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

• Author(s): Hall Bjorkman • Publisher: Academic • Publisher Imprint: Academic • BISAC: Linguistics - SyntaxThis book explores how grammatical oppositions - for instance, the contrast between present and past tense - are encoded in the syntax of ...

• Author(s): Asudeh • Publisher: Academic • Publisher Imprint: Academic • BISAC: Linguistics - SemanticsThis is a cross-linguistic investigation of resumptive pronouns and related phenomena. Pronominal resumption is the realization of the base of...

• Author(s): Rusten • Publisher: Academic • Publisher Imprint: Academic • BISAC: Linguistics - Historical & ComparativeThis book offers a large-scale quantitative investigation of referential null subjects as they occur in Old, Middle, and Ea...

• Author(s): Evelien Keizer • Publisher: Academic • Publisher Imprint: Academic • BISAC: Linguistics - GeneralThis is the first textbook on Functional Discourse Grammar, a recently developed theory of language structure which analyses utterances ...

• Author(s): Oliver Bond • Publisher: Academic • Publisher Imprint: Academic • BISAC: Linguistics - GeneralThis book presents a controlled evaluation of three widely practised syntactic theories on the basis of the extremely complex agreement sys...

• Author(s): Putnam Chaves • Publisher: Academic • Publisher Imprint: Academic • BISAC: Linguistics - SyntaxThis book is about one of the most intriguing features of human communication systems: the fact that words that go together in meaning can...

• Author(s): Coulmas • Publisher: Academic • Publisher Imprint: Academic • BISAC: Linguistics - SociolinguisticsThis book offers an introduction to the many facets of multilingualism in a changing world. It begins with an overview of the multipli...

• Author(s): Heine Narrog • Publisher: Academic • Publisher Imprint: Academic • BISAC: Linguistics - Historical & ComparativeThis textbook introduces and explains the fundamental issues, major research questions, and current approaches in the...

• Author(s): Heine Narrog • Publisher: Academic • Publisher Imprint: Academic • BISAC: Linguistics - Historical & ComparativeThis textbook introduces and explains the fundamental issues, major research questions, and current approaches in the...

• Author(s): Higginbotham • Publisher: Academic • Publisher Imprint: Academic • BISAC: Linguistics - GeneralJames Higginbotham's work on tense, aspect, and indexicality discusses the principles governing demonstrative, temporal, and indexical exp...

• Author(s): Dobrovie-Sorin • Publisher: Academic • Publisher Imprint: Academic • BISAC: Linguistics - SyntaxThis book investigates the syntax and semantics of proportional most and other majority quantifiers across a wide range of languages. The...

• Author(s): Aikhenvald Et Al • Publisher: Academic • Publisher Imprint: Academic • BISAC: Linguistics - MorphologyThis volume examines the concept of 'word' in its many guises and across many languages. 'Word' is a cornerstone for the understand...

• Author(s): Espinal Deprez • Publisher: Academic • Publisher Imprint: Academic • BISAC: Linguistics - SyntaxIn this volume, international experts in negation provide a comprehensive overview of cross-linguistic and philosophical research in the ...

• Author(s): Casalicchio Cognola • Publisher: Academic • Publisher Imprint: Academic • BISAC: Grammar & PunctuationThis book considers the null-subject phenomenon, whereby some languages lack an overtly realized referential subject in specifi...

• Author(s): Frana • Publisher: Academic • Publisher Imprint: Academic • BISAC: Linguistics - PragmaticsThis book presents a novel analysis of concealed-question constructions, reports of a mental attitude in which part of a sentence looks like a...

• Author(s): Comrie Zamponi • Publisher: Academic • Publisher Imprint: Academic • BISAC: Linguistics - Historical & ComparativeThis volume is the first extensive and reliable grammatical description of any traditional language of the Great An...

• Author(s): Attardo • Publisher: Academic • Publisher Imprint: Academic • BISAC: Linguistics - PragmaticsThis book is the first comprehensive and systematic introduction to the linguistics of humor. Salvatore Attardo takes a broad approach to th...

• Author(s): Fogal Et Al • Publisher: Academic • Publisher Imprint: Academic • BISAC: LanguageSpeech-act theory is the interdisciplinary study of the wide range of things we do with words. Originally stemming from the influential work of twentiet...

• Author(s): Frajzyngier Et Al • Publisher: Academic • Publisher Imprint: Academic • BISAC: Linguistics - Historical & ComparativeThis volume explores the question of why languages - even those spoken in the same geographical area by people w...

• Author(s): Alqassas • Publisher: Academic • Publisher Imprint: Academic • BISAC: Linguistics - SyntaxThis book examines polarity sensitivity - a ubiquitous phenomenon involving expressions such as anybody, nobody, ever, never, somebody and thei...