(Izdošanas datums: 01-Oct-2025, Other book format, Izdevniecība: MIT Press, ISBN-13: 9780262384674)
An argument to replace Chomskys set-theoretic view of syntax with one based on mereological objects, written by the former President of the Linguistics Association of Great Britain-- Provided by publisher. An argument for replacing Chom...Lasīt vairāk
Intended for the absolute beginner, Introducing Phonetics and Phonology requires no previous background in linguistics, phonetics or phonology.Starting with a grounding in phonetics and phonological theory, the book provides a base from whi...Lasīt vairāk
Intended for the absolute beginner, Introducing Phonetics and Phonology requires no previous background in linguistics, phonetics or phonology.Starting with a grounding in phonetics and phonological theory, the book provides a base from whi...Lasīt vairāk
This book provides a comprehensive cross-linguistic account of 98 typologically diverse minority languages in Southern China. A number of important parameters are analyzed based on rich case studies ranging from the Tibeto-Burman languages, Kam-Ta...Lasīt vairāk
Sērija : Cambridge Handbooks in Language and Linguistics
(Izdošanas datums: 31-Aug-2025, Hardback, Izdevniecība: Cambridge University Press, ISBN-13: 9781009179386)
Bringing together a globally representative team of scholars, this book provides a comprehensive overview of the state-of-the-art in comparative syntax, the study of universal and variable properties of grammatical structures in natural languages. It...Lasīt vairāk
For the first time, this book provides a usage-based model to for describing the grammar of languages, by applying Systemic Functional Linguistics (SFL) comparatively to English, Spanish and Chinese. Advancing SFL theory, it is essential reading for...Lasīt vairāk
Based on a substantial amount of new data taken from Faroese and Icelandic, this pioneering book presents a new theory of grammar, which explains a wide variety of sentence types across languages. It is essential reading for researchers and advanced...Lasīt vairāk
A mathematical explication of Chomskys Merge theory of syntax-- A mathematical formalization of Chomskys theory of Merge in generative linguistics.The Minimalist Program advanced by Noam Chomsky thirty years ago, focusing o...Lasīt vairāk
Many researchers in psychology have attempted to capture the meaning of quantities by relating them to scales of quantity. First published in 1993, the book explores this idea in detail and shows how these expressions also serve to control attenti...Lasīt vairāk
This book unpacks coordination in the context of the Strong Minimalist Thesis (SMT), offering a new proposal to addressing this longstanding puzzle within research on generative grammar. This book unpacks coordination in the context...Lasīt vairāk
This reader is part of a five-volume-edition and comprises an in-depth presentation of the state of the art in word-formation. Volume 2 concentrates on select aspects of word-formation processes and their patterns including how they conform to mor...Lasīt vairāk
(Izdošanas datums: 21-Jul-2025, Hardback, Izdevniecība: De Gruyter, ISBN-13: 9783111321769)
Both word-formation (WF) and the coinage of multi-word expressions (MWE) can be characterised in terms of creativity and routine. Routine in word-formation and multi-word expressions is traditionally described in terms of morphological, lexical, s...Lasīt vairāk
A thorough exposition of hierarchy and locality, covering all the main components of contemporary syntactic theory. Examples are chosen to be easily understood, end-of-chapter exercises embed and extend knowledge, and a full glossary provides clear d...Lasīt vairāk
(Izdošanas datums: 30-Jun-2025, Hardback, Izdevniecība: Cambridge University Press, ISBN-13: 9781009291668)
A logical and clear exposition of hierarchy and locality by a leading figure in the field, Continuing Syntax takes students from an introductory level of syntactic theory to an understanding of cutting-edge research in the field. A comprehensive rang...Lasīt vairāk
This reader is part of a five-volume-edition and comprises an in-depth presentation of the state of the art in word-formation. Volume 1 focuses on the historical and theoretical foundations of the field. The diachronic origins are presented that g...Lasīt vairāk
The notion of light verb constructions has been traditionally related to the insignificance of the verb, which is described as a grammatical item only codifying TAM system and ?-features, whereas the whole predicative content is thought to be conve...Lasīt vairāk
The book examines the category Number from a variety of linguistic perspectives. Typological aspects of co-plurals and singulatives are introduced and number marking is analysed for three individual languages: Kamas (Samoyedic), Welsh (Celtic) and...Lasīt vairāk
Clefts are intricate objects which, starting with Jespersen (1937), have motivated much work in descriptive and formal linguistics. Nonetheless, almost a century later their exact internal structure and status are still widely debated, therefore a...Lasīt vairāk
Queer linguistics in its position as both a linguistic science of and for queer folk is inherently agitating to the disciplinary anxiety of a general linguistic science. It represents, as all queer science does, a disruption of the normative m...Lasīt vairāk
Island phenomena are a central topic in generative grammar, especially because of principled exceptions to these general extraction constraints. This volume investigates exceptional extractions from phrasal adjunct islands. It argues, based on ex...Lasīt vairāk
For the first time, proper names are made the topic of a cross-linguistic account of morphosyntactic properties which formally distinguish place names, personal names, and common nouns. It is shown that the behaviour of place names and personal na...Lasīt vairāk
This book explores pragmatics of specialized language, focusing on multiword terms, complex phrases characterized by sequences of nouns or adjectives whose meaning is clarified in the unspecified but implicit links between them....Lasīt vairāk
(Izdošanas datums: 12-Jun-2025, Hardback, Izdevniecība: Oxford University Press, ISBN-13: 9780198947783)
This book offers a critical review of the foundations, logic, and methodologies of contemporary derivational syntactic theory. It explores the theoretical and empirical consequences of derivational approaches to syntax, and offers explicit alternativ...Lasīt vairāk
Proposing a new approach to the study of language, this book argues for the need to consider syntax in context and to engage with a wider variety of perspectives that better reflect the modern world and the changes to our language prompted by incr...Lasīt vairāk
(Izdošanas datums: 29-May-2025, Hardback, Izdevniecība: Oxford University Press, ISBN-13: 9780192894236)
The book demonstrates how Property Versatility is a powerful tool in addressing a wide range of issues beyond copredication, including the semantics of generics, the metaphysics of establishments and repeatable artworks, fictional discourse, and the...Lasīt vairāk
This edited book brings together studies on morphological case in English, Japanese and Bantu languages from morphosyntactic, semantic and historical perspectives. Languages are divided into two types in terms of case: nominative-accusative langua...Lasīt vairāk
Along with a renewed interest in the empirical foundations of linguistics, the increasing accessibility of large-scale corpora has sparked a surge of corpus-linguistic work on the grammar of natural languages. Corpus-based methods enhance our know...Lasīt vairāk
(Izdošanas datums: 06-May-2025, Hardback, Izdevniecība: De Gruyter Mouton, ISBN-13: 9783111351438)
This volume contains the most important theoretical and methodological works of Gabriel Altmann (1931-2019). He is the founder of a specific school of quantitative linguistics, which focuses on the statistical analysis and interrelationship of lin...Lasīt vairāk
