Grammar, Syntax & Morphology

These volumes contain a selection of contributions first presented at the 21st International Colloquium on Latin Linguistics, held in Santiago de ...

In languages with aspect-based split ergativity, one portion of the grammar follows an ergative pattern, while another shows a split. In this book,...

Drawing on range of text genres including novels, poems, health forums, holiday guestbooks, prayers, political songs and news stories, each chapter...

This book is the first full-length volume to offer a comprehensive introduction to the English spoken in Britain's oldest overseas colony, and, sin...

Die Termini Prototyp, Schema und Konstruktion bezeichnen drei zentrale Konzepte, anhand derer im Rahmen funktional-kognitiv ausgerichteter Grammati...

La obra examina el impacto que la semántica verbal, en concreto la telicidad y la afectación, ejerce sobre el marcado diferencial de objeto (MDO) e...

Introspektive Zugänge und die Detailanalyse von Einzelfällen gehören in der historischen Grammatikforschung nach wie vor zu den gängigen Praktiken....

Das Buch widmet sich den Zusammenhängen zwischen Wortbildungen als morphologische Konstruktionen einerseits und geschriebenen wie gesprochenen Text...

In diesem Band untersuchen Forscher/-innen aus der germanistischen Linguistik Remotivierungsprozesse im Deutschen auf den Gebieten der Morphologie,...

This volume has six essays and one book review. One essay is in Arabic.

The book explores finite and nonfinite clausal verb complementation in World Englishes. It provides an assessment of the influence of language cont...

This book is a study of the micro-variation in the realization of definiteness across languages belonging to the Balkan Romance family: Romanian, A...

Spanische nominalisierte Infinitive können eher nominal strukturiert sein oder überwiegend verbale Wortartenmerkmale zeigen. Welchen Vorkommens- un...

Die vorliegende Studie stellt die in der internationalen Forschungsliteratur zur Argumentweglassung weit verbreitete Annahme, dass objektlosen Vari...

This volume presents key results of the Estudo comparativo de variedades africanas, brasileiras e europeias do Português (ALFAL Project 21): (i) a...

This volume investigates a wide range of topics in the study of Gothic, the oldest Germanic language to be attested in any substantial texts, some ...

In this volume, Ray Jackendoff and Jenny Audring embark on a major reconceptualization of linguistic theory as seen through the lens of morphology....

This volume presents the latest research in linguistic modules and interfaces in Lexical-Functional Grammar (LFG). LFG has a highly modular design ...

While Verb-third (V3) patterns have long been studied in verb-second (V2) languages, a similar pattern in which an initial adverbial constituent is...

With more than 50 years of teaching experience between them, Ilse Depraetere and Chad Langford present a grammar pitched precisely at advanced lear...

This book tackles morphology from a cognitive viewpoint and links theory and practice. Its practical aim is to provide a comprehensive description ...

This volume draws on insights from a range of theoretical perspectives to explore objects, agreement, and their intersecting angles, based on novel...

This book provides the most comprehensive and detailed formal account to date of the evolution of French syntax. It makes use of the latest formal ...

How learners and speakers make sense of their language and make their language make sense. Is it dived or dove? Dwarfs or dwarves? If the best stud...

American English Grammar introduces students to American English in detail, from parts of speech, phrases, and clauses to punctuation and explainin...

This book examines a challenging problem at the intersection of theoretical linguistics and the psychology of language: the interpretation of gradi...

La Biblia es sin duda el texto más influyente de la historia cultural europea, con una profunda repercusión en variados campos del arte y el pensam...

Die Arbeit untersucht evidentielle Satzadverbien wie anscheinend und offenbar und verknüpft die internationale Forschung zu Satzadverbien, Evidenti...

Dieses Handbuch ist eine wissenschaftliche, moderne, gut lesbare Grammatik, die als Grundlage für Lehren wie Lernen, als Nachschlagewerk in Zweifel...

For undergraduate and graduate level courses in English grammar, syntax, and writing; also appropriate for a course in teaching English at the seco...

This volume presents the most wide-ranging treatment available today of the Malayo-Polynesian languages of Southeast Asia and their outliers, a gro...

This volume presents cutting edge linguistic research across the fields of syntax, semantics, morphology, translation studies, language acquisition...

The German Linguistic Studies Series is a comprehensive and outstanding forum in its field. It has borne the name of its subject in its title since...