Grammar, syntax and morphology

Jieun Kiaer puts forward an argument in this book that the grammar of a language directly underpins the processing of the language, in real time.

Jieun Kiaer puts forward an argument in this book that the grammar of a language directly underpins the processing of the language, in real time.

This book addresses the foundational question of category distinctions and challenges the traditional views from the modern theoretical and experimental perspective.

By integrating cognitive linguistics and sociocultural theories, this groundbreaking book presents empirical studies on selected grammatical and semantic aspects that are challenging for second/foreign language learners.

This volume provides a much-needed, critical overview of the field of constructions and construction grammar in the context of Singapore English, and poses the question of identifying a construction in contact when the lexicon is derived from one language and the syntax from another.

The contributions in this volume shed new light on the discussion of whether the DP hypothesis applies universally or not.

Felicity Meakins was awarded the Kenneth L.

Pashto/Pushto/Pukhto is a group of varieties used by as many as 30 million people in Afghanistan and Pakistan, yet a grammar describing these varieties collectively has not been published.

Bangla is spoken as the majority language in Bangladesh and the state of West Bengal in India, and as a minority language in several other Indian states.

New York City English is one of the most recognizable of US dialects, and research on it launched modern sociolinguistics.

It is quite remarkable that, after over a half-century of research in generative grammar, there is still uncertainty and debate surrounding the analysis of preverbal subjects in a number of null-subject languages.

This book provides a description of Yintyingka, a Pama-Nyungan language of Cape York Peninsula in Australia.

Few concepts are as ubiquitous in the physical world of humans as that of identity.

This volume is a grammatical sketch of Hainan Cham, an endangered tonal Austronesian language.

This book is an in-depth study of the voice systems of Totoli, Balinese, Indonesian, and Tagalog, which shows that the symmetrical nature of these systems poses a problem to current linking theories.

For decades, the voicing system of Polish has been at the center of a heated theoretical debate concerning laryngeal phonology as it features a number of phenomena that constitute the core of this debate, such as Final Obstruent Devoicing, Regressive Voice Assimilation, and Progressive Voice Assimilation.

Few concepts are as ubiquitous in the physical world of humans as that of identity.

Syntactic complexity has always been a matter of intense investigation in formal linguistics.

Under the tenet shared by Hornstein and Kayne that rules of construal need to be recaptured by the operation Move, this book aims to construct a movement theory of anaphora according to which anaphoric relations are established through movement of pro.

The first published treatment of the syntax of Jarai, an Austronesian language of Southeast Asia, this volume focuses on the noun phrase and three regions of the clause: the left periphery, inflectional elements, and the verbal domain.

The book presents a description of Unua, one of two dialects of Unua-Pangkumu, an Oceanic language of Malakula Island, Vanuatu.

This book examines the alternation between accusative-dative and dative-accusative order in Old Florentine clitic clusters and its decline in favor of the latter.

This book addresses two crucial problems associated with the phenomenon of Remnant Movement: First, what evidence can be brought to bear in favor of, or opposing, Remnant Movement analyses of linguistic phenomena?

This volume is a grammatical sketch of Hainan Cham, an endangered tonal Austronesian language.

For decades, the voicing system of Polish has been at the center of a heated theoretical debate concerning laryngeal phonology as it features a number of phenomena that constitute the core of this debate, such as Final Obstruent Devoicing, Regressive Voice Assimilation, and Progressive Voice Assimilation.

This volume presents a cross-section of research addressing the interaction of two prominent areas in linguistic theory: parenthesis and ellipsis.

Linguists have sporadically noted peculiarities of pronunciation, lexis and morphosyntax in the speech of European Americans in the Pittsburgh area, and Pittsburgh speech, locally known as "e;Pittsburghese"e;, has been a topic of discussion in the Pittsburgh area for decades.

Bringing together papers from various subfields of theoretical linguistics, this volume gives a representative glimpse of current research on form and function in grammar.

This book addresses how core notions of information structure (topic, focus and contrast) are expressed in syntax.

Following up on the Guide to Morphosyntax-Phonology Interface Theories (2011), written from a theory-neutral point of view, this book lays out the author's approach to the representational side of the interface.

The mental representation of language cannot be directly observed but must be inferred and modelled from its effects at second hand.

This volume explores the syntax, semantics, and morphology of -ble adjectives within Distributed Morphology.

This book presents an analysis of Spanish prepositional clauses () - complement and adverbial clauses.

The syntax of Control structures remains a topic of heated debate: Standard generative treatments continue to analyze them in terms of PRO, a hypothesis challenged in alternative syntactic frameworks, semantic circles, and even within the generative tradition itself.

Long and Imamura examine language contact phenomena in the Asia Pacific region in the context of early 20th-century colonial history, focusing on the effects the Japanese language continues to have over island societies in the Pacific.

Good grammar is as critical to a successful personal and professional life as good grooming.

Tone, the use of pitch to provide phonological contrast between morphemes, plays an integral role in the structures of many languages.

Describing an Austronesian language of the northern Philippines, this volume breaks new ground by analyzing the ergative grammar of Kankanaey within the framework of Role and Reference Grammar (RRG).

This book is a volume in the Penn Press Anniversary Collection.

The first published treatment of the syntax of Jarai, an Austronesian language of Southeast Asia, this volume focuses on the noun phrase and three regions of the clause: the left periphery, inflectional elements, and the verbal domain.

Formal grammars by definition need two parts: a theory of computation (or derivation), and a theory of representation.

Formal grammars by definition need two parts: a theory of computation (or derivation), and a theory of representation.

Syntactic complexity has always been a matter of intense investigation in formal linguistics.

This book examines the alternation between accusative-dative and dative-accusative order in Old Florentine clitic clusters and its decline in favor of the latter.

This book addresses the foundational question of category distinctions and challenges the traditional views from the modern theoretical and experimental perspective.

By integrating cognitive linguistics and sociocultural theories, this groundbreaking book presents empirical studies on selected grammatical and semantic aspects that are challenging for second/foreign language learners.

Bangla is spoken as the majority language in Bangladesh and the state of West Bengal in India, and as a minority language in several other Indian states.

This book provides a description of Yintyingka, a Pama-Nyungan language of Cape York Peninsula in Australia.

This book is an in-depth study of the voice systems of Totoli, Balinese, Indonesian, and Tagalog, which shows that the symmetrical nature of these systems poses a problem to current linking theories.

This volume provides a much-needed, critical overview of the field of constructions and construction grammar in the context of Singapore English, and poses the question of identifying a construction in contact when the lexicon is derived from one language and the syntax from another.