Grammar, syntax and morphology

This is a ground-breaking study in the historical semantics and pragmatics of English in the 16th and 17th centuries.

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An innovative exploration of the interface between grammar, meaning and form.

This book presents a 100% novel approach to phraseology: A language-universal deductive calculus of all theoretically possible phraseological expressions (= phrasemes) is proposed, implemented in 51 rigorously defined notions.

The contributions making up this volume in honor of Eloise Jelinek are written from a formalist perspective that deals with stereotypically functionalist questions about language.

This study is devoted to the analysis of Italian idioms with either ordinary or support verbs (also called light verbs).

Provides concise and clear definitions of all the terms a student is likely to encounter in the study of linguistics.

Examining its subject from a generative perspective, this highly detailed text deals with the syntax of nominal expressions.

First published in 1985, this book aims to develop an approach to speech acts that has the virtue of being straight-forward, explicit, formal and flexible enough to accommodate many of the more general problems of interactive verbal communication.

This textbook provides a practical introduction to the fields of forensic phonetics and forensic linguistics.

In this book, leading scholars consider the ways in which syntactic variation can be accounted for in a minimalist framework.

The recent past has seen an increasing interest in iconicity especially among linguists.

No detailed description available for "e;A Grammar of Supyire"e;.

The field of reading is a compelling one, characterised by many debates and discussions.

This book presents a cross-section of recent generative research into the syntax of relative clauses constructions.

The rapid increase of interest in disordered speech and language among linguists over the past decade or so has resulted in many books of practical help to speech pathologists in terms of assessment and remediation.

In this volume leading researchers present new work on the semantics and pragmatics of adjectives and adverbs, and their interfaces with syntax.

This book treats aspects of the syntax of Halkomelem, a Salish language spoken in southwestern British Columbia, specifically those constructions which involve objects, and seeks to accomplish two goals.

Construction Grammar as a framework offers a new perspective on traditional historical questions in diachronic linguistics and language change: how do new constructions arise, how should competition in diachronic variation be accounted for, how do constructions fall into disuse, and how do constructions change in general, formally and/or semantically, and with what implications for the language system as a whole?

A lively, wide-ranging and original handbook on the structure of the French language.

This study examines certain features of Dutch syntax between approximately 1300 and 1650.

A comparative reference guide to Shakespeare's grammar, based on a complete revision of an extremely elderly but still much-cited volume, Abbott's Shakespearean Grammar, first published in 1869 and still regarded by default as an essential component of Shakespeare research.

No detailed description available for "e;Lexical Anaphors and Pronouns in Selected South Asian Languages:"e;.

This book integrates theoretical and practical perspectives on computer-assisted analysis of spoken discourse, reflecting recent important developments in speech analysis for language teaching and assessment.

Using different theoretical approaches and frameworks, this book addresses a broad range of themes in contrastive linguistics, including inflection, derivation and compounding, tense, wh-questions, post-verbal subjects, focus and clitics, among others.

This book explores the grammar of to infinitives and gerundial -ing clauses, which is a central area at the interface of syntax and semantics, against the background of what has been called the Great Complement Shift.

In this collection of papers twelve linguists explore a range of interesting properties of 'give' verbs.

The book examines conditionals in the Greek Pentateuch from the point of view of the study of translation syntax.

This volume reviews a range of fascinating linguistic facts about ingestive predicates in the world's languages.

The volume focuses on the interaction of different levels of linguistic analysis (syntax, semantics, pragmatics) and the interfaces between them, on the convergence of different theoretical models in explaining linguistic phenomena, and on recent interdisciplinary approaches to linguistic analysis.

This is the first description of Goemai, a West Chadic language of Nigeria.

This book examines the various philosophical influences contained in the ancient description of the noun.