Grammar, syntax and morphology

This book addresses recent developments in the study of tense from a cross-paradigm and cross-linguistic point of view.

This is the first book which brings together the fields of theoretical and empirical studies in syntax on the one hand and the methodology of quantitative linguistics on the other hand.

This monograph is a collection of selected papers on Oceanic languages.

Mian is a non-Austronesian ('Papuan') language of the Ok family spoken in the Highlands fringe in western Papua New Guinea.

The book traces the evolution of the English verb-particle construction ('phrasal verb') from Indo-European and Germanic up to the present.

This book is a detailed study of the possessive semantic space within the framework of construction grammar.

This volume explores and develops the framework of phases (so-called Phase Theory), first introduced in Chomsky (2000).

This volume includes papers by leading figures in phonetics and phonology on two topics central to phonological theory: tones and phonological features.

The volume explores the syntax of nominalizations, focusing on deverbal and deadjectival nominalizations, but also discussing the syntax of genitives and the syntax of distinct readings of nominalizations.

This book is a comprehensive study of the evidential system in German.

Taking as its point of departure the general assumption that meaning is crucial in accounting for verb complementation, this volume presents the results of an empirical study of verb complementation patterns of semantically similar English verbs.

How do new ways of encoding valence alternations emerge, how and why do they spread, and what are the consequences of their emergence and spread for already existing patterns?

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On the basis of synchronic and diachronic data analysis, the volume takes a close look at the synchronic layers of binominal size noun and type noun uses (a bunch/a load of X; a sort of X; a Y type of X) and reconsiders the framework of grammaticalization in view of issues raised by the phrases under discussion.

Traditional grammars have stated that clitics are subject or object pronouns whose distributional features make them different from personal pronouns.

Warrongo is an extinct Australian Aboriginal language that used to be spoken in northeast Australia.

This volume collects papers that discuss theoretical or empirical problems from a multidimensional view of syntax and morphology, presupposing frameworks such as LFG, HPSG, the Parallel Architecture, or Integrational Linguistics, where syntactic and morphological objects are conceived as constructs with multiple, interrelated components.

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.

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

This book explores the view that impoverishment and Agree operations are part of a single grammatical component.

This collective volume contains a selection of research contributions, presented at the 30th Deutscher Romanistentag [German Conference on Romance languages and literatures] in 2007 in Vienna in the section "e;Mood and Modality in Romance"e;.

This volume aims to arrive at a fine-grained and grammar-based understanding of the notions of (inter-)subjectivity and (inter-)subjectification in their application to grammaticalization research.

This volume embarks on an exploration of the processual and dynamic character of grammatical constructions in emergence, both from an 'emergent' and an 'emerging' perspective.

The study of the interaction between syntax and information structure has attracted a great deal of attention since the publication of foundational works on this subject such as Enric Vallduvi's (1992) The Informational Component and Knud Lambrecht's (1994) Information Structure and Sentence Form.

This volume is a collection of articles concerned with the typology of valency and valence change in a large and diversified sample of languages that display ergative alignment in their grammar.

The volume explores the semantics of nominalizations from different theoretical points of view: formal and lexical semantics, cognitive-functional grammar, lexical-functional grammar, discourse representation theory.

This volume explores the interplay of syntactic variation and genre.

Dans cette étude, nous répondons à la question: «Comment, d'après ce qu'on peut observer dans les chartes écrites en français à Liège avant 1292, la ponctuation interagit-elle avec la syntaxe dans la langue française médiévale?

The aim of this book is to demonstrate that, in a representation-based model, the phonological organization of speech sounds within a word is reducible to the licensing properties of nuclei with respect to structurally defined complexities which pose varying demands on the licenser.

The book is concerned with the interaction of syntax, information structure and prosody in the history of English, demonstrating this with a case study of object topicalization.

The questions as to why most languages appear to have more trouble borrowing verbs than nouns, and as to the possible mechanisms and paths by which verbs can be borrowed or the obstacles for verb borrowing, have been a topic of interest since the late 19th century.

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

The present volume is an edited collection of original contributions which all deal with the issue of recursion in human language(s).

During most of the 20th century, the classical Saussurean distinction between language usage and language structure remained untranscendable in much linguistic theory.