Grammar, Syntax & Morphology

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This book provides an in-depth typological account of the forms, functions, and histories of serial verb constructions. Serial verbs, in which seve...

This volume explores the nature of ellipsis, the core phenomenon that results in various types of omission in sentences. The chapters adopt the pop...

Dieses Buch bietet eine praktische Anleitung zur Analyse der Syntax des gesprochenen Deutsch, wie es in Alltagsgesprächen verwendet wird (talk-in-i...

This Bloomsbury Companion is the most wide-ranging, state-of-the-art resource to a key area of contemporary linguistics. It covers fundamental issu...

This book focuses on abstract entity anaphora in argumentative texts with Ashers (1993) Segmented Discourse Representation Theory (SDRT) as the the...

The Semitic Languages presents a comprehensive survey of the individual languages and language clusters within this language family, from their ori...

This volume is the first to present a detailed survey of the systems of verb-verb complexes in Asian languages from both a synchronic and diachroni...

The present work is a comprehensive catalog of publications that were produced and printed by the Divine Word Missionaries (Societas Verbi Divini, ...

R. M. W. Dixon's landmark 1972 grammar of the Dyirbal language of North Queensland is one of the best-known and most widely-cited language descript...

This collection highlights a range of perspectives on the emerging body of research on evolutionary pragmatics, expanding the borders of language e...

First Published in 1944, Colloquial Hindustani is intended to supply the beginner in the language not only with the common rules of grammar and the...

Virtually unstudied until the 1980s, discourse markers have gone on to become a growth industry. Research on markers is central to comprehensive t...

The concept of negative concord refers to the seemingly multiple exponence of semantically single negation as in You aint seen nothing yet. This bo...

The present book provides an introduction to the linguistic model of Construction Grammar, offering a full analysis of the grammar of the English l...

The present book provides an introduction to the linguistic model of Construction Grammar, offering a full analysis of the grammar of the English l...

This book is a current and comprehensive study that incorporates constructional frameworks to inquire grammatical metaphor of modality (MM) for mor...

This book is an exploration into the syntactic structures of Khasi language varieties through a comparative analysis of the War-Khasi and War-Jaiñt...

Constantly confused by the difference between adjectives and adverbs? Still cant figure out how to use a semi-colon? Or simply want to refresh the ...

This book provides a detailed study of the unusually large array of interrogative and relative grammars mastered by French speakers. Each of its ei...

In studies of copular clauses, the relation between specificational and predicative clauses has been a contentious issue. While most studies agree ...

Practical Grammar Teaching for the Second Language Classroom provides a well-rounded foundation for teaching second language (L2) grammar for pre-s...

Practical Grammar Teaching for the Second Language Classroom provides a well-rounded foundation for teaching second language (L2) grammar for pre-s...

Benjamin Smith Lyman (18351920) was an American geologist and mining engineer who worked for the Japanese government as a foreign expert in the 187...

This is a comprehensive grammar of the Papuan language Bunaq as spoken in the district of Lamaknen. Bunaq belongs to the Timor-Alor-Pantar language...

This volume intends to fill the gap in the grammaticalization studies setting as its goal the systematic description of grammaticalization processe...

This volume explores how grammatical categories, as defined by theoretical linguistics, are effectively implemented in language education. Aiming t...

This book is about recurrent functions of applicative morphology not included in typologically-oriented definitions. Based on substantial cross-lin...

Element Theory (ET) covers a range of approaches that consider privativity a central tenet defining the internal structure of segments. This volume...

This volume is the first to attempt a comprehensive and cross-disciplinary analysis of the manuscript cultures implementing the pothi manuscript fo...

Caijia, [me²¹ni³³o³³] Caijia speech, is an endangered language in the Sino-Tibetan family with less than 1000 speakers in Hezhang and Weining count...

The book provides a detailed empirical approach to constructing grammatical analysis and theory, in particular the analysis of English verbs. It de...

Exploring the major syntactic phenomena of German, this book provides a state-of-the-art account of German syntax, as well as an outline of the key...

This book presents a typology of grammatical tone, defined as a tonological operation restricted to the context of a specific morpheme or construct...

The work offers a new perspective on the semantics of agent-oriented manner adverbials, actions and intentionality. It proposes a treatment of the...

Established in the early 1980s, Word Grammar is the first theory of grammar that was cast in the terms of cognitive linguistics. This book surveys ...

Lexical-Functional Syntax, 2nd Edition, the definitive text for Lexical Functional Grammar (LFG) with a focus on syntax, is updated to reflect rece...

Get Andrew Carnies Syntax: A Generative Introduction, Fourth Edition, and The Syntax Workbook, Second Edition, in a combined set This set includes ...

Building Meaning in Context: A Dynamic Approach to Bantu Clause Structure uses the tools of the Dynamic Syntax framework to explore morphosyntactic...

This monograph offers a comprehensive reassessment of the dominant German grammarian of the 17th century J.G. Schottelius, and examines his legacy ...

The book is a comprehensive typological study of coordinating conjunctions in Sinitic languages and other languages worldwide, focusing on the gram...