Grammar, syntax and morphology

Focusing primarily on Standard Maltese, the authors clarify many areas which, until now, remain undefined, with emphasis on syntax and intonation.

Basic Linguistic Theory provides a fundamental characterization of the nature of human languages and a comprehensive guide to their description and analysis.

Anaphora processing is a central topic in the study of natural language and has long been the object of research in a wide range of disciplines.

This comprehensive treatment of several phenomena in Distributed Morphology explores a number of topics of high relevance to current linguistic theory.

The Third Space and Chinese Language Pedagogy presents the Third Space as a new frame through which foreign language pedagogy is conceptualized as a pedagogy of negotiating intentions and expectations in another culture.

Codeswitching occurs when multilingual speakers embed elements of more than one language into the dominant (or Matrix) language within individual utterances of conversation.

This collection of original essays is intended to both celebrate Derek Bickerton's sixty-fifth birthday and honor his long and eminent career.

This book explores the boundaries of the category of gender and their theoretical significance within the framework of Canonical Typology.

This book makes a novel contribution to our understanding of Romance SE constructions by combining both diachronic and synchronic theoretical perspectives along with a range of empirical data from different languages and dialects.

Suffixaufnahme is an unusual pattern of multiple case marking due to agreement: a nominal that is already case-marked for its own adnominal function in addition copies the case of the nominal to which it is to be related.

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This study argues that the domain traditionally covered by 'coordination' and 'subordination' in English can be subdivided into four distinct construction types.

This book, by a group of leading international scholars, outlines the history of the spoken dialects of Arabic from the Arab Conquests of the seventh century up to the present day.

This grammar of English embraces major lexical, phonological, syntactic structures and interfaces.

A pioneering book establishing the foundations for research into word-formation typology.

First published in 1988.

An original volume focusing on British–American differences in the structure of words and sentences.

This book provides a comprehensive introduction to Systemic Functional Linguistics (SFL), covering key concepts and contributions to the field and instructing beginners to apply SFL to different areas.

At present there exists no empirically-motivated theory of how perceivers assign a grammatically-permissible interpretation to a sentence.

First published in 1991.

This book treats aspects of grammar of Russian, from writing, phonology and morphology to syntax and aspect.

This volume is about 'dislocation' - the removal of phrases from their canonical positions in a sentence to its left or right edge.

The Oxford Handbook of Derivational Morphology is intended as a companion volume to The Oxford Handbook of Compounding (OUP 2009) Written by distinguished scholars, its 41 chapters aim to provide a comprehensive and thorough overview of the study of derivational morphology.

For decades, bilingualism has resisted definition.

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

This book explores the concept of complementation in the adjectival domain of English grammar.

This book provides a comprehensive overview of current research in African languages, drawing on insights from anthropological linguistics, typology, historical and comparative linguistics, and sociolinguistics.

Taking as a point of departure ideas and principles from the 18th and 19th century Danish tradition, and from 20th century traditions of the Copenhagen School of linguistics, this book attempts to set up a formal theory of syntax that addresses some of the weak points of other formal grammars, notably Chomskyan grammar.

This book explores the results of language contact in Michif, an endangered Canadian language that is traditionally claimed to combine a French noun phrase with a Cree verb phrase, and is hence usually considered a 'mixed' language.

This set reissues 29 books on the English language, originally published between 1932 and 2003.

A complement clause is used instead of a noun phrase; for example one can say either I heard [the result] or I heard [that England beat France].

This book is the first comprehensive treatment of the phonological system of Basque available in English.

Many grammatical issues of Archaic and Medieval Chinese still lack a comprehensive analysis.

The relation of language variation to reconstructed languages and to the methodology of reconstruction has long been neglected.