Grammar, syntax and morphology

Learn to communicate exactly what you mean with this English writing and speaking guideFrom conjugating verbs to mastering punctuation to polishing your speaking skills, Perfect English Grammar makes it easier than ever to improve your grasp of grammar.

For a good orientation into the history of English grammar, several books are indispensable.

A Grammar of Mina is a reference grammar of a hitherto undescribed and endangered Central Chadic language.

This book explores the nature of sentential stress, how it is assigned and its interaction with information structure.

This study aims to describe the typological characteristics of the original Indo-European structure, called the derivative-flectional stage (or (sub)type), and to trace its developments to the paradigmatically organized structure of the individual Indo-European languages, called the paradigmatic-flectional stage (or (sub)type).

Explores two important phenomena in natural language - recursion and embedding - integrating current linguistic theory, cross-linguistic fieldwork, and specific acquisition and experimental techniques.

The articles in this edited volume represent a range of approaches to studying the role of verbal aspect in grammatical variation.

Nominal Arguments in Language Variation investigates nominal arguments in classifier languages, refuting the long-held claim that classifier languages do not have overt article determiners.

In the general area of style study or stylistics there is no shortage of ideas, definitions or published works.

This book presents the first cross-linguistic study of the phenomenon of infixation, typically associated in English with words like "e;im-bloody-possible"e;, and found in all the world's major linguistic families.

This book investigates the concept of phase, aiming at a structural definition of the three domains that are assumed as the syntactic loci for interface interpretation, namely vP, CP and DP.

This book was first published in 1933, Essentials of English Grammar is a valuable contribution to the field of English Language and Linguistics.

A comprehensive and integrated approach to referring expressions and their typical and atypical use in different language contexts.

The book explores Adjunct Control in Assamese, an Indo-Aryan language spoken in North India by about 15 million people.

Chinese Grammar at Work adopts a cognitive-functional approach and uses a corpus-based methodology to examine how Chinese syntax emerges from natural discourse context and what the evolving grammar at work looks like.

This indispensable volume contains articles that represent the best of Huang's work on the syntax-semantics interface over the last two decades.

This book presents the first serious attempt to set out a functional-semantic definition of diachronic transcategorial shift between the major classes noun/nominal and verb/clause.

The contributions of this book deal with the issue of language variation.

Essential German Grammar is a student-friendly grammar and workbook designed to give learners a firm foundation on which to build a real understanding of both spoken and written German.

A step-by-step guide to creating and analyzing linguistic corpora.

This study investigates adverbial clauses from a cross-linguistic perspective.

First published in 1988, this book is concerned with the definite and indefinite articles in English.

Subject and Object in Modern English, first published in 1979, deals with subjects in the English language (one of the two main constituents of a clause), first comparing two possible notions of derived subject and then re-examining some derived subjects which had been assumed to be underlying subjects as well.

Dieser Buchtitel ist Teil des Digitalisierungsprojekts Springer Book Archives mit Publikationen, die seit den Anfängen des Verlags von 1842 erschienen sind.

This book provides a comprehensive introduction to Systemic Functional Linguistics (SFL), covering key concepts and contributions to the field and instructing beginners to apply SFL to different areas.

This volume provides an important contribution to the study of vocabulary and its relationship to English for Specific Purposes (ESP) research and teaching.

This book presents a new cross-linguistic analysis of gender and its effects on morphosyntax.

This volume proposes a novel structural analysis for causative constructions, offering a solution for the long-standing mono/bi-clausal dualism.

This book investigates a set of marginal syntactic structures which have been singularly influential in the development of generative theory, spotlighting lesser-studied languages of the Indic family while emphasizing implications for linguistic theory more broadly.

First published in 1985, this book analyses temporal meaning in German.