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English Syntax: A Guide to the Grammar of Successful Writers: Writing Style 1 by Dick Heaberlin 9780979496417
$21.97Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780979496417Author Dick HeaberlinFormat PaperbackPage Count 192Imprint Orange House BooksPublisher Orange House BooksWeight(grams) 445g -
Theoretical Approaches to Disharmonic Word Order by Theresa Biberauer 9780199684359
RRP: $174.15$127.23This book considers the implications of cross-linguistic word-order patterns for linguistic theory. One of the salient results of Joseph Greenberg's pioneering work in language typology was the notion of a 'harmonic' word-order type, whereby if the verb... -
Adjectives and Adverbs: Syntax, Semantics, and Discourse by Louise McNally 9780199211623
RRP: $74.82$61.37Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
Meaning Change in Grammaticalization: An Enquiry into Semantic Reanalysis by Regine Eckardt 9780199556472
RRP: $63.84$53.77This book explores the semantic and pragmatic mechanisms underlying grammaticalization. Regine Eckardt argues that language change frequently involves a structural reorganization at the phonological, morphological, and syntactic levels. Speakers not only... -
Japanese Linguistics: An Introduction by Toshiko Yamaguchi 9780826487902
$56.75"This introduction to Japanese linguistics is designed to introduce students to all of the main areas of the subject. What makes this book distinct from other textbooks on Japanese linguistics is that linguistics is introduced by means of authentic... -
The Structure of CP and IP: Volume 2 by Luigi Rizzi 9780195159493
RRP: $107.07$88.82The purpose of this edited volume is to study the structure of the inflectional field and the left peripheral field of clauses, often described as the systems of IP (Inflection Phrase, a syntactic category used to describe clauses without complement... -
Understanding and Measuring Morphological Complexity by Matthew Baerman 9780198723769
RRP: $151.58$128.81This book aims to assess the nature of morphological complexity, and the properties that distinguish it from the complexity manifested in other components of language. Of the many ways languages have of being complex, perhaps none is as daunting as what... -
Information Structure and Syntactic Change in the History of English by Anneli Meurman-Solin 9780199860210
RRP: $125.13$100.76Information Structure and Syntactic Change in the History of English is the first book to apply information structure as it relates to language change to a corpus-based analysis of a wide range of features in the evolution of English syntax and grammars... -
Control and Restructuring by Thomas Grano 9780198703938
RRP: $56.75$47.39This 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... -
A Critical Introduction to Syntax by Jim Miller 9780826497048
$50.45This book introduces, analyzes and critiques the main areas of debate within the field of syntax. This book introduces the main areas of debate within the field of syntax. Jim Miller analyzes the major themes in syntactic research, paying attention to... -
Syntax in Functional Grammar: An Introduction to Lexicogrammar in Systemic Linguistics by George David Morley 9780826447357
$54.23In Syntax and Functional Grammar, David Morley provides a freamwork for the analysis of syntactic structure from the perspective of sytemic functional grammar. In part, the book goes back to the grammar's 'scale and category' roots, but it does so in... -
Case Absorption and WH-Agreement by Akira Watanabe 9780792342038
$116.45This book is an extensively revised version of the core part of my 1993 MIT doctoral dissertation, which seeks to provide a Minimalist theory of Case absorption and support it through empirical investigation. The central idea pursued is that... -
Interrogative Phrases and the Syntax-Semantics Interface by Ileana Comorovski 9780792338048
RRP: $116.09$115.93Interrogative Phrases and the Syntax-Semantics Interface starts by analyzing the interpretation of interrogative phrases in single and multiple constituent questions, including their interpretation under adverbs of quantification. The results are then... -
Current Issues in Comparative Grammar by Robert Freidin 9780792337799
$116.45Current Issues in Comparative Grammar illustrates the diversity and productivity of research within the principles and parameters framework of generative grammar. In combination, the papers in this volume address a rich and varied set of issues in the... -
Licensing Theory and French Parasitic Gaps by C.R. Tellier 9780792313236
$58.53The study of parasitic gap constructions (e. g. these are the reports; which you corrected _; before filing _i) has been a very lively area of research over the last decade. The impetus behind this lies mostly in the margi nality of the construction... -
Views on Phrase Structure by Katherine Leffel 9780792312956
RRP: $116.09$115.93O. PRELIMINARY REMARKS Initial drafts of the papers in this collection were presented in a con ference entitled 'Views on Phrase Structure', held at the University of Florida, Gainesville, in March, 1989. Eleven of the twenty-three partici pants in the... -
Syntactic Variables: Resumptive Pronouns and A' Binding in Palauan by Carol Georgopoulos 9780792312932
RRP: $116.09$115.93This book represents the culmination of an extended period of field work on the Palauan language, carried out while I was a graduate student at the University of California at San Diego. The book was born as a short term paper written in 1982; from a... -
Quantification in the Theory of Grammar by Taisuke Nishigauchi 9780792306436
RRP: $116.09$115.93In the past few decades, the development of theoretical linguistics has proved to be successful in shedding light on the intricate nature of language and knowledge of grammar, which contributes to a deeper understanding of the human mind. This book... -
Chicano English in Context by Carmen Fought 9780333986370
RRP: $116.09$115.93Chicano 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... -
Morpho-Lexical Alternation in Noun Formation by Zeki Hamawand 9780230537385
RRP: $58.04$58.01Morpho-Lexical Alternation in Noun Formation proposes a novel analysis of the structure of complex nouns in English, placing the focus on noun pairs that share single roots but end in different suffixes. To achieve this mission, the book combines two... -
