Grammar, Syntax & Morphology

This book implements a multidisciplinary approach in describing language both in its ontogenetic development and in its close interrelationship wit...

Les recherches sur les marqueurs discursifs ont connu un extraordinaire essor ces dernières décennies. Le présent ouvrage les aborde dans leur dime...

This book provides a fascinating account of the psycholinguistic and social factors behind variation in speech timing in US English. With detailed ...

The authors explore some of the ways in which standardization, ideology and linguistics are interrelated. Through a number of case studies they sho...

A New Reference Grammar of Modern Spanish is a comprehensive, cohesive and clear guide to the forms and structures of Spanish as it is written and ...

In Bracketing Paradox and Direct Compositionality: Montagovian Morphology for Bound Morphemes, Kazuhiko Fukushima resolves bracketing paradoxes in ...

Morphological typology is usually limited to the realm of grammar. Accordingly, English is considered an analytic language due to its poor grammati...

This paper presents a semantico-syntactic description of the noun phrase from a new perspective, that of the generative lexicon. The analysis propo...

This book contains an original analysis of the existential there-sentence from a philosophical-linguistic perspective. At its core is the claim tha...

This monograph examines how language contributes to the social coordination of actions in talk-in-interaction. Focusing on a set of frequently used...

Rules and Dispositions in Language Use explains how correct language use is governed by both rules and general human dispositions. It does so by br...

A new edition of a successful undergraduate textbook on contemporary international Standard English grammar, based on Huddleston and Pullum's earli...

This book presents an account of object shift, a word order phenomenon found in most of the Scandinavian languages where an object occurs unexpecte...

Language is primarily a tool for communication, yet many textbooks still treat English grammar as simply a set of rules and facts to be memorised b...

In Case, Mark Baker develops a unified theory of how the morphological case marking of noun phrases is determined by syntactic structure. Designed ...

Experimental syntax is an area that is rapidly growing as linguistic research becomes increasingly focused on replicable language data, in both fie...

Turkic is one of the world's major language families, comprising a high number of distinct languages and varieties that display remarkable similari...

Written entirely in Spanish by instructors with years of experience, this textbook is a comprehensive guide to essay writing in Spanish. It provide...

This book brings together 12 previously unpublished language profiles based on the original Language Assessment, Remediation and Screening Procedur...

This book is a study of modern Bengali words based on the data obtained from a corpus of written texts. The author has used all kinds of data, info...

This book focuses on scientific terminology and phraseology in research papers in the domains of new technologies which remain to be highly special...

This volume provides the first comprehensive reference work in English on the French language in all its facets. It offers a wide-ranging approach ...

This volume explores the rich and complex pattern of morphosyntactic variation in the Bantu languages, providing a comprehensive overview of the we...

This volume focuses on a number of interrelated issues in the theorizing and interpretation of morphological rivalry, including the differences bet...

This book offers a collection of papers tackling aspects in the fields of Applied Linguistics, discourse analysis, teaching and translation. The co...

Do you worry that your understanding of English grammar isnt what it should be? It may not be your fault. For hundreds of years, vague and confused...

Understanding Phonology, Fifth Edition, provides a clear, accessible and broad introduction to phonology. Introducing basic concepts, it provides a...

Understanding Phonology, Fifth Edition, provides a clear, accessible and broad introduction to phonology. Introducing basic concepts, it provides a...