Grammar, syntax and morphology

This book, originally published in 1966, deals mainly with morphemes and with grammatical and syntactic behaviour.

Ellipsis is the non-expression of one or more sentence elements whose meaning can be reconstructed either from the context or from a person's knowledge of the world.

This monograph presents an experimental and theoretical inquiry into the role of sentential form and variation in the prosodic structure of Catalan.

The present book provides the most comprehensive account so far of gender differences in syntax.

Variation in P is an essential follow-up to the seminal proposals of the generative tradition regarding prepositional syntax.

Doppelte Zeitformen im Deutschen und im Französischen, die sich dadurch auszeichnen, dass zum Hilfsverb und zum Partizip II des Vollverbs das Partizip II des Hilfsverbs hinzutritt, sind in den letzten Jahren verstärkt in den Mittelpunkt des Forschungsinteresses gerückt.

Missionary Grammars and the Language of Translation in Korea (1876-1910) embraces the Enlightenment period in Korea (1876-1910) after the opening of the so-called Hermit Nation in describing the Korean language and missionary works.

The Oxford Handbook of Cognitive Linguistics presents a comprehensive overview of the main theoretical concepts and descriptive/theoretical models of Cognitive Linguistics, and covers its various subfields, theoretical as well as applied.

Volume 4 of African Languages includes articles originally published in 1978, written in French and English on educational, literary, cultural, historical and socio-linguistic aspects of language in Africa, as well as descriptive and comparative studies.

This book provides an introduction to compositional semantics and to the syntax/semantics interface.

This new study on modality in English represents a departure from more traditional approaches to the subject, where the modal auxiliaries have been the usual focus of attention, by examining in detail the nature of their association with different categories of modal adverb.

This book discusses existential and possessive constructions in two important, yet under-studied, language families, Slavic and Finno-Ugric.

Cognitive Linguistics, the branch of linguistics that tries to "e;make one's account of human language accord with what is generally known about the mind and the brain,"e; has become one of the most flourishing fields of contemporary linguistics.

This is the first comprehensive survey of control theory, covering the results of five decades of research in generative grammar.

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

This new edition of Understanding Morphology has been fully revised in line with the latest research.

English Vocabulary Today: Into the 21st Century offers an innovative perspective on the ways in which contemporary English language vocabulary continues to adapt and grow in light of emerging technologies and ideas.

In the course of our everyday lives, we generally take our knowledge of language for granted.

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This module focuses on the pivotal role of vocabulary in language acquisition, communication, and instruction.

This handbook provides an authoritative, critical survey of current research and knowledge in the grammar of the English language.

In Word Meaning, Richard Hudson introduces readers to the techniques of lexical semantic analysis.

Southern Min refers to a group of Chinese dialects spoken mainly in Southeast China and Taiwan.

Demonstratives and Grammaticalization offers an in-depth analysis of the demonstrative system in Turkish.

The area covered by this book, originally published in 1953, is one that has long been recognized as presenting many problems from the point of view of Bantu linguistic studies.

Derivations draws together some of the most influential work of one of the world's leading syntactitians, Juan Uriagekera.

Introducing English Grammar introduces readers to the methodology and terminology needed to analyse English sentences.

Assessment in Second Language Pronunciation highlights the importance of pronunciation in the assessment of second language speaking proficiency.

Written by a team of experts, this handbook provides a state-of-the-art survey of the central issues in Chinese linguistics.

Focusing on substitution and numeration of modern Chinese, this is the third volume of a classic on modern Chinese grammar by WANG Li, one of the most distinguished Chinese linguists.

Burmese: A Comprehensive Grammar is a complete reference guide to modern Burmese grammar.

This book presents the first in-depth investigation of modality in Galician linguistics, offering a theoretical discussion of modal categories and a fine-grained description of epistemic adverbs.

This volume consists of an introduction and two groups of essays by Paul M.

This book offers new data on the acquisition of functional categories in early child speech.

This book aims to give an indication of the extent of derivational morphology in English; of how much immanent, internal structure must be presumed for words -- even apparently simplex ones.

Since antiquity, scholars have been fascinated by the phenomena of case.