Grammar & Punctuation

This book provides both language-specific and cross-linguistic comparative analyses of phenomena relating to person, case and case-marking, and agreement. It offers an explicit and detailed analysis of differential object marking in Hungarian, and shows...

This book explores the boundaries of the category of gender and their theoretical significance within the framework of Canonical Typology. Grammatical gender is a famously puzzling category: although it has been widely explored from a typological...

This book is an investigation of Arabic derivational morphology that focuses on the relationship between verb meaning and linguistic form. Beginning with the ground form, the book offers a comprehensive analysis of the most common verb patterns of Arabic...

This volume takes a variety of approaches to the question 'what is a word?', with particular emphasis on where in the grammar wordhood is determined. Chapters in the book all start from the assumption that structures at, above, and below the 'word' are...

This volume explores the many ways by which natural languages categorize nouns into genders or classes. A noun may belong to a given class because of its logical or symbolic similarities with other nouns, because it shares a similar morphological form...

Possession and Ownership brings together linguists and anthropologists in a series of cross-linguistic explorations of expressions used to denote possession and ownership, concepts central to most if not all the varied cultures and ideologies of...

What do speakers mean? What do they convey? What do they reveal? How do they invite us to think? Communication exploits conventional rules, deliberate choices, and many other faculties. How? A common answer invokes simple meanings and general ways to...

This book is a cross-linguistic study of the syntax of yes-no questions and their answers, drawing on data from a wide range of languages with particular focus on English, Finnish, Swedish, Thai, and Chinese. There are broadly two types of answer to...

This book investigates the architecture of the language faculty by considering what the properties of language reveal about the mental abilities and processes involved in language acquisition. The language faculty, the author argues, must be able not...

Comparisons and Contrasts collects eleven of Richard Kayne's recent articles in theoretical syntax, with an emphasis on comparative syntax, which uses syntactic differences among languages to probe the properties of the human language faculty. Kayne...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789348012968Author Ashwini Kumar AggarwalFormat HardbackPage Count 322Imprint Devotees of Sri Sri Ravi Shankar AshramPublisher Devotees of Sri Sri Ravi...

Berezowski investigates the origin of the concept of the zero article and clearly demonstrates why it is problematic. The zero article is a staple element of any description of English article usage from advanced research publications down to student...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783039111817Author Christiane Dalton-PufferFormat PaperbackPage Count 250Imprint Verlag Peter LangPublisher Verlag Peter LangWeight(grams) 360g

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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9798218037451Author Amanda HargenFormat PaperbackPage Count 52Imprint Super Ela!Publisher Super Ela!Weight(grams) 145gDimensions(mm) 279mm * 216mm * 3mm

3 On the other hand, others have pointed out that preverbal subjects are at least par- tially distinct from other topicalised constituents in displaying residual properties characteristic of items in an A-position (Horrocks 1994). Although there is a...

Taking as a point of departure ideas and principles from the 18th and 19th century Danish tradition, and from 20th century traditions of the Copenhagen School of linguistics, this book attempts to set up a formal theory of syntax that addresses some of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783631922583Author Holger KusseFormat PaperbackPage Count 244Imprint Peter Lang AGPublisher Peter Lang AG

For nearly forty years, Understanding and Using English Grammar has been the go-to grammar resource for students and teachers alike. Its time-tested approach blends direct grammar instruction with carefully sequenced practice to develop all language...

Lobeck elaborates a theory of ellipsis which brings the phenomenon under the aegis of very general and universal principles. She argues that the Empty Category Principle (ECP) constrain the distribution of ellipsis just as it constrains the distributions...

Adriana Belletti here collects work presented by top scholars at a workshop at the University of Siena in connection with a visit by Noam Chomsky. These eight articles go beyond strictly mapping syntactic properties, touching on broader theoretical...

This is a collection of previously published essays on comparative syntax by the distinguished linguist Richard Kayne. The papers cover issues of comparative syntax as they are applied to French, Italian, and other Romance languages and dialects,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780792309147Author C. T. James HuangFormat HardbackPage Count 296Imprint Kluwer Academic PublishersPublisher Kluwer Academic PublishersWeight(grams)...

The main function of language is to convey meaning. Therefore, argues Bernd Heine in these pages, the question of why language is structured the way it is must first of all be answered with reference to this function. Linguistic explanations offered in...

Writers of any kind want readers to understand what they're writing. Too often, however, what one writes can leave readers baffled or misled as to what they intended their audience to know. Writers Mistakes: A Handbook of Common Blunders and Ways to Mend...

Writers of any kind want readers to understand what they're writing. Too often, however, what one writes can leave readers baffled or misled as to what they intended their audience to know. Writers Mistakes: A Handbook of Common Blunders and Ways to Mend...

The "Grammar Detective" invites readers to get to grips with English grammar by solving a series of short murder mysteries, each of them illustrated. There are then further exercises - word searches, crosswords and puzzles all come together to help...

This monograph gives a unified account of the syntactic distribution of subjunctive mood across languages, including Romance, Balkan (South Slavic and Modern Greek), and Hungarian, among others. Starting from a close scrutiny of the environments in which...

No detailed description available for "Functional Grammar and the Computer".Book InformationISBN 9783110130591Author Simon C. DikFormat HardbackPage Count 330Imprint De Gruyter MoutonPublisher De GruyterWeight(grams) 759g

The genitive/accusative opposition in Slavic languages is a decades-old linguistic conundrum. Shedding new light on this perplexing object-case alternation in Russian, this volume analyzes two variants of genitive objects that alternate with accusative...

This monograph gives a unified account of the syntactic distribution of subjunctive mood across languages, including Romance, Balkan (South Slavic and Modern Greek), and Hungarian, among others. Starting from a close scrutiny of the environments in which...

This volume presents articles that focus on the application of formal models in the study of language in a variety of innovative ways, and is dedicated to Jacques Moeschler, professor at University of Geneva, to mark the occasion of his 60th birthday...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783110133066Author Johan van der AuweraFormat HardbackPage Count 232Imprint De Gruyter MoutonPublisher De GruyterWeight(grams) 390g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781639873326Author Shelby ParrishFormat HardbackPage Count 240Imprint Murphy & Moore PublishingPublisher Murphy & Moore PublishingWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781647266882Author Antonio MorrisFormat HardbackPage Count 247Imprint Clanrye InternationalPublisher Clanrye InternationalWeight(grams) 866gDimensions(mm)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781632409744Author David PruittFormat HardbackPage Count 210Imprint Clanrye InternationalPublisher Clanrye InternationalWeight(grams) 585gDimensions(mm)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781639872084Author Rubie DunlapFormat HardbackPage Count 358Imprint Murphy & Moore PublishingPublisher Murphy & Moore PublishingWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781639892440Author Alvin PrestonFormat HardbackPage Count 238Imprint States Academic PressPublisher States Academic PressWeight(grams) 490gDimensions(mm)...

Excuse Me, Your Participle's Dangling will give you all the bare essentials of grammar that you need to write like a pro. The book also offers a simple yet foolproof method of writing under pressure, the key to success in any college program or workplace...

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