Grammar, Syntax & Morphology

This book collects the best and most influential essays of one of the world's most original linguistic scholars and thinkers. They show Pieter Seur...

Aims to chart the whole realm of the syntax of Old English. The difficulties inherent in the study of old English syntax make a prescriptive analys...

In this work, Ken Safir develops a comprehensive theory on the role of anaphora in syntax. First, he contends that the complementary distribution o...

This work investigates the syntax of the higher portion of the functional structure of the clause using comparative data from hundreds of Northern ...

This is a collection of previously unpublished papers on a specific topic in historical linguistics - clause structure, an issue of central importa...

'Cognitive Grammar' is a theory of language which has been developing since the late 1970's. Underlying the theory is the assumption that language ...

La Introducción a la sintaxis del español proporciona una panorámica general de la sintaxis del español. El libro analiza el uso y la variación int...

This volume introduces the study of language attrition - the forgetting of language. In this first collection devoted to second language attrition,...

This work investigates the syntax of the higher portion of the functional structure of the clause using comparative data from hundreds of Northern ...

The Routledge Handbook of Eurolinguistics provides a comprehensive survey of the typical features among European languages in cultural, geographica...

This volume explores the multiple aspects of morphological complexity, investigating primarily whether certain aspects of morphology can be conside...

This volume explores word order change within the framework of diachronic generative syntax. Word order is at the core of natural language grammati...

The importance of sound in poetry is indisputable, yet it is not at all an easy subject to discuss, and is rarely treated systematically by literar...

This volume presents a sketch of the Meaning-Text linguistic approach, richly illustrated by examples borrowed mainly, but not exclusively, from En...

This book addresses a question fundamental to any discussion of grammatical theory and grammatical variation: to what extent can principles of gram...

The Haida people make their home on the Queen Charlotte Islands in British Columbia and on Prince of Wales Island off the coast of southern Alaska....

This is Volume II of fourteen in the India: Language and Literature Series. Originally published in 1878, this book offers information on the Langu...

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

The phenomena discussed by the authors range from synthetic compounding in English to agreement alternations in Arabic and complementizer agreement...

This book studies the properties of imperative clauses in the context of a theory of Universal Grammar. Daniela Isac argues that the specificity of...

This book, the second volume in A Linguistic History of English, describes the development of Old English from Proto-Germanic. Like Volume I, it is...

Early Greek Relative Clauses contributes to an old debate currently enjoying a revival: should we expect languages spoken a few thousand years ago,...

This book provides an introduction to compositional semantics and to the syntax/semantics interface. It is rooted within the tradition of model the...

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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 at Oxford Scholarship Online ...

The essays in this collection treat the whole of Ralph Ellison's body of work, including his famous novel Invisible Man. The volume confronts Ellis...

This volume explores both historical and current issues in English usage guides or style manuals. Guides of this sort have a long history: while Fo...

The strikingly unrestricted syntactic distribution of nouns in many Bantu languages often leads to proposals that syntactic case does not play an a...

This book provides a comprehensive account of the role of recursion in language in two distinct but interconnected ways. First, David J. Lobina exa...

This book examines the nature of the interface between word meaning and syntax, one of the most controversial and elusive issues in contemporary li...

Japanese syntax has been studied within the framework of generative linguistics for nearly 50 years. But when it is studied in comparison with othe...

In this book, leading linguists explore the empirical scope of syntactic theory, by concentrating on a set of phenomena for which both syntactic an...

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 at Oxford Scholarship Online ...

This book presents an analysis of how speakers of typologically diverse languages report present-time situations. It begins from the assumption tha...

This book brings together leading international scholars to consider whether in some languages there are phenomena which are unique to morphology, ...

The phenomena discussed by the authors range from synthetic compounding in English to agreement alternations in Arabic and complementizer agreement...

The first lessons we learn in school can stay with us all our lives, but this was nowhere more true than in the last decades of the fourteenth cent...

This book focuses on the relationship between syntax and meaning. Terje Lohndal's core claim is that it is possible to create a transparent mapping...

This book provides a critical investigation of syntactic change and the factors that influence it. Converging empirical and theoretical considerati...

This book explores grammatical gender in the Romance languages and dialects and its evolution from Latin. Michele Loporcaro investigates the signif...

This book presents new data and a formal analysis of the inflectional system and syntax of Kayardild, a typologically striking language of Northern...

In this book, leading linguists explore the empirical scope of syntactic theory, by concentrating on a set of phenomena for which both syntactic an...

This book sets out a new reconstruction for the Semitic case system. It is based on a detailed analysis of the expression of grammatical roles and ...

English Lexicogenesis investigates the processes by which novel words are coined in English, and how they are variously discarded or adopted, and f...

This is the first guide and introduction to the extraordinary range of languages in Amazonia, which include some of the most the most fascinating i...

This volume addresses some of the most important approaches to the following key questions in contemporary generative syntactic theory: What are th...