Grammar, Syntax & Morphology

Lexical Ontological Semantics introduces ontological methods into lexical semantic studies with the aim of giving impetus to various fields of ende...

What is the essence of a part of speech? Why is it difficult to classify parts of speech? What are the bases and criteria for classifying them? How...

The Biblical Hebrew Verb addresses the most basic task of biblical Hebrew studies: understanding and interpreting how verbs are used in the ancient...

Edinburgh (now the Angus McIntosh Centre for Historical Linguistics), such as eLALME (the electronic version A Linguistic Atlas of Late Medieval En...

This book studies the micro-variation in the syntax of negation of Southern Levantine, Gulf and Standard Arabic. By including new and recently publ...

In a field still dominated by syntactic perspectives, it is easy to overlook the words that are the irreducible building blocks of language. Morpho...

Drawing on range of text genres including novels, poems, health forums, holiday guestbooks, prayers, political songs and news stories, each chapter...

El volumen Sintaxis del español/The Routledge Handbook of Spanish Syntax proporciona una visión general de los temas fundamentales de la sintaxis d...

El volumen Sintaxis del español/The Routledge Handbook of Spanish Syntax proporciona una visión general de los temas fundamentales de la sintaxis d...

The Syntax of Vietnamese Tense, Aspect, and Negation investigates familiar grammatical phenomena including Tense, Aspect, and Negation in a theoret...

Cheyenne: An Analysis of Clause Linkage provides a detailed description of Cheyenne syntax, semantics, and pragmatics, notably on its nominal and v...

This book investigates three interesting questions arising from the intriguing cross-linguistic perspective of Meiteilon and Nyishi, two Tibeto-Bur...

A thorough investigation into idioms and their grand meaning, including how best to analyze them. Any theory of idioms should be part and parcel of...

This book tests the hypothesis that plural agreement with collective nouns is becoming frequent in French. It addresses questions concerning the me...

This book brings together for the first time a series of previously published papers featuring Ian Roberts pioneering work on diachronic and compar...

This book presents the large-scale investigation of syntactic borrowing in contemporary French. The investigation centres on an aspect of syntactic...

This groundbreaking collection showcases Jenny Cheshires influential work in bringing greater attention to quantitative analysis of socio-grammatic...

This volume is a concise introduction to the lively ongoing debate between formalist and functionalist approaches to the study of language. The boo...

First published in 1900, this was the first of two volumes of the magnum opus from pioneer assyriologist and linguist Rev. Archibald Sayce and prov...

First published in 1900, this was the first of two volumes of the magnum opus from pioneer assyriologist and linguist Rev. Archibald Sayce and prov...

Old English is the name given to the language spoken by the Germanic inhabitants of Britain till about the time of the Conquest, or, according to s...

First published in 1900, this is the second of two volumes of the magnum opus from pioneer assyriologist and linguist Rev. Archibald Sayce and cont...

First published in 1900, this is the second of two volumes of the magnum opus from pioneer assyriologist and linguist Rev. Archibald Sayce and cont...

This collection of nine papers brings together Naoki Fukuis pioneering body of work on Merge, the basic operation of human language syntax, from th...

This book presents a detailed explanation of the essential facts of dictionaries in general. It includes information on the origin of English dicti...

Along with a renewed interest in the empirical foundations of linguistics, the increasing accessibility of large-scale corpora has sparked a surge ...

This volume, written by a foremost expert, is a fascinating contribution to cognitive-linguistic research on metonymy analyzing authentic texts. It...

This book deals with the category of converbs, whose denomination refers to a set of structures which cross-linguistically are not comparable. Spec...

Multi-word verbs are an essential topic for the English language syllabus. As a characteristic feature of the language with numerous semantic and s...

Eyak (dAXunhyuuga) is the traditional language of the Copper River Delta region of the Gulf of Alaska. This posthumous publication reflects Michael...

The book takes its cue from the topics of PhrasaLex, a workshop dedicated to phraseological approaches to learners lexicography which took place f...

Bavarian syntax is widely known for its productive Doubly-Filled COMP (DFC) property and for the rare phenomenon of inflecting complementizers. It ...

The present study is the first to apply a syntactic approach to the grammaticalization of Chinese modals, based on hypotheses on cross-linguistic d...

In this book, Aidan Doyle traces the history of the Irish language from the time of the Norman invasion at the end of the 12th century to independe...

This textbook provides a practical introduction to the fields of forensic phonetics and forensic linguistics. Addressing how these fields are both ...

This textbook provides a practical introduction to the fields of forensic phonetics and forensic linguistics. Addressing how these fields are both ...

What do we mean by semiotic perception? Why should the concepts of perception and expressivity be reinterpreted within the encompassing framework o...

Corpus Linguistics for Grammar provides an accessible and practical introduction to the use of corpus linguistics to analyse grammar, demonstrating...