Grammar, syntax and morphology

Originally published in 1945, this volume represented the first to classify Bantu languages.

The Syntax Workbook was written as a response to the students and instructors who, over the years, have requested more problem sets that give greater experience in analyzing syntactic structure.

How Words Mean introduces a new approach to the role of words and other linguistic units in the construction of meaning.

This is the first exhaustive investigation of gradience in syntax, conceived of as grammatical indeterminacy.

First published in 1967.

Innovations and Challenges in Grammar traces the history of common understandings of what grammar is and where it came from to demonstrate how 'rules' are anything but fixed and immutable.

The concept of 'trigger' is a core concept of Chomsky's Minimalist Program.

This descriptive grammar provides a uniquely comprehensive description of Maori, the East Polynesian language of the indigenous people of New Zealand.

For Roy Harris, the fundamental problem about linguistics is that it has been led astray by the fact that we are capable intellectually of 'decontextualising' our own verbal behaviour.

Patterns of relative clause formation tend to vary according to the typological properties of a language.

Much recent influential work within Generative grammar argues that syntax plays a key role in grammar and meaning composition, whereas the role of the lexicon is minimal.

Proposes a novel theory of parts of speech, bringing together the latest research and discoveries.

This monograph constitutes the first comprehensive investigation of reciprocal constructions and related phenomena in the world's languages.

This book aims at investigating discourse phenomena (i.

Corpus Linguistics for Vocabulary provides a practical introduction to using corpus linguistics in vocabulary studies.

Is today's language at an all-time low?

Some fundamental questions regarding sentence structure in linguistics concern whether all languages, at some level of abstraction, have the same structure, and what are the basic categories with which to describe sentence structure.

Languages with free word orders pose daunting challenges to linguistic theory because they raise questions about the nature of grammatical strings.

This book examines the tone and accent of Oklahoma Cherokee, in which six possible pitch patterns can occur on a syllable: low, high, low-high, high-low, lowfall, and superhigh.

The newly-emerging field of theoretically informed but simultaneously empirically based syntax is dynamic but little-represented in the literature.

Cyclical language change is a linguistic process by which a word, phrase, or part of the grammar loses its meaning or function and is then replaced by another.

This volume draws together fourteen previously published papers which explore the nature of mental grammar through a formal, generative approach.

Integrational Linguistics (IL), developed by the German linguist Hans-Heinrich Lieb and others, is an approach to linguistics that integrates linguistic descriptions, construed as 'declarative' theories, with a detailed theory of language that covers all classical areas of linguistics, from phonology to sentence semantics, and takes linguistic variation, both synchronic and diachronic, fully into account.

This core textbook helps readers get to grips with the fundamentals of English grammar so that they can critically engage with a wide variety of texts.

Jamsay is the largest-population language among some twenty Dogon languages in Mali, West Africa.

This book indicates that the nature and function of de is one of the core issues in the study of Chinese grammar.

Written for students of linguistics, applied linguistics and speech therapy, this dictionary covers over 2,000 terms in phonetics and phonology.

The aim of this Handbook is to provide a forum in which some of the generative syntacticians whose work has had an impact on theoretical syntax over the past 20 years are invited to present their views on one or more aspects of current syntactic theory.

Language Structure and Environment is a broad introduction to how languages are shaped by their environment.

Polarity sensitivity is a ubiquitous phenomenon involving expressions such as anybody, nobody, ever, never, somebody and their counterparts in other languages.

This book is a collection of linguistic and philosophical papers dealing with the semantic problems of determiners.

Controversies may be particularly prominent in one or another culture.