Grammar, syntax books

Provides explanations of the best practices in writing American English. Topics - located through a tabbing system...  Read More >>

Emphasizing the fundamental role of purpose in the writing process, this text blends proven strategies with contemporary...  Read More >>

This major contribution to modern syntactic theory elaborates a principles-and-parameters framework in which the...  Read More >>

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This book provides the first broad yet thorough coverage of issues in morphological theory.  Read More >>

Presents a variety of approaches to text description that have been proposed in the linguistic literature in the...  Read More >>

No detailed description available for ""Thematic Structure"".  Read More >>

This book is an introduction to linguistics and integrates variation and change with the more structural or synchronic...  Read More >>

An examination of Catalan. In its syntax and morphology it presents characteristics which will be familiar to readers...  Read More >>

"Provides evidence to validate parts of Hirtle's theory and to investigate several problems, some of which are mentioned...  Read More >>

Explores many interesting details of Finnish syntax, morphology, phonology and lexicon, providing the linguist,...  Read More >>

This textbook is intended to give students a quick start in using theory to address syntactic questions. At each...  Read More >>

The series builds an extensive collection of high quality descriptions of languages around the world. Each volume...  Read More >>

No detailed description available for ""Meaning and Grammar"".  Read More >>

These particles, mo, demo and sae may roughly be equated with a/so, or something like it and even, respectively,...  Read More >>

A controversial lecture was given by John Searle in 1981, in which he presented two conceptual theses: that conversation...  Read More >>

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This volume represents all major and some of the minor trends that have evolved during the past decade. Book titles...  Read More >>

Argues for the validity of grammaticality, for a specific view of the relationship between the abstract, non-psychological...  Read More >>

These eight papers by the late Niels Danielsen serve as an introduction to his theory of linguistic universality....  Read More >>

The future of English linguistics as envisaged by the editors of Topics in English Linguistics lies in empirical...  Read More >>

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Several distinct general linguistic theories are represented here: autolexical theory, categorial grammar, functional...  Read More >>

"A collection of essays on issues of grammar in different languages. Coverage ranges from the history of Japanese...  Read More >>

"Presents research on major issues in syntactic theory within the theory of role and reference grammar. The theory...  Read More >>