Grammar, syntax books

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Ethnosyntax: Explorations in Grammar and Culture

Ethnosyntax: Explorations in Grammar and Culture

Author: N. J. Enfield (, Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics, Nijmegen)
ISBN: 9780199249060
Format: Hardback
$369.00

Meanings of cultural importance are found not only in words but also in the very grammar of a language. This volume...  Read More >>

Philologie, Typologie Und Sprachstruktur Philology, Typology and Language Structure: Festschrift Fuer Winfried Boeder Zum 65. Geburtstag Festschrift for Winfried Boeder on the Occasion of His 65th Birthday

Philologie, Typologie Und Sprachstruktur Philology,...

Author: Wolfram Bublitz ,  Manfred von Roncador
ISBN: 9783631382615
Format: Hardback
$203.64

Diese Festschrift wurde dem Sprachwissenschaftler Winfried Boeder (Universitaet Oldenburg) zu seinem 65. Geburtstag...  Read More >>

Postverbal Behavior

Postverbal Behavior

Author: Thomas Wasow
ISBN: 9781575864020
Format: Paperback
$71.28

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On the Formal Way to Chinese Languages

On the Formal Way to Chinese Languages

Author: Sze-Wing Tang ,  Chen-Sheng Luther Liu
ISBN: 9781575863702
Format: Paperback
$46.95

This collection presents readers with the main thrust of current research on Chinese languages from the perspective...  Read More >>

Grammar of the Mexican Language: With an Explanation of Its Adverbs (1645)

Grammar of the Mexican Language: With an Explanation...

Author: Horacio Carochi ,  James Lockhart
ISBN: 9780804742818
Format: Hardback
$211.20

Horacio Carochi's 1645 Arte de la lengua mexicana is a work on Nahuatl, primary native language of central Mexico...  Read More >>

The Syntax of Possession in Japanese

The Syntax of Possession in Japanese

Author: Takae Tsujioka ,  Laurence R. Horn
ISBN: 9780415941624
Format: Hardback
$305.00

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Syntactic Effects of Morphological Change

Syntactic Effects of Morphological Change

Author: David W. Lightfoot (, Dean of the Graduate School of Georgetown University)
ISBN: 9780199250684
Format: Hardback
$360.00

This title presents ideas on the nature and causes of language change. The authors consider how far changes in morphology...  Read More >>

Middle Voice: A comparative study in the syntax-semantics interface of German

Middle Voice: A comparative study in the syntax-semantics...

Author: Markus Steinbach (Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz)
ISBN: 9789027227713
Format: Hardback
$388.08

Investigates the syntax and semantics of various reflexive constructions in German, which are an interesting case...  Read More >>

Learning the meaning of change-of-state verbs: A case study of German child language

Learning the meaning of change-of-state verbs: A case...

Author: Angelika Wittek
ISBN: 9783110173048
Format: Hardback
$377.52

Causative change-of-state verbs like 'to open', 'to fill', and 'to wake' are central to both recent theories of...  Read More >>

The Syntax of Italian

The Syntax of Italian

Author: Nigel Vincent
ISBN: 9780521561907
Format: Hardback
$76.43

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Discontinuous NPs in German: A Case Study of the Interaction of Syntax, Semantics, and Pragmatics

Discontinuous NPs in German: A Case Study of the Interaction...

Author: Kordula De Kuthy
ISBN: 9781575863979
Format: Hardback
$115.95

This book investigates the occurrence of discontinuous noun phrases, arguing that many of the factors that previous...  Read More >>

Postverbal Behavior

Postverbal Behavior

Author: Thomas Wasow
ISBN: 9781575864013
Format: Hardback
$171.60

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Production, Perception, and Phonotactic Patterns: A Case of Contrastive Palatalization

Production, Perception, and Phonotactic Patterns: A...

Author: Alexei Kochetov
ISBN: 9780415941549
Format: Hardback
$305.00

This work presents the first experimental study of articulatory dynamics of Russian and of secondary articulents...  Read More >>

On the Formal Way to Chinese Languages

On the Formal Way to Chinese Languages

Author: Sze-Wing Tang ,  Chen-Sheng Luther Liu
ISBN: 9781575863696
Format: Hardback
$115.95

This collection presents readers with the main thrust of current research on Chinese languages from the perspective...  Read More >>

Complex Sentences in Grammar and Discourse: Essays in honor of Sandra A. Thompson

Complex Sentences in Grammar and Discourse: Essays in...

Author: Joan L. Bybee (University of New Mexico) ,  Michael Noonan (University of Wisconsin at Milwaukee)
ISBN: 9789027225856
Format: Hardback
$282.04

The authors and editors dedicate this book to Sandra Annear Thompson. By presenting articles on complex clauses...  Read More >>

Parallelism and Prosody in the Processing of Ellipsis Sentences

Parallelism and Prosody in the Processing of Ellipsis...

Author: Katy Carlson ,  Laurence Horn
ISBN: 9780415941686
Format: Hardback
$305.00

Through rigorous and well-documented experiments, this thesis presents pioneering work on the processing of a variety...  Read More >>

Grammatical Concepts 101 for Biblical Hebrew: Learning Biblical Hebrew Grammatical Concepts Through English Grammar

Grammatical Concepts 101 for Biblical Hebrew: Learning...

Author: Gary A. Long
ISBN: 9781565637139
Format: Paperback
$52.67

Many students have forgotten, or never learned, the basic grammatical concepts needed for studying Biblical Hebrew....  Read More >>

The Grammar of Causation and Interpersonal Manipulation

The Grammar of Causation and Interpersonal Manipulation...

Author: Masayoshi Shibatani (Rice University)
ISBN: 9789027229533
Format: Paperback
$142.31

The grammar of causation has long been an intensely scrutinized area of language studies. Despite this, a great...  Read More >>

The Mirror of Grammar: Theology, philosophy and the Modistae

The Mirror of Grammar: Theology, philosophy and the...

Author: L.G. Kelly (Darwin College, Cambridge)
ISBN: 9789027245908
Format: Hardback
$393.36

This work traces the genesis of a grammar which communicated freely with other speculative sciences, shared their...  Read More >>

The Typology of Parts of Speech Systems: The Markedness of Adjectives

The Typology of Parts of Speech Systems: The Markedness...

Author: David Beck ,  Laurence R. Horn
ISBN: 9780415941556
Format: Hardback
$305.00

This book presents rigorous and criterial definitions of the major parts of speech - noun, verb and adjective -...  Read More >>

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