Grammar, syntax and morphology

The first lessons we learn in school can stay with us all our lives, but this was nowhere more true than in the last decades of the fourteenth century when grammar-school students were not only learning to read and write, but understanding, for the first time, that their mother tongue, English, was grammatical.

This book provides new insights into the acquisition of functional categories in child language.

Arabic L2 Interlanguage is a significant and timely addition to the field of Second Language Acquisition, providing valuable insight into the development of 'interlanguage', the interim language of early beginners, in learners of Arabic.

This book, originally published in 1966, deals mainly with morphemes and with grammatical and syntactic behaviour.

This volume provides an introduction to word and paradigm models of morphology and the general perspectives on linguistic morphology that they embody.

This book is based on a close study of modern drama texts.

This book investigates the existential clause (EC) from a cross-linguistic perspective and within the framework of Systemic Functional Linguistics.

Originally published in 1952, this volume shows the structural characteristics of the Berber language and its interrelations as far as these are known; the distribution of the language and the numbers speaking it; its use as literary and educational media and as a lingua franca.

Norwegian: A Comprehensive Grammar is a complete reference guide to modern Norwegian (the Bokmal standard).

This dissertation, first published in 1980, is concerned with the role of the syllable in generative grammar.

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Bringing together research from a global team of scholars, this innovative volume explores morphosyntactic features of verbal aggression.

This is the second of two volumes emanating from the Linguistic Symposium on Romance Languages held at the University of Texas at Austin in February 2005.

Originally published in 1980, Language in Tanzania presents a comprehensive overview of the Survey of Language Use and Language Teaching in Eastern Africa.

First published in 1990, this dissertation presents an event-based model-theoretic semantics for plural expressions in English.

This book presents new research into the great structural diversity found in Sinitic languages.

The book examines the category Number from a variety of linguistic perspectives.

The Munda Verb is a unique book on the typology of the verb in the Munda language family, and the first of its kind on any language family of the Indian subcontinent.

This book compares the historical development of ideas about language in two major traditions of linguistic scholarship from either end of Eurasia - the Graeco-Roman and the Sinitic - as well as their interaction in the modern era.

This edited volume provides new insights into the architecture of Chinese grammar from a comparative perspective, using principles of cartography.

Across North Asia, complex sentence formation patterns display an unusually high prevalence of suffixed relational morphemes used to convey subordination.

This is the first comprehensive description of Savosavo, a non-Austronesian (Papuan) language spoken by approximately 2,500 speakers on Savo Island, Solomon Islands.

The main aim of this book is to address a fundamental question in linguistics, namely why languages are similar and why they are different.

This volume presents theoretical and empirical research on the syntax of events within the broader framework of generative grammar, focusing on the central question of how conceptual meaning interacts with narrow syntactic computation.

This volume is an important contribution to the diachrony of non-canonical subjects in a typological perspective.

In research on Information Structure, there is an ongoing discussion about the role of contrast.

This work provides 50,000 words of prosodically-transcribed text from a variety of sources.

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

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

An original volume focusing on British–American differences in the structure of words and sentences.

The Accurate Use of Chinese: Practical Sentence Structures and Word Usage for English Speakers is a unique learning resource for learners of Chinese who are English speakers.

Eines der hervorstechenden Merkmale der romanischen Verbalmorphologie ist der Fortbestand der zwei lateinischen Uberbleibsel -I/ESC- und -IDI-, deren formaler und funktionaler Gebrauch sich innerhalb der romanischen Sprachen um zwei grundlegende Pole dreht: -I/ESC- und -IDI- konnen als Derivations- oder als Flexionsmorpheme (oder zumindest flexionsgebunden) stehen.

This book contains 14 articles by Teun Hoekstra (1953-1998) on core issues in syntactic theory.

Taking a unique approach which combines sociolinguistics with theoretical linguistics, this book presents a view of language and grammar as both a cognitive and socio-cultural phenomena.

This collection presents a number of studies in the lexico-grammar of English which focus on the one hand on close reading of language in context and on the other hand on current functional theoretical concerns.

This simple introduction to the history of the German language seeks to provide students who have some knowledge of modern German, but no knowledge either of its development or of linguistic theories, with a short account of the essential factors - chronological, geographical and linguistic - and their interrelation.