Grammar, Syntax & Morphology

Providing a detailed and comprehensive account of the development of phrasal verbs from early modern to present-day English, this study covers almo...

Korean has proven to be an invaluable language to theoretical linguists, providing abundant examples of, and counterexamples to, key theoretical is...

Binomials, such as for and against, dead or alive, to have and to hold, can be broadly defined as two words belonging to the same grammatical categ...

This book examines the cross-linguistic expression of changes of location or state, taking as a starting point Talmy's typological generalization t...

Highly readable and eminently practical, Syntactic Analysis: The Basics focuses on bringing students with little background in linguistics up to sp...

The particular words, whose use and meaning is examined in this study, are commonly used by people with strong convictions about moral issues and i...

This contrastive study analyzes the prefixation (notably the ablative type) of specific verb classes in Latin, Greek, Iberoromance languages (Span...

Linguistic gender is a complex and amazing category that has puzzled and still puzzles theoretical linguists, typologists, philosophers, cognitive ...

This book is the first dedicated collection of systemic functional descriptions of Japanese. It represents the most recent, international work desc...

Different theoretical positions can lead to conflicting restrictions on our understanding of what morphology is about. In this textbook, Laurie Bau...

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...