Grammar & Punctuation

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780992309701Author Annette HarrisonFormat PaperbackImprint HairysunPublisher HairysunWeight(grams) 304g

On the basis of a cross-linguistic study of more than 250 languages, this book brings to light several fascinating characteristics of pronouns. Dr Bhat argues that these words do not form a single category, but rather two different categories called...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780578594484Author Carl W HartFormat PaperbackPage Count 122Imprint Riverwoods PressPublisher Riverwoods PressWeight(grams) 181g

This introduction to the role of information structure in grammar discusses a wide range of phenomena on the syntax-information structure interface. It examines theories of information structure and considers their effectiveness in explaining whether and...

The essays collected in this volume, most previously unpublished, address a number of closely interconnected issues raised by the comparative syntax of functional heads within the Principles and Parameters approach. The general theory of head movement,...

This is a collection of (mostly) previously unpublished papers that examine function heads using the Principles and Parameters approach. The main theoretical focus is on the general theory of head movement, the properties of derived structures, and their...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781420895803Author Paul AamotFormat PaperbackPage Count 108Imprint AuthorHousePublisher AuthorHouseWeight(grams) 263g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780883120668Author Kenneth Lee PikeFormat PaperbackPage Count 384Imprint Sil International, Global PublishingPublisher Sil International, Global...

The Grammar of Q puts forth a novel syntactic and semantic analysis of wh-questions, one that is based upon in-depth study of the Tlingit language, an endangered and under-documented language of North America. A major consequence of this new approach is...

Spreading Change: Diffusional Change in the English System of Complementation examines the emergence and spread of three types of complements from the Middle English period to the present day. The three types of complements are subject-controlled gerund...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780984972944Author Rayn RandomFormat PaperbackPage Count 100Imprint Random CompanyPublisher Random CompanyWeight(grams) 113g

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This volume presents the proceedIngs of the Twelfth Annual LIn guistics Symposium of the UniversIty of WisconsIn-Milwaukee held March 11-12, 1983 on the campus of UWM. It includes all papers that were given at the conference with the exception of...

It's or Its? Full stop inside or outside the inverted commas? What's the difference between a semi-colon and a colon? Cooperate or co-operate? Punctuation For Now describes in a witty but authoritative way how our present system of punctuation has grown...

Linguists (and others) have realised for some time that predicates of the 'know' and 'wonder' classes behave differently, in semantic terms, with respect to their interrogative complements, but have not so far fully understood how or why. This book seeks...

This book investigates cross-linguistic variation in one of the core domains of all natural languages. Leon Stassen views this domain as a 'cognitive space', the topography of which is the same for all languages. It is assumed to consist of four...

The book examines conditionals in the Greek Pentateuch from the point of view of the study of translation syntax. It takes seriously into account the double character of Septuagintal Greek, both as a translation from Hebrew and as vernacular Greek...

A study on minimalist syntax this book develops an empirical argument for a crash-proof computational system. This framework allows for novel analyses of quirky subjects in Icelandic and Spanish, indefinite SE in Spanish and different types of expletive...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780674182660Author Gregory NagyFormat HardbackPage Count 212Imprint Harvard University PressPublisher Harvard University PressWeight(grams) 481g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780954610500Author Patricia BenskyFormat PaperbackPage Count 208Imprint Tracker PressPublisher Tracker PressWeight(grams) 271g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781013289699Author Laura R BaileyFormat HardbackPage Count 406Imprint Saint Philip Street PressPublisher Saint Philip Street PressWeight(grams) 216g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780674186255Author J L BattistaFormat HardbackPage Count 63Imprint Harvard University PressPublisher Harvard University PressWeight(grams) 191g

This book investigates the phenomenon of control structures, configurations in which the subject of the embedded clause is missing and is construed as coreferential with the subject of the embedding clause (e.g. John wanted to leave). It draws on data...

This study investigates the distribution of traces and their antecedents. The first chapter outlines the Government and Binding theory, enabling those unfamiliar with this framework to understand the ensuing discussion. The second chapter concerns the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780578127750Author Merlene J PurkissFormat PaperbackPage Count 74Imprint Mjp Publishing, LLCPublisher Mjp Publishing, LLCWeight(grams) 163g

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"...this work represents a key case study in the study of the prosody and syntax interactions." (Pilar Prieto, Lingua 115, 2005)Book InformationISBN 9780792362401Author Mara FrascarelliFormat HardbackPage Count 227Imprint SpringerPublisher...

This book investigates the way grammar deals with the representation of aspectual (aktionsart) concepts, focussing on issues of the lexicon-syntax interface. The authors' innovative analyses of this interface significantly advance our understanding of...

Negation is a central feature of language and cognition, interacting with all areas of grammar as well as with the philosophy of language. Whereas there is a cross-linguistic uniformity in logical and semantic aspects of negation, there is a diversity of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780988372733Author Vicki WiltFormat PaperbackPage Count 196Imprint Tucker Seven Editorial ServicesPublisher Tucker Seven Editorial ServicesWeight(grams) 218g

Comparison across formal languages is an essential part of formal linguistics. The study of closely-related varieties has proven extremely useful in comparing differences that might otherwise appear unrealted, and has helped to identify the core...

Chicano English in Context is the first modern, comprehensive study of Chicano English, a variety spoken by millions of Latinos in the U.S. It is also one of the first studies of ongoing sound change within an ethnic minority community. It briefly...

In this innovative study, Professor Narahara offers a multi-disciplinary description of the Japanese copula, revealing it to be at the interface of morphology, syntax, semantics and pragmatics. Most striking is her discovery of the copula's function to...

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,...

The phenomenon of unaccusativity is a central focus for the study of the complex properties of verb classes. The Unaccusative Hypothesis, first formulated in 1978, claimed that there are two classes of intransitive verbs, the unaccusative (Jill arrived)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780972225083Author Kim KerriganFormat PaperbackPage Count 114Imprint Corporate ClassroomsPublisher Corporate ClassroomsWeight(grams) 152g

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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780674333741Author Robert FiengoFormat HardbackPage Count 213Imprint Harvard University PressPublisher Harvard University PressWeight(grams) 490g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781013289774Author Walter BisangFormat HardbackPage Count 336Imprint Saint Philip Street PressPublisher Saint Philip Street PressWeight(grams) 216g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781013289651Author Laura R BaileyFormat HardbackPage Count 370Imprint Saint Philip Street PressPublisher Saint Philip Street PressWeight(grams) 216g