Search results for “[Subject: linguistics-syntax]”

• Author(s): Mark Steedman • Publisher: MIT Press (MA) • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press (MA) • BISAC: Linguistics - GeneralThis book covers topics in formal linguistics, intonational phonology, computational linguistics, and experimental psycholing...

• Author(s): Carola Trips • Publisher: Walter de Gruyter • Publisher Imprint: Walter de Gruyter • BISAC: Linguistics - GeneralThis book deals with syntax in three dimensions: in part I with the history of grammatical theory, in part II with synch...

• Author(s): C. L. Baker • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: Linguistics - GeneralAn authoritative, self-contained introduction to the subject for students who have had no prior coursework in syntactic theory.English Sy...

• Author(s): Richard K. Larson • Publisher: Mit Press • Publisher Imprint: Mit Press • BISAC: Grammar & PunctuationAn introduction to the study of syntax that also introduces students to the principles of scientific theorizing.This introducto...

• Author(s): Derek Bickerton | Eors Szathmary • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: Linguistics - GeneralInterdisciplinary perspectives on the evolutionary and biological roots of syntax, describing current research on sy...

• Author(s): Michelle Sheehan | Theresa Biberauer | Ian Roberts • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: Linguistics - SyntaxAn examination of the evidence for and the theoretical implications of a universal word order const...

• Author(s): Ann K. Farmer • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: Linguistics - GeneralThis book clarifies some of the central issues in Japanese syntax, pointing the way to solving several long-standing problems. It prese...

• Author(s): Dana McDaniel | Helen Smith Cairns | Cecile McKee • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: Linguistics - GeneralThis book is designed in part as a handbook to assist students and researchers in the choice and us...

• Author(s): Ross King • Publisher: Cornell East Asia Series • Publisher Imprint: Cornell East Asia Series • BISAC: ChineseThis volume brings together fifteen new papers on Korean linguistics originally presented at the Ninth International Confer...

• Author(s): Robert Freidin • Publisher: The MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: The MIT Press • BISAC: Linguistics - GeneralEssays by leading theoretical linguists—including Noam Chomsky, B. Elan Dresher, Richard Kayne, Howard Lasnik, Morris Halle, N...

• Author(s): Jane Grimshaw • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: Grammar & PunctuationArgument Structure is a contribution to linguistics at the interface between lexical syntax and lexical semantics. It formulates an...

• Author(s): Carol Neidle | Judy Kegl | Dawn Maclaughlin • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: Linguistics - GeneralRecent research on the syntax of signed languages has revealed that, apart from some modality-specific di...

• Author(s): Howard Lasnik • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: Linguistics - Generalwith Marcela Depiante and Arthur StepanovThis book provides an introduction to some classic ideas and analyses of transformational gene...

• Author(s): Idan Landau • Publisher: Mit Press • Publisher Imprint: Mit Press • BISAC: Linguistics - GeneralA theory of control, equally grounded in syntax and semantics, that argues that obligatory control is achieved either through predication...

• Author(s): Beth Levin | Malka Rappaport Hovav • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: Grammar & PunctuationBesides providing extensive support for David Perlmutter's hypothesis that unaccusativity is syntactically rep...

• Author(s): Norvin Richards • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: Linguistics - SyntaxA study of the interface between syntax and phonology that seeks deeper explanations for such syntactic problems as case phenomena and...

• Author(s): Guglielmo Cinque • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: Linguistics - SyntaxA new analysis of adjectives, supported by comparative evidence.In The Syntax of Adjectives, Guglielmo Cinque offers cross-linguistic...

• Author(s): Shigeru Miyagawa • Publisher: Mit Press • Publisher Imprint: Mit Press • BISAC: Linguistics - SyntaxAn argument that agreement and agreementless languages are unified under an expanded view of grammatical features including both phi-...

• Author(s): Andrea Moro • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: Linguistics - GeneralAn investigation into the possibility of impossible languages, searching for the indelible "fingerprint" of human language. Can there be ...

