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Homonyms are pairs of words (sometimes three or four words) that sound alike, but have different spellings and meanings,... Read More >>
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Information Structure and Syntactic Change in the History of English is the first book to apply information structure... Read More >>
This is the first book to bring together the fields of theoretical and empirical studies in syntax on the one hand... Read More >>
Over the last two decades, functional heads have been one of the privileged objects of research in generative linguistics.... Read More >>
In the past, discussions of absolute constructions (ACs) have been limited by an imprecise understanding of what... Read More >>
The volume presents new insights into two basic theoretical issues hotly debated in recent work on grammaticalization... Read More >>
Includes papers that explore the issues and re-assess generally accepted premises on the relationship between lexical... Read More >>
This book presents a comprehensive survey of historically attested relative clause constructions from a diachronic... Read More >>
The book reports on the present state of the theoretical presentation, empirical investigation, psycholinguistic... Read More >>
This diachronously and synchronously oriented study focuses not only on the creation of the dass sentence but also... Read More >>
Traditional grammars have stated that clitics are subject or object pronouns whose distributional features make... Read More >>
The fifteen papers selected for Volume II of English Historical Linguistics 2008 have a different emphasis than... Read More >>
We speak not only with our mouths, but also with our hands. And that is not all: this book advances the argument... Read More >>
Cleft constructions have long presented an analytical challenge for syntactic theory. This monograph argues that... Read More >>
Studying parts of speech always demands definition of the criteria for their determination. Non-inflecting parts... Read More >>
Based on extensive and diverse material from 70 languages, and covering a range of previously undiscussed problems,... Read More >>
The book revisits the notion of deontic modality from the perspective of an understudied category in the modal domain,... Read More >>