Grammar, syntax and morphology

First published in 1986, this book focuses on Anaphoric relations in the English and French languages, a phenomenon that involves a complex interaction between grammar and discourse.

A practical step-by-step introduction to the analysis of English grammar, taking an integrated approach to function and structure.

A one-stop resource on the current developments in word order research.

Latin is often described as a free word order language, but in general each word order encodes a particular information structure: in that sense, each word order has a different meaning.

Part of the Otto Jespersen collected English Writings Collection, originally published in 1894, this volume is to a certain extent an English translation of Jespersens' 'Studier over Engelske Kasus, nted en Indledning: Freniskridt i Sproget', which was to the University of Copenhagen in February, 1891 on the development of English Language, but with some notable revisions when translated to English.

This book is a collection of linguistic and philosophical papers dealing with the semantic problems of determiners.

This title, first published in 1979, centres on control and binding in networks of anaphora.

In Morphology the first thing to be considered is the form, and second to that comes the use made of it, in Syntax the order is exactly the reverse, but it is essential that in both parts of the grammar form and use should be mentioned in every case.

This book is designed to teach undergraduate and beginning graduate students how to understand, analyse and describe syntactic phenomena in different languages.

Patrick Farrell shows how grammatical relations are characterized in competing theories of grammar and reveals the different theories' merits and limitations.

Intensive Intermediate Latin: A Grammar and Workbook comprises an accessible grammar and related exercises in a single volume.

Mian is a non-Austronesian ('Papuan') language of the Ok family spoken in the Highlands fringe in western Papua New Guinea.

Die Arbeit liefert ein systematisches Bild der Syntax der deutschen Modalpartikeln.

Originally published in 1990, Nature and History examines how Darwin's theory of evolution has been expanded by scholars and researchers to include virtually every scientific discipline.

This textbook provides a practical and research-based foundation for teaching second language (L2) multiword units (also commonly called collocations).

This book offers the first comprehensive survey of the study of gender and classifiers throughout the history of Western linguistics.

Interrogative Phrases and the Syntax-Semantics Interface starts by analyzing the interpretation of interrogative phrases in single and multiple constituent questions, including their interpretation under adverbs of quantification.

GIVE is a versatile morpheme in many languages.

This book investigates the interaction between new English lexis and metaphor/metonymy - figures meticulously defined and contrasted in terms of similarity/contiguity.

In this book, Hinterholzl provides a comprehensive study of three salient phenomena of West Germaic, namely scrambling, remnant movement and restructuring, and discusses their interrelatedness.

This collection of articles brings together new research from both established and emerging international experts in the study of English grammar, all of whom have engaged with the notion of 'construction' in their work.

First published in 1984, this book examines a number of questions on the boundary of competence and performance - whose solutions have implications for linguistic theory in general.

Volume 5 (2) of African Languages originally published in 1979, is a special issue focussing on languages and education in Africa.

Written in Spanish, this textbook introduces the syntax of Spanish, showing how words are put together to form complex expressions.

This is a highly recommendable book.

This book provides thorough descriptive and theory-neutral coverage of the full range of phonological phenomena of Chichewa, a Malawian Bantu language.

The four studies grouped under the title Essai sur les modalites tensives touch upon several questions of semiotics presently debated in the theoretical framework proposed by A.

This collective volume focuses on the latest developments in the study of grammaticalization and related processes of change such as degrammaticalization, constructionalization, lexicalization, and petrification.

This book offers the first comparative discussion of variation in selected areas of structure in the dialects of Kurdish.

This textbook proposes a theoretical approach to linguistics in relation to teaching English.

Modal verbs in English communicate delicate shades of meaning, there being a large range of verbs both on the necessity side (must, have to, should, ought to, need, need to) and the possibility side (can, may, could, might, be able to).

The volume explores the semantics of nominalizations from different theoretical points of view: formal and lexical semantics, cognitive-functional grammar, lexical-functional grammar, discourse representation theory.

The Glot International State-of-the-Article books constitute the ideal solution for every-one who wants to have a good idea of what the others are doing but does not have time to follow the developments in all other parts of the field on a day to day basis.