Grammar, syntax and morphology

Teiwa is a non-Austronesian ('Papuan') language spoken on the island of Pantar, in eastern Indonesia, located just north of Timor island.

This is the first thorough description of the Nakh-Daghestanian language Hinuq.

An edited volume which addresses problems encountered in gathering and analysing data from early English.

This collection brings together the authors' previous research with new work on the Register-Functional (RF) approach to grammatical complexity, offering a unified theoretical account for its further study.

This book investigates the lexico-grammatical complementarity in language in its construal of person as a semantic system.

A central debate about the description of auxiliary selection concerns the regularity of auxiliary selection from a typological perspective.

Volume 1 of African Languages include articles originally published in 1975 and 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 presents a number of studies which focus on the [voice] grammar of Japanese, paying particular attention to historical background, dialectal diversity, phonetic experiment, and phonological analysis.

What is a grammatical unit?

Negation is a sine qua non of every human language but is absent from otherwise complex systems of animal communication.

The objective of the work of W.

This book presents a collection of papers on clusivity, a newly coined term for the inclusive-exclusive distinction.

This volume focuses on detailed studies of various aspects of Construction Morphology, and combines theoretical analysis and descriptive detail.

This book is the first attempt to describe the syntax of Contemporary English exclusively in terms of dependencies (most American works on the subject being in terms of phrase structure, or constituency).

This book argues that, contrary to popular opinion, dialects do have a grammar, and that ''non standard'' language often makes more sense.

Most natural languages display an inventory of pronominal elements that obligatorily or optionally remain phonologically null in a few, in many or even in all syntactic surroundings.

Routledge's Modern Grammar series is an innovative reference guide combining traditional and function-focused grammar in a single volume, with an accompanying workbook.

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.

This volume explores recent advancements in the Minimalist Program that adopt Stroik's (1999, 2009) Survive Principle as the principle means of accounting for displacement phenomena in earlier versions of generative theory.

Contrastive Linguistics, like other linguistic disciplines, is becoming more and more data-oriented, relying increasingly on the statistical analysis of corpus data to reveal and investigate the similarities and dissimilarities between languages.

This innovative volume provides a comprehensive integrated account of the study of conceptual figures, demonstrating the ways in which figures and in particular, conflictual figures, encapsulate linguistic expression in the fullest sense and in turn, how insights gleaned from their study can contribute to the wider body of linguistic research.

A group of authors containing both leading authorities and young researchers addresses a number of issues of contrastiveness, polarity items and exhaustivity, quantificational expressions and the implicatures they generate, and the interaction between semantic operators and speech acts.

The Right Periphery in L2 Chinese is among the first books to try to incorporate both advanced linguistic and acquisition perspectives to show how eight sentence-final particles are represented in English-speaking learners' L2 Chinese.

This volume offers a selection of papers from the Eleventh International Conference on English Historical Linguistics held at the University of Santiago de Compostela.

The left periphery of clausal structures has been a prominent topic of research in generative linguistics during the last decades.

This volume presents new research on the pragmatics of personal pronouns.

Grammatical encoding is the process by which speakers translate a thought into a structured sentence appropriate to convey it.

Tone is about melody and meaning, inflection is about grammar, and this book is about a bit of both.

The phenomenon of insubordination can be defined diachronically as the recruitment of main clause structures from subordinate structures, or synchronically as the independent use of constructions exhibiting characteristics of subordinate clauses.

For nearly half a century, Professor M.

A new theory of grammar which explores the old distinction between OV and VO languages and their underlying basic asymmetry.

This book implements a multidisciplinary approach in describing language both in its ontogenetic development and in its close interrelationship with other human subsystems such as thought, memory, and activity, with a focus on the semantic component of the evolutionary-synthetic theory.

In Basic Linguistic Theory R.