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

• Author(s): Andrew Carnie • Publisher: Taylor & Francis • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • Subject: English Literature • BISAC: Linguistics - SyntaxThe study of syntax over the last half century has seen a remarkable expansion of the boundarie...

• Author(s): Elspeth Edelstein • Publisher: Edinburgh UP • Publisher Imprint: Edinburgh • Subject: English Literature • BISAC: Linguistics - SyntaxThis textbook introduces the main aspects of Minimalist syntax through the use of data from a numbe...

• Author(s): Ian Roberts • Publisher: Oxford University Press • Publisher Imprint: Oxford University Press • BISAC: Composition & Creative Writing - GeneralThis second edition of Ian Roberts's highly successful textbook on diachronic syntax h...

• Author(s): Maggie Tallerman • Publisher: Taylor & Francis • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • Subject: Foreign Languages • BISAC: Linguistics - SyntaxAssuming no prior grammatical knowledge, Understanding Syntax explains and illustrates the ma...

• Author(s): Dominique Sportiche | Hilda Koopman | Edward Stabler • Publisher: Wiley • Publisher Imprint: Blackwell • Subject: English Literature • BISAC: Linguistics - SyntaxAn Introduction to Syntactic Analysis and Theory offers beginning stude...

• Author(s): Bronwyn M. Bjorkman • Publisher: Oxford UP • Publisher Imprint: Oxford UP • Subject: General Books • BISAC: Linguistics - SyntaxAbout the Book This book explores how grammatical oppositions - for instance, the contrast between presen...

• Author(s): Nicholas Sobin • Publisher: Wiley • Publisher Imprint: Wiley-Blac • Subject: English Literature • BISAC: Linguistics - SyntaxHighly readable and eminently practical, Syntactic Analysis: The Basics focuses on bringing students with li...

• Author(s): Keith Brown | Jim Miller • Publisher: Routledge • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • BISAC: Linguistics - GeneralThe second edition of this invaluable introductory text takes account of developments in syntactic studies. Dealing with the...

• Author(s): Adrian Battye | Ian Roberts • Publisher: Oxford University Press • Publisher Imprint: Oxford University Press • BISAC: Linguistics - GeneralThe Principles-and-Parameters approach to linguistic theory has triggered an enormous amount ...

• Author(s): F. Kiefer • Publisher: Springer • Publisher Imprint: Springer • BISAC: Linguistics - SemanticsIn the last decade a profound change has occurred in linguistic science. Not only have old problems been tackled from an entirely new point...

• Author(s): P. H. Matthews • Publisher: Cambridge University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cambridge University Press • BISAC: Grammar & PunctuationThis is a textbook of a fundamental kind, designed to introduce students to the basic concepts o...

• Author(s): Jeff Good • Publisher: Cambridge University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cambridge University Press • BISAC: Grammar & PunctuationThis book represents the first comprehensive examination of templatic constructions - namely, linguis...

• Author(s): Jr. Van Valin Robert D. | Jr. Valin | Jr. Valin Robert D. Van • Publisher: Cambridge University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cambridge University Press • BISAC: Grammar & PunctuationThis book is an introduction to syntactic theory ...

• Author(s): Anders Holmberg | Christer Platzack | Christer Platzack • Publisher: Oxford University Press • Publisher Imprint: Oxford University Press • BISAC: Scandinavian Languages (Other)In this book, Holmberg and Platzack present a theory of ...

• Author(s): Guglielmo Cinque • Publisher: Oxford UP • Publisher Imprint: Oxford UP • Subject: English Literature • BISAC: Linguistics - GeneralComparison across formal languages is an essential part of formal linguistics. The study of closely-re...

• Author(s): Noel Burton-Roberts • Publisher: Taylor & Francis • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • Subject: English Literature • BISAC: Linguistics - SyntaxAnalysing Sentences is an accessible and student-friendly introduction to the practical a...

• Author(s): Elly van Gelderen • Publisher: Edinburgh UP • Publisher Imprint: Edinburgh • Subject: English Literature • BISAC: Linguistics - Historical & ComparativeThis textbook invites the student to explore early English syntax by looking ...

