Grammar, syntax and morphology

In Modularity in Language, Etsuyo Yuasa investigates exceptions and idiosyncrasies in various complex clauses in Japanese and English within the framework of multi-modular approaches to grammar.

Explorations in Nominal Inflection is a collection of new articles that focus on nominal inflection markers in different languages.

Theta Theory explores the lexicon as an interface in the strict sense, as facilitating the flow of information between cognition and the computational system of language.

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

This book investigates the distribution and interpretation of Covert Modality.

European Portuguese, like other Romance languages, display a great amount of word order variation.

Vowel Harmony and Correspondence Theory covers the major issues in the generative analysis of vowel harmony and vowel harmony typology.

This book is a full reference grammar of Qiang, one of the minority languages of southwest China, spoken by about 70,000 Qiang and Tibetan people in Aba Tibetan and Qiang Autonomous Prefecture in northern Sichuan Province.

This book presents a unified formal approach to various contemporary linguistic formalisms such as Government & Binding, Minimalism or Tree Adjoining Grammar.

This book deals with the syntax of the free word order phenomenon (scrambling) in a wide range of languages - in particular, German, Japanese, Kannada, Malayalam, Serbo-Croatian, Tagalog, Tongan, and Turkish - in some of which the phenomenon was previously unstudied.

Kolyma Yukaghir is a seriously endangered language spoken by about 50 people in the northeast of Asiatic Russia.

This book applies the theory of cognitive linguistics to the analysis of a variety of grammatical phenomena in non-Indo-European languages.

This volume, which represents a major advance on Simon Dik's final statement of the theory (1997), lays the foundation for the future evolution of FG towards a Functional Discourse Grammar.

This book analyzes the form and function of the English passive from a verb-based point of view.

The book contains 30 descriptive chapters dealing with a specific language contact situation.

This collection of articles brings together new research from both established and emerging international experts in the study of English grammar, all of whom have engaged with the notion of 'construction' in their work.

Over the last two decades, focus has become a prominent topic in major fields in linguistic research (syntax, semantics, phonology).

Time is the most fundamental category of human cognition and action, and all human languages have developed many devices to express it.

The volume is dedicated to the German linguist Wolfgang Ullrich "e;Gustav"e; Wurzel (1940-2001), who has influenced linguistic thought in his work on paradigm-based morphology.

In spite of the vast literature on modality in English, very little research has been done on modal adverbs as a group.

Does temporal language depend on spatial language?

A Grammar of Dolakha Newar is the first fully comprehensive reference grammar of a Newar variety.

As a contribution to the ongoing discussion of the genesis of the Germanic language, this book investigates the strong verbs of Proto-Germanic using a new approach that combines historical and typological morphology with quantitative etymology.

This volume draws together papers that argue for a renewed focus on the role of hard constraints on phonological representations as well as the processes that operate on them.

The book introduces beginning university students of English to the study of English linguistics.

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Die Analyse des Imperativs stellt vor allem für die generative Syntaxtheorie eine Herausforderung dar.

Die weiterführenden Relativsätze stellen einen grammatiktheoretisch interessanten Phänomenbereich dar, da sie einerseits wurzelsatztypische Eigenschaften aufweisen, sich andererseits aber wie typische Nebensätze verhalten.

This study shows that Passive Agent markers and Ergative markers do not always realize an unified semantic category of an Agent.

Keine ausführliche Beschreibung für "Investigation into the Interaction between the Indefinites and Negation" verfügbar.

The contributions included in this collection present different perspectives on various aspects of Maltese Linguistics, thereby enriching a field which has been attracting considerably greater interest in recent years than was the case in the past.

This in-depth areal-typological study analyzes the grammatical means which are employed in the languages of Europe to express the comparative of inequality/superiority.

In diesem Buch werden deutsche und englische Satzstrukturen kontrastiv untersucht, und zwar in typologischer Hinsicht.

This volume contributes to a linguistic program characterized by the view that explanatory goals in syntax and semantics can be met only in models that are sufficiently formalized.

Modale Infinitkonstruktionen vom Typ (i) Die Aufgaben sind zu lösen, (ii) einige zu lösende Aufgaben sowie (iii) Sie hat die Aufgaben zu lösen werfen für alle, die sich mit Modalität, Passiv oder Infinitheit im Deutschen beschäftigen, interessante Fragen auf.

Welche Bedingungen liegen vor, wenn sprachliche Information auf der linguistischen Oberfläche zwar unrealisiert bleibt, aber trotzdem verstanden wird?

Die Arbeit liefert ein systematisches Bild der Syntax der deutschen Modalpartikeln.

Der vorliegende Band bietet vielfältige Herangehensweisen zu den Sprachen der indigenen Völker Amerikas – zu den großen Sprachen (Guaraní, Zapotekisch, Otomí, klassisches Aztekisch) ebenso wie zu den kleinen (Mosetén, Cabécar).

Die unterschiedlichen Eigenschaften von Infinitivkonstruktionen in natürlichen Sprachen stellen ein Problem für die Erklärungskraft syntaktischer Theorien dar.

Irregularity is a philological concept which is not adequately defined.