Grammar, syntax and morphology

An accessible exploration of how defectiveness emerges from the implicative organization of paradigms and the structure of the lexicon.

An exploration of how the language faculty can be studied as exact science, providing its conceptual basis and experimental demonstration.

An accessible exploration of how defectiveness emerges from the implicative organization of paradigms and the structure of the lexicon.

Drawing on everyday telephone and video interactions, this book surveys how English speakers use grammar to formulate responses in conversation.

This new introduction explores all aspects of language change, with an emphasis on the role of cognition and language use.

This account of language acquisition in a multilingual context explains how hybrid grammars develop and can result in language change.

Drawing on everyday telephone and video interactions, this book surveys how English speakers use grammar to formulate responses in conversation.

This account of language acquisition in a multilingual context explains how hybrid grammars develop and can result in language change.

An introduction to genetics aimed at language scientists, with carefully selected concepts, methods and findings exploring language and speech.

This detailed, corpus-based study shows how the placement and usage of the English preposition has changed since the sixteenth century.

A guide to the relations between a predicate and its arguments, for researchers and advanced students in linguistics.

A history of ellipsis marks and their functions in major works of English literature over the past 500 years.

This book develops a unified theory of structural case and applies it to data from more than twenty unrelated languages.

This book develops a unified theory of structural case and applies it to data from more than twenty unrelated languages.

A history of ellipsis marks and their functions in major works of English literature over the past 500 years.

An introduction to genetics aimed at language scientists, with carefully selected concepts, methods and findings exploring language and speech.

This detailed, corpus-based study shows how the placement and usage of the English preposition has changed since the sixteenth century.

A guide to the relations between a predicate and its arguments, for researchers and advanced students in linguistics.

This book sheds new light on the form and function of morphemes in construction of words in the Bengali language.

Proposes a novel theory of parts of speech, bringing together the latest research and discoveries.

Proposes a novel theory of parts of speech, bringing together the latest research and discoveries.

The first book-length treatment of signalling nouns in academic English that combines discourse and corpus-based approaches.

An evaluation of Chomsky''s work from the perspectives of linguistics, evolution of language, history of physics, and philosophy of mind.

This book proposes a new model of syntax, in which all the fundamental units and properties of syntax are rethought.

The first book-length treatment of signalling nouns in academic English that combines discourse and corpus-based approaches.

This book proposes a new model of syntax, in which all the fundamental units and properties of syntax are rethought.

An evaluation of Chomsky''s work from the perspectives of linguistics, evolution of language, history of physics, and philosophy of mind.

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

Drawing on extensive corpus-based research, this book explores the nature of coordinate constructions in three case studies.

Drawing on extensive corpus-based research, this book explores the nature of coordinate constructions in three case studies.

The most up-to-date A-Z resource available for English grammar, this dictionary provides concise definitions and explanations of hundreds of terms.

Provides concise and clear definitions of all the terms a student is likely to encounter in the study of linguistics.

The most up-to-date A-Z resource available for English grammar, this dictionary provides concise definitions and explanations of hundreds of terms.

Provides concise and clear definitions of all the terms a student is likely to encounter in the study of linguistics.

This book provides an introduction to contemporary work on transformational grammar.

Only a few centuries ago the English language consisted of a collection of dialects spoken mainly by monolinguals and only within the shores of a small island.

A thorough rewriting to reflect advances in typology and universals in the past decade.

This major contribution to the study of discourse pragmatics investigates the ''information structure'' of sentences.

An updated and substantially revised edition of Peter Matthews''s well-known Morphology, first published in 1974.

This book is about investigating the way people use language in speech and writing, introducing the corpus-based approach to the study of language.

A comprehensive and accessible 2004 textbook on syntactic analysis, working within the ''Lexical Functional Grammar'' framework.

This textbook, first published in 2004, provides a concise, clear, and accessible introduction to current syntactic theory.

First published in 1997, this book addresses the question: What is the interpretation of English there-existential construction?

First published in 1997, this book addresses the question: What is the interpretation of English there-existential construction?

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

First published in 1987, this book is an attempt to re-establish semiotic on the basis of principles consistent with its past history, rather than the 'cultural semiotics' of the European tradition, and especially with the guiding ideas of Peirce and Morris.

First published in 1987, this book is an attempt to re-establish semiotic on the basis of principles consistent with its past history, rather than the 'cultural semiotics' of the European tradition, and especially with the guiding ideas of Peirce and Morris.

First published in 1982, this book looks at a wide variety of issues concerning the vast field of study that is 'semiotics.

First published in 1982, this book looks at a wide variety of issues concerning the vast field of study that is 'semiotics.

First published in 1997, this book focuses on the semantics of definite and indefinite descriptions - taking the presuppositional theory of definiteness and indefiniteness proposed by Heim as a starting point.