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An edited volume, first published in 2010, devoted to research into sentence structure within Romance languages, focusing on the dialects of Italy. Coherent and... Læs mere
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A guide to Chinese syntax covering a broad variety of topics including categories, argument structure, passives and anaphora. The discussion of each topic sums up the key research results and provides new points of departure for further research.
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A concise and accessible guide to the syntax of Modern French, providing a clear overview of those aspects of the language that are of particular interest to theoretical linguists.... Læs mere
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This critical survey questions two fundamental assumptions in syntactic theory: firstly, that a sentence comprises a hierarchy of phrases, forming a 'tree'... Læs mere
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What do you know, if you know that a language has 'Object Verb' structure rather than 'Verb Object'? Hubert Haider examines the complex and systematic differences between German and... Læs mere
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A guide to Arabic syntax covering a broad variety of topics including argument structure, negation, tense, agreement phenomena, and resumption. The discussion of each topic sums up the key research results and provides new points of departure for further research.
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This path-breaking study of the standardisation of English written by leading researchers goes well beyond the traditional... Læs mere
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A pioneering study of quantity implicatures, a type of pragmatic inference which has been widely debated in linguistics, philosophy, and psychology. It argues that the Gricean... Læs mere
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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... Læs mere
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An exploration of two important phenomena in natural language - recursion and embedding - that looks in particular at the cognitive skills we must possess in order to manipulate... Læs mere
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What makes the noun phrase 'the man I saw' more complex than 'the man'? Designed for researchers and students interested in questions of language complexity, this book... Læs mere
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This is an introduction to Optimality Theory, whose central idea is that surface forms of language reflect resolutions of conflicts between competing constraints. Exercises accompany... Læs mere