Grammar, Syntax & Morphology

It is now well established that phonological -- and orthographic -- codes play a crucial role in the recognition of isolated words and in understan...

The present monograph deals with certain aspects of the syntax of the Arabic language which includes both Classical Arabic and Modern Standard Arab...

Spanish Subjunctive in Context is a new type of subjunctive resource manual. It aims to prove the essential ingredient missing in traditional gramm...

Understanding English Grammar presents a linguistic introduction to the structure of English that is accessible to students who have had little or ...

First Published in 2002. This volume is part of the 'Outstanding Dissertations in Linguistics' series. This book investigates the processing of ell...

This important new study examines in detail a semantic-pragmatic pattern surrounding the basic verb 'acquire' in nearly 30 Southeast Asian language...

Universal Grammar (UG) is a theory of both the fundamental principles for all possible languages and the language faculty in the "initial state" of...

This volume investigates the interconnections between language and literacy in terms of the structures of language as well as the linguistic contex...

During the last 15 years, cognitive scientists have discovered things about the nature and importance of metaphor that are startling because of the...

This book presents rigorous and criterial definitions of the major parts of speech - noun, verb, and adjective - that account both for their syntac...

First published in 1982. The reasons behind the establishment of this Series on Arabic linguistics are manifold. First: Arabic linguistics is devel...

The Routledge Language Family Series is aimed at undergraduates and postgraduates of linguistics and language, or those with an interest in histori...

First Published in 2002. This volume is part of the 'Outstanding Dissertations in Linguistics' series. This study focuses on the Japanese particle ...

This volume collects eleven papers written between 1991 and 2016, some of them unpublished, which explore various aspects of the architecture of gr...

Volume 3 of African Languages includes articles originally published in 1977, written in French and English on educational, literary, cultural, his...

Generative Grammar presents a substantial contribution to the field of linguistics in drawing together for the first time the author's most signifi...

In the mid 20th century the people known as the Logbara were a diverse collection of groups fleeing from different parts and having different socai...

First Published in 2002. This volume is part of the 'Outstanding Dissertations in Linguistics' series. The aim of this thesis is to investigate the...

What did eighth-century Japanese sound like? How does one decode its complex script? This book provides the definitive answers to these questions u...

The social implications of multilingualism is a field of study on whcih systematic research began only in the second half of the 20th century in Af...

The issue of how interpretation results from the form and type of syntactic structures present in language is one which is central and hotly debate...

Relational Grammar had its beginnings in the early 1970s. In this theory of the structure of language grammatical relations are taken to be `undefi...

Volume 2 of African Languages includes articles originally published in 1976, written in French and English on educational, literary, cultural, his...

This dictionary is the ideal supplement to the German/English Dictionary of Idioms, which together give a rich source of material for the translato...