Grammar, Syntax & Morphology

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...

Persian syntax has been analyzed within various theoretical models to explore language specific rules that generate various syntactic structures su...

Expressing negation is a universal property of all human languages. There is considerable variation, however, in the exact ways negation materiali...

This book explores the evolution of modal constructions of necessity and obligation in New Englishes. Focusing on Singapore English, analysis of co...

This book explores nominalization processes in Totoli (Sulawesi, Indonesia) within the context of western Austronesian symmetrical voice languages....

'A whirlwind tour of the joys of English, by the master of concision and wit. Susie DentGyles is very funny and never lost for words! Dame Judi ...

Personal pronouns in Japanese form a heterogeneous category. This book investigates their historical development from a functional perspective. It ...

This volume draws together fourteen previously published papers which explore the nature of mental grammar through a formal, generative approach. T...

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

This handbook provides a detailed account of the phenomenon of vowel harmony, a pattern according to which all vowels within a word must agree for ...

Within cognitive and functional approaches to language structure and grammaticality, analogy and contrast represent two fundamental human cognitive...

This monograph investigates the morpho-syntactic and other properties of clitic pronouns in Greek and offers a grammar of proclisis and enclisis in...

This volume unifies a wide breadth of interdisciplinary studies examining the expression of motion in Slavic languages. The contributors to the vol...

Latin is a language with variable (so-called 'free') word order. Constituent Order in Classical Latin Prose (Caesar, Cicero, and Sallust) presents ...

This study explores the grammar of focus particles in German. It gives a thorough description and analysis of focus particle constructions and link...

This collective volume explores clause-linkage strategies in a cross-linguistic perspective with greater emphasis on subordination. Part I presents...

Combining the fields of phraseology and contrastive analysis, this book describes how patterns, defined as recurrent word-combinations with semanti...

This monograph investigates the syntax of the finite verb in Mòcheno, a minority language spoken in a German speech island of Northern Italy. Basin...

This volume further elaborates the empirical tradition of Columbia School (CS) Linguistics by offering diverse empirical analyses for a wide variet...

Since the general tendencies of present-day English focus more on idiomatic usage, it seems to be worth paying attention to the role phraseological...

Research on nominalization, a process that gives rise to referring expressions, has always played a central role in linguistic investigations. Over...

Patterns of relative clause formation tend to vary according to the typological properties of a language. Highly polysynthetic languages tend to ha...

This research monograph is an investigation of wh-movement and wh-expletive constructions in the Indic languages Kashmiri and Hindi-Urdu. It advanc...

Dialect syntax has proven to be an invaluable data source for theoretical syntax, and theoretical syntax has provided useful analytical tools for u...

This volume focuses on word formation processes in smaller and so far underrepresented indigenous languages of South America. The data for the anal...

The differences among functionalist, cognitivist and/or constructionist models are generally taken to be not absolute, but rather a matter of empha...

This volume offers the reader a unique possibility to obtain a concise introduction to dependency linguistics and to learn about the current state ...

Cognitive linguistics has an honourable tradition of paying respect to naturally occurring language data and there have been fruitful interactions ...

This monograph is one of the first studies that approaches Latin syntax from a formal perspective, combining detailed corpus-based description with...

Context is a core notion of linguistic theory. However, while there are numerous attempts at explaining single aspects of the notion of context, th...

Sentence Patterns in English and Hebrew offers an innovative perspective on sentential syntax, in which sentence patterns are introduced as constru...

The languages of Europe and North and Central Asia provide a rich variety of data. In this volume, some articles are summaries of large areal typol...

Contrastive Linguistics, like other linguistic disciplines, is becoming more and more data-oriented, relying increasingly on the statistical analys...

Eugene Casads posthumous monograph is an in-depth study of the TIME IS SPACE metaphor in Cora an Uto-Aztecan language spoken in the state of Nayar...

This volume contains a selection of nineteen peer-reviewed papers from the 42nd annual Linguistic Symposium on Romance Languages (LSRL) held at Sou...

Time is a constitutive element of everyday interaction: all verbal interaction is produced and interpreted in time. However, it is only recently th...

The grammaticalized expression of negation is a linguistic universal. This volume deals with negation in the Uralic language family in a typologica...