Grammar, Syntax & Morphology

This volume is comprehensively designed to help prospective teachers of English Language (EL), and teachers specializing in English as a foreign la...

In recent years, issues of verbal valency, valency alternations and verb classes have seen a new upsurge of interest from a variety of perspectives...

This volume presents some of the latest research in Frame Semantics, including work in computational lexicography as developed within the FrameNet ...

Within the current discussion on grammatical interfaces, the word-classes of adjective and adverb are of particular interest because they appear to...

The zero coding of referents or other clausal constituents is one of the most natural, communicatively and cognitively-transparent grammatical devi...

This volume explores how linguistic theories inform the ways in which languages are described. Theories, as representations of linguistic categorie...

This book explains the competition in the complementation of Old English aspectual and manipulative verbs that arises between finite and non-finite...

While comparative constructions have been extensively studied in the past decades, the expression of equality and similarity has so far attracted l...

This book presents a collection of chapters on the nature, flexibility and acquisition of lexical categories. These long-debated issues are looked ...

This book is a theoretically oriented, comparative study of noun phrases and their semantic and morpho-syntactic properties. This is the first stud...

Focusing on Gaddi, Chitkuli Kinnauri, Kullui, and Spiti of Himachal Pradesh, this book outlines a systematic framework for conducting fieldwork and...

An Introduction to Korean Linguistics is a valuable and comprehensive text for those with an interest in Korean linguistics. This book provides an ...

This volume is a comprehensive grammar of the Turkish language, suitable both for students of the Turkish language and linguistic scholars. Gerjan ...

This book offers a fresh perspective on how natural languages encode grammatical relations, by delving into the interplay between oblique cases, ad...

The Construction of Metaphoric Text and Talk: A Discourse Analytic Approach argues that in view of their omnipresence in human thinking and action,...

Providing an engaging, accessible and practically-focused introduction to cognitive grammar, this book demonstrates how central cognitive grammar p...

Providing an engaging, accessible and practically-focused introduction to cognitive grammar, this book demonstrates how central cognitive grammar p...

Anger is one of the basic emotions of human emotional experience, informing and guiding many of our choices and actions. Although it has received c...

This book is the first hands-on roadmap for conducting rigorous experimental research on second language speech processing and spoken word recognit...

This book is the first hands-on roadmap for conducting rigorous experimental research on second language speech processing and spoken word recognit...

Anger is one of the basic emotions of human emotional experience, informing and guiding many of our choices and actions. Although it has received ...

Metaphor studies is a vibrant and fascinating field. The present book brings together the work of influential researchers analyzing metaphor empir...

The monograph explores the semantic and morphosyntactic representation of affectedness, i.e., the property of an event participant to undergo chang...

Over the past 25 years, previously separate fields of linguistic research have moved closer together, resulting in constructive collaborations: Cog...

This volume makes accessible a substantial range of recent research in Cognitive Grammar. From disparate sources, it brings together a dozen innova...

Language Structure and Environment is a broad introduction to how languages are shaped by their environment. It makes the argument that the social,...

In research on Information Structure, there is an ongoing discussion about the role of contrast.While most linguists consider contrast to be compat...

This book teaches the basics of the structure of the English language with plentiful extracts from novels, poems and plays, so that literature stud...

The aim of this book is to provide a comparative analysis of intra- and inter- linguistic features, setting a benchmark for future typological stud...

Repetition is a well-studied phenomenon in morphology and lexicology but has received less attention on the syntactic level. The book sheds light o...

The book presents the results of an empirical study on the relationship between Afrikaans language, identity and ethnicity from the perspective of ...

This book presents a state-of-the-art study of variation that considers meaningin all its possible facetsas the key to scientific explanation. It b...

Theoretical studies of Latvian grammar have a great deal to offer to contemporary linguistics. Although traditionally Lithuanian has been the most ...

Word classes are linguistic categories serving as basis in the description of the vocabulary and grammar of natural languages. While important publ...

The topic of secondary predication has attracted much attention especially in the generative literature. The present volume distinguishes itself fr...

This book investigates selected aspects of the grammatical development of Emirati Arabic, the variety of Gulf Arabic spoken in the United Arab Emir...

This volume is intended as a celebration of Kristin Davidses work and its impact within the broad traditions of cognitive, functional and usage-bas...

This is the first book to present an account of literary meaning and effects drawing on our best understanding of mind and language in the form of ...

This is the first book to present an account of literary meaning and effects drawing on our best understanding of mind and language in the form of ...

This book contains an original collection of contributions that deal with the use of a methodology based on, driven, or assisted by corpora to anal...

The Gravitational Pull Hypothesis is an attempt to provide a cognitive account for features of translated language. It assumes that translated and ...

Scottish Gaelic: A Comprehensive Grammar is a definitive description of contemporary Gaelic.The volume presents an authoritative account of modern ...

Scottish Gaelic: A Comprehensive Grammar is a definitive description of contemporary Gaelic.The volume presents an authoritative account of modern ...