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...