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Mostly Homonyms

Mostly Homonyms

Author: Janet Dickey Lein ,  Elizabeth Berriman
ISBN: 9781280770180
Format: Electronic book text
$79.17

Homonyms are pairs of words (sometimes three or four words) that sound alike, but have different spellings and meanings,...  Read More >>

Linguistics Today: Optimizing Adverb Positions

Linguistics Today: Optimizing Adverb Positions

Author: Eva Engels (Aarhus University)
ISBN: 9781283469357
Format: Electronic book text
$417.12

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An Introduction to Linguistic Typology

An Introduction to Linguistic Typology

Author: Viveka Velupillai (University of Giessen)
ISBN: 9781283539487
Format: Electronic book text
$393.36

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On the Grammar of Optative Constructions.

On the Grammar of Optative Constructions.

Author: Patrick Georg Grosz (University of Tubingen)
ISBN: 9781283539463
Format: Electronic book text
$417.12

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Information Structure and Syntactic Change in the History of English

Information Structure and Syntactic Change in the History...

Author: Dr Anneli Meurman-Solin (University of Helsinki) ,  Senior Lecturer Maria Jose Lopez-Couso (Universidad de Santiago de Compostela)
ISBN: 9781280770364
Format: Electronic book text
$263.74

Information Structure and Syntactic Change in the History of English is the first book to apply information structure...  Read More >>

Quantitative Syntax Analysis

Quantitative Syntax Analysis

Author:
ISBN: 9781280597091
Format: Electronic book text
$406.56

This is the first book to bring together the fields of theoretical and empirical studies in syntax on the one hand...  Read More >>

Functional Heads: The Cartography of Syntactic Structures, Volume 7

Functional Heads: The Cartography of Syntactic Structures,...

Author: Researcher Laura Bruge (University of Venice) ,  Professor of Linguistics Anna Cardinaletti (University of Linguistics)
ISBN: 9781282135185
Format: Electronic book text
$352.84

Over the last two decades, functional heads have been one of the privileged objects of research in generative linguistics....  Read More >>

Absolute Constructions in Early Indo-European

Absolute Constructions in Early Indo-European

Author: Antonia Ruppel (Cornell University, New York)
ISBN: 9781283746274
Format: Undefined
$330.00

In the past, discussions of absolute constructions (ACs) have been limited by an imprecise understanding of what...  Read More >>

Grammatical Replication and Borrowability in Language Contact

Grammatical Replication and Borrowability in Language...

Author: Bj Wiemer ,  Bj Hansen
ISBN: 9781283628327
Format: Electronic book text
$517.44

The volume presents new insights into two basic theoretical issues hotly debated in recent work on grammaticalization...  Read More >>

End of Argument Structure

End of Argument Structure

Author: Mar Cuervo ,  Yves Roberge (University of Toronto)
ISBN: 9781280394492
Format: Electronic book text
$382.80

Includes papers that explore the issues and re-assess generally accepted premises on the relationship between lexical...  Read More >>

Relative Clauses in Time and Space. a Case Study in the Methods of Diachronic Typology.

Relative Clauses in Time and Space. a Case Study in...

Author: Dr Rachel Hendery (The Australian National University)
ISBN: 9781280879487
Format: Electronic book text
$377.52

This book presents a comprehensive survey of historically attested relative clause constructions from a diachronic...  Read More >>

The Modular Architecture of Grammar

The Modular Architecture of Grammar

Author: Jerrold M Sadock (University of Chicago)
ISBN: 9781280485169
Format: Undefined
$330.00

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Expression of Information Structure

Expression of Information Structure

Author: Manfred Krifka ,  Renate Musan
ISBN: 9781283627870
Format: Electronic book text
$406.56

The book reports on the present state of the theoretical presentation, empirical investigation, psycholinguistic...  Read More >>

(Nicht-)Kanonische Nebensatze Im Deutschen

(Nicht-)Kanonische Nebensatze Im Deutschen

Author: Katrin Axel-Tober
ISBN: 9781280596902
Format: Electronic book text
$480.48

This diachronously and synchronously oriented study focuses not only on the creation of the dass sentence but also...  Read More >>

Pronouns and Clitics in Early Language

Pronouns and Clitics in Early Language

Author: Dr Pedro Guijarro-Fuentes (University of Plymouth) ,  Pilar Larranaga
ISBN: 9781283627696
Format: Electronic book text
$406.56

Traditional grammars have stated that clitics are subject or object pronouns whose distributional features make...  Read More >>

English Historical Linguistics 2008. Selected Papers from the Fifteenth International Conference on English Historical Linguistics (Icehl 15), Munich, 24-30 August 2008. Volume II: Words, Texts and Genres

English Historical Linguistics 2008. Selected Papers...

Author: Hans Sauer (Ludwig-Maximilians-Universitat Munchen) ,  Gaby Waxenberger (Ludwig-Maximilians-Universitat Munchen)
ISBN: 9781283521536
Format: Electronic book text
$417.12

The fifteen papers selected for Volume II of English Historical Linguistics 2008 have a different emphasis than...  Read More >>

The Early English Impersonal Construction: An Analysis of Verbal and Constructional Meaning

The Early English Impersonal Construction: An Analysis...

Author: Ruth Mohlig-Falke
ISBN: 9781280499890
Format: Electronic book text
$352.84

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Grammatik Multimodal

Grammatik Multimodal

Author: Ellen Fricke
ISBN: 9781283627993
Format: Electronic book text
$480.48

We speak not only with our mouths, but also with our hands. And that is not all: this book advances the argument...  Read More >>

Universals in Comparative Morphology

Universals in Comparative Morphology

Author: Jonathan David Bobaljik
ISBN: 9781283637756
Format: Electronic book text
$100.32

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Clefts and Their Relatives.

Clefts and Their Relatives.

Author: Matthew Reeve (University College London)
ISBN: 9781280676901
Format: Electronic book text
$393.36

Cleft constructions have long presented an analytical challenge for syntactic theory. This monograph argues that...  Read More >>

Nicht-Flektierende Wortarten

Nicht-Flektierende Wortarten

Author: Bj Rothstein
ISBN: 9781280597688
Format: Electronic book text
$406.56

Studying parts of speech always demands definition of the criteria for their determination. Non-inflecting parts...  Read More >>

Nominalizations

Nominalizations

Author: Ms Maria Koptjevskaja-Tamm (Stockholm University University of Stockholm University of Stockholm)
ISBN: 9781280324680
Format: Electronic book text
$579.74

Based on extensive and diverse material from 70 languages, and covering a range of previously undiscussed problems,...  Read More >>

Modal Adjectives

Modal Adjectives

Author: An Van Linden (University of Leuven)
ISBN: 9781280596827
Format: Electronic book text
$406.56

The book revisits the notion of deontic modality from the perspective of an understudied category in the modal domain,...  Read More >>

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