Grammar, syntax and morphology

This volume brings together papers which address issues regarding the copy theory of movement.

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The Fundamentals of Lebanese Grammar provides a comprehensive guide to the grammar of the spoken language of Lebanon.

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The Sinitic Languages is the quintessence of Mieczyslaw Jerzy Kunstler's thirty years of research into the Chinese languages.

This book addresses recent developments in the study of tense from a cross-paradigm and cross-linguistic point of view.

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

This is a highly recommendable book.

Syntactic complexity has always been a matter of intense investigation in formal linguistics.

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.

This book presents a novel semantic account of weak, or selective, islands.

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.

Proposes a new analytical approach to the semantics of Russian verbal prefixes, using modern theoretical tools to explore wide-ranging data.

Dutch: A Comprehensive Grammar is a complete reference to modern Dutch grammar.

Overt subjects are usually considered as a property of finite clauses.

Head Movement in Syntax argues that verb movement is a narrow syntactic phenomenon that can affect locality constraints.

An original study of the formation of compounds, and what syntactic, structural and semantic criteria determine their spelling and usage.

This book examines the relationship between the meaning of words and the structure of sentences.

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!

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

Offers an interesting insight into how language contact affects grammatical forms and structures.

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.

Punctuation Revisited is an advanced, comprehensive guide to the importance of punctuation in conveying meaning and augmenting the power of a message.

This book deals with Albanian, including the dialects spoken in Southern Italy, and with the Aromanian spoken in Southern Albania.

Turkisms in South Slavonic Literature is a comparative analysis of Turkish loanwords in seventeenth- and eighteenth-century Bosnian and Bulgarian Franciscan sources.

Clause structure is the most widely-studied phenomenon within syntactic theory.

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 Grammar of the English Tense System forms the first volume of a four-volume set, The Grammar of the English Verb Phrase.

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.

Island phenomena are a central topic in generative grammar, especially because of principled exceptions to these general extraction constraints.

The Study of Words introduces the study of word structure, also known as morphology, without assuming any prior knowledge of linguistics.

Repetition is a well-studied phenomenon in morphology and lexicology but has received less attention on the syntactic level.