• Author(s): Kirsten Adamzik • Publisher: de Gruyter • Publisher Imprint: de Gruyter • BISAC: Linguistics - GeneralSeit dem Entstehen der modernen Textlinguistik in den 1960er Jahren ist eine Vielzahl z.T. hoch spezialisierter Analyseansätze in ...

• Author(s): June Casagrande • Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Publishing Group • BISAC: Grammar & PunctuationThe only fun, friendly, and surefire defense against the grammar snobs Having already made a name ...

• Author(s): Hans-Werner Eroms • Publisher: Walter de Gruyter • Publisher Imprint: Walter de Gruyter • BISAC: GermanDie Syntaxforschung hat in den letzten Jahren gro e Fortschritte erzielt, bietet aber auch das Bild erheblicher Zersplitterung. Di...

• Author(s): Neil Myler • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: Linguistics - GeneralA wide-ranging generative analysis of the typology of possession sentences, solving long-standing puzzles in their syntax and semantics. A...

• Author(s): James Pustejovsky • Publisher: Bradford Book • Publisher Imprint: Bradford Book • BISAC: Linguistics - SemanticsThe first formally elaborated theory of a generative approach to word meaning, The Generative Lexicon lays the foundation...

• Author(s): David W. Lightfoot • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: Linguistics - GeneralOver the past decade, generative grammarians have viewed language acquisition as a process of fixing option points or parameters d...

• Author(s): Mark Forsyth • Publisher: Berkley Publishing Group • Publisher Imprint: Berkley Publishing Group • BISAC: Linguistics - EtymologyThis perfect gift for readers, writers, and literature majors alike unearths the quirks of the English l...

• Author(s): Roman Jakobson | Gunnar Fant | Morris Halle • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: Linguistics - GeneralThis work attempts to describes the ultimate discrete components of language, their specific structure, a...

• Author(s): Julie Anne Legate • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: Linguistics - SyntaxAn investigation of the syntactic structure of voice and v, using Acehnese (Malayo-Polynesian) as the empirical starting point.In Vo...

• Author(s): Richard Schrodt • Publisher: Max Niemeyer Verlag • Publisher Imprint: Max Niemeyer Verlag • BISAC: Linguistics - Historical & ComparativeZur Althochdeutschen Grammatik von Wilhelm Braune, neu bearbeitet von Ingo Reiffenstein, k...

• Author(s): Bob Carpenter • Publisher: Bradford Book • Publisher Imprint: Bradford Book • BISAC: Grammar & PunctuationBased on an introductory course on natural-language semantics, this book provides an introduction to type-logical grammar a...

• Author(s): David Singleton | Larissa Aronin • Publisher: Multilingual Matters Limited • Publisher Imprint: Multilingual Matters Limited • BISAC: Linguistics - PsycholinguisticsThis major new textbook offers an accessible introduction to many of...

• Author(s): Sigrid Beck | Remus Gergel • Publisher: de Gruyter Mouton • Publisher Imprint: de Gruyter Mouton • BISAC: Linguistics - GeneralThis book offers an introduction to the derivation of meaning that is accessible and worked out to facilit...

• Author(s): Ludger Hoffmann • Publisher: Walter de Gruyter • Publisher Imprint: Walter de Gruyter • BISAC: Linguistics - GeneralDer Band enthält klassische und hinführende Texte zu den Kernbereichen und wichtigsten Theorien der Sprachwissensch...

• Author(s): Roger Martin | David Michaels | Juan Uriagereka • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: Linguistics - GeneralThis collection of essays presents an up-to-date overview of research in the minimalist program of li...

• Author(s): Maria Teresa Guasti • Publisher: The MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: Bradford Books • BISAC: Linguistics - GeneralThe new edition of a comprehensive introduction to a rapidly developing field, combining developmental data with theory....

• Author(s): Gennaro Chierchia | Sally McConnell-Ginet • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: Linguistics - SemanticsThis self-contained introduction to natural language semanticsaddresses the major theoretical questions i...