Grammar, Syntax & Morphology

Recent trends in syntax and morphology have shown the great importance of doing research on variation in closely related languages. This book cente...

This textbook provides a critical introduction to major research topics and current approaches in linguistic typology, the study of structural vari...

This book sets out to answer a question that many linguists have been hesitant to ask: are some languages better than others? Can we say, for insta...

This book offers a concise introduction to synchronic English linguistics. Following an introduction to language and linguistics as such, it provid...

The main question of this book, which focuses on the role of the Old Testament in the South African context, is: If reread from an African liberati...

The present volume is a monographic study devoted to selected aspects of English historical phonology, orthography, syntax, morphology and semantic...

English verbs of speaking have been affected by profound and intriguing changes, in particular between Old and Middle English. These changes crucia...

The volume deals with valency phenomena in verbs and complex deverbal lexical structures (nominalizations, adjectivizations and compounds) in a var...

This book is concerned with the diachronic development of selected topic and focus markers in Spanish, Portuguese and French. On the one hand, it f...

This book is concerned with the diachronic development of selected topic and focus markers in Spanish, Portuguese and French. On the one hand, it f...

This book provides a summary of Radical Minimalism, putting forth a neurocognitively implementable theory of grammar as I-language. Radical Minimal...

The volume presents the analysis of the tripartite deictics in the Bulgarian Rhodope dialect (Slavic), namely the use of the three definite forms -...

The volume presents the analysis of the tripartite deictics in the Bulgarian Rhodope dialect (Slavic), namely the use of the three definite forms -...

This book explores unusual patterns of agreement, one of the most intriguing and theoretically challenging aspects of human language. Agreement is ...

Thinking Welsh focuses on how common English words, phrases and constructions map onto Welsh, and highlights the key areas of difference and diffic...

Thinking Welsh focuses on how common English words, phrases and constructions map onto Welsh, and highlights the key areas of difference and diffic...

This book presents high-quality research of a theoretical and/or empirical/experimental nature, focusing on the interface between language and cogn...

This book provides a thorough yet approachable history of the Scots language, a close relative of Standard English with around 1.5 million speakers...

This volume is the first extensive and reliable grammatical description of any traditional language of the Great Andamanese family. Akabea died out...

This is the second book in a two-volume comparative history of negation in the languages of Europe and the Mediterranean. The work integrates typol...

This new critical edition of Aulus Gellius' Noctes Atticae by Leofranc Holford-Strevens is intended to replace the previous Oxford Classical Text b...

Latin is often described as a free word order language, but in general each word order encodes a particular information structure: in that sense, e...

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

This volume is the first to provide a comprehensive cross-linguistic overview of an understudied typological phenomenon, the clause-level argument-...