Grammar, Syntax & Morphology

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...