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  • Scandinavian Object Shift and Optimality Theory

    by E. Engels, S. Vikner ...
    Series series Education (R0)
    This book presents an account of object shift, a word order phenomenon found in most of the Scandinavian languages where an object occurs unexpectedly to the left and not to the right of a sentential adverbial. With new and original observations, it is an important addition to the fields of phonology, optimality theory and theoretical syntax. ... Read more

    $49.49 USD

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  • Saving our Prepositions

    A Guide for the Perplexed

    by David Thatcher ...
    Prepositions (words like above, from, in, of and with which relate one part of a sentence to another) are, though few in number, among the most frequently used words in English. They are also among the most frequently misused: writers and speakers alike seem to have endless trouble in choosing the right or acceptable preposition. The sad result is widespread uncertainty, confusion and ... Read more

    $2.99 USD

  • Collocation

    Applications and Implications

    by G. Barnbrook, O. Mason, R. Krishnamurthy ...
    Series series Education (R0)
    This book presents a comprehensive description of collocation, covering both the theoretical and practical background and the implications and applications of the concept as language model and analytical tool. It provides a definitive survey of currently available techniques and a detailed description of their implementation. ... Read more

    $49.49 USD

  • Change in Contemporary English

    A Grammatical Study

    by Marianne Hundt, Christian Mair, Nicholas Smith, Geoffrey Leech ...
    Series series Studies in English Language
    Based on the systematic analysis of large amounts of computer-readable text, this book shows how the English language has been changing in the recent past, often in unexpected and previously undocumented ways. The study is based on a group of matching corpora, known as the 'Brown family' of corpora, supplemented by a range of other corpus materials, both written and spoken, drawn mainly from the ... Read more

    $54.99 USD

  • Topics in Kwa Syntax

    Edited by Enoch O. Aboh, James Essegbey ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    This book grew out of a concern we have had that very many theoretical and descriptive work on the Kwa languages were not accessible to the general linguistic community. As a result, these languages were only referred to in the context of very specific discussions such as serial verb constructions. But as the reader of this book will notice, syntactic topics discussed in the context of Kwa range ... Read more

    $89.09 USD

  • Sociolinguistics in Wales

    Edited by Jonathan Morris, Mercedes Durham ...
    This volume showcases recent sociolinguistic research about Wales and offers contributions from scholars working on Welsh, English and other languages spoken in the country. The chapters present a range of frameworks and methodologies used in sociolinguistics and apply them to the Welsh linguistic context. This context is very distinctive compared to the rest of the UK and represents a prime ... Read more

    $89.09 USD

  • Sociolinguistics in England

    Edited by Natalie Braber, Sandra Jansen ...
    This book presents an overview of sociolinguistic research in England. Showcasing developments in sociolinguistic theory, method and application, the chapters examine sociolinguistic topics on different linguistic levels and in different geographical areas across the country. Allowing the reader to engage with contemporary research in the field, each chapter is unique in the topic or geographical ... Read more

    $143.09 USD

  • The History of Modern Chinese Grammar Studies

    by Peter Peverelli ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    This book discusses the way Chinese scholars developed a national grammar. Chinese didn’t develop grammar until China’s contact with Western grammar books in the 19th Century. The first indigenous grammar was published in 1889. It included some traditional notions, but mainly imitated European grammar. It was followed by a number of other similar works. To move away from this imitation, a group of ... Read more

    $80.09 USD

  • The Oxford Handbook of Derivational Morphology

    Edited by Rochelle Lieber, Pavol Stekauer ...
    Series series Oxford Handbooks
    The Oxford Handbook of Derivational Morphology is intended as a companion volume to The Oxford Handbook of Compounding (OUP 2009) Written by distinguished scholars, its 41 chapters aim to provide a comprehensive and thorough overview of the study of derivational morphology. The handbook begins with an overview and a consideration of definitional matters, distinguishing derivation from inflection ... Read more

    $51.29 USD

  • Changes in Complementation in British and American English

    Corpus-Based Studies on Non-Finite Complements in Recent English

    by J. Rudanko ...
    Series series Education (R0)
    The book shows how the system of English predicate complementation has been undergoing an amazing amount of variation and change in recent centuries, and identifies explanatory principles to account for this change and variation, with evidence from large electronic corpora of both British and American English. ... Read more

    $49.49 USD

  • Non-Projecting Words

    A Case Study of Swedish Particles

    by I. Toivonen ...
    Series Book 58 - Studies in Natural Language and Linguistic Theory
    Focusing primarily on Swedish, a Germanic language whose particles have not previously been studied extensively, Non-Projecting Words: A Case Study on Swedish Particles develops a theory of non-projecting words in which particles are morphologically independent words that do not project phrases.Particles have long constituted a puzzle for Germanic syntax, as they exhibit properties of both ... Read more

    $89.09 USD

  • Standardization, Ideology and Linguistics

    by N. Armstrong, I. Mackenzie ...
    Series series Education (R0)
    The authors explore some of the ways in which standardization, ideology and linguistics are interrelated. Through a number of case studies they show how concepts such as grammaticality and structural change covertly rely on a false conceptualization of language, one that derives ultimately from standardization. ... Read more

    $89.09 USD