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Key Topics in Syntax eBook Series

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  • Syntactic Islands

    by Cedric Boeckx ...
    Series series Key Topics in Syntax
    The phenomenon of the syntactic 'island' - a clause or structure from which a word cannot be moved - is central to research and study in syntactic theory. This book provides a comprehensive overview of syntactic islands. What are they? How do they arise? Why do they exist? Cedric Boeckx discusses the pros and cons of all the major generative accounts of island effects, and focuses the discussion ... Read more

    $41.99 CAD

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  • Topics in French Syntax

    by Geraldine Legendre ...
    Series series Routledge Library Editions: Syntax
    The main goal of this study, first published in 1994, is to present a substantial part of the grammar of French. This goal is achieved by bringing together two aspects of syntactic investigation. First, the study focuses on a vast range of French clausal phenomena, including Object Raising constructions, Causative constructions of various types, Impersonal constructions, amongst many others. ... Read more

    $81.99 CAD

  • Hyperbole in English

    A Corpus-based Study of Exaggeration

    by Claudia Claridge ...
    Series series Studies in English Language
    Non-literal language is ubiquitous in everyday life, and while hyperbole is a major part of this, it has so far remained relatively unexplored. This volume provides the first investigation of hyperbole in English, drawing on data from genres such as spoken conversation, TV, newspapers, and literary works from Chaucer to Monty Python. Combining quantitative and qualitative analyses, it uses ... Read more

    $43.99 CAD

  • 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

    $48.99 CAD

  • Word Meaning and Belief

    by S.G. Pulman ...
    Series series Routledge Library Editions: Semantics and Semiology
    First published in 1983, the aim of this book is to diagnose linguists’ failure to advance satisfactory theories of lexical meaning, then to propose the requirements that such a theory should meet and, drawing on work in philosophy and psychology, to take the first steps towards satisfying these requirements. It begins by discussing the work of Quine on the indeterminacy of translation and it is ... Read more

    $54.99 CAD

  • From Literacy to Literature: England, 1300-1400

    England, 1300-1400

    by Christopher Cannon ...
    The first lessons we learn in school can stay with us all our lives, but this was nowhere more true than in the last decades of the fourteenth century when grammar-school students were not only learning to read and write, but understanding, for the first time, that their mother tongue, English, was grammatical. The efflorescence of Ricardian poetry was not a direct result of this change, but it ... Read more

    $23.99 CAD

  • Argument Licensing and Agreement

    by Claire Halpert ...
    Series series Oxford Studies in Comparative Syntax
    The strikingly unrestricted syntactic distribution of nouns in many Bantu languages often leads to proposals that syntactic case does not play an active role in the grammar of Bantu. This book offers a different conclusion that the basis of Zulu that Bantu languages have not only a system of structural case, but also a complex system of morphological case that is comparable to systems found in ... Read more

    $36.99 CAD

  • Non-Projecting Words

    A Case Study of Swedish Particles

    by I. Toivonen ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    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

    $115.99 CAD

  • Linguistic Survey of the Northern Bantu Borderland

    Volume Four

    by A. N. Tucker, M. A. Bryan ...
    Series series Linguistic Surveys of Africa
    The classification and distribution of the languages of the Northern Bantu Borderland between the Great Lakes and the Indian Ocean have been given in Volume 1 of The Linguistic Survey of the Northern Bantu Borderland, where however, the linguistic evidence on which the classification rested was not included. This is now set out in this volume, originally published in 1957. The languages have been ... Read more

    $73.99 CAD

  • A Grammar of Old English, Volume 1

    Phonology

    by Richard M. Hogg ...
    First published in 1992, A Grammar of Old English, Volume 1: Phonology was a landmark publication that in the intervening years has not been surpassed in its depth of scholarship and usefulness to the field. With the 2011 posthumous publication of Richard M. Hogg’s Volume 2: Morphology, Volume 1 is again in print, now in paperback, so that scholars can own this complete work.Takes account of major ... Read more

    $84.99 CAD

  • Word Games, Riddles and Logic Tests

    Tax Your Brain and Boost Your English

    by Adrian Wallwork ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    This book contains exercises connected with some of the fun or more unusual aspects of the English languageand with games that typically a native English speaker would do. The games have been adapted into a manageable format, but the actual vocabulary contained has not been changed.The types of games include: lateral thinking games, riddles, logic tests, anagrams, palindromes, proverbs, limericks, ... Read more

    $44.99 CAD

  • Ellipsis in English Literature

    Signs of Omission

    by Anne Toner ...
    Anne Toner provides an original account of the history of ellipsis marks - dots, dashes and asterisks - in English literary writing. Highlighting ever-renewing interest in these forms of non-completion in literature, Toner demonstrates how writers have striven to get closer to the hesitancies and interruptions of spoken language, the indeterminacies of thought, and the successive or fragmented ... Read more

    $43.99 CAD