Grammar, Syntax & Morphology

This title, first published in 1988, is an inquiry into the nature of predication in natural language. The study is based on the hypothesis that in...

The book explores ways in which the formal methods of linguistics can cast light on the structure of verbal interaction, and in particular consider...

The temporal structure of Wuthering Heights has long been regarded as opaque or even flawed. This is explained by the fact that the years 1778, 180...

This title, first published in 1985, provides a detailed analysis of aspects of the semantics and the syntax of some wh-constructions. The first pa...

In a time when female scholars were rare in Japanese universities, Michiko Ogura completed an excellent doctorate in Old English syntax, then achie...

REVIEW FROM PREVIOUS EDITION: 'A slim and useful student textbook for English Syntax. Although most of the examples are from English, the book intr...

English Vocabulary Elements draws on the tools of modern linguistics to help students acquire an effective understanding of learned, specialized, a...

This scholarly research Handbook aggregates the broad-ranging, interdisciplinary, multidimensional strands of writing research from scholars worldw...

Locality is a key concept not only in linguistic theorizing, but in explaining pattern of acquisition and patterns of recovery in garden path sente...

The subject of this study, first published in 1979, is the role of the complementizer in English syntax and its implications for syntactic theory. ...

Originally published in 1937, this book is a practical manual of Kanuri which will be of use to both the layman and the linguist. This analysis mak...

First published in 1997. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Structure and Function of the Arabic Verb is a corpus-based study that unveils the morpho-syntax and the semantics of the Arabic verb. Approaches t...

This essay challenges several patterns of thinking common in twentieth-century linguistics. The most pervasive of these is our habit of looking at ...

The main goal of this study, first published in 1994, is to present a substantial part of the grammar of French. This goal is achieved by bringing ...

The volume comprises papers that were presented at the 14th European conference on «Formal Description of Slavic Languages 10.5» at Masaryk Univers...

This simple introduction to the history of the German language seeks to provide students who have some knowledge of modern German, but no knowledge...

REVIEW FROM PREVIOUS EDITION: 'A slim and useful student textbook for English Syntax. Although most of the examples are from English, the book intr...

The book is not only dedicated to linguists, but also to readers who are not familiar with notations developed in linguistics. The first part of th...

This scholarly research Handbook aggregates the broad-ranging, interdisciplinary, multidimensional strands of writing research from scholars worldw...

This volume brings together an international group of linguists from a diverse range of research backgrounds to explore the cycles of change in the...

Anxious about the apostrophe? Confused by the comma? Stumped by the semicolon? Join Lynne Truss on a hilarious tour through the rules of punctuatio...

Illicit digital activity is a substantial and growing problem. Extremists' use of social media over the past decade or so has raised increasing con...

The present volume provides a cross-linguistic perspective on the development of tense-aspect in L2 acquisition. Data-based studies included in thi...