Grammar, Syntax & Linguistic Structure

 Partition and Quantity: Numeral Classifiers, Measurement and Partitive Constructions in Mandarin Chinese presents an in-depth investigation into the semantic and syntactic properties of Chinese classifiers and conducts a comprehensive examination on the use of different quantity constructions in Ch..

This descriptive grammar provides a  look at the whole structure of Rapanui, covering the syntax, morphology, phonology and lexicon of the language. Includes 800 illustrative sentences, each with gramatical analysis and translation...

Well-presented and accessible, this is the first book that describes this theory's basic ideas, evaluates them and compares them with other approaches in other theories...

Rethinking Languages in Contact..

Sardinian Syntax presents the first comprehensive synchronic description of Sardinian syntax available. It provides an extensive grammar and an linvaluable source of information for all linguists...

An essential guide to grammar specifically designed for teachers of English which can be used as a course book, or a reference work. This practical volume focuses on the topics which are essential skills for language learners and which teachers need to understand to be professionally competent. It g..

An essential guide to grammar specifically designed for teachers of English which can be used as a course book, or a reference work. This practical volume focuses on the topics which are essential skills for language learners and which teachers need to understand to be professionally competent. It g..

The focus of this book is on structural representations, in particular their hierarchicalness and their branching direction, and structure sensitivity is argued to be highly variable both within and across languages and consequently an unlikely candidate for a defining property of human language...

First published in 1991, this book looks at tense in English, one of the most controversial areas of grammar. Here, Renaat Declerck provides a framework for a theoretical instrument which will enable the linguist to interpret the data correctly...

This volume contains a collection of studies that survey recent research in developmental linguistics, illustrating the fruitful interaction between comparative syntax and language acquisition. The contributors each analyse a well defined range of acquisition data, aiming to derive them from primiti..

This volume contains a collection of studies that survey recent research in developmental linguistics, illustrating the fruitful interaction between comparative syntax and language acquisition. The contributors each analyse a well defined range of acquisition data, aiming to derive them from primiti..

The English Verb..