Grammar, syntax and morphology

In the last decade, there has been a revival of interest regarding negation and polarity, with much cross-fertilization between semantic and syntactic approaches.

This highly original and innovative analysis focuses on the morphosyntax of dialects comprising Italy, Corsica and the Italian and Romansch-speaking areas of Switzerland.

This study, first published in 1998, provides a close investigation of central syntactic issues in the English imperative clause type.

This book illustrates recent developments in cartographic studies, seen from a comparative perspective.

This volume offers a wide-range of case studies on variation and change in the sub-family of the Romance languages that includes French and Occitan: Gallo-Romance.

Originally published in 1963, this was, and still is, the only Grammar to be published of the Margi language which is spoken by the people of the Adamawa and Bornu areas of Nigeria.

The focus of this collective volume is on the mutual determination of language structure, discourse patterns and the accessibility to consciousness of mental contents of different types of organization and complexity.

This is the first book on the syntax of a Niger-Conger language family, which includes most of the languages of sub-Saharan Africa.

This volume is a collection of studies on various aspects of word order variation in Turkish.

Volume 5 (1) of African Languages originally published in 1979, is a special issue focussing on the Bantu languages in Tanzania.

This book investigates three interesting questions arising from the intriguing cross-linguistic perspective of Meiteilon and Nyishi, two Tibeto-Burman languages respectively spoken in the states of Manipur and Arunachal Pradesh in India.

The Derivation of Anaphoric Relations resolves a conspicuous problem for Minimalist theory, the apparently representational nature of the binding conditions.

The Indo-European Languages presents a comprehensive survey of the individual languages and language subgroups within this language family.

An innovative and unified grammar of sentence intonation, applied to six Romance languages (French, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, Catalan and Romanian).

This new and extended edition of Chinese: An Essential Grammar is an up-to-date and concise reference guide to modern Chinese (Mandarin) grammar.

This resource supports TESOL preservice and in-service teachers and curriculum designers in teaching pronunciation more effectively.

This is an open access publication, available online and distributed under the terms of a Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial No Derivatives 4.

Clause Structure and Adjuncts in Austronesian Languages is a collection of papers devoted to the syntactic analysis of modification and extraction strategies in Austronesian languages such as Kavalan, Malagasy, Niuean, Seediq, and Tagalog.

Focusing on substitution and numeration of modern Chinese, this is the third volume of a classic on modern Chinese grammar by WANG Li, one of the most distinguished Chinese linguists.

Die Grammatik des Biblischen Hebräisch ist ein wichtiges Arbeitsmittel für Lernende und Lehrende und eine unverzichtbare Ergänzung zu den gängigen Lehrbüchern.

The study of clause combining has been advanced lately by increasing interest in the study of actual language use in a typologically diverse set of languages.

Addresses the syntactic issues raised by coordinate pairings, with particularly emphasis on their properties in English and Chinese.

First published in 1900, this is the second of two volumes of the magnum opus from pioneer assyriologist and linguist Rev.

This book explores the topics of English accents and pronunciation.

This lively textbook introduces readers to the formal theory of syntax, presenting contemporary insights without unnecessary technical detail.

This volume brings together various strands of research focusing on aspects of the syntax of agreement, and the role that agreement plays in linguistic theory.

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Within cognitive and functional approaches to language structure and grammaticality, analogy and contrast represent two fundamental human cognitive capacities, which, up to now, have mostly been examined separately.

Syntactically speaking, it has long been known that noun phrases are parallel to clauses in many respects.

Elye Falkovitsh’s grammar, first published in Moscow in 1940, is one of the most important reference works of Yiddish linguistics.

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This collection brings together work from scholars across sociolinguistics, World Englishes and linguistic landscapes to reflect on developments and future directions in Irish English, building on the ground-breaking contributions of Jeffrey Kallen to the discipline.

Neverver is an Oceanic language spoken by just over 500 people on the high island of Malekula in Vanuatu.

This volume brings together various strands of research focusing on aspects of the syntax of agreement, and the role that agreement plays in linguistic theory.

An engaging and accessible A-Z of linguistics from the expert team behind Babel: The Language Magazine.

This book is the first of a four-volume set on modern Chinese complex sentences, and is focused on the overall characteristics and the casual complex sentences in the language in particular.

Since entering the stage, Davidsonian event arguments have taken on a central role in linguistic theorizing.

This study provides an illuminating and ground-breaking account of the complex interaction of intonational phenomena, semantics and pragmatics.