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A History of the Hebrew Language
A History of the Hebrew language is a comprehensive description of Hebrew from its Semitic origins and the earliest settlement of the Israelite...
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Foundations of French Syntax
Designed for students, this detailed analysis of the principal areas of French grammar combines the insights of modern linguistic theory with those...
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Information Structure and Sentence Form
Why do speakers of all languages use different grammatical structures under different communicative circumstances to express the same idea? Professor...
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A Theory of Aspectuality
Sentences may pertain to states or processes or events. They may express duration, frequency, habituality, and many other forms of temporality. How...
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Restrictiveness in Case Theory
Henry Smith develops a theory of syntactic case and examines its synchronic and diachronic consequences. Within a unification-based framework, the...
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Italian Syntax and Universal Grammar
Guglielmo Cinque is one of the world’s leading theoretical syntacticians, and is particularly known for his application of recent theory to the...
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Foundations of French Syntax
Designed for students, this detailed analysis of the principal areas of French grammar combines the insights of modern linguistic theory with those...
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Reading Medieval Latin
Reading Medieval Latin is an introduction to medieval Latin in its cultural and historical context and is designed to serve the needs of students who...
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The Lexicon in Acquisition
Without words, children can’t talk about people, places, things, actions, relations, or states, and they have no grammatical rules. Without words,...
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Historical Syntax in Cross-Linguistic Perspective
In this major new work Alice Harris and Lyle Campbell set out to establish a general framework for the investigation of linguistic change. Systematic...
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A Performance Theory of Order and Constituency
In this major new book John A. Hawkins presents a new theory of linear ordering in syntax. He argues that processing can provide a simple, functional...
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Syntax and Parsing
This book examines the role of syntax in theories of sentence comprehension, and argues for a distinct processing component which is devoted to the...
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The Syntax of Negation
In this book Liliane Haegeman presents an account of sentential negation within a Government and Binding framework. Building on the work of Klima and...
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Grammar and Meaning
Since the publication of his Introduction to Theoretical Linguistics (1968), Sir John Lyons became one of the most important and internationally...
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The Verb in Contemporary English
This collection of essays by some of the leading scholars in the field sheds new light on the verb in English. The central concern of the volume is...
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Grammar: A Student’s Guide
This introductory guide to grammar explains one hundred basic grammatical terms. A knowledge of such terms, and how they interconnect, is crucial for...
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Understanding Language Change
How and why do language changes begin; how and why do they spread; and how can they ultimately be explained? This new textbook sets out to answer...
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Grammatical Roles and Relations
Frank Palmer’s new book is a typological survey of grammatical roles, such as Agent, Patient, Beneficiary, and grammatical relations, such as...
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Ergativity
Although there is only one ergative language in Europe (Basque), perhaps one-quarter of the world’s languages show ergative properties, and pose...
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Old English
Old English is a companion to Old English studies and to historical studies of early English in general. It is also an introduction to Indo-European...
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Grammar: A Student’s Guide
This introductory guide to grammar explains one hundred basic grammatical terms. A knowledge of such terms, and how they interconnect, is crucial for...
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Quantity Adjustment
This is a unified account of all quantity changes affecting English stressed vowels during the early Middle English period. Dr Ritt discusses...
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The Lexical Field of Taste
Dr Backhouse undertakes a semantic study of taste terms in modern spoken Japanese. Through an investigation of the range of vocabulary available for...
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Negative and Positive Polarity
In this book, Ljiljana Progovac presents cross-linguistic data on negative polarity, reflexive binding and the subjunctive mood, and proposes a...
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