Grammar, syntax and morphology

The Arabic grammatical tradition is one of the great traditions in the history of linguistics, yet it is also one that is comparatively unknown to modern western linguistics.

Over the past fifteen years, descriptions of Australian Aboriginal languages have provided important data for the typological study of morpho-syntactic phenomena.

The linguistic typology of motion event encoding is one of the central topics in Cognitive Linguistics.

Southern Min (also known as Hokkien or Minnan) is a major branch of Chinese spoken mainly in Fujian and Taiwan, but also in Guangdong, Hainan and Hong Kong, as well as in many countries of Southeast Asia.

Every linguistic theory has to come to grips with a fundamental property of human language: the existence of exceptions, i.

The aim of this volume is to bring together researchers interested in investigating the role that Discourse Markers play in language production and comprehension from an experimental or corpus-based perspective.

This research monograph is an empirical and theoretical study of clause-final verbal complexes in the history of German.

This volume reflects the centrality of the existential construction in current linguistic research and offers studies that both consolidate and challenge established research agendas.

Loanwords and Japanese Identity: Inundating or Absorbed?

Although linguistics is often a technical and increasingly abstruse discipline, many linguists retain a concern for the way in which linguistics can shed light on literature and literary problems.

Vietnamese: An Essential Grammar is a concise and user-friendly reference guide to modern Vietnamese.

What is the relationship between the structure of existential sentences and their meaning?

Repetition is a well-studied phenomenon in morphology and lexicology but has received less attention on the syntactic level.

This volume explores how linguistic theories inform the ways in which languages are described.

A lively introduction to the basic analysis of syntax (sentence structure) and morphology (word structure).

This monograph is a grammatical description of Tondano, an endangered and under-documented Austronesian (AN) language spoken in the northern part of the island of Sulawesi, Indonesia.

English L2 Reading: Getting to the Bottom uses research-based insights to examine bottom-up skills in reading English as a second language.

Understanding Formulaic Language: A Second Language Acquisition Perspective brings together leading scholars to provide a state-of-the-art, interdisciplinary account of the acquisition, processing, and use of formulaic language.

Gramatica espanola: Variacion social introduces intermediate to advanced students of Spanish to the main grammatical features of the language in a way that emphasizes the social underpinnings of language.

This handbook provides an authoritative, critical survey of current research and knowledge in the grammar of the English language.

The last decade has seen a rise in popularity in construction-based approaches to grammar.

Sentence Structure:introduces the evidence for sentence structure and reveals its purposeis based on a problem-solving approach to languageteaches the reader how to identify word classes, such as noun, preposition and demonstrativeuses simple tree structures to analyse sentencescontains numerous exercises to encourage practical skills of sentence analysisincludes a database and exercises that compare the structure of English with other languages.

Mixing metaphors in speech, writing, and even gesture, is traditionally viewed as a sign of inconsistency in thought and language.

This book examines psycholinguistic elements of irregular verb morphology in English, using two empirical studies of young language learners in Austria to make evidence-based didactic recommendations for classroom use.

The second edition of this hugely successful textbook provides comprehensive coverage of a wide range of topics in theoretical and applied linguistics.

This book examines historical changes in the grammar of the Indo-Aryan languages from the period of their earliest attestations in Vedic Sanskrit (around 1000 bc) to contemporary Hindi.

A guide to the relations between a predicate and its arguments, for researchers and advanced students in linguistics.

This book explores the topics of English accents and pronunciation.

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

This collection of articles form a tribute to Jan Svartvik and his pioneering work in the field.

This important new study examines in detail a semantic-pragmatic pattern surrounding the basic verb 'acquire' in nearly 30 Southeast Asian languages, concentrating on Lao, Vietnamese, Khmer, Kmhmu, Hmong, and varieties of Chinese.

British English Phonetic Transcription provides an accessible introduction to phonemic, phonetic and intonational transcription with a focus on British English.

The papers in this volume are centered around the following topics: subordination; cases and prepositions; moods, tenses and voices of the verb; nominal forms of the verb; anaphors and pronouns; word order, theme and rheme, negation, style, morphology and word formation.

The idea of this book on "e;Neglected Aspects of Motion-Event Description"e; comes from the observation that, over the last 30 years, much attention has been devoted to the manner/path divide in relation to the distinction between Verb-Framed and Satellite-Framed languages.

This volume brings together ten papers, all presented at the 8th International Conference on the Structure of Hungarian (New York City, 2007), addressing a wide range of topics in the morphology, phonetics, phonology, pragmatics, semantics, and syntax of Hungarian, with discussion of related facts in other languages as well.

This 2007 book outlines the major syntactic characteristics of Welsh, including word order, agreement, tense and clause structure.

An engaging introduction to English sentence structure, showing how users can apply this knowledge to become better readers and writers.

This Handbook is a comprehensive volume outlining the foremost issues regarding research and teaching of second language speaking, examining such diverse topics as cognitive processing, articulation, knowledge of pragmatics, instruction in sub-components of speaking (e.

This book offers reconstructions of various syntactic properties of Proto-Germanic, including verb position in main clauses, the syntax of the wh-system, and the (non-)occurrence of null pronominal subjects and objects.

This work, first published in 1994, provides a framework which covers the major aspects of contemporary standard Korean and allows cross-language comparisons.