Grammar, Syntax & Morphology

This book offers fresh perspectives on shared grammaticalization, a state whereby two or more languages have the source and the target of a grammat...

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

The Minimalist Program is just that, a program. It is a challenge for syntacticians to reexamine the constructs of their models and ask what is min...

The contributions in this volume are devoted to various aspects of the internal and external syntax of DPs in a wide variety of languages belonging...

The study of Russian is of great importance to syntactic theory, due in particular to its unusual case system and its complex word order patterns. ...

Within the framework of Chomskys Principles and Parameters Theory and the Minimalist Program, this work presents a detailed discussion of the diffe...

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...