Grammar, syntax books

This book sheds light on one of the most elusive concepts of the systemic functional framework, Theme, by comparing...  Read More >>

This comprehensive survey of the history and structures of the languages of mainland Southeast Asia draws on examples...  Read More >>

Providing a comprehensive overview of the key concepts, questions and literature, this is an essential resource...  Read More >>

This pioneering new work combines insights from philosophy and linguistics to provide an innovative framework for...  Read More >>

By comparing interpersonal grammar systems – whereby the grammatical structures of languages are interpreted in...  Read More >>

The study of English word stress: New perspectives on its history, current state and issues.  Read More >>

This volume brings together empirical studies on ditransitive constructions in Germanic languages and their varieties,...  Read More >>

Providing a pedagogic interactional grammar of English, this book is designed for teachers and learners of English...  Read More >>

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The study departs from the observation that in expressing ideas, some languages encode more details than others....  Read More >>

With contributions from an international team of leading scholars, this book provides a field-defining overview...  Read More >>

Providing a pedagogic interactional grammar of English, this book is designed for teachers and learners of English...  Read More >>

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This book is an attempt to recognize and reinforce the existing argument in the Determiner Phrases (DP) literature...  Read More >>

"""Sound-in-Form"" is my main life's work. It shows a complete new method which I perfected over the last 25 years....  Read More >>

The book explores finite and nonfinite clausal verb complementation in present-day World Englishes from a corpus-based...  Read More >>

Using production, perception, and processing experiments on understudied sentence- and utterance-levels, the authors...  Read More >>

By examining the development of “finish” morphemes in Sinitic and Zhuang Tai-Kadai through the interplay between...  Read More >>

This book is a wide-ranging reference work covering the more than 550 Indigenous languages of Australia. The chapters...  Read More >>

Georgian: A Comprehensive Grammar constitutes a complete reference work addressing all major elements of Modern...  Read More >>

Georgian: A Comprehensive Grammar constitutes a complete reference work addressing all major elements of Modern...  Read More >>

This book characterises the diverse morphological complexity we find in the languages of the world. Richly illustrated,...  Read More >>

Constructions in Spanish is the first book-length English-language volume in the field of usage-based and Cognitive...  Read More >>

This book combines research to come up with a plausible account of grammar as a mental network. This is done by...  Read More >>