Grammar, syntax and morphology

First published in 1959, this book aims to provide a practical introduction to semantics, relating the critical study of language to real-life situation, with a wealth of anecdotes and numerous illustrations drawn from everyday personal predicaments.

Interface-Driven Phenomena in Spanish: Essays in Honor of Javier Gutierrez-Rexach brings together a collection of articles from leading experts in the fields of formal syntax and semantics.

The papers of this volume investigate how grammar codes the subjective viewpoint of human language users, that is, how grammar reflects human conceptualization.

This volume, which has textbook character, is intended to provide an in-depth introduction to different theoretical and methodological research frameworks concerned with the role of item-specific grammatical and lexical behaviour.

Grammar and Conceptualization documents some major developments in the theory of cognitive grammar during the last decade.

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.

Negation is one of the main functions in human communication.

This collection of nine papers brings together Naoki Fukui's pioneering body of work on Merge, the basic operation of human language syntax, from the two distinct but related perspectives of theoretical syntax and neurosciences.

This fourth edition of a popular textbook offers a step-by-step guide through the various levels of language, covering everything students need to know about linguistic frameworks in one volume.

First published in 1984, The Passive surveys a wide range of different constructions, which have all been termed 'passives' by linguists, using data from a large number of genetically and typologically diverse languages.

This book introduces the principles and practice of writing a comprehensive reference grammar.

The focus of this collection is on important themes in L2 acquisition, the nature of grammatical systems developed by language learners in L1 acquisition, third language acquisition, and bilingualism and language attrition.

The book is dedicated to linguistic morphology and it contains a sketch of a complete morphological theory, centered around a discussion of fundamental concepts such as morph vs.

This volume consists of selected and revised papers from the Seventh International Morphology Meeting, held in 1996 in Vienna.

A comprehensive survey and analysis of the structure of modern Germanic languages and dialects.

This book offers a comprehensive resource on the state-of-the-art in L2 pronunciation, surveying the most up-to-date theoretical and methodological developments to highlight the multidimensional nature of pronunciation scholarship and directions for future research.

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This volume is comprehensively designed to help prospective teachers of English Language (EL), and teachers specializing in English as a foreign language (EFL), mainly in South Asian countries.

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

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.

This book provides a detailed account of verb movement across more than twenty standard and non-standard Romance varieties.

This book deals with sentential proforms and their relationship to their associated clauses.

This volume draws together papers that argue for a renewed focus on the role of hard constraints on phonological representations as well as the processes that operate on them.

Explores the fascinating phenomenon of indirect speech acts, highlighting the situations they are used in, and how they are understood.

This volume is the first handbook dedicated to language attrition, the study of how a speaker's language may be affected by crosslinguistic interference and non-use.

Published in 1904, this book provides accessible Arabic language structure and grammar for a universal readership.

First published in 2003, this is a study of the syntactic behaviour of personal pronoun subjects and the indefinite pronoun man, in Old English.

This account of language acquisition in a multilingual context explains how hybrid grammars develop and can result in language change.

This innovative work highlights interdisciplinary research on phonetics and phonology across multiple languages, building on the extensive body of work of Katarzyna Dziubalska-Kolaczyk on the study of sound structure and speech.

Linking grammatical analyses with ideas about a shareable reality, this book investigates some fascinating ways in which nominal reference is exploited to meet interpersonal and rhetorical goals.

First published in 1986.

Though not without its rivals, Latin stood at the apex of Western culture from the Renaissance until relatively recently.