Theories of Syntax: Concepts and Case Studies by Koenraad Kuiper 9780230216938
$45.42Do you want a deeper understanding of syntax and grammar? Theories of Syntax: Concepts and Case Studies is an indispensable student companion. Starting with basic concepts of syntax, Kuiper and Nokes then delve deeper by explaining how we understand... -
Variation in Datives: A Microcomparative Perspective by Beatriz Fernandez 9780199937387
RRP: $52.88$46.69Variation in Datives collects new research on the nature of syntactic micro-variation in datives. The papers in this volume examine different aspects of internal variation in dative marking, such as agreement and case alternations, distribution of... -
Mapping the Left Periphery: The Cartography of Syntactic Structures, Volume 5 by Paola Beninca 9780199740369
RRP: $54.81$52.35Mapping the Left Periphery, the fifth volume in "The Cartography of Syntactic Structures," is entirely devoted to the functional articulation of the so-called complementizer system, the highest part of sentence structure. The papers collected... -
Comparisons and Contrasts by Richard S. Kayne 9780199732517
RRP: $59.97$57.38Comparisons 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... -
Modality, Subjectivity, and Semantic Change: A Cross-Linguistic Perspective by Heiko Narrog 9780199694372
RRP: $167.70$120.74This book is a cross-linguistic exploration of semantic and functional change in modal markers. Its approach is broadly functional typological but makes frequent reference to work in formal semantics by scholars such as Angelika Kratzer and Paul Portner... -
Edges in Syntax: Scrambling and Cyclic Linearization by Heejeong Ko 9780199660261
RRP: $161.25$117.89This book examines how word order variations in language can be regulated by various factors in cyclic syntax. In particular, it offers a valuable contribution to the current debate concerning the effect of cyclic Spell-out on the (re-)ordering of... -
Simple Sentences, Substitution, and Intuitions by Jennifer M. Saul 9780199575640
RRP: $48.36$41.01The phenomenon of substitution failure is a longstanding focus of discussion for philosophers of language. Substitution failure occurs when a change from one co-referential name to another (e.g. from 'Superman' to 'Clark Kent') affects the truth-value of... -
Language Networks: The New Word Grammar by Richard Hudson 9780199298389
RRP: $76.11$62.96This book argues that language is a network of concepts which in turn is part of the general cognitive network of the mind. It challenges the widely-held view that language is an innate mental module with its own special internal organization. It shows... -
Subordination by Sonia Cristofaro 9780199282005
RRP: $85.14$64.38This book presents a typology of subordination systems across the world's languages. Traditional definitions of subordination are based on morphosyntactic criteria, such as clausal embedding or non-finiteness. Sonia Cristofaro shows that these... -
The Noun Phrase by Jan Rijkhoff 9780199269648
RRP: $77.40$64.90This book investigates noun phrases in a representative sample of the world's 6,000 or so languages and proposes a semantic model to describe their underlying structure in any natural language. It examines the semantic and morpho-syntactic properties of... -
Real Conditionals by William G. Lycan 9780199242078
RRP: $119.97$115.95Philosophers and logicians have long debated how best to understand conditional or hypothetical sentences. William G. Lycan has a distinctive approach to this debate, attending not just to the semantics of such sentences, but equally to their syntax. He... -
Gender and Noun Classification by Eric Mathieu 9780198828105
RRP: $138.68$107.90This 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... -
The Oxford Handbook of Inflection by Matthew Baerman 9780198808619
$52.23This is the latest addition to a group of handbooks covering the field of morphology, alongside The Oxford Handbook of Case (2008), The Oxford Handbook of Compounding (2009), and The Oxford Handbook of Derivational Morphology (2014). It provides a... -
Smuggling in Syntax by Adriana Belletti 9780197509876
RRP: $74.82$60.85One of the fundamental properties of human language is movement, where a constituent moves from one position in a sentence to another position. Syntactic theory has long been concerned with properties of movement, including locality restrictions... -
Case Marking and Reanalysis: Grammatical Relations from Old to Early Modern English by Cynthia L. Allen 9780198238676
RRP: $79.98$79.79It is commonly stated that the loss of case marking distinctions between Old and Middle English had profound consequences for the syntax of the language. In particular, linguists have attributed both the loss of the 'impersonal' constructions such as... -
Chomsky's Minimalism by Pieter A. M. Seuren 9780195173062
RRP: $87.72$73.61Noam Chomsky's current theory, published in 1995, is known as The Minimalist Program and has been presented as his crowning achievement. Minimalism has spawned in linguistics an entire research program, despite being fundamentally misguided, according to... -
Restructuring and Functional Heads: The Cartography of Syntactic Structures Volume 4 by Guglielmo Cinque 9780195179545
RRP: $78.69$65.80This volume collects the recent published articles of Guglielmo Cinque of the University of Venice, one of the world's top linguists. The book is divided into two sections, the first on restructuring, a central topic in Romance syntax and with... -
Syntactic Heads and Word Formation by Marit Julien 9780195149517
RRP: $86.43$71.27In Syntactic Heads and Word Formation, Marit Julien investigates the relationship between morphology and syntax. She examines the formation of morphologically complex words - that is, the mechanisms of grammar that may cause two or more of the simplest... -
Xp-Adjunction in Universal Grammar: Scrambling and Binding in Hindi-Urdu by Ayesha Kidwai 9780195132526
RRP: $118.68$88.02One of the most hotly debated phenomena in natural language is that of leftward argument scrambling. This book investigates the properties of Hindi-Urdu scrambling to show that it must be analysed as uniformly a focality-driven XP-adjunction operation... -
Cognitive Foundations of Grammar by Bernd Heine 9780195102529
RRP: $103.20$75.66The 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...