Syntax

This book extends the traditional research perspective of single sentences and contexts to the textual structure of real discourse materials.Taking discourse functional grammar as its theoretical orientation, the book combines relevant theories with...

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As the second volume of a two-volume set that re-examines nouns and verbs in Chinese, this book investigates a wide range of linguistic phenomena in Chinese and other languages to substantiate the verbs-as-nouns theory proposed by the author.In an...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780262553575Author Edward A. GibsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 444Imprint MIT PressPublisher MIT Press Ltd

Supported by data from linguistic fieldwork conducted in the Faroe Islands and Iceland, this book presents a pioneering approach to syntactic analysis, 'Optimal Linking Grammar' (OLG), which brings together two existing models, Linking Theory and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780262553278Author David AdgerFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint MIT PressPublisher MIT Press Ltd

This book presents a systemic-functional analysis of aspects of transitivity in Mandarin Chinese, focusing on two major types of clause: material clauses and relational clauses. Material clauses represent actions/events in the material world. Relational...

This collection of original essays addresses salient issues in a range of empirical and conceptual analyses, providing detailed case studies of phenomena in Bantu languages and robust and interesting discussions on the structure of the noun phrase. This...

As the second volume of a two-volume set that presents a comprehensive syntactical picture of Singapore Mandarin, this title analyses various expressions relating to number, quantity, time and place, composite sentences and the characteristics and...

A Grammar of Arabic models a new framework for studying varieties of Arabic comparatively, highlighting the patterns of variation and consistency, and showing how different styles, from primarily spoken and casual to primarily written and formal, are...