Grammar, syntax and morphology

Die Arbeit klärt auf breiter empirischer Basis die variable Zeitreferenz und modale Lesart (irreal/potential) nicht-vergangenheitsbezogener (d.

Integrated practice and discovery problems in various languages encourage students to think analytically and scientifically about language.

Constructions in Spanish is the first book-length English-language volume in the field of usage-based and Cognitive Construction Grammar dedicated exclusively to Spanish.

This introduction to the role of information structure in grammar discusses a wide range of phenomena on the syntax-information structure interface.

Frames and constructions in metaphoric language shows how linguistic metaphor piggybacks on certain patterns of constructional meaning that have already been identified and studied in non-metaphoric language.

The present volume is as much a book co-authored by all the contributors as it is an edited collection of their papers.

This Handbook is a comprehensive and accessible overview of how bilinguals alternate between their languages when they speak.

Fully updated and revised, this fourth edition of Halliday's Introduction to Functional Grammar explains the principles of systemic functional grammar, enabling the reader to understand and apply them in any context.

Island phenomena are a central topic in generative grammar, especially because of principled exceptions to these general extraction constraints.

This book is all about the captivating ability that the human language has to express intricately logical (mathematical) meanings using tiny (microsemantic) morphemes as utilities.

This book is a description of Luwo, a Western Nilotic language of South Sudan.

The strong development in research on grammatical number in recent years has created a need for a unified perspective.

The new edition of this comprehensive text fills an important role in teacher professional preparation by focusing on how to teach the grammar and vocabulary that are essential for all L2 writing teachers and student-writers.

This is the third volume of papers yielded from the annual Linguistic Typology symposia inaugurated by the International Research and Exchange Board.

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 in 1970.

This book deals with how to ask questions in the languages of China.

Shlonsky uses Chomsky's Government and Binding Approach to examine clausal architecture and verb movement in Hebrew and several varieties of Arabic.

This volume is dedicated to exploring the crossroads where complex sentences and information management - more specifically information structure and reference tracking - come together.

Researchers in critical discourse analysis (CDA) have often pointed to grammar as a locus of ideology in discourse.

Discusses the use of adverbials in English, i.

Discusses the relationship between Chomskyan syntactic theory and the evolution of language.

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.

For some time the assumption has been widely held that for a majority of the world's languages, one can identify a “basic” order of subject and object relative to the verb, and that when combined with other facts of the language, the “basic” order constitutes a useful way of typologizing languages.

This book, the second volume in A Linguistic History of English, describes the development of Old English from Proto-Germanic.

This monograph offers an in depth investigation of nominalization processes across languages e.

The volume brings together a well-selected collection of twelve articles providing a comprehensive and very informative summary of contemporary work on lexical blending.

This book concerns particles that are used as responses in conversations.

First published in 1991.

Drawing on a wide range of languages, Cinque argues that all relative clause types derive from a single, double-headed, structure.

An introduction to the structure and sociolinguistics of the German language for students of German and linguistics.

Constructions in Spanish is the first book-length English-language volume in the field of usage-based and Cognitive Construction Grammar dedicated exclusively to Spanish.

Aims to reorient the study of language by taking into serious consideration the perspective on linguistic matters taken by lay speakers themselves, as a response to the now inescapable conclusion that traditional linguistic theory, with its focus on revealing 'the facts of language in general', cannot handle the necessary indeterminacy of what is said and understood.

The cognitive concept of prominence is increasingly seen as key to understanding the organisation of grammar.

One of the world's leading syntacticians presents evidence for locating Adverb Phrases in the specifiers of distinct functional projections within a novel and well articulated theory of the clause.

Head Movement in Syntax argues that verb movement is a narrow syntactic phenomenon that can affect locality constraints.