Grammar, syntax books

One of the fundamental properties of human language is movement, where a constituent moves from one position in...  Read More >>

This book presents a comprehensive picture of reflexive pronouns from both a theoretical and experimental perspective,...  Read More >>

A Grammar of Sirvan Tat is a grammatical description of a dialect of Tat, a non-written Iranian language spoken...  Read More >>

A History of the Chinese Language provides an introduction to the historical development of Chinese from its Proto-Sino-Tibetan...  Read More >>

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The Third Space and Chinese Language Pedagogy presents the Third Space as a new frame through which foreign language...  Read More >>

Emirati Arabic: A Comprehensive Grammar offers readers a reference tool for discovering and studying in detail the...  Read More >>

Emirati Arabic: A Comprehensive Grammar offers readers a reference tool for discovering and studying in detail the...  Read More >>

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

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

Dieser Band untersucht die Bildhaftigkeit (Ikonizitat) von Sprache. Seit der Antike fragt man sich, ob die Relation...  Read More >>

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This book is dedicated to Anna Wierzbicka, one of the most influential and innovative linguists of her generation....  Read More >>

Originally published in 1991, this book examines the process whereby a modern colloquial style of written Japanese...  Read More >>

The author has first introduced the relevant theories and concepts of Metrical Phonology, Prosodic Phonology and...  Read More >>

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Originally published in 1986, this book discussses how the proper boundary between the lexicon and syntax should...  Read More >>

Originally published in 1994, this volume analyses complex predicate constructions in Japanese in the framework...  Read More >>

Demonstratives and Grammaticalization offers an in-depth analysis of the demonstrative system in Turkish. This book...  Read More >>

The Semitic Languages presents a comprehensive survey of the individual languages and language clusters within this...  Read More >>

This book explores how non-native speakers use English to communicate. It compares word categories, phrase and sentence...  Read More >>

This book has shown that prosody has played a crucial role in triggering the many changes in the diachronic development...  Read More >>