Grammar, syntax and morphology

This book examines in detail the acceptability status of sentences in the following five English constructions, and elucidates the syntactic, semantic, and functional requirements that the constructions must satisfy in order to be appropriately used: There-Construction, (One's) Way Construction, Cognate Object Construction, Pseudo-Passive Construction, and Extraposition from Subject NPs.

This volume emphasizes a new line of thinking in generative grammar which acknowledges that certain synchronic properties of languages can only be fully understood if diachronic data is taken into consideration.

Volume 1 of Non-nominative Subjects (NNSs) presents the most recent research on this topic from a wide range of languages from diverse language families of the world, with ample data and in-depth analysis.

Volume 2 of Non-nominative Subjects (NNSs) presents the most recent research on this topic from a wide range of languages from diverse language families of the world, with ample data and in-depth analysis.

The Going Romance conferences are a major European annual discussion forum for theoretically relevant research on Romance languages.

This volume gives an easily accessible, yet comprehensive, sophisticated, and example-rich introduction to Construction Grammar as it has been developed from the early 1980's by Charles J.

This study deals with the so-called Light Verb Construction in Japanese, which consists of the verb “suru” ‘do’ and an accusative (“o”) marked verbal noun (VN).

Eat up the apple or Eat the apple up?

This collection of papers brings together the most recent crosslinguistic research on the syntax of verb-initial languages.

This book analyzes compliments and compliment responses in naturally occurring talk-in-interaction in German.

The notion 'construction' has become indispensable in present-day linguistics and in language studies in general.

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 book aims to contribute to a growing interest amongst psycholinguists and morphologists in the mechanisms of meaning predictability.

This collection of original research focuses on various lesser studied aspects of Greek syntax.

The chapters in this volume arise from presentations at a unique conference on typical and atypical language development held in Madison, USA in 2002.

In Communist times, it was impossible to do sociolinguistic work on Hungarian in contact with other languages.

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 is the second volume of the series "e;Usage-Based Linguistic Informatics"e;, a product of the 21st century COE program held at Tokyo University of Foreign Studies (TUFS).

The papers in this volume derive from the International Morphology Meeting (Vienna 2004) and were selected because they address the main topic of the conference: external and internal demarcations of morphology.

The papers in this collection share a common interest in the empirical, theoretical and meta-theoretical aspects of the 'internal-external' ('formal-functional') debate in linguistic theory.

This volume brings together papers which address a range of issues regarding the syntax of function words and functional categories in the Germanic languages.

This book offers an HPSG-based discourse grammar for a controlled language (Air Traffic Control) that allows the identification of well-formed discourse patterns.

This monograph offers a new analysis of West Germanic 'Infinitivus Pro Participio' (IPP) constructions, within the framework of Optimality Theory.

This book combines theoretical and experimental aspects of the establishment of dependency.

This book offers an in-depth analysis of Modern English pronoun case.

This book investigates the historical paths leading from pronouns to markers of verbal agreement and proposes a unified formal account of this grammaticalization process.

This book is concerned with a class of copular clauses known as specificational clauses, and its relation to other kinds of copular structures, predicational and equative clauses in particular.

This monograph presents a new model of the internal syntax of nominal phrases.

This volume brings into focus the conceptual roots of the notion 'grammatical construction' as the theoretical entity that constitutes the backbone of Construction Grammar, a unique grammatical model in which grammatical constructions have the status of elementary building blocks of human language.

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.

The concept of analogy is of central concern to modern cognitive scientists, whereas it has been largely neglected in linguistics in the past four decades.

For a long time prepositions seemed to enjoy a clandestine status in linguistic research.

This book offers a comparative study of the Germanic languages.

This monograph is a theoretical and empirical investigation into the mechanisms and causes of successful and unsuccessful adult second language acquisition.

This book proposes an innovative approach to general nouns.

This study analyzes how morphosyntactic structures and information flow characteristics are used by interlocutors in producing and understanding clauses in conversational Javanese, focusing on the Cirebon variety of the language.

This book presents a collection of papers on clusivity, a newly coined term for the inclusive-exclusive distinction.

Over the past two decades, international trade agreements such as GATT and NAFTA have lowered international trade barriers.

This book presents a comprehensive account of quantifier scope in German.

University students must cope with a bewildering array of registers, not only to learn academic content, but also to understand course expectations and requirements.

This monograph provides a micro-analytic description of instances of requests in everyday German conversation.

This volume provides a state-of-the-art account of research into datives and other morphological cases.

This study aims to give a systematic and comprehensive description of the constructions involved in three important types of alternation: the locative alternation, which is by far the most researched of the three, the image impression alternation and the material/product alternation.

The twenty-one papers that make up this volume reflect the broad perspective of African linguistic typology studies today.

This volume presents thirteen original papers dealing with various aspects of two related areas of research of major concern to linguists of all theoretical persuasions: voice and grammatical relations.

The focus of this collection is on important themes in L2 acquisition, the nature of grammatical systems developed by language learners in L1 acquisition, third language acquisition, and bilingualism and language attrition.

This volume includes a selection of papers that address a wide range of acquisition phenomena from different Romance languages and all share a common theoretical approach based on the Principles and Parameters theory.

This collection of papers is the third volume of the series "e;Usage-Based Linguistic Informatics"e; (UBLI), a product of the 21st Century COE Program of the Tokyo University of Foreign Studies (TUFS).

This is the first of two volumes emanating from the Linguistic Symposium on Romance Languages held at the University of Texas at Austin in February 2005.

This is the second of two volumes emanating from the Linguistic Symposium on Romance Languages held at the University of Texas at Austin in February 2005.