Grammar, syntax and morphology

A cross-linguistic study of grammatical morphemes expressing spatial relationships that discusses the relationship between the way human beings experience space and the way it is encoded grammatically in language.

The traditional dialect spoken in the Shetland Isles, the northernmost part of Scotland and Britain, is highly distinct.

A selection of papers presented at the international conference `Applied Logic: Logic at Work', held in Amsterdam in December 1992.

In the study of language, as in any other systematic study, there is no neutral terminology.

This study, first published in 1982, attempts to show that the foundations of a contextual grammar of English must be firmly based on an adequate definition of the sentence.

Evenki is one of nine Tungusic languages spoken in Siberia and Northern China.

Using compelling empirical evidence, this cutting-edge study presents a new linguistic theory of imperatives.

This collection of essays grew out of the workshop 'Existence: Semantics and Syntax', which was held at the University of Nancy 2 in September 2002.

This addition to the Cognitive Science and Second Language Acquisition series presents a comprehensive review of the latest research findings on sentence processing in second language acquisition.

The book contains a collection of papers dealing with the question of how rhythm shapes language.

This study provides an illuminating and ground-breaking account of the complex interaction of intonational phenomena, semantics and pragmatics.

This volume is the first dedicated to the comprehensive, in-depth analysis of constructions with nouns like 'type' and 'sort'.

This work, first published in 1979, was a doctoral dissertation submitted to the Department of Foreign Literatures and Linguistics of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology on June 22nd 1973.

Clitics, those "e;funny little words"e; like English contracted future tense and pluperfect tense/conditional mood markers ('ll and 'd) or French pronominal objects (le 'him', la 'her', lui 'to him/her', etc.

Clearly organized and accessible, this comprehensive textbook provides students with a thorough grounding in the analysis of syntactic structure.

First published in 1992, Vocabularies of Public Life explores the revolution that has taken place in our understanding of contemporary culture and decodes a number of the symbols which now dominate public life.

Comparative linguistic survey of the full range of Germanic languages, providing a detailed account of their morphology, phonology and syntax.

Clefts are intricate objects which, starting with Jespersen (1937), have motivated much work in descriptive and formal linguistics.

Originally published in 1987, this book shows that there is still considerable continuity in the practices and ideas of marriage in Afican against a background of social and economic change.

Based on the quantitative analysis of a large corpus of Old and Middle High German prose texts, this volume provides a first extensive overview on the syntactic properties of coordination structures featuring the coordinators inti/und and joh in Old and Middle High German and discusses potential analyses in a generative framework.

First Published in 2004.

The Syntax and Semantics of English Auxiliaries by Kurd Learners at College Level is concerned with the syntactic and semantic aspects of English auxiliary verbs (which comprise the primary and the modals) as a problematic area for English foreign language learners.

Focusing on the fundamental grammatical units and construction in modern Chinese, this title is the second volume of a classic on modern Chinese grammar by WANG Li, one of the most distinguished Chinese linguists.

The Semitic Languages presents a comprehensive survey of the individual languages and language clusters within this language family, from their origins in antiquity to their present-day forms.

Working Welsh offers a new approach to building up and consolidating learners' fluency and confidence, focusing on the mechanics - the words and phrases that build and drive sentences and make them fit together.

Thinking Syntactically: A Guide to Argumentation and Analysis is a textbook designed to teach introductory students the skills of relating data to theory and theory to data.

This book offers a completely new analysis of the syntax and semantics of transitive reflexive sentences in German, which is embedded in the major phenomenon of the middle voice in Indo-European languages.

Si desde hace unos años el paradigma de las Tradiciones Discursivas se está aplicando con un cierto éxito en distintos campos de la lingüística, sobre todo en la lingüística histórica de las lenguas románicas, se echa en falta todavía una aclaración de la relación entre la tradición de los textos y el cambio lingüístico, sobre todo la evolución gramatical.

This volume sets out to provide a comprehensive description of the grammar of Gooniyandi, a non-Pama-Nyungan language of the southern-central Kimberley region of Western Australia.

A broad coverage of German syntax, providing an in-depth look at object-verb sentence formation in comparison with other languages.

Pronunciation plays a crucial role in learning English as an international language, yet often remains marginalised by educators due to a lack of required phonetic and phonological knowledge.

By integrating novel developments in both contact linguistics and morphological theory, this volume pursues the topic of borrowed morphology by recourse to sophisticated theoretical and methodological accounts.

Multiple (or extended) exponence is the occurrence of multiple realizations of a single morphosemantic feature, bundle of features, or derivational category within a word.