Grammar, syntax books

Based on a detailed study of creole languages, this book contributes to the debate on language acquisition and change...  Read More >>

An innovative investigation of 'missing' grammatical forms and their significance for linguistic theory. This accessible...  Read More >>

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Syntactic theory has been dominated in the last decades by theories that disregard semantics in their approach to...  Read More >>

Anybody who reads or writes Chinese characters knows that they obey a grammar of sorts: though numerous, they are...  Read More >>

Investigates the change and evolution of a fascinating English construction - comparative correlatives (e.g. the...  Read More >>

In THE TWO VOLUMES of Prosodic Syntax in Chinese, the author develops a new model which proposes that the interaction...  Read More >>

In the two volumes of Prosodic Syntax in Chinese, the author develops a new model, which proposes that the interaction...  Read More >>

In the two volumes of Prosodic Syntax in Chinese, the author develops a new model, which proposes that the interaction...  Read More >>

There are far more syntactically distinct languages than we might have thought. Yet there are far fewer than there...  Read More >>

Revision of author's thesis (doctoral)--Katholieke Universiteit te Leuven, 2016.  Read More >>

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The linker introduces ( links ) a variety of expressions into the verb phrase, including locatives; the second object...  Read More >>

The linker introduces ( links ) a variety of expressions into the verb phrase, including locatives; the second object...  Read More >>

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Aligning Grammars: Basque and Romance offers a theoretically-informed in-depth description of several linguistic...  Read More >>

One prominent function of natural language is to convey information. One peculiarity is that it does not do so randomly,...  Read More >>

This new Handbook, with contributions from leaders in the field, integrates, within a single volume, an historical...  Read More >>

Papers presented at the 4th European HPSG symposium.  Read More >>

The aim of this book is to give the first large-scale typological investigation of pluractionality in the languages...  Read More >>

A comprehensive resource that catalogues the most common and useful prosodic patterns in English, explaining how...  Read More >>

A comprehensive resource that catalogues the most common and useful prosodic patterns in English, explaining how...  Read More >>

The volume deals with valency phenomena in verbs and complex deverbal lexical structures (nominalizations, adjectivizations...  Read More >>

Russian Function Words: Meanings and Use is a collection of 463 prepositions, conjunctions, particles, interjections,...  Read More >>

This volume is an important contribution to the theoretical and empirical study of the interactions of grammatical...  Read More >>