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

• Author(s): Susan Pintzuk | G. Tsoulas | A. Warner • Publisher: OUP Oxford • Publisher Imprint: OUP Oxford • BISAC: Linguistics - SociolinguisticsLinguistic theory has undergone deep changes since the early 1990's, given the widespread impact of...

• Author(s): Lutz Marten • Publisher: OUP Oxford • Publisher Imprint: OUP Oxford • BISAC: Grammar & PunctuationMarten explores the interaction of syntax, pragmatics, and semantics in the behavior of verb phrases and how they interact with the...

• Author(s): Gisa Rauh • Publisher: OUP Oxford • Publisher Imprint: OUP Oxford • BISAC: Linguistics - GeneralThis book offers a systematic account of syntactic categories - the building blocks of sentences and the units of grammatical analysis - ...

• Author(s): Peter W. Culicover • Publisher: OUP Oxford • Publisher Imprint: OUP Oxford • BISAC: Grammar & PunctuationIn this book, Peter Culicover introduces the analysis of natural language within the broader question of how language works ...

• Author(s): Patrick Farrell • Publisher: OUP Oxford • Publisher Imprint: OUP Oxford • BISAC: Linguistics - GeneralPatrick Farrell shows how grammatical relations are characterized in competing theories of grammar and reveals the different theori...

• Author(s): Susan Pintzuk | George Tsoulas | Anthony Warner • Publisher: OUP Oxford • Publisher Imprint: OUP Oxford • BISAC: Grammar & PunctuationLinguistic theory has undergone deep changes since the early 1990's, given the widespread impac...

• Author(s): John M. Anderson • Publisher: OUP Oxford • Publisher Imprint: OUP Oxford • BISAC: Linguistics - SyntaxThe three volumes of The Substance of Language collectively overhaul linguistic theory from phonology to semantics and syntax to pr...

• Author(s): Raffaella R. Folli | Christina C. Sevdali | Robert Truswell • Publisher: OUP Oxford • Publisher Imprint: OUP Oxford • BISAC: Linguistics - GeneralIn this book, leading linguists explore the empirical scope of syntactic theory, by con...

• Author(s): Dan Xu • Publisher: OUP Oxford • Publisher Imprint: OUP Oxford • BISAC: Linguistics - GeneralThis new interpretation of the early history of Chinese argues that Old Chinese was typologically a "mixed" language. It shows that, though ...

• Author(s): John M. Anderson • Publisher: OUP Oxford • Publisher Imprint: OUP Oxford • BISAC: Linguistics - GeneralThis book addresses fundamental issues in linguistic theory, including the relation between formal and cognitive approaches, the a...

• Author(s): Artemis Alexiadou | Hagit Borer | Florian Schafer • Publisher: OUP Oxford • Publisher Imprint: OUP Oxford • BISAC: Linguistics - SemanticsThis book investigates the nature and properties of roots, the core elements of word meaning. I...

• Author(s): Andreas Kathol • Publisher: OUP Oxford • Publisher Imprint: OUP Oxford • BISAC: Linguistics - GeneralThis volume makes a case for a critical reassessment of the wide-spread view that syntax can be reduced to tree structures, arguing ...

• Author(s): John M. Anderson • Publisher: OUP Oxford • Publisher Imprint: OUP Oxford • BISAC: Linguistics - SyntaxThe three volumes of The Substance of Language collectively overhaul linguistic theory from phonology to semantics and syntax to pr...

• Author(s): Richard Hudson • Publisher: OUP Oxford • Publisher Imprint: OUP Oxford • BISAC: Grammar & PunctuationThis book argues that language is a network of concepts which in turn is part of the general cognitive network of the mind. It c...

• Author(s): Stephen R. Anderson • Publisher: OUP Oxford • Publisher Imprint: OUP Oxford • BISAC: Linguistics - GeneralThe first book to cover the grammar of clitics from all points of view, including their phonology, morphology, and syntax, and ...

• Author(s): Ivy Sichel | Malka Rappaport Hovav | Malka Rappaport Hovav • Publisher: OUP Oxford • Publisher Imprint: OUP Oxford • BISAC: Linguistics - GeneralThis book focuses on the linguistic representation of temporality in the verbal domain a...

• Author(s): Peter Ackema | Ad Neeleman • Publisher: OUP Oxford • Publisher Imprint: OUP Oxford • BISAC: Linguistics - GeneralThis book provides a compelling argument for a radically modular view of the human language faculty. It does so on the b...

• Author(s): Anat Ninio • Publisher: OUP Oxford • Publisher Imprint: OUP Oxford • BISAC: Linguistics - GeneralLanguage development remains one of the most hotly debated topics in the cognitive sciences. In recent years we have seen contributions ...

