Grammar, syntax and morphology

In Screenplay: The Foundations of Screenwriting (1979), Syd Field first popularized the Three-Act Paradigm of Setup, Confrontation and Resolution for conceptualizing and creating the Hollywood screenplay.

Creole
languages have in recent years become a valuable source of data for current
theories of syntax and theories of child/adult language
acquisition.

This is an etymological study of the origins of the word kibosh, which has long been one of the great mysteries of the English language.

First published in 1933 (this edition in 1939), this book sees Partridge introducing the reader to the eccentric lexicographers Wesley and Captain Grose.

The first introduction to clitics, providing a complete summary of their properties and their uses.

First published in 1980.

Russian Function Words: Meanings and Use is a collection of 463 prepositions, conjunctions, particles, interjections, and parenthetical words.

The first comprehensive introduction to Auslan, exploring key aspects of its structure and use.

Grammar in Action: Building comprehensive grammars of talk-in-interaction investigates the possibility of writing comprehensive grammars of languages based on analyses of interaction.

One of the core challenges in linguistics is elucidating compounds-their formation as well as the reasons their structure varies between languages.

Foreigners often say that English language is "e;easy.

Comparison across formal languages is an essential part of formal linguistics.

As the first volume of a two-volume set that presents a comprehensive syntactical picture of Singapore Mandarin, this title discusses the distinguishing characteristics of the Chinese language and describes the grammar of Singapore Mandarin.

This monograph is about the chains of verbs commonly found in Creole Languages, West African languages, in particular the Kwa sub-group of Niger-Congo, Chinese and certain other languages and have acquired the name of 'serial verbs' in the literature.

This book explores the syntactic structures of Mainland Scandinavian, a term that covers the Northern Germanic languages spoken in Denmark, Norway, Sweden, and parts of Finland.

The Oxford Guide to Middle High German is the most comprehensive self-contained treatment of Middle High German available in English.

Over the past two decades, statistical and other quantitative concepts, models and methods have been increasingly gaining importance and interest in all areas of linguistics and text analysis, as well as in a number of neighboring disciplines and areas of application.

This textbook provides a comprehensive, balanced introduction to syntactic theory.

The series is a platform for contributions of all kinds to this rapidly developing field.

An engaging and accessible A-Z of linguistics from the expert team behind Babel: The Language Magazine.

This study is concerned with the structure of verb phrases in English and Spanish, and with syntactic processes involving VP and Vo.

This title, first published in 1988, is an inquiry into the nature of predication in natural language.

The Routledge Handbook of the English Writing System provides a comprehensive account of the English writing system, both in its current iteration and highlighting the developing trends that will influence its future.

This book analyzes the structure of coordination from two perspectives: the symmetrical properties the construction imposes on its conjuncts, and how conjuncts interact with other categories outside coordination with respect to agreement and other grammatical phenomena.

Drawing on rich data sets, this guide to morphotactics reveals the principles by which a word form''s parts are arranged.

The Interfaces of Chinese Syntax with Semantics and Pragmatics provides an in-depth exploration of a variety of interface phenomena in Chinese, a non-inflectional language, where to a large extent word order constrains its interpretation and defines its grammatical functions.

This handbook compares the main analytic frameworks and methods of contemporary linguistics.

This book of new work by leading international scholars considers developments in the study of diachronic linguistics and linguistic theory, including those concerned with the very definition of language change in the biolinguistic framework, parametric change in a minimalist conception of grammar, the tension between the observed gradual nature of language change and the binary nature of parameters, and whether syntactic change can be triggered internally or requires the external stimuli produced by phonological or morphological change or through language contact.

First published in 1996.

Language description enriches linguistic theory and linguistic theory sharpens language description.

This volume explores both historical and current issues in English usage guides or style manuals.

This work comprises a collection of the writings of Ruqaiya Hasan, an influential figure in the systemic functional linguistic learning school.

English for Journalists has established itself in newsrooms the world over as an invaluable guide to the basics of English and to those aspects of writing, such as reporting speech, house style and jargon, which are specific to the language of journalism.