Grammar, Syntax & Morphology

This book provides the first comprehensive overview of the syntax of old Romanian written in English and targeted at a non-Romanian readership. It ...

This book is a general introduction to the structures of the different medieval Romance vernaculars most commonly known as Old or Medieval Spanish,...

This book explores the syntactic structures of Mainland Scandinavian, a term that covers the Northern Germanic languages spoken in Denmark, Norway,...

Why are geese in a gaggle? Are lions actually proud? And do crows deserve their murderous moniker? Collective nouns are one of the most bizarre and...

This book applies the techniques of systemic functional grammar to the description of the Old English historical dialect, 650-1150 CE. Systemic fun...

Why our use of language is highly creative yet also constrainedWe use words and phrases creatively to express ourselves in ever-changing contexts, ...

Gestures are central to the way people use language when they interact. This book places our impulse to gesture at the very heart of linguistic str...

This book provides a pioneering introduction to heritage languages and their speakers, written by one of the founders of this new field. Using exam...

A clear introduction to lexical-functional grammar (LFG), this outstanding textbook sets out a formal approach to the study of language using a ste...

Language contact occurs when speakers of different languages interact and their languages influence one another. Drawing on the author's own first...

Mainland Southeast Asia is one of the most fascinating and complex cultural and linguistic areas in the world. This book provides a rich and compre...

In both Romance and English literature, relational adjectives have received special attention due to their apparently idiosyncratic behaviour, as b...

Anyone writing texts in English is constantly faced with the unavoidable question whether to use open spelling (drinking fountain), hyphenation (fa...

Language, apart from its cultural and social dimension, has a scientific side that is connected not only to the study of 'grammar' in a more or les...

Drawing on vast amounts of new data from live, unscripted radio and TV broadcasts, and the internet, this is a brilliant and original analysis of c...

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...