Grammar, Syntax & Morphology

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...