Grammar, syntax and morphology

Rapanui, the language of Easter Island, is in danger of extinction.

This volume is about the nature of categories in cognition and the relevance of these in language description, especially classifier systems.

For the purposes of this volume, originally published in 1954, two southern zones of Bantu have been included - south of the Zambesi and east of the Kalahari.

This book examines child second language acquisition within the Principles and Parameters theory of Universal Grammar (UG).

This book brings together research on the topic of causation from experts in the fields of linguistics, philosophy, and psychology.

"e;Storytelling is a universal human activity and oral narration - particularly modern 'conversational' narration such as anecdotes or personal stories - has long been fertile ground for linguists working on tense usage across a variety of languages.

This study shows that Passive Agent markers and Ergative markers do not always realize an unified semantic category of an Agent.

This book was the first to provide a comprehensive survey of linguistic research into African-American English and is widely recognised as a classic in the field.

In this book, Holmberg and Platzack present a theory of the role which subject-verb agreement and case morphology play in syntax.

This volume presents a systematic and comprehensive analysis of the Spanish evidential semi-auxiliaries parecer and resultar, the modal constructions with amenazar and prometer, and the modal auxiliaries poder, deber and tener que.

This volume presents the results of psycholinguistic research into various aspects of the grammar of quantification.

Im Anschluß an die Beschreibung der pragmatischen Indizierung des Dürer-Korpus und der Entwicklung einer Methodik für historisch-synchrone Wortbildungsuntersuchungen werden die im handschriftlichen Nachlaß und den Druckschriften Albrecht Dürers nachweisbaren Substantivableitungen (Bildungen mit Präfix, Suffix, Präfix-Suffix bzw.

Kazakh: A Comprehensive Grammar is the first thorough analysis of Kazakh to be published in English.

There are books on tone, coronals, the internal structure of segments, vowel harmony, and a couple of other topics in phonology.

Cleft constructions occur across languages and are much analyzed in relation to syntax, semantics and pragmatics.

The chapters in this volume address the process of syntactic change at different granularities.

Left detachment constructions (LDs) (e.

Interjections in Ancient Greek have long lacked a comprehensive account, despite their frequent occurrence in major texts.

Current Issues in Comparative Grammar illustrates the diversity and productivity of research within the principles and parameters framework of generative grammar.

In recent years, music theorists have been increasingly eager to incorporate findings from the science of human cognition and linguistics into their methodology.

The formal aspects of non-concatenative morphology have received considerable attention in recent years, but the diachronic dimensions of such systems have been little explored.

Linguistische Modelle dienen der Beschreibung sprachlicher Phänomene und Gewinnung weiterer wissenschaftlicher Erkenntnisse, können für die Didaktik nutzbar gemacht werden und im Sprachunterricht Anwendung finden.

This monograph, discussing various aspects involved with a typology of word order, strives to take a next step towards a better understanding of the profound unity underlying languages.

Languages in which non-finite verbs (infinitives, gerunds etc.

The basic tenet of cognitive linguistics is that every linguistic expression is a construal relation.

This textbook on English syntax aims to give students a thorough grounding in the basics of sentence structure, and at the same time strives to acquaint them with the essentials of syntactic argument.

This book is a current and comprehensive study that incorporates constructional frameworks to inquire grammatical metaphor of modality (MM) for more adequate description and explanation of grammatical metaphor.

Inclusivity and Belonging in Chinese Discourse explores how recent language change in the third-person pronoun system of Mandarin Chinese is harnessed by netizens to construct spaces of (non-)belonging along a fluid continuum in the context of pro- and anti-LGBTQ discourses.

Understanding Development and Disorder in Cantonese using Language Sample Analysis brings together 20 years of research on typical development and Development Language Disorder (DLD) in Cantonese.

The book revisits the notion of deontic modality from the perspective of an understudied category in the modal domain, viz.

One of the fundamental properties of human language is movement, where a constituent moves from one position in a sentence to another position.

The role of structural case in syntax is arguably one of the most controversial topics in syntactic theory with important implications for semantic theory.

Clitics, those "e;funny little words"e; like English contracted future tense and pluperfect tense/conditional mood markers ('ll and 'd) or French pronominal objects (le 'him', la 'her', lui 'to him/her', etc.

Focusing on issues of case theory and comparative grammar, this study treats selected problems in the syntax of the Slavic languages from the perspective of Government-Binding theory.

Chinese grammar is characterized by its simple structure, lack of inflections, and wide use of monosyllabic morphemes.

This innovative analysis of noun incorporation and related linguistic phenomena does more than just give readers an insightful exploration of its subject.

First published in 1991, this book looks at tense in English, one of the most controversial areas of grammar.

Social Perspective is a course set over one academic year for intermediate learners of Chinese.