Grammar, syntax and morphology

The book is the first substantial description of Tundra Nenets, a highly endangered Uralic language spoken in Western Siberia and the north of European Russia, destined for the international linguistic community.

English Grammar: The Basics offers a clear, non-jargonistic introduction to English grammar and its place in society.

"e;Jasanoff comes up with some of the strongest arguments yet made for assuming that Indo-European languages other than Hittite and Tocharian underwent a substantial period of common development, and this needs to be fitted into any model of the dispersal of the language family.

These volumes contain a selection of contributions first presented at the 21st International Colloquium on Latin Linguistics, held in Santiago de Compostela (2022).

Fundamental Structures of the Chinese Language is an exceptional resource for understanding how Chinese grammar functions in natural discourse.

First published in 1985.

In this book, the first full-scale work of its kind in English, Harm Pinkster applies contemporary linguistic theories and the findings of traditional grammar to the study of Latin syntax.

A study of word structure using a specific theoretical framework known as ''Network Morphology''.

The present volume presents scholarly study into Old French as it is practiced today, in all of its forms, within a variety of theoretical frameworks, from Optimality Theory to Minimalism to Discourse Analysis.

The phenomenon of clefts is beyond doubt a golden oldie.

The main topic of this volume is the phrase structural analysis of noun phrases and sentences.

Originally published in 1993, Translation as Social Action is a varied collection of essays, which addresses translation as social action as its central theme, the book proposes a model of the translator as an agent in his or her own right.

Develops a theory of how language is processed in the brain and provides a state-of-the-art review of current neuroscientific debates.

This volume is intended as a celebration of Kristin Davidse's work and its impact within the broad traditions of cognitive, functional and usage-based grammars.

This book aims to assess the nature of morphological complexity, and the properties that distinguish it from the complexity manifested in other components of language.

English-based Mandarin loanwords are commonly used in Chinese people's daily lives.

German Reading Skills for Academic Purposes allows researchers and learners with no prior understanding of German to gain an understanding of written German at CEFR C2/ACTFL Intermediate-High level that will allow them to read a variety of German texts, including research articles and monographs.

Originally published in 1992, Turkic Oral Poetry provides an expert introduction to the oral epic traditions of the Turkic peoples of central Asia.

The second in a three-volume 2007 survey exploring the syntactic and morphological structures of the world''s languages.

This book is a significant novelty in the scientific and editorial landscape.

A new edition of this textbook discusses the learned vocabulary of English - the words borrowed from the classical languages.

This study has a twofold goal.

This book presents a detailed analysis of structural as well as pragmatic aspects underlying the phenomenon of noun ellipsis in English.

This collection of previously unpublished papers explores the implications of Chomsky's "e;Minimalist"e; framework for the modularity of grammar, which simplifies the "e;modular"e; approach he took in his Government and Binding theory of grammar.

Up to now, most research in Construction Grammar has focused on single languages, most notably English.

This monograph aims to contribute to linguistic knowledge about the distribution and function of discourse particles, particularly with respect to a small group of particles which are highly frequent in contemporary spoken standard French.

This book proposes a framework for describing languages through the description of relationships among lexicon, morphology, syntax, and phonology.

This volume discusses methodological issues in conducting elicitation on semantic topics in a fieldwork situation.

This book deals with Albanian, including the dialects spoken in Southern Italy, and with the Aromanian spoken in Southern Albania.

Tense, Attitudes, and Scope is a model-theoretic inquiry into the semantics of tense in natural language.

The main goal of this study, first published in 1994, is to present a substantial part of the grammar of French.

Malayalam is one of the four major Dravidian languages spoken principally in the southern part of India.

The volume explores the integration of language and society as reflected in the grammar of a language.

This volume provides a comprehensive analysis of the syntax of Palauan that will appeal to anyone interested in Austronesian languages or formal syntactic and morphological theory.

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This is an etymological study of the origins of the word kibosh, which has long been one of the great mysteries of the English language.

This book examines genres as instances of social processes, enacting a range of important institutional practices, hence also shaping people's subjectivities.

Cheyenne: An Analysis of Clause Linkage provides a detailed description of Cheyenne syntax, semantics, and pragmatics, notably on its nominal and verbal system and in both simple and complex sentences.

Modern linguistic theory has been based on the promise of explaining how language acquisition can occur so rapidly with such subtlety, and with both surprising uniformity and diversity across languages.