This is the first comprehensive treatment of the strategies employed in the world's languages to express predicative possession, as in "e;the boy has a bat"e;.
English Complex Words is a lively, essential companion for multilingual explorations of word-formation processes, both in English and across 40 other languages.
Argument-marking, morphological partitives have been the topic of language specific studies, while no cross-linguistic or typological analyses have been conducted.
This book provides thorough descriptive and theory-neutral coverage of the full range of phonological phenomena of Chichewa, a Malawian Bantu language.
This volume contains eight papers by the late Niels Danielsen, Danish linguist and philologist, and serves as a fine introduction to this theory of linguistic universality.
Build your mastery of French grammar with the most focused review and practice workbook for beginning to intermediate learners-now with audio support from the McGraw Hill Language Lab app!
This volume offers a selection of interface studies in generative linguistics, a valuable "e;one-stop shopping"e; opportunity for readers interested in the ways in which the various modules of linguistic analysis intersect and interact.
Turkisms in South Slavonic Literature is a comparative analysis of Turkish loanwords in seventeenth- and eighteenth-century Bosnian and Bulgarian Franciscan sources.
Inclusivity and Belonging in Chinese Discourse explores how recent language change in the third-person pronoun system of Mandarin Chinese is harnessed by netizens to construct spaces of (non-)belonging along a fluid continuum in the context of pro- and anti-LGBTQ discourses.
The aim of this volume is to bring together researchers interested in investigating the role that Discourse Markers play in language production and comprehension from an experimental or corpus-based perspective.
This book defines and explains, in straightforward language, metaphorical stories using examples from sources such as conversations, speeches, and editorial cartoons.