(Ilmumisaeg: 01-Oct-2025, Other book format, Kirjastus: MIT Press, ISBN-13: 9780262384674)
An argument to replace Chomskys set-theoretic view of syntax with one based on mereological objects, written by the former President of the Linguistics Association of Great Britain-- Provided by publisher. An argument for replacing Chom...Loe edasi...
Intended for the absolute beginner, Introducing Phonetics and Phonology requires no previous background in linguistics, phonetics or phonology.Starting with a grounding in phonetics and phonological theory, the book provides a base from whi...Loe edasi...
Intended for the absolute beginner, Introducing Phonetics and Phonology requires no previous background in linguistics, phonetics or phonology.Starting with a grounding in phonetics and phonological theory, the book provides a base from whi...Loe edasi...
This book provides a comprehensive cross-linguistic account of 98 typologically diverse minority languages in Southern China. A number of important parameters are analyzed based on rich case studies ranging from the Tibeto-Burman languages, Kam-Ta...Loe edasi...
Sari: Cambridge Handbooks in Language and Linguistics
(Ilmumisaeg: 31-Aug-2025, Hardback, Kirjastus: Cambridge University Press, ISBN-13: 9781009179386)
Bringing together a globally representative team of scholars, this book provides a comprehensive overview of the state-of-the-art in comparative syntax, the study of universal and variable properties of grammatical structures in natural languages. It...Loe edasi...
Based on a substantial amount of new data taken from Faroese and Icelandic, this pioneering book presents a new theory of grammar, which explains a wide variety of sentence types across languages. It is essential reading for researchers and advanced...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 05-Aug-2025, Paperback / softback, Kirjastus: MIT Press, ISBN-13: 9780262552523)
A mathematical explication of Chomskys Merge theory of syntax-- A mathematical formalization of Chomsky’s theory of Merge in generative linguistics.The Minimalist Program advanced by Noam Chomsky thirty years ago, focusing o...Loe edasi...
Many researchers in psychology have attempted to capture the meaning of quantities by relating them to scales of quantity. First published in 1993, the book explores this idea in detail and shows how these expressions also serve to control attenti...Loe edasi...
This book unpacks coordination in the context of the Strong Minimalist Thesis (SMT), offering a new proposal to addressing this longstanding puzzle within research on generative grammar. This book unpacks coordination in the context...Loe edasi...
This reader is part of a five-volume-edition and comprises an in-depth presentation of the state of the art in word-formation. Volume 2 concentrates on select aspects of word-formation processes and their patterns including how they conform to mor...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 21-Jul-2025, Hardback, Kirjastus: De Gruyter, ISBN-13: 9783111321769)
Both word-formation (WF) and the coinage of multi-word expressions (MWE) can be characterised in terms of creativity and routine. Routine in word-formation and multi-word expressions is traditionally described in terms of morphological, lexical, s...Loe edasi...
A thorough exposition of hierarchy and locality, covering all the main components of contemporary syntactic theory. Examples are chosen to be easily understood, end-of-chapter exercises embed and extend knowledge, and a full glossary provides clear d...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 30-Jun-2025, Hardback, Kirjastus: Cambridge University Press, ISBN-13: 9781009291668)
A logical and clear exposition of hierarchy and locality by a leading figure in the field, Continuing Syntax takes students from an introductory level of syntactic theory to an understanding of cutting-edge research in the field. A comprehensive rang...Loe edasi...
This reader is part of a five-volume-edition and comprises an in-depth presentation of the state of the art in word-formation. Volume 1 focuses on the historical and theoretical foundations of the field. The diachronic origins are presented that g...Loe edasi...
The notion of light verb constructions has been traditionally related to the ‘insignificance’ of the verb, which is described as a grammatical item only codifying TAM system and ?-features, whereas the whole predicative content is thought to be conve...Loe edasi...
The book examines the category Number from a variety of linguistic perspectives. Typological aspects of co-plurals and singulatives are introduced and number marking is analysed for three individual languages: Kamas (Samoyedic), Welsh (Celtic) and...Loe edasi...
Clefts are intricate objects which, starting with Jespersen (1937), have motivated much work in descriptive and formal linguistics. Nonetheless, almost a century later their exact internal structure and status are still widely debated, therefore a...Loe edasi...
Queer linguistics – in its position as both a linguistic science of and for queer folk – is inherently agitating to the disciplinary anxiety of a general linguistic science. It represents, as all queer science does, a disruption of the normative m...Loe edasi...
