Grammar, Syntax & Morphology

It is now well established that phonological -- and orthographic -- codes play a crucial role in the recognition of isolated words and in understan...

The present monograph deals with certain aspects of the syntax of the Arabic language which includes both Classical Arabic and Modern Standard Arab...

Spanish Subjunctive in Context is a new type of subjunctive resource manual. It aims to prove the essential ingredient missing in traditional gramm...

Understanding English Grammar presents a linguistic introduction to the structure of English that is accessible to students who have had little or ...

First Published in 2002. This volume is part of the 'Outstanding Dissertations in Linguistics' series. This book investigates the processing of ell...

This important new study examines in detail a semantic-pragmatic pattern surrounding the basic verb 'acquire' in nearly 30 Southeast Asian language...

Universal Grammar (UG) is a theory of both the fundamental principles for all possible languages and the language faculty in the "initial state" of...

This volume investigates the interconnections between language and literacy in terms of the structures of language as well as the linguistic contex...

During the last 15 years, cognitive scientists have discovered things about the nature and importance of metaphor that are startling because of the...

This book presents rigorous and criterial definitions of the major parts of speech - noun, verb, and adjective - that account both for their syntac...

First published in 1982. The reasons behind the establishment of this Series on Arabic linguistics are manifold. First: Arabic linguistics is devel...

The Routledge Language Family Series is aimed at undergraduates and postgraduates of linguistics and language, or those with an interest in histori...

First Published in 2002. This volume is part of the 'Outstanding Dissertations in Linguistics' series. This study focuses on the Japanese particle ...

This volume collects eleven papers written between 1991 and 2016, some of them unpublished, which explore various aspects of the architecture of gr...

Volume 3 of African Languages includes articles originally published in 1977, written in French and English on educational, literary, cultural, his...

Generative Grammar presents a substantial contribution to the field of linguistics in drawing together for the first time the author's most signifi...

In the mid 20th century the people known as the Logbara were a diverse collection of groups fleeing from different parts and having different socai...

First Published in 2002. This volume is part of the 'Outstanding Dissertations in Linguistics' series. The aim of this thesis is to investigate the...

What did eighth-century Japanese sound like? How does one decode its complex script? This book provides the definitive answers to these questions u...

The social implications of multilingualism is a field of study on whcih systematic research began only in the second half of the 20th century in Af...

The issue of how interpretation results from the form and type of syntactic structures present in language is one which is central and hotly debate...

Relational Grammar had its beginnings in the early 1970s. In this theory of the structure of language grammatical relations are taken to be `undefi...

Volume 2 of African Languages includes articles originally published in 1976, written in French and English on educational, literary, cultural, his...

This dictionary is the ideal supplement to the German/English Dictionary of Idioms, which together give a rich source of material for the translato...

First published in 1949 (this edition in 1968), this book is a dictionary of the past, exploring the language of the criminal and near-criminal wor...

First published in 1940, this book provides a literary dictionary to the New Testament. The treatment of selected words and phrases is not theologi...

This work, first published in 1979, was a doctoral dissertation submitted to the Department of Foreign Literatures and Linguistics of the Massachus...

Originally published in 1978, this volume is divided into 3 parts. Part 1 presents an overview of the linguistic situation in Zambia: who speaks wh...

This volume re-issues the second, revised edition of 1955. This grammar and vocabulary of the Àcoólî language (here spoken by the central group Pat...

Kazakh: A Comprehensive Grammar is the first thorough analysis of Kazakh to be published in English. The volume is systematically organized to enab...

First published in 1942, this dictionary was designed to help civilians and members of H.M. forces to make their way amid the jungle of wartime abb...

This book provides linguists with a clear, critical, and comprehensive overview of theoretical and experimental work on information structure. Lead...

First published in 1939, this book provides a brief but comprehensive view of language in general, and of English and American language in particul...

This thoroughly revised third edition of Finnish: An Essential Grammar is grounded in fundamental insights of modern linguistics and incorporates s...

Subject and Object in Modern English, first published in 1979, deals with subjects in the English language (one of the two main constituents of a c...

This work, first published in 1979, was a doctoral dissertation submitted to the Department of Foreign Literatures and Linguistics of the Massachus...

Witty, entertaining, and informative, this book on so-called ‘false friends’ will be of immediate use to anyone using the French language and needi...

The purpose of Point of View, first published in 1990, is twofold: from the perspective of linguistics, to analyse the discourse structure of texts...

The classification and distribution of the languages of the Northern Bantu Borderland between the Great Lakes and the Indian Ocean have been given ...

First published in 1942, this dictionary was designed to help civilians and members of H.M. forces to make their way amid the jungle of wartime abb...

First published in 1991, this book looks at tense in English, one of the most controversial areas of grammar. Prior to the book’s original publicat...

This work, first published in 1980, was a doctoral dissertation submitted to the Department of Foreign Literatures and Linguistics of the Massachus...

First published in 1940, this book provides a literary dictionary to the New Testament. The treatment of selected words and phrases is not theologi...

First published in 1933 (this edition in 1939), this book sees Partridge introducing the reader to the eccentric lexicographers Wesley and Captain ...

First published in 1988, this book explores the grammatical loss of gender in English. It demonstrates that from the end of the Old English period,...

This study brings together many of the resources needed for the exploration of English historical syntax and deals with many of the important chang...

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...

First published in 1933, this book explores both contemporary and historical slang, focusing on the characteristics and quirks of the English and A...