Grammar, syntax and morphology

This book investigates innovative approaches to teaching and learning second language (L2) grammar by combining strategy-based instruction (SBI) supported by advanced computer-assisted language learning (CALL) tools, including artificial intelligence (AI).

This book is a holistic exploration of personal pronouns in English and their development.

Looking at everyday Mandarin Chinese conversations, this book provides a comprehensive examination of the practices used in producing Chinese increments.

This collection of essays, written between 1980 and 2001, places the search for theoretical elegance at centre stage.

First published in 1990.

This book provides a critical investigation of syntactic change and the factors that influence it.

This volume explores the many ways by which natural languages categorize nouns into genders or classes.

Taking a unique approach which combines sociolinguistics with theoretical linguistics, this book presents a view of language and grammar as both a cognitive and socio-cultural phenomena.

This study provides a consistent description and explanation of the syntax, the semantics and the pragmatics of Spanish mood.

Im Jiddischen ist – wie in den oberdeutschen Mundarten – das Präteritum im Laufe der Zeit außer Gebrauch gekommen.

This collection of papers offers an alternative to mainstream functional linguistics on two points.

The study departs from the observation that in expressing ideas, some languages encode more details than others.

This book explores a much-debated area of language acquisition: the omission by young children of direct objects in a sentence.

This volume presents a series of papers written by Epstein, Kitahara and Seely, each of which explores fundamental linguistic questions and analytical mechanisms proposed in recent minimalist work, specifically concerning recent analyses by Noam Chomsky.

When you read Shakespeare or watch a performance of one of his plays, do you find yourself wondering what it was he actually meant?

This volume addresses the relation between finiteness and nominalization, which is far more complex than the simple opposition finite-nonfinite.

In recent years, issues of verbal valency, valency alternations and verb classes have seen a new upsurge of interest from a variety of perspectives.

A comprehensive 2007 survey of the development and present-day features of English in Northern and the Republic of Ireland.

This book looks at some central problems and questions in the study of ellipsis, whereby certain portions of a sentence are unspoken.

This book contains papers that were written to honor Professor Lyn Frazier on the occasion of her retirement from the University of Massachusetts Amherst.

Comparisons and Contrasts collects eleven of Richard Kayne's recent articles in theoretical syntax, with an emphasis on comparative syntax, which uses syntactic differences among languages to probe the properties of the human language faculty.

Complex hierarchic syntax is a hallmark of human language.

First published in 1816 and revised in 1916, this edition of George Crabb's English Synonyms contains the entirety of his most enduring work.

A systematic introduction to core topics in syntax, focusing on how the basic concepts apply in the analysis of sentences.

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.

Intended for the absolute beginner, Introducing Phonetics and Phonology requires no previous background in linguistics, phonetics, or phonology.

This book studies the syntax and semantics of numeral classifiers in Mandarin and other Chinese languages.

This book provides a theory of first language acquisition in the syntactic framework of the theory of Universal Grammar.