Grammar, syntax books

This is the first monograph to study sentence final particles in Chinese from a cartographic perspective, and the...  Read More >>

One prominent function of natural language is to convey information.  Read More >>

This book challenges the current consensus on the analysis of wh-questions and reflexives from the perspective of...  Read More >>

Prosody is one of the core components of language and speech, indicating the information about syntax, turn-taking...  Read More >>

Thematic Structure and Para-Syntax: Arabic as a Case Study presents a structural analysis of Arabic, providing an...  Read More >>

Diachronic Perspectives and Synchronic Variation in Southern Min aims to address a range of grammatical phenomena...  Read More >>

Focussing mainly on classifiers, Numeral Classifier and Classifier Languages offers a deep investigation of the...  Read More >>

The last few decades have seen extensive research focusing of the relative effectiveness of different instructional...  Read More >>

Explores the relation between second language production and comprehension at the level of processing to offer deeper...  Read More >>

What do you know, if you know that a language has 'Object Verb' structure rather than 'Verb Object'? Hubert Haider...  Read More >>

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Written by a team of experts, this handbook provides a comprehensive analysis of the key issues in Chinese linguistics,...  Read More >>

An unconventional guide to the English language drawn from the cross-country adventures of an itinerant grammarian...  Read More >>

This volume contains 21 new and original contributions to the study of formal semantics, written by distinguished...  Read More >>

Taking a functional approach, this textbook provides a thorough overview of Morphosyntax, and research on variation...  Read More >>

Taking a functional approach, this textbook provides a thorough overview of Morphosyntax, and research on variation...  Read More >>

"""A surprisingly fun jaunt into the convoluted wilds of the English language!"" Sentence Diagramming 101: Fun...  Read More >>

Nantong Chinese is an in-depth account of an interesting and endangered Sinitic language spoken in Nantong, China,...  Read More >>

This book is a comprehensive grammar of the Máku language, spoken by the jukudeitse who once lived in Venezuela...  Read More >>

The scholarly articles included in this volume represent significant contributions to the fields of formal and descriptive...  Read More >>

This book adopts corpus-driven methodologies in analyzing the wide range of variables underpinning verb number agreement...  Read More >>

Expressive Morphology in the Languages of South Asia explores the intricacies of the grammars of several of the...  Read More >>

"""A surprisingly fun jaunt into the convoluted wilds of the English language!"" Sentence Diagramming 101: Fun...  Read More >>

First published in 1977, Social Class, the Nominal Group and Verbal Strategies reports on the results of a grammatical...  Read More >>