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...

Italian Words: A Practical Introduction to the Italian Lexical System offers a detailed description of the Italian lexicon, explaining the organiza...

Jim Miller and Regina Weinert investigate syntactic structure and the organization of discourse in spontaneous spoken language. Using data from Eng...

Eloise Jelinek was a leading authority on syntactic and semantic theory, information structure, and several Native American languages (including Lu...

This book explores several topics in Cree morphology, syntax and discourse structure. Cree, an Algonquian language, is non-configurational: the gra...

Italian Words: A Practical Introduction to the Italian Lexical System offers a detailed description of the Italian lexicon, explaining the organiza...

This book, first published in 1990, is a study of both the specific syntactic changes in the more recent stages of Greek and of the nature of synta...

This book provides the first fully-fledged description of the morphological system of Dutch written in English. Inflection, derivation, and compoun...

First published in 1936, this book is intended to provide an outline of Anglo-Saxon grammar for beginners, focusing on well-selected, succinctly st...

Morphology is the branch of linguistics that studies the internal structure of words, word-formation mechanisms that give rise to new words, and me...

This volume contains a selection of papers presented at the Medieval English Studies Symposium held in Poznań (Poland) in November 2010. The papers...

The Routledge Handbook of Phonetics provides a comprehensive and up-to-date compilation of research, history and techniques in phonetics. With cont...

One of the well-known properties of Slavic languages is that they show subject-oriented reflexives. This book presents this phenomenon in Polish in...

This book is designed especially for the literary student of English, and provides a single compact grammar primarily concerned with Classical Old ...

Architecture of the Periphery in Chinese offers a comprehensive survey on the fine structure of the sentence peripheral domain in Mandarin Chinese ...

Grammar, Meaning, and Concepts: A Discourse-Based Approach to English Grammar is a book for language teachers and learners that focuses on the mean...

This volume is a collection of papers approaching the phenomenon of language from a variety of perspectives. Scholars in phonology, morphology, syn...

What do we do when we are about to utter speech? On which linguistic units do we rely? How do these units evolve from childhood to adulthood, or ac...

This book discusses the nature of optionality in second language grammars and the indeterminacy observed in second language users’ linguistic repre...

The central concern of this book is the explanation of linguistic form. It examines in detail certain cross-linguistic patterns in morphological sy...

This monograph examines the relationship between women, language and grammar with particular reference to the Italian context between the sixteenth...

Pronunciation plays a crucial role in learning English as an international language, yet often remains marginalised by educators due to a lack of r...

Neste libro faise unha caracterización do verbo, xustifícanse as análises morfolóxicas do paradigma regular, dos verbos de irregularidade común e d...