Grammar, syntax and morphology

Common among the world's languages is the phenomenon of classification, a partly or fully grammatical division of the noun lexicon into distinct classes that ultimately derives from the human need to classify and filter data on various levels while communicating.

A theory of language structure based on the assumption that language is a network and all of knowledge is learned.

This book is a comprehensive introduction to text forming resources in English, along with practical procedures for analysing English texts and relating them to their contexts of use.

With English and Portuguese as parent languages; the significant lexical retention of African languages; and the relative isolation of its speakers, Saramaccan has always stood out among Creole languages.

The first full-length treatment of the history of comment clauses in English, providing a complex conception of their development.

Quotatives considers the phenomenon quotation from a wealth of perspectives.

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Productivity of argument structure constructions is a new emerging field within cognitive-functional linguistics.

Maurice Gross, who died in December 2001, was a pioneer and leading thinker in the field of modern linguistics.

Sentence Structure:introduces the evidence for sentence structure and reveals its purposeis based on a problem-solving approach to languageteaches the reader how to identify word classes, such as noun, preposition and demonstrativeuses simple tree structures to analyse sentencescontains numerous exercises to encourage practical skills of sentence analysisincludes a database and exercises that compare the structure of English with other languages.

The Routledge Handbook of Sociophonetics is the definitive guide to sociophonetics.

Dieser Band zur französischen Sprachgeschichte vereint die verschiedensten Schwerpunkte zu diesem Thema und liefert neben einigen grundlegenden und gängigen Aspekten vor allem spezifische und ungewöhnliche Einzelperspektiven, eben Seitenblicke, auf die Geschichte der französischen Sprache.

This book is a full reference grammar of Qiang, one of the minority languages of southwest China, spoken by about 70,000 Qiang and Tibetan people in Aba Tibetan and Qiang Autonomous Prefecture in northern Sichuan Province.

What makes the noun phrase ''the man I saw'' more complex than ''the man''?

Linguistics: A Functionalist Introduction is a concise, accessible guide to the fundamentals of language and expression for students that are new to the subject.

The Native American language family called Athabaskan has received increasing attention from linguists and educators.

Im Mittelpunkt dieser Arbeit steht die Untersuchung der Dynamik im System der Genus-Oppositionen im Deutschen mit dem dafür notwendigen Rückblick auf die indogermanische und urgermanische Vorstufe.

Structure and Meaning in English is designed to help teachers of English develop an understanding of those aspects of English which are especially relevant for learners who speak other languages.

Latin paradigms are almost proverbially known, and they have often been used as a test case for different theoretical approaches to morphological complexity.

In putting ‘morphonology’ up for adoption as a chapitre particulier in 1929, Trubetzkoy started a debate regarding the boundary between phonology and morphology that has not ended yet.

Along with a renewed interest in the empirical foundations of linguistics, the increasing accessibility of large-scale corpora has sparked a surge of corpus-linguistic work on the grammar of natural languages.

First published in 1967, this book was based on new descriptions of English emerging from recent research.

How children acquire competence in verb placement in languages in which verb placement in matrix clauses does not coincide with that in embedded clauses is not well understood.

Explores English grammar through three real-world applications of language development, language disorders and dialects.

Loanwords and Japanese Identity: Inundating or Absorbed?

This volume, first published in 1960 to commemorate the one hundredth birthday of Jespersen, collects together as many of his writings as possible in order to allow students of the English language, or indeed of language in general, to read those shorter papers which have hitherto escaped their notice.

The Kimberley, the far north-west of Australia, is one of the most linguistically diverse regions of the continent.

Aspect in Mandarin Chinese plays an important role in interpreting the temporal information of a sentence.

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

The Right Periphery in L2 Chinese is among the first books to try to incorporate both advanced linguistic and acquisition perspectives to show how eight sentence-final particles are represented in English-speaking learners' L2 Chinese.

Using data from a variety of languages, this book explores a range of grammatical categories and constructions.