Mapping the Left Periphery, the fifth volume in "e;The Cartography of Syntactic Structures,"e; is entirely devoted to the functional articulation of the so-called complementizer system, the highest part of sentence structure.
Although thousands of people in Alberta and Montana speak Blackfoot, an Algonquian language, their numbers are diminishing and the survival of Blackfoot is in danger.
This volume provides the most comprehensive treatment of phonological weight to date, bringing together traditional notions of categorical, rime-based weight and new developments in statistical prosodic phonology.
Analysis of bilinguals'' use of two languages reveals highly adept code-switching: alternating between languages while keeping intact the separate grammars.
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.
In comparative syntax a general approach has been pursued over the past decade predicated on the notion that Universal Grammar allows of open parameters, and that part of the job of linguistic theory is to specify what values these parameters may have, and how they may be set, given primary linguistic data, to determine the grammars of particu- lar languages.
The volume addresses issues concerning prosody generation in speech synthesis, including prosody modeling, how we can convey para- and non-linguistic information in speech synthesis, and prosody control in speech synthesis (including prosody conversions).
This collection of nine original articles deals with the expression of possession at various levels of grammar, morphological, phrasal, and syntactic, and from a typologically diverse range of languages (including Germanic, Oceanic, Meso-American, and Australian Aboriginal).
Soluzioni:A Practical Grammar of ContemporaryItalian combines an engaging reference and practice grammar explained in clear and concise language with numerous supporting exercises.
Diese Studie bietet eine Anwendung der Distributed Morphology (DM) - eines der jüngsten Ansätze für die Beschreibung morphologischer Phänomene und Strukturen im Rahmen der Generativen Grammatik - auf die spanische Verbalflexion.
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.
Structure and Meaning in English is designed to help teachers of English develop an understanding of those aspects of English which are especially relevant for learners who speak other languages.
This book was the first to provide a comprehensive survey of linguistic research into African-American English and is widely recognised as a classic in the field.
This book clarifies - on the basis of mainly Hungarian data - basic issues concerning the category 'adverb,' the function 'adverbial,' and the grammar of adverbial modification.
This volume offers the reader a unique possibility to obtain a concise introduction to dependency linguistics and to learn about the current state of the art in the field.
