Grammar, Syntax & Morphology

This book discusses patterns of predication and their grammatical and semantic implications in a variety of African languages. It covers several pr...

This volume brings together the latest diachronic research on syntactic features and their role in restricting syntactic change. The chapters addre...

The highly frequent word items TO and OF are often conceived merely as prepositions, carrying little meaning in themselves. This book disputes that...

The first Okinawan language textbook written for English-speakers, Basic Okinawan: From Conversation to Grammar is a groundbreaking work that will ...

This book presents a 100% novel approach to phraseology: A language-universal deductive calculus of all theoretically possible phraseological expre...

Displacement (of linguistic expressions) is a ubiquitous phenomenon in natural language. In the generative tradition, displacement is modelled in t...

An Annotated Syntax Reader brings together a collection of seminal articles published over the last forty years that demonstrate the empirical and ...

Illicit digital activity is a substantial and growing problem. Extremists' use of social media over the past decade or so has raised increasing con...

This volume examines the concept of 'word' in its many guises and across many languages. 'Word' is a cornerstone for the understanding of any langu...

The zero coding of referents or other clausal constituents is one of the most natural, communicatively and cognitively-transparent grammatical devi...

This is the very first publication mapping onomatopoeia in the languages of the world. The publication provides a comprehensive, multi-level descri...