Grammar, syntax and morphology

This book investigates selected aspects of the grammatical development of Emirati Arabic, the variety of Gulf Arabic spoken in the United Arab Emirates and closely related to the varieties spoken in the rest of the Gulf States.

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Nominative-accusative and ergative are two common alignment types found across languages.

This book provides argues for a compositional, truth-conditional, crosslinguistic semantics for evidentiality, the linguistic encoding of the source of information on which a statement is based.

No detailed description available for "e;The Pipil Language of El Salvador"e;.

Travel the world with these incredibly fun cliches!

This book is the first systematic analysis of the emergence of, and the resolution strategies for, inconsistency in linguistic theorizing.

This book adopts a generative framework to investigate the diachronic syntax of Hungarian, one of only a handful of non-Indo-European languages with a documented history spanning more than 800 years.

This book examines the diachronic development of negation in Low German, from Old Saxon up to the point at which Middle Low German is replaced by High German as the written language.

Korean Morphosyntax: Focusing on Clitics and Their Roles in Syntax presents a theory-neutral comprehensive analysis of Korean morphosyntax for advanced students and scholars of Korean language and linguistics.

This book proposes Meaning-order Approach to Pedagogical Grammar (MAP Grammar) as a practical pedagogical approach in ESL and EFL contexts.

This collection highlights a range of perspectives on the emerging body of research on evolutionary pragmatics, expanding the borders of language evolution research and indicating exciting new directions for the future of the field.

This innovative volume provides a comprehensive integrated account of the study of conceptual figures, demonstrating the ways in which figures and in particular, conflictual figures, encapsulate linguistic expression in the fullest sense and in turn, how insights gleaned from their study can contribute to the wider body of linguistic research.

The strikingly unrestricted syntactic distribution of nouns in many Bantu languages often leads to proposals that syntactic case does not play an active role in the grammar of Bantu.

A coherent and engaging introduction to generative syntax by a leading figure in the field, with no prior knowledge required.

This monograph presents a theory of ellipsis licensing in terms of Agree and applies it to several elliptical phenomena in both English and Dutch.

Adopting the theoretical framework of the minimalist program, this study of syntactic limitations on complement configuration investigates the link between thematic external arguments and case.

No detailed description available for "e;Historical English Syntax"e;.

This Handbook represents the development of research and the current level of knowledge in the fields of syntactic theory and syntax analysis.

This handbook compares the main analytic frameworks and methods of contemporary linguistics.

Language Aptitude: Advancing Theory, Testing, Research and Practice brings together cutting-edge global perspectives on foreign language aptitude.

Diese Arbeit untersucht das Nominalsyntagma im Créole guyanais, einer französischen Kreolsprache, für die bislang nur wenig zugängliche Sprachdaten vorliegen.

This collection brings together work from scholars across sociolinguistics, World Englishes and linguistic landscapes to reflect on developments and future directions in Irish English, building on the ground-breaking contributions of Jeffrey Kallen to the discipline.

An assessment of how English grammar is changing, and the linguistic and social factors that are contributing to this process.

An accessible exploration of how defectiveness emerges from the implicative organization of paradigms and the structure of the lexicon.

This volume contributes to the now one-century old question, 'Is the link between forms and meanings in language essentially arbitrary, as Saussure put it, or is it on the contrary also considerably motivated?

A one-stop guide providing up-to-date coverage of the central aspects of second language acquisition (SLA).

Thoroughly-revised edition of best-selling one-year introductory course in ancient Greek for students and adults.

If you've ever wanted a quick and easy guide to verbs and adverbs, commas and apostrophes, clauses and prepositions, then this is a must-have book for you.

This unique book examines how children learn to read across seventeen languages and their orthographies.

First published in 1937, this book supplies a history of the living growth of the English language from Old English to the medieval period.

Based on analysis of more than 1,000 languages, this volume reconstructs more than 500 processes of grammatical change in the languages of the world.