Grammar, syntax and morphology

Uses the cartographic theory to examine the left periphery of the English clause and compare it to the left-peripheral structures of other languages.

This best-selling comprehensive descriptive grammar forms a complete course, ideal for all students studying English Language, whether on a course or for self-study.

This is the second of a three-volume comprehensive reference work on "e;Gender across Languages"e;, which provides systematic descriptions of various categories of gender (grammatical, lexical, referential, social) in 30 languages of diverse genetic, typological and socio-cultural backgrounds.

This book, by leading scholars, represents some of the main work in progress in biolinguistics.

The Routledge Handbook of Phonetics provides a comprehensive and up-to-date compilation of research, history and techniques in phonetics.

Against the background of the proliferation of the various subdisciplines of language acquisition research over the past decades, this volume aims to enhance the existing but somewhat fragile links between language acquisition and theoretical linguistics.

This innovative text is the first to map regional grammatical variation in written Standard American English.

The Landmarks Series is a research and publications outfit funded by the Landmarks Research Foundation to publish recent outstanding doctoral dissertations on any aspect of Nigerian linguistics, languages, literatures and cultures.

This volume explores the multiple aspects of cyclical syntactic change from a wide range of empirical perspectives.

The Digital Parisian Stage Project aims to compile a corpus of plays that are representative of performances in the theaters of Paris through history.

This book examines the relationship between the meaning of words and the structure of sentences.

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

A concise introduction to Turkish grammar, designed specifically for English-speaking students and professionals.

This is a complete grammatical description of Marathi, which belongs to the Indo-European family and is spoken in Maharashtra State in India.

Originally published in 1985.

A self-contained and lively text prepared in response to a perceived need for an up-to-date introduction to the field of morphology within the framework of generative grammar.

Presents the main arguments for and against the Movement Theory of Control.

Emergence of Korean English explores the dynamic nature of emerging Korean English and its impact on Korean society, culture, and identity.

The investigation of phraseology through corpus-based and computational approaches holds significant relevance for various professionals, including translators, interpreters, terminologists, lexicographers, language instructors, and learners.

English Lexicogenesis investigates the processes by which novel words are coined in English, and how they are variously discarded or adopted, and frequently then adapted.

Research on spontaneous language acquisition both in children learning their mother tongue and in adults learning a second language has shown that language development proceeds in a stagewise manner.

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.

Cambodian: An Essential Grammar is an accessible guide to the grammatical themes, patterns, and structures of the Cambodian language.

Icelandic: An Essential Grammar is a concise and convenient guide to the basic grammatical structure of Icelandic.

This book presents an innovative analysis that relates informational structure, syntax and morphology in Quechua.

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This book addresses the three fundamental properties of V-V resultative constructions in Mandarin Chinese: their generation, their syntactic structure, and their alternations.

This study investigates adverbial clauses from a cross-linguistic perspective.

This book is an introduction to the relationship between the morphosyntactic properties of sentences and their associated illocutionary forces or force potentials.

It has been eight years since An Introduction to the Grammar of English was first published.

This book places binomials - word pairs - in the context of phonology, stylistics, semantics, translation theory and practice in various periods.

The Grammar of Raising and Control surveys analyses across a range of theoretical frameworks from Rosenbaum's classic Standard Theory analysis (1967) to current proposals within the Minimalist Program, and provides readers with a critical understanding of these, helping them in the process to develop keen insights into the strengths and weaknesses of syntactic arguments in general.

This well-illustrated book outlines a framework for the analysis of syntactic structure from a perspective of a systematic functional grammar.

This book explains inflectional paradigms'' role as the grammatical nexus at which mismatches between words'' content and form are resolved.

Dieser Buchtitel ist Teil des Digitalisierungsprojekts Springer Book Archives mit Publikationen, die seit den Anfängen des Verlags von 1842 erschienen sind.

This grammar provides a clear and comprehensive overview of contemporary West Greenlandic.