Grammar, Syntax & Morphology

The linguistic situation in Guangxi is poorly known among Western linguistic circles. This book is a reference grammar of Pinghua the oldest Sinit...

Long trusted as the most comprehensive, up-to-date and user-friendly grammar available, French Grammar and Usage is a complete guide to French as i...

Long trusted as the most comprehensive, up-to-date and user-friendly grammar available, French Grammar and Usage is a complete guide to French as i...

Sinitic is a branch of the Sino-Tibetan language family, consisting of thousands of local language varieties, many of which are not mutually intell...

Practising French Grammar, fifth edition, offers a set of varied and accessible exercises for developing a practical awareness of French as it is s...

Practising French Grammar, fifth edition, offers a set of varied and accessible exercises for developing a practical awareness of French as it is s...

This monograph is a study on the feature inheritance hypothesis (Chomsky 2008). Following previous collaborative work with Chao-Ting Tim Chou, Gera...

Expressing Surprise at the Crossroads has as its aim to evaluate the impact of mirativity in Romance languages or expressed differently to determin...

First published in 1992, Vocabularies of Public Life explores the revolution that has taken place in our understanding of contemporary culture and ...

This book collects some of the most significant articles by Adriana Belletti published over the last ten years or so, offering readers a useful too...

Fonologia do Português e Interfaces: Fenômenos da Aquisição e da Variação brings together a collection of studies on phonological acquisition and p...

As the second volume of a two-volume set that presents a comprehensive syntactical picture of Singapore Mandarin, this title analyses various expre...

This is the first book devoted to the effects of orthographic forms (spellings) on second language phonology.Written by one of the pioneer research...

Based on the large corpora of journalistic English, this title examines dependency relations and related properties at both syntactic and discourse...

In four volumes, the classic A Grammar of New Testament Greek covers every aspect of the Greek language in the New Testament. The authors' innovati...

In four volumes, the classic A Grammar of New Testament Greek covers every aspect of the Greek language in the New Testament. The authors' innovati...

This edited book brings together studies on morphological case in Japanese, English, and Bantu languages, among others, from morphosyntactic, seman...

This book sets up a consistent theoretical and terminological framework for the study of the phenomena that are commonly subsumed under the terms t...

Parameters have lain at the core of linguistic research in the generative tradition for decades. The theoretical questions they have raised are dee...

The volume deals with the grammaticalization and lexicalization processes that have marked the evolution of syntactic and semantic structures throu...

This book demonstrates that the grammatical systems of individual languages encode unique semantic structures. Zygmunt Frajzyngier examines these s...

Die im Kontext der Angewandten Linguistik verortete Arbeit befasst sich mit den transtextuellen rhetorischen Strategien, mit denen Agrarindustrie u...

Tackling theoretical approaches including Construction Grammar and the Minimalist Program, this volume focuses on processes and phenomena. Each cha...

The book describes the sound system of Maaloula Aramaic, an under-researched and endangered Western Neo-Aramaic dialect. It provides solutions to p...

This book guides teachers, teacher educators and pre-service student teachers on how grammar can be used as a pedagogical tool for meaning-making. ...

This book guides teachers, teacher educators and pre-service student teachers on how grammar can be used as a pedagogical tool for meaning-making. ...

The volume is a collection of papers which apply Role & Reference Grammar (RRG) to African languages. RRG is a functional theory of syntax whic...

This book deals with syntax in three dimensions: in part I with the history of grammatical theory, in part II with synchronic aspects of Present-Da...

Es gibt hervorragende Grammatiken und Syntaxen, die die Wort- und Satzebene beschreiben, sowie bewährte textlinguistische Ansätze für die Modellier...

This volume shines a light on the supposed tension between linguistic norm and variation in the early modern period by looking at early modern for...

This monograph addresses fundamental syntactic issues of classifier constructions, based on a thorough study of a typical classifier language, Mand...

The UNESCO atlas on endangered languages recognizes the Ryukyuan languages as constituting languages in their own right. This represents a dramatic...

This book provides a thorough yet approachable history of the Scots language, a close relative of Standard English with around 1.5 million speakers...

In spite of the central position that the concept word has among the basic units of language structure, there is no consensus as to the definition ...

Appropriate for beginning and advanced students of Biblical Hebrew, this easy-to-use reference provides a concise summary of basic grammar concepts...

Systeme zur Referenz auf Personen sind in den meisten deutschen Dialekten komplexer als im Standard. So werden in gut vernetzten dörflichen Sprechg...

Sibawayhi, a non-Arab, was the first to write on Arabic grammar and the first to explain Arabic grammar from a non-Arab perspective.  Both Sibawayh...

The Korean Verb - Structured and Complete provides an in-depth, systematic, and structured presentation of the Korean verb and its verb forms, a no...

Originally published in 1980, Language in Tanzania presents a comprehensive overview of the Survey of Language Use and Language Teaching in Eastern...

Biolinguistics is a highly interdisciplinary field that seeks the rapprochement between linguistics and biology. Linking theoretical linguistics, t...