Grammar, Syntax & Morphology

An essential, easy-to-use handbook for students at all levelsIn a compact, easy-to-use format, this new book offers a convenient guide to grammar f...

Innovations and Challenges in Grammar traces the history of common understandings of what grammar is and where it came from to demonstrate how ‘rul...

This volume explores the linguistic expression of modality in natural language from a cross-linguistic perspective. Modal expressions provide the b...

This descriptive reference grammar of Nishnaabemwin (Odawa and Eastern Ojibwe), a major dialect group within contemporary Ojibwe spoken in the vici...

This book describes the diversity of serial verb constructions within Oceanic languages. Serial verb constructions are sequences of verbs placed on...

Amdo Tibetan: A Comprehensive Grammar Textbook is a rigorous one-year college-level textbook for English speakers who wish to learn the Amdo dialec...

Clitics are grammatical elements that are treated as independent words in syntax but form a phonological unit with the word that precedes or follow...

The Study of Words introduces the study of word structure, also known as morphology, without assuming any prior knowledge of linguistics. Introduci...

The authors present a theory of the role which subject-verb agreement and case morphology play in syntax, based mainly on a detailed comparison of ...

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This is an open access title available under the terms of a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 International licence. It is free to read at Oxford Academic and offere...

This book will make available the author's most important published articles on Dravidian over the last forty years. It will include a new and subs...

This book is the most comprehensive, integrated explanatory account yet published of the properties of question formations and their variation acro...

Xenolinguistics brings together biologists, anthropologists, linguists, and other experts specializing in language and communication to explore wha...

O'Dowd offers a new, discourse-functional account of the categories "prepositon" and "particle" in English. She explains why certain words have mem...

Verbal aspect is a significant element to be considered when interpreting a number of New Testament texts. This book surveys ways in which verbal a...

Linguists (and others) have realised for some time that predicates of the 'know' and 'wonder' classes behave differently, in semantic terms, with r...

This handbook offers an in depth and comprehensive state of the art survey of the linguistic domains of modality and mood. An international team of...

Offering a new perspective on auxiliaries in particular and language structure in general, this study argues that language cannot be explained sati...

This book explores the central concept of "syntactic relation" arguing that certain fundamental relations such as c-command, dominance and checking...

Nursery rhymes have been told to children for centuries. Many people think that they are just meant to make children smile. However, preschool chil...

This book approaches the concept of boundary, central in linguistic theory, and the related notion of phase from the perspective of the interaction...

What is the optimal design for an artificial language? This book explores this question at both a ‘macro’ and a ‘micro’ level. An introductory essa...

This study investigates three different postmodifying adjective constructions in the English language. While English adjectives generally precede t...