Syntax

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...

Grammar and Meaning is an introduction to the study of grammar of contemporary English. It provides an impressive survey of all the main areas of English grammar, from words through to sentences and texts. It introduces and explains the linguistic terms...

This book provides a comprehensive account of the role of recursion in language in two distinct but interconnected ways. First, David J. Lobina examines how recursion applies at different levels within a full description of natural language...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780262533324Author Shigeru MiyagawaFormat PaperbackPage Count 246Imprint MIT PressPublisher MIT Press LtdDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm * 13mm

Written for beginning learners of the language, this concise introduction to Chinese grammar assumes only a basic knowledge of Chinese, and no knowledge of grammatical terminology and practices. Comparing Chinese grammar patterns and rules with those of...

In Romans, Stanley E. Porter and David I. Yoon provide a foundational examination of the Greek text of Acts. The analysis is distinguished by the detailed yet comprehensive attention paid to the text. The authors' exposition is a convenient pedagogical...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780262544955Author Guglielmo CinqueFormat PaperbackPage Count 184Imprint MIT PressPublisher MIT Press Ltd

Inflectional morphology plays a paradoxical role in language. On the one hand it tells us useful things, for example that a noun is plural or a verb is in the past tense. On the other hand many languages get along perfectly well without it, so the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780262539869Author Barbara CitkoFormat PaperbackPage Count 192Imprint MIT PressPublisher MIT Press Ltd

Bringing together the results of sixty years of research in typology and universals, this textbook presents a comprehensive survey of Morphosyntax - the combined study of syntax and morphology. Languages employ extremely diverse morphosyntactic...

The ancient Indian linguistic tradition has been influential in the development of modern linguistics, yet is not well known among modern Western linguists. This unique book addresses this gap by providing an accessible introduction to the Indian...

This volume re-issues the second, revised edition of 1955. This grammar and vocabulary of the Acooli language (here spoken by the central group Patiko-AlEEro-Payiira) contains numerous examples partly to illustrate rules, partly to supply phrases...

R. M. W. Dixon's landmark 1972 grammar of the Dyirbal language of North Queensland is one of the best-known and most widely-cited language descriptions in the history of linguistics. In the fifty years since its publication, Dixon has continued his...

Witsuwit’en is an endangered First Nations language, spoken in western-central British Columbia. A member of the Athapaskan family of languages, the language had been known to have some intriguing characteristics of consonant-vowel interaction, the...

Many of the world's languages permit or require clause-initial positioning of the primary predicate, potentially alongside some or all of its dependents. While such predicate fronting (where "fronting" may or may not involve movement) is a...

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The goal of this contribution to the Elements series is to closely examine Merge, its form, its function, and its central role in current linguistic theory. It explores what it does (and does not do), why it has the form it has, and its development over...

'Salience' is a linguistic phenomenon whereby information that is 'given', or 'new', is distributed and presented within a sentence in particular ways that convey its relevance. Although it has been widely described as the speaker's linguistic choices...

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A new analysis of adjectives, supported by comparative evidence. In The Syntax of Adjectives, Guglielmo Cinque offers cross-linguistic evidence that adjectives have two sources. Arguing against the standard view, and reconsidering his own earlier...

This book focuses on the form and the function of commands-directive speech acts such as pleas, entreaties, and orders-from a typological perspective. A team of internationally-renowned experts in the field examine the interrelationship of these speech...

A novel view of the syntax-semantics interface that analyzes the behavior of indefinite objects. In Indefinite Objects, Luis Lopez presents a novel approach to the syntax-semantics interface using indefinite noun phrases as a database. Traditional...

An investigation of the syntactic structure of voice and v, using Acehnese (Malayo-Polynesian) as the empirical starting point. In Voice and v, Julie Anne Legate investigates the syntactic structure of voice, using Acehnese as the empirical starting...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780992159405Author Sherman P BastaracheFormat PaperbackPage Count 354Imprint Idein PublishingPublisher Idein PublishingWeight(grams) 449g

This book examines some knotty problems in natural language. These typically involve questions where the sense or the grammaticality of an utterance teeters on or over the edge of acceptability among native speakers. The phenomena in question have been...

This volume provides a detailed and comprehensive description of the morphological system of Dutch. Following an introduction to the basic assumptions of morphological theory, separate chapters are devoted to the inflectional system, derivation, and...

Andrew Radford has acquired an unrivalled reputation over the past forty years for writing syntax textbooks in which difficult concepts are clearly explained without excessive use of technical jargon. Analysing English Sentence Structure continues in...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783946234418Author Stefan MuellerFormat PaperbackPage Count 396Imprint Language Science PressPublisher Language Science PressWeight(grams) 626g

The structural and semantic properties of adverbials represent a still poorly understood area of sentential syntax and semantics in Germanic languages. In particular, it is an open question which different adverbial usages need to be distinguished, which...

This book examines the Romanian mihi est construction (Mi-e foame/frică, me.dat = is hunger/fear ‘I am hungry/ afraid’). While it disappeared from all other Romance languages to be replaced with a habeo structure, the mihi est pattern is in Romanian the...

This volume contains innovative papers that target the linguistic status of topic at the interface between grammar and discourse. The purpose of the volume is to discuss the universal properties of topics and, at the same time, to document the range of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783946234302Author Stefan MuellerFormat PaperbackPage Count 570Imprint Language Science PressPublisher Language Science PressWeight(grams)...

Bridging theoretical modelling and advanced empirical techniques is a central aim of current linguistic research. The progress in empirical methods contributes to the precise estimation of the properties of linguistic data and promises new ways for...

Generative phonology aims to formalise two distinct aspects of phonological processes: the functional and the representational. Since functions operate on representations, it is clear that the functional aspect is influenced by the form of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781647848170Author Frank SitFormat PaperbackPage Count 264Imprint EhgbooksPublisher EhgbooksWeight(grams) 390g

The overarching goal of this volume is to explore a number of recent developments in Phase Theory (both theoretical and empirical), thus contributing to our overall understanding of the concept of phases.The volume is divided into three parts, of which...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781732748927Author Peter BeavenFormat PaperbackPage Count 254Imprint Cheshire PressPublisher Cheshire PressWeight(grams) 216g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9784908556067Author Sterlyn K CarrollFormat PaperbackPage Count 80Imprint Simple Speaking Verbs 1Publisher Simple Speaking Verbs 1Weight(grams) 277g

This book applies the tools of nanosyntax to the natural language phenomenon of negation. Most work on negation is concerned with the study of sentence negation, while low scope negation or constituent negation is hardly ever systematically discussed in...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780989827348Author Thm Phd Wilbur N PickeringFormat PaperbackPage Count 246Imprint WnpPublisher WnpWeight(grams) 336gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm * 13mm