Grammar, Syntax & Morphology

This book explores unusual patterns of agreement, one of the most intriguing and theoretically challenging aspects of human language. Agreement is ...

Thinking Welsh focuses on how common English words, phrases and constructions map onto Welsh, and highlights the key areas of difference and diffic...

Thinking Welsh focuses on how common English words, phrases and constructions map onto Welsh, and highlights the key areas of difference and diffic...

This book presents high-quality research of a theoretical and/or empirical/experimental nature, focusing on the interface between language and cogn...

This book provides a thorough yet approachable history of the Scots language, a close relative of Standard English with around 1.5 million speakers...

This volume is the first extensive and reliable grammatical description of any traditional language of the Great Andamanese family. Akabea died out...

This is the second book in a two-volume comparative history of negation in the languages of Europe and the Mediterranean. The work integrates typol...

This new critical edition of Aulus Gellius' Noctes Atticae by Leofranc Holford-Strevens is intended to replace the previous Oxford Classical Text b...

Latin is often described as a free word order language, but in general each word order encodes a particular information structure: in that sense, e...

The Oxford Guide to Middle High German is the most comprehensive self-contained treatment of Middle High German available in English. It covers the...

This volume is the first to provide a comprehensive cross-linguistic overview of an understudied typological phenomenon, the clause-level argument-...

The grammatical category of voice covers a wide range of phenomena, including causatives, applicatives, passives, antipassives, middles, and others...

This book provides the first comprehensive overview of the syntax of old Romanian written in English and targeted at a non-Romanian readership. It ...

This book is a general introduction to the structures of the different medieval Romance vernaculars most commonly known as Old or Medieval Spanish,...

This book explores the syntactic structures of Mainland Scandinavian, a term that covers the Northern Germanic languages spoken in Denmark, Norway,...

Why are geese in a gaggle? Are lions actually proud? And do crows deserve their murderous moniker? Collective nouns are one of the most bizarre and...

This book applies the techniques of systemic functional grammar to the description of the Old English historical dialect, 650-1150 CE. Systemic fun...

Why our use of language is highly creative yet also constrainedWe use words and phrases creatively to express ourselves in ever-changing contexts, ...

Gestures are central to the way people use language when they interact. This book places our impulse to gesture at the very heart of linguistic str...

This book provides a pioneering introduction to heritage languages and their speakers, written by one of the founders of this new field. Using exam...

A clear introduction to lexical-functional grammar (LFG), this outstanding textbook sets out a formal approach to the study of language using a ste...

Language contact occurs when speakers of different languages interact and their languages influence one another. Drawing on the author's own first...

Mainland Southeast Asia is one of the most fascinating and complex cultural and linguistic areas in the world. This book provides a rich and compre...

In both Romance and English literature, relational adjectives have received special attention due to their apparently idiosyncratic behaviour, as b...

Anyone writing texts in English is constantly faced with the unavoidable question whether to use open spelling (drinking fountain), hyphenation (fa...

Language, apart from its cultural and social dimension, has a scientific side that is connected not only to the study of 'grammar' in a more or les...

Drawing on vast amounts of new data from live, unscripted radio and TV broadcasts, and the internet, this is a brilliant and original analysis of c...