Grammar, Syntax & Morphology

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...

In this volume, Germen de Haan gives a multi-faceted view of the syntax, sociolinguistics, and phonology of West-Frisian. The author discusses dist...

'My first English lesson was grammar with the terrifying Mrs Petrie. She spent the entire time marching up and down the classroom, thwacking variou...

Theoretical linguistics in the generative tradition has payed much attention to issues related to silence ? children know the syntax of silence des...

This volume is the most comprehensive reference work to date on Lexical Functional Grammar. The authors provide detailed and extensive coverage of ...

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