Grammar, Syntax & Morphology

The contributions gathered in this volume investigate the impact of shared knowledge on linguistic structurewhether shared knowledge determines th...

Drawing on detailed case studies across a range of languages, including English, German, Dutch, Italian, Portuguese, Polish, Czech, Russian, Lithua...

Lexicology is about words, their meanings and the relationships between them, their origins and their structure. It combines the study of derivatio...

At the border between Gallo-Romance and Italo-Romance, the dialects spoken in Menton as well as in the Roya and Nervia Valleys share distinctive sy...

Esta obra tiene como objetivo fundamental profundizar en las relaciones y en los límites que existen entre la sintaxis, la morfología, el léxico, l...

Este libro presenta un estudio contrastivo de las figuras retoricas de orden semantico mas prominentemente empleadas en tres corpus de notas period...

This book focuses on the typological differences among the four most widely spoken Romance languages--French, Italian, Portuguese, and Spanish--and...

An Introduction to English Sentence Structure puts the study of English sentences into the meaningful perspective provided by the broad essentials ...

An Introduction to English Sentence Structure puts the study of English sentences into the meaningful perspective provided by the broad essentials ...

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

This book presents a novel account of syntactic and semantic variation in copular and existential sentences in Classical Hebrew. Like many language...

This volume presents new research on the pragmatics of personal pronouns. Whereas personal pronouns used to have a reputation of poor substitutes f...

'A thoroughly entertaining and absorbing little publication, set out in an accessible and easy-to-read style' - The BookbagWhy are geese in a gaggl...

The creators of An Illustrated Book of Bad Arguments return at last with a desperately timely guide to rhetoric. Have you ever wondered how languag...

Adverbs as a word class are notoriously difficult to define. The volume deals with the delimitation of this category, its internal structure, the m...

This volume represents the first comprehensive work on Japanese clause structure conducted within the framework of Cognitive Grammar. The author pr...

The papers in this tightly focused collection all report recent research on aspects of rendaku (sequential voicing), the well-known m...

This volume investigates the clausal syntax of Wolof, an understudied Atlantic language of Senegal. The goals of the work are descriptive, analytic...

Cleft constructions have long presented an analytical challenge for syntactic theory. This monograph argues that clefts and related constructions c...

Word order is one of the major properties on which languages are compared and its study is fundamental to linguistics. This comprehensive survey pr...

What do you know, if you know that a language has 'Object Verb' structure rather than 'Verb Object'? Answering this question and many others, this ...

Word order is one of the major properties on which languages are compared and its study is fundamental to linguistics. This comprehensive survey pr...

Bidirectional Optimality Theory (BiOT) emerged at the turn of the millennium as a fusion of Radical Pragmatics and Optimality Theoretic Semantics. ...

Le present recueil rassemble douze etudes consacrees a des problemes de syntaxe verbale et a certains faits fondamentaux de lexique et de grammaire...

This volume proposes a new way to address the classical question concerning the relation between language, cognition, and culture from the perspect...

This monograph addresses two issues, phases and adverbials. It proposes that there is a correlation between the phase structure, the tripartite qua...

Language structure and use are largely shaped by cognitive processes such as categorizing, framing, inferencing, associative (metonymic), and analo...

One of the most striking trends across linguistic research in recent years has been the examination of the interfaces between the various subcompon...

This collection consists of thirteen contributions focusing on the latest trends of information structure and agreement, couched in the most curren...

This volume is an important contribution to the diachrony of non-canonical subjects in a typological perspective. The questions addressed concern t...

The problem of form and meaning in morphology has produced an impressive amount of scholarly work over the last hundred years. Nevertheless, many i...

This book represents the state of the art on rightward movement in one thematically coherent volume. It documents the growing importance of the com...

In this original study, Hilde Hasselgard discusses the use of adverbials in English, through examining examples found in everyday texts. Adverbials...

This textbooks introduces the main arguments for an innate, domain specific capacity to learn human language. It guides you through the growth of l...

Books in this series provide readers with a detailed description and explanation of key areas of English Language study. The authors presuppose a b...