Books

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Title Authors Description OpenBook ID
Objects and information structure Objects and information structure Mary Dalrymple "In many languages, the objects of transitive verbs are either marked by grammatical case or agreement on the verb, or they remain unmarked: this is differential object marking. This book is a cross-… OL16190646W
Features Features Greville G. Corbett "Features are a central concept in linguistic analysis. They are the basic building blocks of linguistic units, such as words. For many linguists they offer the most revealing way to explore the natu… OL16607419W
Parametric variation Parametric variation Anders Holmberg,Theresa Biberauer,Roberts, Ian,Michelle Sheehan "Parametric variation in linguistic theory refers to the systematic grammatical variation permitted by the human language faculty. Although still widely assumed, the parametric theory of variation ha… OL16915643W
Studies on universal grammar and typological variation Studies on universal grammar and typological variation T. Alan Hall,Artemis Alexiadou viii, 252 p. : 23 cm OL19524034W
Reference and Anaphoric Relations Reference and Anaphoric Relations Urs Egli The notions of reference and anaphoric relations have been discussed since antiquity and they are still one of the most challenging subjects in linguistics, logics and philosophy of language. The que… OL19899177W
When-clauses and temporal structure When-clauses and temporal structure Renaat Declerck Tense is one of the central issues of linguistics, and received much attention in recent years. This book offers a detailed discussion of the temporal structures that are expressed by the combination… OL19911061W
Time and the verb Time and the verb Robert I. Binnick xxiii, 554 p. : 25 cm OL3876919W
Language contact and grammatical change Language contact and grammatical change Bernd Heine The phenomenon of language contact, and how it affects the structure of languages, has been of great interest to linguists in recent years. This pioneering new study looks at how grammatical forms an… OL876022W