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Expecting the unexpected
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Horst J. Simon,Heike Wiese |
General Linguistics |
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Politeness in East Asia
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Dániel Z. Kádár |
"We use politeness every day when interacting with other people. Yet politeness is an impressively complex linguistic process, and studying it can tell us a lot about the social and cultural values o… |
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Objects and information structure
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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-… |
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Unification grammars
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Nissim Francez |
"Grammars of natural languages can be expressed as mathematical objects, similar to computer programs. Such a formal presentation of grammars facilitates mathematical reasoning with grammars (and the… |
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Language development
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Patricia J. Brooks |
"An accessible introduction to language development aimed at a wide audience of students from different disciplines such as psychology, behavioural science, linguistics, cognitive science, and speech… |
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Features
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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… |
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Verbs
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William Croft |
"This book presents a model of event structure for the analysis of aspectual constructions and argument structure constructions in English and other languages. Representing the culmination of two dec… |
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Parametric variation
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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… |
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Quantification
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Anna Szabolcsi |
"Quantification forms a significant aspect of cross-linguistic research into both sentence structure and meaning. This book surveys research in quantification starting with the foundational work in t… |
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Relational Grammar
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Barry Blake |
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. |
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Construction Grammar in a Cross-Language Perspective
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Mirjam Fried |
This volume gives an easily accessible, yet comprehensive, sophisticated, and example-rich introduction to Construction Grammar as it has been developed from the early 1980's by Charles J. Fillmore a… |
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Studies on universal grammar and typological variation
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T. Alan Hall,Artemis Alexiadou |
viii, 252 p. : 23 cm |
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Everything you need to ace English language arts in one big fat notebook
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Jen Haberling,Kevin Jay Stanton |
Takes students from grammar to reading comprehension to writing with ease, including parts of speech, active and passive verbs, Greek and Latin roots and affixes; nuances in word meanings; textual an… |
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Reference and Anaphoric Relations
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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… |
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When-clauses and temporal structure
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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… |
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Oxford Handbook of Derivational Morphology
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Rochelle Lieber,Pavol Stekauer |
xxvi,927 pages ; 25 cm |
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Time and the verb
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Robert I. Binnick |
xxiii, 554 p. : 25 cm |
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Australian Languages
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R. M. W. Dixon |
Aboriginal people have been in Australia for at least 40,000 years, speaking about 250 languages. Through examination of published and unpublished materials on each of the individual languages, Profe… |
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Language contact and grammatical change
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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… |
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