Grammar & Punctuation

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780900416910Author B. GunnFormat HardbackPage Count 305Imprint Griffith InstitutePublisher Griffith Institute

Klallam is the language of the Lower Elwha Klallam, Port Gamble S'Klallam, and Jamestown S'Klallam Tribes. It is spoken on the north shore of Washington's Olympic Peninsula from the Strait of Juan de Fuca inland into the mountains, Vancouver Island's...

The Early English Impersonal Construction aims to demonstrate that an understanding of the functional and semantic aspects of impersonal verbs in Old and Middle English can shed light on questions that remain about these verbs today. The impersonal...

Imposters are third person DPs that are used to refer to the speaker/writer or addressee, such as : (i) Your humble servant finds the time before our next encounter very long. (ii) This reporter thinks that the current developments are extraordinary...

This book addresses the question of how the properties of human vowel systems can be explained. Though it is found that vowel systems of human languages are optimal for communicative purposes, it is not clear who is doing the optimization. If children...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783447102148Author Amha AzebFormat PaperbackPage Count 299Imprint HarrassowitzPublisher HarrassowitzWeight(grams) 454g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9782401094352Author HatierFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint Editions HatierPublisher Editions HatierWeight(grams) 474g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9782278111770Author Michèle BUTZBACHFormat PaperbackImprint DidierPublisher Didier

Grammar is a subject of study that is often associated with an irresistible urge to doze off or run away in terror. In this book, however, you will find grammar presented in a different light. Rather than focusing on lists of rules to be remembered, the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780835608657Author Lawrence A. WeinsteinFormat PaperbackPage Count 168Imprint Quest Books,U.S.Publisher Quest Books,U.S.

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780825306778Author William BradshawFormat PaperbackPage Count 160Imprint Beaufort BooksPublisher Beaufort BooksWeight(grams) 218g

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...

Locality is a key concept not only in linguistic theorizing, but in explaining pattern of acquisition and patterns of recovery in garden path sentences, as well. If syntax relates sound and meaning over an infinite domain, syntactic dependencies and...

In this volume Silvio Cruschina uses a comparative analysis to determine the syntax of the functional projections associated with discourse-related features, and to account for the marked word orders found in Romance - particularly in the fronting...

This volume consists of nine original chapters on central issues in theoretical syntax, all written by distinguished authors who have made major contributions to generative syntax, plus an introductory chapter by the editor. Dedicated to Tarald...

This book explores the interaction of grammar and context in human communication. Lutz Marten focuses on verbs and verb phrases: he examines the relationship between language rules and linguistic behaviour, seeking to distinguish between...

The second volume in the Vancouver Studies in Cognitive Science series, this collection presents recent work in the fields of phonology, morphology, semantics, and neurolinguistics. Its overall theme is the relationship between the contents of...

Linguistic academics and speech therapists will find here the first modern book-length empirical study and theoretical account of English truncatory processes. On the basis of a corpus comprising some 3000 derivatives, the book provides a systematic...

In the last decade a profound change has occurred in linguistic science. Not only have old problems been tackled from an entirely new point of view but also quite a few new fields of linguistic research have been opened. The common characteristic of the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788772886558Author Bent PreislerFormat HardbackPage Count 288Imprint Aarhus University PressPublisher Aarhus University Press

The current volume is a collection of papers representing the most recent developments in linguistics, specifically in the fields of language, discourse and translation studies. It includes papers representative of traditionally distinguished linguistic...

The Sixth Edition of the best-selling Grammar in Context series, inspires learners through compelling stories, National Geographic images, and content, relevant to students' lives. Students learn more, remember more, and use language more effectively...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783447111171Author Stephen M ColemanFormat PaperbackPage Count 266Imprint HarrassowitzPublisher HarrassowitzWeight(grams) 422g

The comparative grammar of the Austronesian languages underwent an unprecedented change immediately after World War 2, owing to the use of lexicostatistics, the appeal to migration theory and the like, and also because of the idea of Formosa being the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781601630438Author Becky BurckmyerFormat PaperbackPage Count 192Imprint Career PressPublisher Red Wheel/WeiserDimensions(mm) 210mm * 133mm * 15mm

This collective volume contains studies in the field of ancient grammar, poetics and philosophy of language. The contributions, written by specialists in the field, focus on central themes in the historiography of ancient linguistics, such as the status...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781800080959Author Raoul ZamponiFormat HardbackPage Count 192Imprint UCL PressPublisher UCL PressWeight(grams) 156g

Philosophers 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...

Deeply embedded in the history of Latin Europe, the vernacular ("the language of slaves") still draws us towards urgent issues of affiliation, identity, and cultural struggle. Vernacular politics in medieval Latin Europe were richly complex and the...

This book presents the most complete exposition of the theory of head-driven phrase structure grammar (HPSG), introduced in the authors' Information-Based Syntax and Semantics. HPSG provides an integration of key ideas from the various disciplines of...

In this long-awaited book-the first in a three-volume work-David M. Perlmutter has co-authored and edited ten essays that introduce relational grammar, a novel conception of sentence structure that offers far-reaching conclusions for universal grammar. ...

'Book InformationISBN 9780226120904Author William CroftFormat PaperbackPage Count 328Imprint University of Chicago PressPublisher The University of Chicago PressWeight(grams) 539gDimensions(mm) 23mm * 16mm * 2mm

This textbook is intended to give students a quick start in using theory to address syntactic questions. At each stage, Cowper is careful to introduce a theoretical apparatus that is no more complex than is required to deal with the phenomenon under...

This work consists of an introduction and 11 articles on important aspects of the interpretation of generic expressions. The introduction provides a clear overview of various issues and synthesizes the major analytical approaches to them. Taken together,...

This book posits a universal syntactic constraint (FPC) for code switching, using as its basis a study of different types of code-switching between French, Moroccan Arabic and Standard Arabic in a language contact situation. After presenting the...

This typological overview compares the degree to which different languages have means to give expression to modality (possibility, necessity) without lexical and direct inflectional means. The criterial patterns derive from a variety of languages such as...

Although the grammatical expression of reciprocal (or `mutual') situations in the languages of the world has received a surprising amount of attention in recent years, so far no comprehensive study specifically dealing with the historical development and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780820425054Author Lihua ZhangFormat HardbackPage Count 237Imprint Peter Lang Publishing IncPublisher Peter Lang Publishing IncWeight(grams) 510g

This book is a collection of seven articles published in the past decade by the author. These articles are concerned with various issues including possessor raising, null subject, null object, pied-piping in logical form, focus marker, question...

This book is a collection of seven articles published in the past decade by the author. These articles are concerned with various issues including possessor raising, null subject, null object, pied-piping in logical form, focus marker, question...