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  • Contrasts and Positions in Information Structure

    Edited by Ivona Kučerová, Ad Neeleman ...
    Information structure, or the way the information in a sentence is 'divided' into categories such as topic, focus, comment, background, and old versus new information, is one of the most widely debated topics in linguistics. This volume incorporates exciting work on the relationship between syntax and information structure. The contributors are united in rejecting accounts that assume designated ... Read more

    $43.49 USD

  • Features of Person

    From the Inventory of Persons to Their Morphological Realization

    by Peter Ackema, Ad Neeleman ...
    Series Book 78 - Linguistic Inquiry Monographs
    A proposal that person features do not have inherent content but are used to navigate a “person space” at the heart of every pronominal expression.This book offers a significant reconceptualization of the person system in natural language. The authors, leading scholars in syntax and its interfaces, propose that person features do not have inherent content but are used to navigate a “person space” ... Read more

    $34.99 USD

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  • On Syntax of Negation

    by Itziar Laka ...
    Series series Routledge Library Editions: Syntax
    The central concern of this title, first published in 1994, is the syntactic nature of negation in Universal Grammar, and its relation to other functional elements in the Syntax. The study argues that negation is not a syntactic category on its own; rather, it is one of the values of a more abstract syntactic category, named Σ, which includes other sentence operators, such as affirmation and ... Read more

    $59.99 USD

  • Grammatical Categories

    Variation in Romance Languages

    by M. Rita Manzini, Leonardo M. Savoia ...
    Series Book 128 - Cambridge Studies in Linguistics
    Grammatical categories (e.g. complementizer, negation, auxiliary, case) are some of the most important building blocks of syntax and morphology. Categorization therefore poses fundamental questions about grammatical structures and about the lexicon from which they are built. Adopting a 'lexicalist' stance, the authors argue that lexical items are not epiphenomena, but really represent the mapping ... Read more

    $43.49 USD

  • One Language, Two Grammars?

    Differences between British and American English

    Edited by Günter Rohdenburg, Julia Schlüter ...
    Series series Studies in English Language
    It is well known that British and American English differ substantially in their pronunciation and vocabulary - but differences in their grammar have largely been underestimated. This volume focuses on British–American differences in the structure of words and sentences and supports them with computer-aided studies of large text collections. Present-day as well as earlier forms of the two ... Read more

    $47.59 USD

  • English for Academic Research: A Guide for Teachers

    by Adrian Wallwork ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    Scientific English is possibly the most rewarding area of EFL teaching. It differs from English for Academic Purposes (EAP) as it is directed to a much smaller audience: PhD and postdoc students. Courses on Scientific English are held in universities throughout the world, yet there is very little support for teachers in understanding what to teach andhow to teach it.This guide is part of the ... Read more

    $28.49 USD

  • The Modular Architecture of Grammar

    by Jerrold M. Sadock ...
    Series Book 132 - Cambridge Studies in Linguistics
    Modular grammar postulates several autonomous generative systems interacting with one another as opposed to the prevailing theory of transformational grammar where there is a single generative component – the syntax – from which other representations are derived. In this book Jerrold Sadock develops his influential theory of grammar, formalizing several generative modules that independently ... Read more

    $118.89 USD

  • The Syntax of Dutch

    by Jan-Wouter Zwart ...
    Series series Cambridge Syntax Guides
    Dutch is a West-Germanic language closely related to English and German, but its special properties have long aroused interest and debate among students of syntax. This is an informative guide to the syntax of Dutch, offering an extensive survey of both the phenomena of Dutch syntax and their theoretical analyses over the years. In particular the book discusses those aspects of Dutch syntax that ... Read more

    $43.49 USD

  • Analysing English Grammar

    A Systemic Functional Introduction

    by Lise Fontaine ...
    A practical step-by-step introduction to the analysis of English grammar, this book leaves the reader confident to tackle the challenges analysing grammar may pose. The first textbook to take an integrated approach to function and structure in grammatical analysis, it allows students to build experience, skills and confidence in working with grammar. The innovative, hybrid approach combines an ... Read more

    $43.49 USD

  • Principles of Semiotic

    by David S. Clarke ...
    Series series Routledge Library Editions: Semantics and Semiology
    First published in 1987, this book is an attempt to re-establish semiotic on the basis of principles consistent with its past history, rather than the ‘cultural semiotics’ of the European tradition, and especially with the guiding ideas of Peirce and Morris. The book is divided into two parts, with the first two chapters providing the background for the more systematic discussions of signs at ... Read more

    $54.99 USD

  • Test Your Personality

    Have Fun and Learn Useful Phrases

    by Adrian Wallwork ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    Personality tests are relatively quick and easy to read, and are thus great for improving your English vocabulary and knowledge of idiomatic expressions.These quizzes were designed primarily to enable you to:learn some useful English vocabulary (of the type that is often not taught in a language course)have fun doing something in English that you might equally well have done in your own ... Read more

    $28.49 USD

  • Rules and Dispositions in Language Use

    by Palgrave Macmillan ...
    Rules and Dispositions in Language Use explains how correct language use is governed by both rules and general human dispositions. It does so by bringing together themes from Ludwig Wittgenstein and Noam Chomsky, which for many years have been thought to be incompatible. ... Read more

    $49.49 USD