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

• Author(s): Bas Aarts • Publisher: OUP UK • Publisher Imprint: OUP UK • BISAC: Linguistics - GeneralThis is the first exhaustive investigation of gradience in syntax, conceived of as grammatical indeterminacy. It looks at gradience in English wo...

• Author(s): Alexandra Y. Aikhenvald | R. M. W. Dixon • Publisher: OUP UK • Publisher Imprint: OUP UK • BISAC: Grammar & PunctuationThis volume of new work explores the forms and functions of serial verbs. The introduction sets out the cross-...

• Author(s): Peter Trudgill • Publisher: OUP UK • Publisher Imprint: OUP UK • BISAC: Linguistics - SociolinguisticsPeter Trudgill looks at why human societies at different times and places produce different kinds of language. He considers how far...

• Author(s): Guy Deutscher • Publisher: OUP UK • Publisher Imprint: OUP UK • BISAC: ArabicIn this book Guy Deutscher examines the historical development of Akkadian, the oldest recorded Semitic language and one of the earliest attested languages....

• Author(s): Herman Cappelen | Ernie Lepore • Publisher: OUP UK • Publisher Imprint: OUP UK • BISAC: Linguistics - SemanticsLanguage Turned on Itself examines what happens when language becomes self-reflexive; when language is used to talk about ...

• Author(s): Terry Crowley | T. Crowley • Publisher: OUP UK • Publisher Imprint: OUP UK • BISAC: Linguistics - GeneralCrowley's voice of experience brings us the best practical fieldwork guide to date. Sensible, frank, and comprehensive, this boo...

• Author(s): Peter Ludlow • Publisher: OUP UK • Publisher Imprint: OUP UK • BISAC: Linguistics - Psycholinguistics - GeneralPeter Ludlow presents the first book on the philosophy of generative linguistics, including both Chomsky's government and ...

• Author(s): Peter Lasersohn • Publisher: OUP UK • Publisher Imprint: OUP UK • BISAC: Linguistics - SemanticsThis book explores linguistic and philosophical issues presented by sentences expressing personal taste, such as Roller coasters are fun,...

• Author(s): Philippe Van Parijs • Publisher: OUP UK • Publisher Imprint: OUP UK • BISAC: History & Theory - GeneralIn Europe and throughout the world, competence in English is spreading at a speed never achieved by any language in human hist...