Grammaticalization is a well-attested process of linguistic change in which a lexical item becomes a function word, which may be further reduced to a clitic or affix.
This volume draws on insights from a range of theoretical perspectives to explore objects, agreement, and their intersecting angles, based on novel data from multiple language families.
This is an engaging and practical introduction to the elements of grammar, sentence structure, and style that you need to write well across a range of academic, creative, and professional contexts, deftly combining reliable strategies with scholarly principles.
This is an engaging and practical introduction to the elements of grammar, sentence structure, and style that you need to write well across a range of academic, creative, and professional contexts, deftly combining reliable strategies with scholarly principles.
This second volume on The Foundations of Arabic Linguistics contains contributions from the second conference on Arabic linguistics, hosted by the University of Cambridge in 2012.
First published in 1983, The Development of Word Order Patterns in Old English tests theories of word order change using data on change in Old English.
Introduccion al analisis linguistico del discurso en espanol introduces the field of Spanish discourse analysis from the perspective of formal linguistics and through the grammar-discourse interface, providing grammatical tools with which to analyse Spanish discourse in different contexts.
First published in 1983, The Development of Word Order Patterns in Old English tests theories of word order change using data on change in Old English.
Locality in Grammar: From Narrow Syntax to Interfaces investigates the operation of locality conditions in syntax and semantics from a cross-linguistic perspective.
Locality in Grammar: From Narrow Syntax to Interfaces investigates the operation of locality conditions in syntax and semantics from a cross-linguistic perspective.
Introduccion al analisis linguistico del discurso en espanol introduces the field of Spanish discourse analysis from the perspective of formal linguistics and through the grammar-discourse interface, providing grammatical tools with which to analyse Spanish discourse in different contexts.
In Classical Greek Syntax: Wackernagel's Law in Herodotus, David Goldstein offers the first theoretically-informed study of second-position clitics in Ancient Greek and challenges the long-standing belief that Greek word order is "e;free"e; or beyond the reach of systematic analysis.
In this collective volume edited by Klaas Bentein, Mark Janse, and Jorie Soltic, some of the leading experts in the field explore variation and change in one of the core areas of Ancient Greek grammar: tense, aspect, and modality.
This third edition of this text presents the major grammatical contrasts between English and Spanish in a simple and direct manner that is ideal for teachers of either language.
The Syntax and Semantics of English Auxiliaries by Kurd Learners at College Level is concerned with the syntactic and semantic aspects of English auxiliary verbs (which comprise the primary and the modals) as a problematic area for English foreign language learners.
This third edition of this text presents the major grammatical contrasts between English and Spanish in a simple and direct manner that is ideal for teachers of either language.
The Syntax and Semantics of English Auxiliaries by Kurd Learners at College Level is concerned with the syntactic and semantic aspects of English auxiliary verbs (which comprise the primary and the modals) as a problematic area for English foreign language learners.
Der Ausdruck von Tempus, Aspekt und Modus mittels umschreibender Verbalkonstruktionen ist ein Charakteristikum, das die romanischen Sprachen typologisch von der ihnen zugrunde liegenden Sprache, dem Lateinischen, unterscheidet.
Traducir y escribir son ejercicios que exigen plenitud intelectual y, como tales, deben desplegar la paciencia, la claridad, la mesura del decoro, la discrecion de la prudencia y, sobre todo, el amor por cada letra que es germen de la palabra.
"Con el objetivo de trabajar para la cultura del decir y no para la del desdecir, y guiados por estos propósitos, compusimos el Diccionario normativo del español de la Argentina.
Vorwort – Felicitas Otte, Markus Steinbach & Nina-Kristin Meister: Auf dem Weg zur digitalen Barrierefreiheit in den Linguistischen Berichten: Errungenschaften und Ziele Aktuelle Tendenzen in der Linguistik – Silva H.
First published in 1976, Subject and Topic presents research from the 1975 University of California, Santa Barbara symposium that sought to achieve thorough understanding of two important grammatical concepts: subject and topic.
Chinese Idioms provides a theoretical framework for understanding idioms in the Chinese language, tracing their origins and analyzing their linguistic evolution.