Grammar, Syntax & Morphology

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...

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...