Grammar, Syntax & Morphology

This volume is a collection of articles dealing with the linguistic category of possession and its expression in languages spoken in Europe and Nor...

This book provides a detailed but accessible introduction to the development of the German language from the earliest reconstructable prehistory to...

Research into cross-linguistic aspects and typology of word-formation has not been paid relevant and systematic attention by morphologists, and onl...

In this book, the first full-scale work of its kind in English, Harm Pinkster applies contemporary linguistic theories and the findings of traditio...

This is the first book entirely and exclusively devoted to the grammar of the two copular verbs ser and estar, certainly one of the most intriguing...

Although standardly recognized by linguists of many diverse theoretical persuasions, finiteness continues to figure among [...] the most poorly und...

This book explores the syntactic and semantic properties of movement and adjunction in natural language. A precise formulation of minimalist syntax...

The phenomenon of the syntactic 'island' - a clause or structure from which a word cannot be moved - is central to research and study in syntactic ...

This book is a research monograph that explores the implications of the strongest minimalist thesis from an antisymmetric perspective. Three empiri...

This volume explores how emergent patterns of complex syntax that is, syntactic structures beyond a simple clause relate to the local contingenci...

While other books focus on special internet registers, like tweets or texting, no previous study describes the full range of everyday registers fou...

This clear and concise introduction offers students of linguistics and English language a comprehensive overview of English grammar, including word...

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

Surveying over 300 languages, this typological study presents new theoretical insights into the nature of agreement, as well as empirical findings ...

The articles compiled in this volume offer new insights into the wealth of prosodic and syntactic phenomena involved in the encoding of information...

The papers in this volume cover a wide range of interrelated syntactic phenomena, from the history of core arguments, to complements and non-finite...

Structure is at the rock-bottom of all explanatory sciences (Jan Koster). Forty years ago, the hypothesis that underlying the bewildering variety o...

Head Movement in Syntax argues that verb movement is a narrow syntactic phenomenon that can affect locality constraints. The altered locality domai...

The Linguistic Variation Yearbook is exclusively devoted to the study of the nature and scope of linguistic variation from the point of view of the...

The field of morphology is particularly heterogeneous. Investigators differ on key points at every level of theory. These divisions are not minor i...

Descriptive grammarians and typologists often encounter unusual constructions or unfamiliar variants of otherwise familiar construction types. Many...