Grammar & Punctuation

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780674437319Author Francis J WhitfieldFormat HardbackPage Count 231Imprint Harvard University PressPublisher Harvard University PressWeight(grams) 513g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780820463995Author Patrick Joseph DuffleyFormat HardbackPage Count 188Imprint Peter Lang Publishing IncPublisher Peter Lang Publishing IncWeight(grams) 400g

A recurrent issue in linguistic theory and psychology concerns the cognitive status of memorized lists and their internal structure. In morphological theory, the collections of inflected forms of a given noun, verb, or adjective into inflectional...

This book is an exploration of the syntax of external arguments in transitivity alternations from a cross-linguistic perspective. It focuses particularly on the causative/anticausative alternation, which the authors take to be a Voice alternation, and...

This volume focuses on the internal structure of prepositional phrases, an area that has so far received little attention from the standpoint of cartography. Despite the wide range of data and considerations presented in these essays, the contributors...

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...

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,...

This book explores the wide variety of cases in which the plural of nouns is lexical. When a plural is lexicalized it becomes part of what it is to know a certain word: pence, for example, is lexical because it means a plurality of a certain kind - a...

Before she died in 2007, Tanya Reinhart had gone a long way towards developing the Theta System, a theory in which formal features defining the thematic relations of verbs are encoded in the lexicon, enabling an interface between the lexical component...

Adverbial Clauses, Main Clause Phenomena, and Composition of the Left Periphery uses the cartographic theory to examine the left periphery of the English clause and compare it to the left-peripheral structures of other languages. Liliane Haegeman argues...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780992309701Author Annette HarrisonFormat PaperbackPage Count 164Imprint HairysunPublisher HairysunWeight(grams) 304gDimensions(mm) 246mm * 189mm * 9mm

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) 181gDimensions(mm) 234mm * 156mm...

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) 263gDimensions(mm) 210mm * 280mm * 5mm

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) 113gDimensions(mm) 203mm * 133mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780692768259Author Richard HeagyFormat PaperbackPage Count 114Imprint Northfleet Group LLCPublisher Northfleet Group LLCWeight(grams) 154gDimensions(mm)...

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

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780759617896Author Milton J. StringmeyerFormat PaperbackPage Count 108Imprint AuthorHousePublisher AuthorHouseWeight(grams) 126g

"...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