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This book fills a gap in cross-linguistic research by being the first systematic survey of the word-formation of the world's languages. Data from fifty-five world languages reveals associations between word-formation processes in genetically and geographically distinct languages.
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A comprehensive guide for students already introduced to the history of English and who want to understand the far-reaching structural changes that the grammar of... Læs mere
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A Reference Grammar of Chinese offers comprehensive coverage of all the important linguistic features of the language, written by renowned experts. The corpus-based... Læs mere
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Based on a detailed study of creole languages, this book contributes to the debate on language acquisition and change by showing that... Læs mere
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Jerome Packard analyses the linguistic and cognitive nature of Chinese words, dispelling the common misconception that the Chinese language... Læs mere
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This book proposes a theory of the distribution of adverbial adjuncts in a Principles and Parameters framework, claiming that there are few syntactic principles specific to adverbials; rather, for the most part, adverbials adjoin freely to any projection.
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This textbook deals with the grammatical category of person. Drawing on data from over 700 languages, it compares the use of person across different languages, examines the factors underlying... Læs mere
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This book describes and systematizes all aspects of the grammar of Russian: the patterns of orthography, sounds, inflection, syntax, tense-aspect-mood, word order, and... Læs mere
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This book explores the nature of formulaic language, and looks for patterns across research findings from a variety of sub-fields. It gradually builds up a unified... Læs mere
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A new contribution to linguistic theory, this book presents a formal framework for the analysis of word structure in human language. It presents a... Læs mere
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The phenomenon of grammaticalization - the historical process whereby new grammatical material is created - has attracted a great deal of attention within linguistics. This is an attempt to provide a general account of this phenomenon in terms of a formal theory of syntax.
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A wide-ranging 2002 guide to language and society in South Africa. The book surveys the most important language groupings in the region in terms of wider socio-historical... Læs mere