Grammar, syntax and morphology

The studies in this volume show how speech practices can be understood from a culture-internal perspective, in terms of values, norms and beliefs of the speech communities concerned.

This book makes an important contribution to the expanding body of work in generative phonology which aims to reduce the number of traditionally recognized melodic categories in order to achieve a greater degree of restrictiveness.

This volume brings together a series of studies of morphological processing in Germanic (English, German, Dutch), Romance (French, Italian), and Slavic (Polish, Serbian) languages.

Infinitives: Restructuring and Clause Structure offers a detailed study of the clausal architecture of infinitival constructions providing a unified analysis of restructuring, control, modals, and raising.

No detailed description available for "e;Meaning as Explanation"e;.

This volume presents articles that focus on the application of formal models in the study of language in a variety of innovative ways, and is dedicated to Jacques Moeschler, professor at University of Geneva, to mark the occasion of his 60th birthday.

The book deals with the development of descriptive models of English grammar writing during the Early Modern English period.

No detailed description available for "e;Grammatical Gender"e;.

No detailed description available for "e;The Noun-Class System of Proto-Benue-Congo"e;.

No detailed description available for "e;The Morphology of the Modern French Verb"e;.

The book contains ten papers discussing issues of the relation between syntax and morphology from the perspective of morphologically rich languages including, among others, Indo-European languages, indigenous languages of the Americas, Turkish, and Hungarian.

No detailed description available for "e;Topics in the Theory of Generative Grammar"e;.

The book presents a systematic theoretical account of the fundamental constructional mechanisms that underlie deverbal nominalization in general, and it makes an original descriptive contribution by discussing a number of nominalization systems in detail.

No detailed description available for "e;Tense and Aspects in Discourse"e;.

No detailed description available for "e;Case and Other Functional Categories in Finnish Syntax"e;.

Spanning more than two decades of thinking about generative approaches to Universal Grammar, the two interviews with Noam Chomsky in this book permit a rare and illuminating insight into his views on numerous issues in linguistics and beyond.

This volume contains contributions dealing with the syntax, morphology, semantics, and diachronic development of the Perfect and the components it is built on across languages.

The contributions in this book are a representative cross-section of recent research on verb-particle constructions.

Philologists aiming to reconstruct the grammar of ancient languages face the problem that the available data always underdetermine grammar, and in the case of gaps, possible mistakes, and idiosyncracies there are no native speakers to consult.

This book introduces the notion of change construction and systematically studies, within a Cognitive Grammar framework, the rich inventory of its instantiations in English, from well-known structures such as the so-called resultative construction to a variety of largely ignored types such as asymmetric resultatives, sublexical change constructions and mildly causal constructions.

Crucial Readings in Functional Grammar is an invaluable resource to anyone working in Functional Grammar, student and scholar alike.

The book investigates the diagnostics for the prosodic word in European Portuguese, the prosodic organization of various sorts of morphosyntactic objects, and the definition of the prosodic word domain.

What factors influence the choice between alternative grammatical structures such as the following: a lit / a lighted cigarette, more full / fuller of convincing arguments, the main thesis of the book / the book's main thesis, take hostage a group of 15 holiday makers / take a group of 15 holidaymakers hostage, conceding that the argument is convincing / conceding the argument to be convincing?

Ranging from tonogenesis, stress shift, and quantity readjustment to paradigmatic levelling, allomorphy, and grammaticalization, this collection covers a wide spectrum of developments, primarily in Germanic, Romance, and Indo-Aryan.

The volume deals with the emergence of verb morphology in children during their second and early third year of life from a cross-linguistic perspective.

No detailed description available for "e;Genitive Variation in English"e;.

This compilation of invited contributions, gathering an international collection of cognitive and functional linguists, offers an outline of original empirical work carried out in grounding theory.

Norwegian Modals is a detailed description of the syntactic and semantic properties of modals in Norwegian.

The present monograph deals with lexical representation and linking within the framework of Functional Grammar.

This book develops ideas of Minimalist syntax to derive functional categories from the partially-ordered features expressed by functional elements, thereby dispensing with functional categories as primitives of the theory.

This book offers original theoretical accounts and a wealth of descriptive information concerning modality in present-day English.

The book provides an account of English inversion, a construction that displays perplexing idiosyncrasies at the level of semantics, phonology, syntax, and pragmatics.

The integration of traditional and modern linguistics as well as diachrony and synchrony is the hallmark of an influential trend in contemporary research on language.

Unlike the notion of "e;argument"e; that is central to modern linguistic theorizing, the phenomena that are commonly subsumed under the complementary notion "e;adjunct"e; so far have not attracted the attention they deserve.

This book brings together papers on various aspects of prosodic development from a generative linguistic perspective.

Die Monographie geht der Frage nach, welchen Einfluss die defektive Kategorie des Artikels in den slawischen Sprachen auf die Nominalreferenz sowie auf die Bildung kohärenter Äußerungsfolgen hat.

Das Buch verfolgt drei Fragen: Wie werden die Demonstrativa „dieser, dieses, diese“ und „der, die, das“ im gesprochenen Deutsch verwendet, wie werden diese Demonstrativa durch erwachsene Lerner des Deutschen erworben und wie werden sie in Lehrwerken für Deutsch als Fremdsprache vermittelt?

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