Grammar, Syntax & Morphology

This work examines the way in which prominencea perceptual feature that is highlighted by speakers as being important through prosodic, syntactic, ...

Grammar by Diagram is a book designed for anyone who wishes to improve grammatical understanding and skill. Using traditional sentence diagraming a...

This textbook introduces and explains the fundamental issues, major research questions, and current approaches in the study of grammaticalization -...

Increasingly, writing handbooks are seen as over-produced and overpriced. One stands out: The Broadview Guide to Writing is published in an elegant...

Coping with Obscurity publishes the papers discussed at the Brown University Workshop on Earlier Egyptian grammar in March, 2013. The workshop uni...

14% discount on a subscription to the complete series, please contact us via orders@aup.nl. The Syntax of Dutch aims at presenting a synthesis of ...

14% discount on a subscription to the complete series, please contact us via orders@aup.nl. The Syntax of Dutch aims at presenting a synthesis of ...

This volumes offers a study of all known manuscripts and incunabular editions of four classical texts: Vitruvius' De architectura, Cato's De agri c...

This is an open access title available under the terms of a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 International licence. It is free to read on the Oxford Academic platfo...

Prosody is one of the core components of language and speech, indicating information about syntax, turn-taking in conversation, types of utterances...

The Third Space and Chinese Language Pedagogy presents the Third Space as a new frame through which foreign language pedagogy is conceptualized as ...

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

This volume examines subordinate wh-clauses that lack an interrogative interpretation, particularly those in which the wh-word seems to deviate fro...

This book explores noun phrase (NP) complexity in English, showing that it is best accounted for both by a linear and a hierarchical parameter: its...

This book explores the long history of the Arabic language, from pre-Islamic Arabic via the Classical era of the Arabic grammarians up to the prese...

This book aims to clarify some puzzles that have been topical in formal linguistics for many decades now. It concerns the status of English and, fo...

Information structure, or the way the information in a sentence is 'divided' into categories such as topic, focus, comment, background, and old ver...

Syntax is the system of rules that we subconsciously follow when we build sentences. Whereas the grammar of English (or other languages) might look...

Preposition placement, the competition between preposition stranding (What is he talking about?) and pied-piping (About what is he talking?), is on...

This practical coursebook introduces all the basics of modern syntactic analysis in a simple step-by-step fashion. Each unit is constructed so that...

Based on fieldwork carried out in a Mayan village in Guatemala, this book examines local understandings of mind through the lens of language and cu...

The phenomenon of multimodality is central to our everyday interaction. 'Hybrid' modes of communication that combine traditional uses of language w...

Models of theoretical linguistics now emphasize the meeting points, or interfaces, between different aspects of our language capacity. Syntactic op...

This new edition of Andrew Radford's outstanding resource for students is a step-by-step, practical introduction to English syntax and syntactic pr...

The Germanic language family ranges from national languages with standardized varieties, including German, Dutch and Danish, to minority languages ...

The phenomenon of case has long been a central topic of study in linguistics. While the majority of the literature so far has been on the syntax of...

Extensively revised and updated, this second edition provides, in an A-Z format, an analysis of the most important generalizations that have been m...

A clear introduction to lexical-functional grammar (LFG), this outstanding textbook sets out a formal approach to the study of language using a ste...

Much of today's communication is carried out through various kinds of humor, and we therefore need to be able to understand its many aspects. Here,...