• Author(s): Judith L. Klavans • Publisher: Taylor & Francis • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • BISAC: Linguistics - GeneralFirst published in 1995. This investigation shows that cliticization is not a totally unified phenomenon. Asymmetries in...

• Author(s): Samuel David Epstein • Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • BISAC: Linguistics - SyntaxThe essays in this important collection explore wide-ranging aspects of the syntax and semantics of human language...

• Author(s): Susan Rothstein • Publisher: Springer • Publisher Imprint: Springer • BISAC: Linguistics - SemanticsPredicates and their Subjects is an in-depth study of the syntax-semantics interface focusing on the structure of the subject-predica...

• Author(s): Anita Barry • Publisher: Pearson • Publisher Imprint: Pearson • BISAC: Teaching - Subjects - Reading & PhonicsThis book provides teachers with the background knowledge for understanding the role linguistics plays in literacy deve...

• Author(s): A. Alexiadou • Publisher: Springer • Publisher Imprint: Springer • BISAC: Linguistics - Semantics3 On the other hand, others have pointed out that preverbal subjects are at least par- tially distinct from other topicalised constituen...

• Author(s): José A. Camacho • Publisher: Cambridge University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cambridge University Press • BISAC: Linguistics - GeneralThe null subject has always been central to linguistic theory, because it tells us a great deal abo...

• Author(s): Wang Yong • Publisher: Routledge • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • BISAC: Grammar & PunctuationThis book investigates the existential clause (EC) from a cross-linguistic perspective and within the framework of Systemic Functional ...

• Author(s): Liliane M. V. Haegeman • Publisher: Cambridge University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cambridge University Press • BISAC: DutchThis book offers a detailed description and analysis of West Flemish, a dialect of Dutch, within the framewo...

• Author(s): Paul Kroeger | Kroeger Paul R. • Publisher: Cambridge University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cambridge University Press • BISAC: Grammar & PunctuationDesigned for students of linguistics at the advanced undergraduate or graduate l...

• Author(s): M. Höglund • Publisher: Springer • Publisher Imprint: Palgrave MacMillan • BISAC: Linguistics - SyntaxThis book presents the latest work in the field of complementation studies. Leading scholars and upcoming researchers in the area a...

• Author(s): Ali Alhaj • Publisher: Anchor Academic Publishing • Publisher Imprint: Anchor Academic Publishing • BISAC: GeneralThis book is the fruit of many happy years teaching at Jazan university, Saudi Arabia . The purpose of' introduction to...

• Author(s): Bernard Comrie • Publisher: University of Chicago Press • Publisher Imprint: University of Chicago Press • BISAC: GeneralSince its first publication, Language Universals and Linguistic Typology has become established as the leading i...

• Author(s): Jr. Van Valin Robert D. • Publisher: Cambridge University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cambridge University Press • BISAC: Linguistics - GeneralClearly organized and accessible, this comprehensive new textbook provides students with a ...

• Author(s): Martin Hilpert • Publisher: Edinburgh UP • Publisher Imprint: Edinburgh • Subject: English Literature • BISAC: Linguistics - SyntaxAbout the Book Introduces Construction Grammar as a cognitive-functional theory of language, applied t...

• Author(s): Grant Goodall • Publisher: Taylor & Francis • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • BISAC: Linguistics - GeneralThis book reflects on key questions of enduring interest on the nature of syntax, bringing together Grant Goodall's previous...

• Author(s): I. Paul • Publisher: Springer • Publisher Imprint: Springer • BISAC: Linguistics - SyntaxAustronesian languages have long raised interesting questions for generative theories of syntax and morphology. The papers in this volume encomp...

• Author(s): D. J. Allerton • Publisher: Taylor & Francis • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • BISAC: Grammar & PunctuationThe aim of this book, first published in 1979, is to provide a sound basic introduction to the study of grammar within ...

• Author(s): William O'Grady • Publisher: University of Chicago Press • Publisher Imprint: University of Chicago Press • BISAC: Linguistics - GeneralSyntactic Development presents a broad critical survey of the research literature on child langua...

• Author(s): Helen MacMilla Buckhurst • Publisher: Taylor & Francis • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • BISAC: Linguistics - GeneralThe first available Elementary Grammar of Old Icelandic in the English language, this book is primarily intended ...