• Author(s): Montserrat Batllori | Maria-Lluisa Hernanz | Carme Picallo • Publisher: OUP Oxford • Publisher Imprint: OUP Oxford • BISAC: Linguistics - SyntaxIn this outstanding collection of new work, the methods and theories of formal syntax are...

• Author(s): Erich R. Round • Publisher: OUP Oxford • Publisher Imprint: OUP Oxford • BISAC: Linguistics - GeneralThis book presents new data and a formal analysis of the inflectional system and syntax of Kayardild, a typologically striking langu...

• Author(s): Brian Roark | Richard Sproat • Publisher: OUP Oxford • Publisher Imprint: OUP Oxford • BISAC: Linguistics - GeneralThe book will appeal to scholars and advanced students of morphology, syntax, computational linguistics and natural la...

• Author(s): Artemis Alexiadou | Elena Anagnostopoulou | Florian Schafer • Publisher: OUP Oxford • Publisher Imprint: OUP Oxford • BISAC: Grammar & PunctuationThis book is an exploration of the syntax of external arguments in transitivity alt...

• Author(s): Louise McNally | Chris Kennedy • Publisher: OUP Oxford • Publisher Imprint: OUP Oxford • BISAC: Grammar & PunctuationIn this volume leading researchers present new work on the semantics and pragmatics of adjectives and adverbs, a...

• Author(s): Peter Culicover | Ray Jackendoff | Peter W. Culicover • Publisher: OUP Oxford • Publisher Imprint: OUP Oxford • BISAC: Grammar & PunctuationThis groundbreaking book offers a new and compelling perspective on the structure of huma...

• Author(s): E. Phoevos Panagiotidis • Publisher: OUP Oxford • Publisher Imprint: OUP Oxford • BISAC: Linguistics - GeneralThis book draws together nine original investigations by leading linguists and promising young scholars on the syntax of co...

• Author(s): Paul Pietroski | Paul M. Pietroski | P. M. Pietroski • Publisher: OUP Oxford • Publisher Imprint: OUP Oxford • BISAC: Linguistics - GeneralIn this study of how syntax relates to meaning, Paul Pietroski defends the hyposthesis that co...

• Author(s): N. J. Enfield • Publisher: OUP Oxford • Publisher Imprint: OUP Oxford • BISAC: Linguistics - SociolinguisticsMeanings of cultural importance are found not only in words but also in the very grammar of a language. This exciting collec...

• Author(s): Richard a. Hudson • Publisher: OUP Oxford • Publisher Imprint: OUP Oxford • BISAC: Grammar & PunctuationThis book argues that language is a network of concepts which in turn is part of the general cognitive network of the mind. I...

• Author(s): Terje Lohndal • Publisher: OUP Oxford • Publisher Imprint: OUP Oxford • BISAC: Linguistics - GeneralThis book focuses on the relationship between syntax and meaning. Terje Lohndal's core claim is that it is possible to create a trans...

• Author(s): Raffaella Folli | Christiane Ulbrich • Publisher: OUP Oxford • Publisher Imprint: OUP Oxford • BISAC: Linguistics - GeneralThis book explores the interaction of grammatical components in a wide variety of languages, and presents and ...

• Author(s): Doug Arnold | Jacques Durand | Louisa Sadler • Publisher: OUP Oxford • Publisher Imprint: OUP Oxford • BISAC: Linguistics - GeneralThis wide-ranging collection of essays provides penetrating insight into variety of views on grammatic...

• Author(s): Anna Kibort | Greville G. Corbett • Publisher: OUP Oxford • Publisher Imprint: OUP Oxford • BISAC: Linguistics - GeneralThis book presents a critical overview of current work on linguistic features and establishes new bases for their...

• Author(s): David W. E. Willis • Publisher: OUP Oxford • Publisher Imprint: OUP Oxford • BISAC: Linguistics - GeneralScholars have often been puzzled by the fact that the basic word-order rule of Welsh seems to have changed twice in the last 100...

• Author(s): Doug Arnold | Jacques Durand | Louisa Sadler • Publisher: OUP Oxford • Publisher Imprint: OUP Oxford • BISAC: Linguistics - GeneralThis wide-ranging collection of essays provides penetrating insight into a variety of views on grammat...

• Author(s): Enfield | N. J. Enfield • Publisher: OUP Oxford • Publisher Imprint: OUP Oxford • BISAC: Linguistics - SociolinguisticsMeanings of cultural importance are found not only in words but also in the very grammar of a language. This excit...

• Author(s): Olga Fischer • Publisher: OUP Oxford • Publisher Imprint: OUP Oxford • BISAC: Linguistics - GeneralA critical comparison of morphosyntactic change and the mechanisms that trigger it, this book shows how changes in discourse, lexicon,...