Grammar, syntax and morphology

Chinese grammar is characterized by its simple structure, lack of inflections, and wide use of monosyllabic morphemes.

For students who want to learn the nuts and bolts of English grammarA generation ago, the United States public school system stopped formal instruction in English grammar and consequently created a legion of students and professionals notoriously weak in writing and language skills.

It is not entirely clear if modern Chinese is a monosyllabic or disyllabic language.

A fine-grained qualitative and quantitative analysis of phrasal verbs covering almost 400 years, based on large amounts of empirical evidence.

A concise introduction to the languages of mainland Southeast Asia that provides a new look at this unique area.

It is widely recognized that language is humanity's most distinctive and valuable faculty.

First published in 1984, this book was designed to benefit the foreign learner who wishes to grasp the essential basis of English stress so that he or she can go on to predict stress patterns in new words.

This book was first published in 1954, A Modern English Grammar on Historical Principles is a valuable contribution to the field of English Grammar and Linguistics.

An examination of the structure of language and how it obeys physical and mathematical laws.

The noun is an apparent cross-linguistic universal; nouns are central targets of language acquisition; they are frequently prototypical exemplars of Saussurian arbitrariness.

Extraction has traditionally been one of the main topics in generative grammar, and it retains this status in current variants of the theory.

This volume offers theoretically informed surveys of topics that have figured prominently in morphosyntactic and syntactic research into Romance languages and dialects.

Language Acquisition and the Form of the Grammar attempts to re-think the ideal organization of the grammar, given its need to be learned.

Free adjuncts and absolutes typically function as adverbial clauses which are not overtly specified for any particular adverbial relation.

Making New Words provides a detailed study of the 200 or so prefixes and suffixes which create new words in today's English.

This set of papers represents a unique collection; it is the first attempt ever to empirically test a hypothetical set of semantic and lexical universals across a number of genetically and typologically diverse languages.

This new and fully revised edition of the A Biblical Hebrew Reference Grammar serves as a user-friendly and up-to-date source of information on the morphology, syntax, semantics and pragmatics of Biblical Hebrew verbs, nouns and other word classes (prepositions, conjunctions, adverbs, modal words, negatives, focus particles, discourse markers, interrogatives and interjections).

Bringing together an international group of researchers, this innovative volume presents the state-of-the-art in research into countability.

This volume examines the concept of 'word' in its many guises and across many languages.

In our everyday speech we represent events and situations, but we also provide commentary on these representations, situating ourselves and others relative to what we have to say and situating what we say in larger contexts.

While variation within individual languages has traditionally been focused upon in sociolinguistics, its relevance for grammatical theory has only recently been acknowledged.

The Routledge Handbook of Arabic Linguistics introduces readers to the major facets of research on Arabic and of the linguistic situation in the Arabic-speaking world.

Lexical-Functional Syntax, 2nd Edition, the definitive text for Lexical Functional Grammar (LFG) with a focus on syntax, is updated to reflect recent developments in the field.

This book examines the diversity of both the morphological phenomena and the methodologies and theoretical frameworks by which their properties are investigated.

This pioneering study is based on an analysis of over 200 languages, including African, Amerindian, Australian, Austronesian, Indo-European and Eurasian (Altaic, Caucasian, Chukotko-Kamchatkan, Dravidian, Uralic), Papuan, and Sino-Tibetan.

The notion of light verb constructions has been traditionally related to the 'insignificance' of the verb, which is described as a grammatical item only codifying TAM system and ?

The objective of this book is to develop a deeper understanding of the form and interpretation of number.

The author describes and explains the syntactic and pragmatic properties of the nominal and pronominal elements in sentences of the types Ces Romains ils sont fous and Ils sont fous, ces Romains, which, in spite of their frequent occurrence, have so far received little attention among linguists and grammarians.

This book unpacks coordination in the context of the Strong Minimalist Thesis (SMT), offering a new proposal for addressing this longstanding puzzle within research on Generative Grammar.

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

This title, first published in 1979, centres on control and binding in networks of anaphora.

How are evidential functions distinguished by means other than grammatical paradigms, i.