(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...
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...
Data Representativity and Granularity in Spanish Syntax focuses on the dialogue between Generative Grammar, Variationism, and experimental linguistics with a unique emphasis on Spanish linguistics.Combining formal syntax and empirica...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...
A comprehensive look at the syntactic properties of Portuguese, focusing on differences between European and Brazilian Portuguese such as their pronominal and agreement systems, null subjects, null complements and word order. It is essential reading...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...
(Ilmumisaeg: 31-Jul-2025, Hardback, Kirjastus: Cambridge University Press, ISBN-13: 9781316513316)
Basque is a language of central importance to linguists because it is a language isolate, a rare type of language that is typologically alone and cannot be classified as a part of any language family. Language isolates remain somewhat a mystery,...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 31-Jul-2025, Hardback, Kirjastus: Cambridge University Press, ISBN-13: 9781108836128)
Drawing on a range of case studies, this book presents the state of the art in research on non-canonical syntax across historical, register-based, and non-native varieties of English. It is essential reading for advanced students of English grammar...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...
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...
Despite the intensive research carried out in recent years, modality remains an intriguing and challenging issue in linguistics. This book investigates modality from a syntactic viewpoint and with a bottom-up approach. A strong focus of the book i...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 12-Jun-2025, Hardback, Kirjastus: Oxford University Press, ISBN-13: 9780198947783)
This book offers a critical review of the foundations, logic, and methodologies of contemporary derivational syntactic theory. It explores the theoretical and empirical consequences of derivational approaches to syntax, and offers explicit alternativ...Loe edasi...
Proposing a new approach to the study of language, this book argues for the need to consider syntax in context and to engage with a wider variety of perspectives that better reflect the modern world and the changes to our language prompted by incr...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 19-May-2025, Hardback, Kirjastus: De Gruyter, ISBN-13: 9783111407791)
Bavarian syntax is widely known for its productive „Doubly-Filled COMP“ (DFC) property and for the rare phenomenon of inflecting complementizers. It is less widely known that DFC also extends to declaratives. Topicalization out of a preposed CP ca...Loe edasi...
This book is a four-volume study on modern Chinese complex sentences, giving an overview and detailed analysis on the key attributes and three major types of this linguistic unit.Complex sentences in modern Chinese are unique in formation and...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 21-Apr-2025, Hardback, Kirjastus: De Gruyter, ISBN-13: 9783111544137)
This monograph is devoted to the cross-linguistic profile of subjects in Early Modern Germanic languages. The typologically complex question of subject criteria is addressed in a functional framework relying on recent developments in Construction Gr...Loe edasi...
Taking an interdisciplinary stance, this pioneering book shows what we can learn about the grammatical choices that people make based on both observational and experimental data. It conducts detailed state-of-the-art analyses, and discusses the findi...Loe edasi...
