Grammar, syntax and morphology

The theory of language acquisition is a young but increasingly active field.

In acquiring communicative competence, children must learn to speak not only grammatically but also appropriately.

Although usage-based linguistics emphasises the need for studies of language change to take frequency effects into account, there is a lack of research that tries to systematically model frequency effects and their relation to diffusion processes in language change.

Provides the fundamental features of the Tiberian Hebrew accents, focusing on their divisions and exegetical roles.

Generative phonology is a developing field of linguistics, and is producing both rival interpretations and models.

First published in 1994.

This book investigates the phenomenon of control structures, configurations in which the subject of the embedded clause is missing and is construed as coreferential with the subject of the embedding clause (e.

This book was first published in 1954, A Modern English Grammar on Historical Principles is a valuable contribution to the field of English Grammar and Linguistics.

This book presents a cross-linguistic investigation of the behaviour of negation in gapping sentences.

This book presents a formal framework for the analysis of word structure in human language.

This volume, which has partly grown from a Round Table at the XIVth International Congress of Linguists, argues for a large amount of underlying unity in outlook among different frameworks in present-day linguistics: the contemporary Prague School; the Noematic approach; the UNITYP model; Integrational Linguistics; Natural Morphology; much recent work in phonology; and Popperian Interactionism as applied, in particular, to historical linguistics.

As a contribution to the ongoing discussion of the genesis of the Germanic language, this book investigates the strong verbs of Proto-Germanic using a new approach that combines historical and typological morphology with quantitative etymology.

Phi-features, such as person, number, and gender, present a rare opportunity for syntacticians, morphologists and semanticists to collaborate on a research enterprise in which they all have an equal stake and which they all approach with data and insights from their own fields.

The work represents a significant scientific advancement on text linguistics from three different viewpoints.

Over the last decades, it has been hotly debated whether and how compounds, i.

Provides a linguistic description of the patterns used by children when acquiring African American English.

Die dreibändige Grammatik der deutschen Sprache ist eine Dokumentation der grammatischen Strukturen der deutschen Gegenwartssprache.

First published in 1985.

This book sheds new light on the nature of gerunds in English, utilizing data from very large electronic corpora in order to compare pairs of patterns viewed as constructions.

First published in 1989.

Xenolinguistics brings together biologists, anthropologists, linguists, and other experts specializing in language and communication to explore what non-human, non-Earthbound language might look like.

Die Beiträge bieten neue Erkenntnisse über das bisher weitgehend unerforschte Wortbildungssystem des Mittelhochdeutschen.

Until recently, most linguistic theories as well as theories of cognition have avoided use of the notion of continuity.

Rapanui, the language of Easter Island, is in danger of extinction.

Partition and Quantity: Numeral Classifiers, Measurement, and Partitive Constructions in Mandarin Chinese presents an in-depth investigation into the semantic and syntactic properties of Chinese classifiers and conducts a comprehensive examination on the use of different quantity constructions in Chinese.

Discourse analysis is a wide ranging area of study that examines the features of language beyond the limits of a sentence - including vocal, written and sign language, along with any significant semiotic events.

This monograph gives a unified account of the syntactic distribution of subjunctive mood across languages, including Romance, Balkan (South Slavic and Modern Greek), and Hungarian, among others.

This volume explores how grammatical categories, as defined by theoretical linguistics, are effectively implemented in language education.

Prosodic Phonology of the Fuzhou Dialect: Domains and Rule Application is the first attempt to conduct a comprehensive analysis of the Fuzhou phonological system from the perspective of prosodic phonology.

This volume contains revised and expanded versions of those papers from the 1990 Functional Grammar Conference in Copenhagen that contributed specifically to the current investigation of clause structure in terms of semantic layers.

Definitions of language cluster around two non-contradictory views: one that language is a shared code, a social entity, and the other that language is the knowledge that enables a native speaker to produce and understand speech.

This volume will be the first full-length exploration in any language of the details of the history of the Japanese language written by experts in the different subfields of linguistics.

First published in 1940, this book provides a literary dictionary to the New Testament.

This volume is the most comprehensive reference work to date on Lexical Functional Grammar.

A study of the motivations, mechanisms and regularities in the evolutionary history of Chinese grammar over the past three millennia.

Derek Nurse looks at variations in the form and function of tense and aspect in Bantu, a branch of Niger-Congo, the world's largest language phylum.