Grammar, Syntax & Morphology

Much of today's communication is carried out through various kinds of humor, and we therefore need to be able to understand its many aspects. Here,...

For anyone who wants to become a more effective writer, a more perceptive reader, and a more precise thinker, an understanding of English sentence ...

This path-breaking study of the standardisation of English goes well beyond the traditional prescriptivism versus descriptivism debate. It argues t...

Much of today's communication is carried out through various kinds of humor, and we therefore need to be able to understand its many aspects. Here,...

This is the first full-scale reference grammar of Classical Greek in English in a century. The first work of its kind to reflect significant advanc...

Transforming Early English shows how historical pragmatics can offer a powerful explanatory framework for the changes medieval English and Older Sc...

In syntactic analysis, as in linguistics generally, the skills required to first identify, and then make sense of, complex patterns in linguistic d...

In its 1500-year history, the English language has seen dramatic grammatical changes. This book offers a comprehensive and reader-friendly account ...

Developing the research, writing and referencing skills vital to achieving success in an academic environment is a necessary part of university stu...

Sometimes dismissed as linguistically epiphenomenal, inflectional paradigms are, in reality, the interface of a language's morphology with its synt...

The book shows how the system of English predicate complementation has been undergoing an amazing amount of variation and change in recent centurie...

This book brings a basic yet detailed description of Icelandic nominalizations to bear on the general theoretical and architectural issues that nom...

This book focuses on conversation analysis in Czech, including the prosody-syntax-interface and online-syntax in real time that deals with turn ini...

A Systemic Functional Grammar of Cantonese adopts Systemic Functional Linguistics to describe the grammar of Cantonese, and to push the description...

A Systemic Functional Grammar of Cantonese adopts Systemic Functional Linguistics to describe the grammar of Cantonese, and to push the description...

This book proposes a novel analysis of Nominal Construction from the syntax-semantics interface. It is based on the newly developed framework of Ra...

This book explores the many factors that influenced syntactic change in English. Aimed at advanced students, this book discusses a number of approa...