Grammar, syntax and morphology

The volume contains articles that focus on the interface between linguistic and conceptual knowledge.

The social implications of multilingualism is a field of study on whcih systematic research began only in the second half of the 20th century in Africa.

This volume explores how grammatical categories, as defined by theoretical linguistics, are effectively implemented in language education.

This book offers a comprehensive investigative study of argument realisation in complex predicates and complex events at the syntax-semantic interface across a wide variety of the world’s languages, ranging over languages such as German, Irish, Sicilian and Italian, Lithuanian, Estonian and other Finno-Ugric languages, Pitjantjatjara, Yankunytjatjara and Ngaanyatjarra from Australia’s Western Desert region, Japanese, Tepehua (Totonacan, Mexico), Cheyenne, Mexican Spanish, Boharic Coptic, and Persian.

Using increasingly sophisticated databases, this volume explores grammatical usage from the Late Modern period in a broad context.

This book investigates French impersonals as a functional category.

First published in 1988, Language, Speech and Mind consists of 18 specially invited contributions to mark Professor Fromkin's 65th birthday in 1988.

This book defines and explains, in straightforward language, metaphorical stories using examples from sources such as conversations, speeches, and editorial cartoons.

The volume describes the frequency, the forms and the functions of different cleft construction types across two language families: the Romance languages (with discussion of Italian, French and Spanish data) and the Germanic languages (with focus on English, German, Swiss German and Danish).

Although the contributors to this book do not belong to one particular ‘school’ of linguistic theory, they all share an interest in the external functions of language in society and in the relationship between these functions and internal linguistic phenomena.

Context is a core notion of linguistic theory.

This volume addresses some of the most important approaches to the following key questions in contemporary generative syntactic theory: What are the operations available for (syntactic) structure-building in natural languages?

This handbook deals with research into the nature of events, and how we use language to describe events.

First published in 1988, this book examines the aspects of pragmatic competence involving the class of preposing constructions in English.

The first typological study of Afroasiatic languages.

Intended for the absolute beginner, Introducing Phonetics and Phonology requires no previous background in linguistics, phonetics or phonology.

This Element reviews the foundational definitions, theories, and psycholinguistic models of ironic language.

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This volume presents a crosslinguistic survey of the current theoretical debates around copular constructions from a generative perspective.

This volume is a tribute to Roger Schwarzschild's immense contributions in the formal semantics of nouns, focus, degrees and space, and tense and aspect.

First published in 1986, this book examines the changing patterns in English usage and style.

This volume brings together recent work on the formal and interpretational properties of determiners across a variety of typologically and geographically unrelated languages.

The first edition of the Practical Orthography of African Languages was a best-seller and this and the following volume re-issues the second edition, in English and French.

The goal of this book is to investigate the semantics of absolute constructions in English; specifically, my object is to provide an explanation for the semantic variability of such constructions.

Kashmir boasts a language which challenges every field of linguistics.

Can language directly access what is true, or is the truth judgment affected by the subjective, perhaps even solipsistic, constructs of reality built by the speakers of that language?

This book presents a phenomenon-oriented survey of the interaction between phonology and morphology.

This collection explicates one of the core ideas underpinning Minimalist theory - explanation via simplification - and its role in shaping some of the latest developments within this framework, specifically the simplest Merge hypothesis and the reduction of syntactic phenomena to third factor considerations.

This book explores the empirical and theoretical aspects of constituent structure in natural language syntax.

The topic of variation in language has received considerable attention in the field of general linguistics in recent years.

Bringing together diachronic research from a variety of perspectives, notably typology, formal syntax and semantics, this volume focuses on the interplay of syntactic and semantic factors in language change - an issue so far largely neglected both in (mostly lexical) historical semantics as well as historical syntax, but recently brought into focus by grammaticalization theory as well as Minimalist diachronic syntax.

The papers in this volume all explore one kind of functional explanation for various aspects of linguistic form – iconicity: linguistic forms are frequently the way they are because they resemble the conceptual structures they are used to convey, or, linguistic structures resemble each other because the different conceptual domains they represent are thought of in the same way.

This handbook provides a comprehensive account of current research on the finite-state morphology of Georgian and enables the reader to enter quickly into Georgian morphosyntax and its computational processing.