Usage & grammar guides books

This book offers a diachronic and synchronic description of complex prepositions (e.g. in view of, by way of) in...  Read More >>

Represents the results of a workshop on the syntax, semantics and acquisition of aspect held in 2002. A number of...  Read More >>

Language is a system of communication in which grammatical structures function to express meaning in context. While...  Read More >>

This volume collects important recent articles by Richard Kayne, one of the top formal linguists in the world. Although...  Read More >>

Routledge Applied Linguistics is a series of comprehensive resource books, providing students and researchers with...  Read More >>

An introduction to Word Grammar, this is a collection that will interest academics encountering Word Grammar for...  Read More >>

This book presents a comprehensive theory of ellipsis that supports the formal, cross-linguistic description of...  Read More >>

Address two main topics: What is the nature, and especially the scope, of ellipsis in natural language? What are...  Read More >>

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This is a reference guide to the most important aspects of the language as it is used by native speakers today....  Read More >>

Collects Joseph Greenberg's most important writings on the genetic classification of the world's languages. This...  Read More >>

'Christopher Hall's book is the best new introduction to linguistics that I have seen in decades. It is engagingly...  Read More >>

This book is designed to teach undergraduate and beginning graduate students how to understand, analyse and describe...  Read More >>

This book is a minimalist study of wh-questions in Polish, which aims at providing a homogeneous account for the...  Read More >>

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A typological survey and analysis of co-compounds - for example, as when in some varieties of English mother-father...  Read More >>

This is the first book-length study of Welsh syntax in English using minimalist theory. The central empirical issue...  Read More >>

Explains how grammatical relations are characterized in competing theories of grammar and reveals the different...  Read More >>

The Proper Treatment of Events offers a novel approach to the semantics of tense and aspect motivated by cognitive...  Read More >>

This is an introduction to the grammar of words. Geert Booij introduces the basic methods of morphological analysis...  Read More >>

This 2005 book surveys theories about the relationship between verbs and their arguments, an important research...  Read More >>

This book revives the study of conventional implicatures in natural language semantics. H. Paul Grice first defined...  Read More >>

Deals with the methods and theories of formal syntax that focus on grammatical variation and change. This book shows...  Read More >>

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