Grammar, syntax and morphology

This book studies the syntax of switch-reference and its implications for the theory of grammar.

This textbook provides an innovative introduction to core areas of grammar: a systematic guide to the structure of English, arranged hierarchically from the word to the sentence to the paragraph level.

Highly readable and eminently practical, Syntactic Analysis: The Basics focuses on bringing students with little background in linguistics up to speed on how modern syntactic analysis works.

This book presents a new reconstruction of Proto-Basque, the mother language of modern Basque varieties, historical Basque, and Aquitanian, grounded in traditional methods of historical linguistics.

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!

The book offers a usage-based account of how humans comprehend complex linguistic structures.

In compiling this bibliography, the main purpose was to assemble references to published material of a sociolinguistic nature concerning the Irish language.

English self-forms and related words from other Germanic languages (e.

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

Pulling together the threads of forty years of research on oblique subjects in the Germanic languages, this book introduces a novel approach to grammatical relations, based on a definition of subject as the first argument of the argument structure.

Verbs denoting 'to give' have developed grammatical meanings in many languages of the world.

Modern Brazilian Portuguese Grammar Workbook is an innovative book of exercises and language tasks for all learners of Brazilian Portuguese, ideal for use alongside the Modern Brazilian Portuguese Grammar or as an independent resource.

This is the very first publication mapping onomatopoeia in the languages of the world.

This handy introduction to English grammar covers all the basics of the subject, using a simple and straightforward style.

At the outset, the goal of generative grammar was the explication of an intuitive concept grammaticality (Chomsky 1957:13).

This book investigates a set of marginal syntactic structures which have been singularly influential in the development of generative theory, spotlighting lesser-studied languages of the Indic family while emphasizing implications for linguistic theory more broadly.

This book argues that the assumption that grammatical relations are both necessary and universal is an unwarranted generalization.

This timely intervention into composition studies presents a case for the need to teach all students a shared system of communication and logic based on the modern globalizing ideals of universality, neutrality, and empiricism.

This book proposes a new model of phonology that integrates rules and repairs triggered by markedness constraints in a classical derivational model.

Provides a unique angle, by linking insights from theoretical advances in generative syntax to phenomena from language variation and change.

This groundbreaking collection showcases Jenny Cheshire's influential work in bringing greater attention to quantitative analysis of socio-grammatical variation and builds upon her contributions with new lines of inquiry pushing sociolinguistic research forward.

This book explains how the grammarians of the Graeco-Romance world perceived the nature and structure of the languages they taught.

Argument-marking, morphological partitives have been the topic of language specific studies, while no cross-linguistic or typological analyses have been conducted.