Grammar, syntax and morphology

Austroasiatic Syntax in Areal and Diachronic Perspective elevates historical morpho-syntax to a research priority in the field of Southeast Asian language history, transcending the traditional focus on phonology and lexicon.

Dialect, Culture, and Society in Eastern Arabia is a three-volume study of the Arabic dialects spoken in Bahrain by its older generation in the mid-1970s, and the socio-cultural factors that produced them.

Carefully selected examples from texts and dialects of the whole Phoenician-Punic period bring to life the grammatical description of this language.

This book presents an in-depth analysis of how discourse topics are introduced, maintained, and closed in British English conversation.

This book presents an in-depth analysis of how discourse topics are introduced, maintained, and closed in British English conversation.

This book presents a systemic-functional analysis of aspects of transitivity in Mandarin Chinese, focusing on two major types of clause: material clauses and relational clauses.

This book presents a systemic-functional analysis of aspects of transitivity in Mandarin Chinese, focusing on two major types of clause: material clauses and relational clauses.

In The Verbal Systems of Aramaic, Bruweleit analyses the Aramaic verbal systems from Old Aramaic to the modern dialects.

A comprehensive and methodologically sophisticated history of Arabic lexicography, this book fills a serious gap in modern scholarship.

The topic of this book fits in with the recently growing interest in phraseology and fixedness in English.

In linguistic morphology, competition is expected to be resolved, on the grounds that it is not economical for a system to keep two or more processes for one purpose.