms with either ordinary or support verbs (also called light verbs).

Current Issues in Comparative Grammar illustrates the diversity and productivity of research within the principles and parameters framework of generative grammar.

Saramaccan has been central to various debates regarding the origin and nature of creole languages.

This book presents a number of studies which focus on the [voice] grammar of Japanese, paying particular attention to historical background, dialectal diversity, phonetic experiment, and phonological analysis.

This book represents the first comprehensive overview over the history of negation in German.

Kazakh: A Comprehensive Grammar is the first thorough analysis of Kazakh to be published in English.

Originally published in 1952, this volume shows the structural characteristics of the Berber language and its interrelations as far as these are known; the distribution of the language and the numbers speaking it; its use as literary and educational media and as a lingua franca.

The Grammar of Raising and Control surveys analyses across a range of theoretical frameworks from Rosenbaum's classic Standard Theory analysis (1967) to current proposals within the Minimalist Program, and provides readers with a critical understanding of these, helping them in the process to develop keen insights into the strengths and weaknesses of syntactic arguments in general.