Grammar, Syntax & Morphology

Scottish Gaelic: A Comprehensive Grammar is a definitive description of contemporary Gaelic.The volume presents an authoritative account of modern ...

This book presents the state of the art in research on grammaticalization, the process by which lexical items acquire grammatical function, grammat...

This textbook introduces the main aspects of Minimalist syntax through the use of data from a number of varieties of English. In doing so it equips...

How does English work? What are the different elements? How do they all fit together? The fourth edition of this popular textbook takes the reader...

Malayala is the language spoken predominantly in the beautiful state of Kerala, an increasingly popular tourist destination on the tropical Malabar...

This book argues that the verbal aspect of the Greek Perfect is complex, involving not one but two aspects, where the perfective applies to events ...

Thoroughly revised and expanded, Introduction to Attic Greek, 2nd Edition gives student and instructors the most comprehensive and accessible prese...

This book implements a multidisciplinary approach in describing language both in its ontogenetic development and in its close interrelationship wit...

Les recherches sur les marqueurs discursifs ont connu un extraordinaire essor ces dernières décennies. Le présent ouvrage les aborde dans leur dime...

This book provides a fascinating account of the psycholinguistic and social factors behind variation in speech timing in US English. With detailed ...

The authors explore some of the ways in which standardization, ideology and linguistics are interrelated. Through a number of case studies they sho...

A New Reference Grammar of Modern Spanish is a comprehensive, cohesive and clear guide to the forms and structures of Spanish as it is written and ...

In Bracketing Paradox and Direct Compositionality: Montagovian Morphology for Bound Morphemes, Kazuhiko Fukushima resolves bracketing paradoxes in ...

Morphological typology is usually limited to the realm of grammar. Accordingly, English is considered an analytic language due to its poor grammati...

This paper presents a semantico-syntactic description of the noun phrase from a new perspective, that of the generative lexicon. The analysis propo...

This book contains an original analysis of the existential there-sentence from a philosophical-linguistic perspective. At its core is the claim tha...

This monograph examines how language contributes to the social coordination of actions in talk-in-interaction. Focusing on a set of frequently used...

Rules and Dispositions in Language Use explains how correct language use is governed by both rules and general human dispositions. It does so by br...

A new edition of a successful undergraduate textbook on contemporary international Standard English grammar, based on Huddleston and Pullum's earli...

This book presents an account of object shift, a word order phenomenon found in most of the Scandinavian languages where an object occurs unexpecte...