Books

19 results found
Title Authors Description OpenBook ID
Expecting the unexpected Expecting the unexpected Horst J. Simon,Heike Wiese General Linguistics OL15521197W
Politeness in East Asia Politeness in East Asia 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… OL15936277W
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
Unification grammars Unification grammars 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… OL16318098W
Language development Language development 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… OL16464889W
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
Verbs Verbs 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… OL16770865W
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
Quantification Quantification 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… OL16925507W
Relational Grammar Relational Grammar 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. OL16942286W
Construction Grammar in a Cross-Language Perspective Construction Grammar in a Cross-Language Perspective 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… OL16980550W
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
Everything you need to ace English language arts in one big fat notebook Everything you need to ace English language arts in one big fat notebook 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… OL19748802W
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
Oxford Handbook of Derivational Morphology Oxford Handbook of Derivational Morphology Rochelle Lieber,Pavol Stekauer xxvi,927 pages ; 25 cm OL21075558W
Time and the verb Time and the verb Robert I. Binnick xxiii, 554 p. : 25 cm OL3876919W
Australian Languages Australian Languages 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… OL8006235W
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