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.
This book presents an analysis of a variety of central linguistic notions, such as case agreement, obviation, and rigidity, from a derivational perspe..
This descriptive grammar provides a look at the whole structure of Rapanui, covering the syntax, morphology, phonology and lexicon of the language. I..
This Routledge Handbook provides a comprehensive account of the English Writing System, both in its current iteration and highlighting the developing ..
A selection of significant essays and articles from one of the most influential theoretical linguists, brought together for the first time. This is a ..
Over the years, a major strand of Miyagawa's research has been to study how syntax, case marking, and argument structure interact. In particular, Miya..
This study on modality in English represents a departure from more traditional approaches to the subject, where the modal auxiliaries have been the us..
This book provides a critical review of the development of generative grammar, both transformational and non-transformational, from the early 1960s to..
This volume contains a collection of studies that survey recent research in developmental linguistics, illustrating the fruitful interaction between c..