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Grammaticalization and Language Change in Chinese

Grammaticalization and Language Change in Chinese

Author: Xiu-Zhi Zoe Wu
ISBN: 9781280158407
Format: Electronic book text
$514.80

This innovative study on the phenomenon of 'grammaticalization' and its manifestation in Chinese provides new insights...  Read More >>

What Makes Grammaticalization?

What Makes Grammaticalization?

Author: Professor of Linguistics Nikolaus P Himmelmann (Ruhr-University, Bochum) ,  Bj Wiemer
ISBN: 9781282073104
Format: Electronic book text
$517.44

The status of grammaticalization has been the subject of many controversial discussions. The contributions to What...  Read More >>

Category Neutrality

Category Neutrality

Author: Neal Whitman ,  Neil Whitman
ISBN: 9781280236334
Format: Electronic book text
$319.44

It has been claimed that 'category neutrality' where a word or a phrase is used simultaneously with more than one...  Read More >>

Modern Spanish Grammar

Modern Spanish Grammar

Author: Juan Kattan-Ibarra ,  Christopher J Pountain
ISBN: 9781280289651
Format: Electronic book text
$369.60

Announcing an innovative practical reference grammar, combining traditional and function-based grammar in a single...  Read More >>

Syntax of Anaphora, The. Oxford Studies in Comparative Syntax

Syntax of Anaphora, The. Oxford Studies in Comparative...

Author: Professor of Linguistics Ken Safir (Rutgers University)
ISBN: 9781280533952
Format: Electronic book text
$184.80

In this work, Ken Safir develops a comprehensive theory on the role of anaphora in syntax. First, he contends that...  Read More >>

Chomsky's Minimalism

Chomsky's Minimalism

Author: Professor Pieter A M Seuren, Dr
ISBN: 9781280655500
Format: Electronic book text
$124.74

1. Introduction 2. The Mechanism of the MP under Scrutiny 3. The Language Faculty 4. Questions of Method and Adequacy...  Read More >>

Efficiency and Complexity in Grammars

Efficiency and Complexity in Grammars

Author: John A Hawkins (Center for Mind and Brain Uc Davis University of California USA and Psychology Professor English and Applied Linguistics Cambridge University)
ISBN: 9781280846779
Format: Electronic book text
$160.38

This book addresses a question fundamental to any discussion of grammatical theory and grammatical variation: to...  Read More >>

Relations and Predicates

Relations and Predicates

Author: Herbert Hochberg ,  Kevin Mulligan
ISBN: 9781299721036
Format: Electronic book text
$274.56

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Formal and Functional Perspectives on Tense and Related Categories

Formal and Functional Perspectives on Tense and Related...

Author: Christian Heyde Petersen
ISBN: 9780820470191
Format: Paperback
$139.79

This book explores the gap that has developed between two sides in linguistics: the formal tradition and the functional...  Read More >>

Morphogenesis of Meaning

Morphogenesis of Meaning

Author: Jean Petitot ,  Per Aage Brandt (University of Aarhus)
ISBN: 9780820468587
Format: Paperback
$118.67

The original French version of Morphogenesis of Meaning was one of the important breakthroughs in cognitive semiolinguistic...  Read More >>

English Modality in Context: Diachronic Perspectives

English Modality in Context: Diachronic Perspectives...

Author: David Hart, B.A ,  Professor Maurizio Gotti (Macquarie University Australia University of Malaya Malaysia)
ISBN: 9780820468525
Format: Paperback
$142.43

This volume presents a collection of papers which consider the phenomenon of modality in the context of English...  Read More >>

Imagery in Language: Festschrift in Honour of Professor Ronald W. Langacker

Imagery in Language: Festschrift in Honour of Professor...

Author: Alina Kwiatkowska ,  Barbara Lewandowska-Tomaszczyk
ISBN: 9780820473727
Format: Hardback
$295.55

Papers presented at the conference Imagery in Language organized in aodaz on Sept. 28-30, 2003.  Read More >>

Forma 06 Lexico Fraseologia y Falsos Amigos

Forma 06 Lexico Fraseologia y Falsos Amigos

Author: Jose Gomez Asencio ,  Jesus Sanchez Lobato
ISBN: 9788497780681
Format: Paperback
$47.87

They are collective volumes gathering a synthesis of research tasks by young teachers and students on different...  Read More >>

Generative Grammar: Theory and Its History

Generative Grammar: Theory and Its History

Author: Robert Freidin (Princeton University, New Jersey)
ISBN: 9786610858255
Format: Electronic book text
$913.44

Generative Grammar presents a substantial contribution to the field of linguistics in drawing together for the...  Read More >>

Vocabulary Builder

Vocabulary Builder

Author: Webster House
ISBN: 9781932635058
Format: Undefined
$31.55

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Optimality Theory: Constraint Interaction in Generative Grammar

Optimality Theory: Constraint Interaction in Generative...

Author: Alan Prince (Rutgers University) ,  Paul Smolensky (John Hopkins University)
ISBN: 9786611321475
Format: Electronic book text
$686.14

Available for the first time in book form, Prince and Smolensky's Optimality Theory is the seminal work in the...  Read More >>

Indefinites and the Type of Sets. Explorations in Semantics.

Indefinites and the Type of Sets. Explorations in Semantics....

Author: Fred Landman (Tel Aviv University)
ISBN: 9786611321468
Format: Electronic book text
$765.34

Indefinites and the Type of Sets explores a new theory of indefinite noun phrase interpretation and definiteness...  Read More >>

Skeptical Linguistic Essays

Skeptical Linguistic Essays

Author: Paul Postal
ISBN: 9786610534036
Format: Electronic book text
$176.43

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The Structure of Cp and IP: The Cartography of Syntactic Structures, Volume 2. Oxford Studies in Comparative Syntax.

The Structure of Cp and IP: The Cartography of Syntactic...

Author: Luigi Rizzi (Universit?? degli Studi, Siena)
ISBN: 9786610704040
Format: Electronic book text
$235.22

The study of syntactic complexity and the identification of the elementary structural units involved have always...  Read More >>

Fuzzy Grammar: A Reader

Fuzzy Grammar: A Reader

Author: Bas Aarts (University College London) ,  David Denison
ISBN: 9786610838301
Format: Electronic book text
$196.02

This work brings together classic and recent papers in the philosophical and linguistic analysis of fuzzy grammar,...  Read More >>

Syntax of Anaphora, The. Oxford Studies in Comparative Syntax

Syntax of Anaphora, The. Oxford Studies in Comparative...

Author: Ken Safir
ISBN: 9786610533954
Format: Electronic book text
$588.06

In this work, Ken Safir develops a comprehensive theory on the role of anaphora in syntax. First, he contends that...  Read More >>

Pronouns

Pronouns

Author: Darbhe Narayana Shankara Bhat
ISBN: 9786610905515
Format: Electronic book text
$784.66

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European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages / Working Together: Ngos and Regional or Minority Languages, the

European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages...

Author: Of Europe Publishing Council
ISBN: 9786610931941
Format: Electronic book text
$95.67

The participation of NGOs in the work of international organisations has increased dramatically in the past years....  Read More >>

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