Grammar, syntax and morphology

First published in 1933, this book explores both contemporary and historical slang, focusing on the characteristics and quirks of the English and American languages.

A brilliant analysis of colloquial English, both its syntax and its variations, using novel data from live, unscripted radio and TV broadcasts and the internet.

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

Dieser Band untersucht den jiddischen attributiven Relativsatz auf allen Ebenen der Grammatikschreibung und dient so dem Verständnis des modernen Jiddisch.

This book offers a fresh perspective on how natural languages encode grammatical relations, by delving into the interplay between oblique cases, adpositions, serial verbs, and applicatives.

The Syntax of Vietnamese Tense, Aspect, and Negation investigates familiar grammatical phenomena including Tense, Aspect, and Negation in a theoretically understudied language, Vietnamese.

One of the key issues in second language learning and teaching concerns the role and practice of grammar instruction.

This volume features new and groundbreaking research on recent changes in the English verb phrase.

This is a complete grammatical description of Marathi, which belongs to the Indo-European family and is spoken in Maharashtra State in India.

Recent years have seen intense debates between formal (generative) and functional linguists, particularly with respect to the relation between grammar and usage.

Research on left periphery phenomena has increased in the last 20 years, resulting in consistent studies from a wide range of languages and a fruitful debate on the functional projections within the CP system.

Accessing Noun-Phrase Antecedents offers a radical shift in the analysis of discourse anaphora, from a purely pragmatic account to a cognitive account, in terms of processing procedures.

This is a series which aims to meet the need for books on modern English that are both up-to-date and authoritative.

This essay challenges several patterns of thinking common in twentieth-century linguistics.

This scholarly research Handbook aggregates the broad-ranging, interdisciplinary, multidimensional strands of writing research from scholars worldwide and brings them together into a common intellectual space.

Now in its 10th edition, Dutch: An Essential Grammar is a reference guide to the most important aspects of modern Dutch as it is used by native speakers.

First published in 1967, this book was based on new descriptions of English emerging from recent research.

This book offers an in-depth analysis of Modern English pronoun case.

Definitions of language cluster around two non-contradictory views: one that language is a shared code, a social entity, and the other that language is the knowledge that enables a native speaker to produce and understand speech.

Linguistic Theory in America

In this book, Cinque takes a generative perspective on typological questions relating to word order and to the syntax of relative clauses.

With more than 50 years of teaching experience between them, Ilse Depraetere and Chad Langford present a grammar pitched precisely at advanced learners of English who need to understand how the English language really works without getting stalled in the complex specifics.

Kashmir boasts a language which challenges every field of linguistics.

Coordination is a syntactic construction which occurs in most languages.

This volume offers a unique collection of articles investigating the often neglected phenomenon of parentheticals, which are commonly seen as expressions interrupting the linear structure of a host utterance, but lacking a structural relation to it.

First published in 1986.

Zielgruppe: Anfänger und Fortgeschrittene; Autodidakten, Studierende, Dozenten, Linguisten.

This book reviews the history of the interface between morpho-syntax and phonology roughly since World War II.

This volume, first published in 1960 to commemorate the one hundredth birthday of Jespersen, collects together as many of his writings as possible in order to allow students of the English language, or indeed of language in general, to read those shorter papers which have hitherto escaped their notice.

Guide to Reporting Verbs is an accessible guide to citing sources in academic writing across the disciplines.

The studies in this volume approach English grammatical patterns in novel ways by interrogating corpora, focusing on patterns in the verb phrase (tense, aspect and modality), the noun phrase (intensification and focus marking), complementation structures and clause combining.

This book surveys a wide variety of polarity items, both negative and positive, commonly found in English and other languages.

Wie sind Nominalgruppen aufgebaut?

This volume re-issues the second, revised edition of 1955.