Grammar, Syntax & Morphology

A groundbreaking, comprehensive formal theory of grammatical person that recasts its empirical foundations and re-envisions its theoretical core. ...

This book provides a new approach to the study of clitic doubling in Spanish, based on spontaneous data considered within their broad discourse con...

Adjectives are comparatively less well studied than the lexical categories of nouns and verbs. The present volume brings together studies in the sy...

Until recently, mixed languages were considered an oddity of contact linguistics, with debates about whether or not they actually existed stifling ...

This volume is a collection of original contributions to the study of lexical allomorphy, with a focus on Optimality Theory's distinctive take on t...

This volume explores in detail the empirical and conceptual content of the definiteness effect in grammar. It brings together a variety of relevant...

This volume links Cognitive Grammar explanations to the area of second-language learning and instructed grammar teaching. It represents a contribut...

The aim of this book is try to illustrate with numerous examples how quantitative methods can most fruitfully contribute to linguistic analysis and...

The Oxford Guide to the Romance Languages is the most exhaustive treatment of the Romance languages available today. Leading international scholars...

This volume brings together current research in theoretical syntax and its interfaces in the Polynesian language family, with chapters focusing on ...

This monograph investigates how Japanese employs different structures found in the grammatical voice, both synchronically and diachronically. The J...

This research monograph is an empirical and theoretical study of clause-final verbal complexes in the history of German. The book presents corpus s...

This work presents Maurice Chapelan in three distinct ways: firstly, as a poet, biographer, literary critic and writer of aphorisms; secondly, as a...

This volume offers a new perspective on the syntax of nominal expressions in various European languages, arguing that articles do not directly and ...

This book is a collection of articles dealing with various aspects of grammatical relations and argument structure in the languages of Europe and N...

This book envisions the study of bare noun phrases as a field of research in its own right rather than an accessory matter in the wider domain of n...

This volume offers the first comprehensive description of English imperatives made from a Cognitive Linguistic perspective. It proposes a new way o...

This monograph presents an experimental and theoretical inquiry into the role of sentential form and variation in the prosodic structure of Catalan...

This book is the first attempt to provide a unified account of the be-possessive syntax and its extension to the modal and the perfect construction...

This book provides ten case studies in Functional Discourse Grammar (FDG), a typologically-oriented theory of the organization of natural languages...

In light of recent generative minimalism, and comparative parametric theory of language variation, the book investigates key features and parameter...

Morpho-Syntactic Patterns in Spoken Korean English presents fundamental research on the use of English by South Korean speakers. Despite the extrao...

This volume is an important contribution to the theoretical and empirical study of the interactions of grammatical components in Chinese and other ...

The papers in this volume focus on the dynamics of one specific cell in morphological paradigms the genitive. The high amount of diachronic and sy...

This volume explores linguistic identity construction across online and offline contexts. The contributors focus on ''clusivity'' as an overarching...

This monograph explores the grammar of modifier PPs in Japanese, concentrating on their word order. The study argues that (i) modifier PPs are hier...

This volume explores how the patterning of surface variation can shed light on the grammatical representation of variable phenomena. The authors ex...

This monograph presents a theory of ellipsis licensing in terms of Agree and applies it to several elliptical phenomena in both English and Dutch. ...

This monograph addresses divergent views in the linguistic literature on whether German displays the that-trace effect and other subject/object asy...