Usage & grammar guides books

This book presents the first comprehensive typology of purpose clause constructions in the world s languages. Based...  Read More >>

Phase Theory is the latest model of modern syntactic theorizing in the generative tradition, the larger research...  Read More >>

The present volume contains a selection of papers presented at the conference Cognitive Approaches to English, an...  Read More >>

This volume investigates interface interpretation within Phase Theory, the current stage of syntactic theorizing...  Read More >>

With surface and performance, this collected volume places two concepts centre-stage that can be regarded as...  Read More >>

Analysing English Sentences provides a concise and clear introduction to current work in syntactic theory, drawing...  Read More >>

This book explores the nature of stative verbs, their eventuality structure, and the patterns of argument realization....  Read More >>

Spontaneous speech errors provide valuable evidence not only for the processes that mediate between a communicative...  Read More >>

This volume brings together a number of researchers working on non-cartographic conceptions of word order, movement...  Read More >>

The study questions the semantic difference postulated by research between the various constructional types of psychverb....  Read More >>

Inside this book: The dirtiest words in the English language! And we're not just talking about those infamous seven...  Read More >>

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This book is the most comprehensive study to date of the development of the three suffixes -hood, -dom and -ship...  Read More >>

This volume presents strongly empirical, corpus-based studies of a range of English modal auxiliaries and modal...  Read More >>

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<p>In this book, contributors have been brought together to discuss the role of two major factors shaping the grammars...  Read More >>

With philosophical and linguistic semanticists on the one side and cognitive and developmental psychologists on...  Read More >>

The present work is the first in-depth cross-linguistic study on loan verbs and the morphological, syntactic and...  Read More >>

The book offers a detailed analysis of modal syntax and examines its grammatical interaction with the process of...  Read More >>

This book provides the most comprehensive account so far of novel and hitherto unexplained factors operative in...  Read More >>

Master the essentials of the English language and write with greater confidence.  Read More >>

Grammaticalization is a well-attested process of linguistic change in which a lexical item becomes a function word,...  Read More >>

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This book explores the empirical and theoretical aspects of constituent structure in natural language syntax. It...  Read More >>

The Deonomasticon Italicum provides a systematic historical treatment of, and commentary on, the lexemes of Italian...  Read More >>