Grammar, Syntax & Morphology

The Grammar of Raising and Control surveys analyses across a range of theoretical frameworks from Rosenbaum's classic Standard Theory analysis (196...

This book examines in some detail two issues associated with Swedish noun phrases. Firstly, it considers the issue of the headedness of these phras...

This book presents and exemplifies the theory of grammar called Semantic Syntax. The grammar, which offers a syntactic theory closely connected wit...

First published in 1997. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Word Order and Scrambling introduces readers to recent research into the linguistic phenomenon called scrambling and is a valuable contribution to ...

This book is a collection of key readings on Minimalist Syntax, the most recent, and arguably most important, theoretical development within the Pr...

A book for linguists and qualitative discourse analystsThose working in the areas of theoretical or descriptive linguistics will find Typological D...

This book provides an introduction to Generalised Phrase Structure Grammar (GPSG) and Head-driven Phrase Structure Grammar (HPSG), theories which h...

This ground-breaking volume sets out an original model of the dynamics of language processing, which can be used to explain the structural properti...

A concise intermediate text emphasizing review and refinement of grammar, development of reading skills, and expansion of vocabulary. Grammar and r...

This standard introductory textbook presents in systematic form an account of current English practice. The introduction provides a full scheme of ...

This handbook offers a comprehensive overview of the field of Persian linguistics, discusses its development, and captures critical accounts of cut...

This book was first published in 1924.

The study of syntax over the last half century has seen a remarkable expansion of the boundaries of human knowledge about the structure of natural ...

This book introduces 'performed' oral storytelling into the debate, using data from traditional and contemporary storytellers in French to explore ...

Classical Japanese: A Grammar is a comprehensive, and practical guide to classical Japanese. Extensive notes and historical explanations make this ...

Following U.S. military involvement in Indo-China in 1975, many of the Hmong—an ethnic group originating in Southwestern China and Southeast Asia w...

This monograph is a translation of two seminal works on corpus-based studies of Mandarin Chinese words and parts of speech. The original books were...

This collection of articles form a tribute to Jan Svartvik and his pioneering work in the field. Covers corpus studies, problematic grammar, instit...

This volume presents a series of papers written by Epstein, Kitahara and Seely, each of which explores fundamental linguistic questions and analyti...

This accessible text is split into 2 halves. Initially, Janet Townend takes the reader through the early development and the structure and usage of...

A Communicative Grammar of English has long been established as a grammar innovative in approach, reliable in coverage, and clear in its explanatio...

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 provides an important contribution to the study of vocabulary and its relationship to English for Specific Purposes (ESP) research and ...

This textbook provides a practical guide to grammar and style choices for college writers, giving students a basic vocabulary for thinking and talk...

Global English Slang brings together nineteen key international experts and provides a timely and essential overview of English slang around the wo...

Cheyenne: An Analysis of Clause Linkage provides a detailed description of Cheyenne syntax, semantics, and pragmatics, notably on its nominal and v...

Chinese grammar is characterized by its simple structure, lack of inflections, and wide use of monosyllabic morphemes. With the increasing populari...

German Grammar: Reviewed and Retold is a user-friendly grammar/workbook designed to give German learners a great basis to build an in-depth knowled...

Originally published in 1994, this volume analyses complex predicate constructions in Japanese in the framework of Head-driven Phrase Structure Gra...

In the two volumes of Prosodic Syntax in Chinese, the author develops a new model, which proposes that the interaction between syntax and prosody i...

This collection explores the relationships between theory and evidences in functional linguistics, bringing together perspectives from both establi...

As the second volume of a two-volume set that studies the Chinese rhyme tables, this book seeks to reconstruct the ancient rhyme tables based on th...

This book offers a comprehensive resource on the state-of-the-art in L2 pronunciation, surveying the most up-to-date theoretical and methodological...

This study, first published in 1998, provides a close investigation of central syntactic issues in the English imperative clause type. It argues th...