Category: Grammar

By Brian P. Cleary

ISBN-10: 0822567091

ISBN-13: 9780822567097

ISBN-10: 1580136958

ISBN-13: 9781580136952

One ebook is rarely sufficient to discover the wide variety of wonderful adjectives! The loopy cats convey a great deal of extra examples to demonstrate the effective energy of adjectives to explain the glorious global round us--and our fantastic imaginations. Brian P. Cleary's playful verse and Brian Gable's comical cats flip conventional grammar classes on finish. each one adjective is outlined in colour for simple id. learn this booklet aloud and proportion the pride of the sense--and nonsense--of phrases.

By Leon Stassen

ISBN-10: 0199211655

ISBN-13: 9780199211654

This is often the 1st finished remedy of the suggestions hired within the world's languages to specific predicative ownership, as in "the boy has a bat". It provides the result of the author's fifteen-year examine venture at the topic. Predicative ownership is the resource of many grammaticalization paths - as within the English ideal stressful shaped from to have - and its typology is a vital key to figuring out the structural number of the world's languages and the way they modify. Drawing on facts from a few four hundred languages representing the entire world's language households, such a lot of which lack a detailed reminiscent of the verb to have, Professor Stassen goals (a) to set up a typology of 4 uncomplicated sorts of predicative ownership, (b) to find and describe the approaches through which commonplace structures will be converted, and (c) to discover hyperlinks among the typology of predicative ownership and different typologies to be able to display styles of interdependence. He exhibits, for instance, that the parameter of simultaneous sequencing - the best way a language officially encodes a chain like "John sang and Mary danced" - correlates with how it encodes predicative ownership. by way of this and different hyperlinks the writer units up a unmarried common version as a way to account for all morphosyntactic version in predicative ownership present in the languages of the realm, together with styles of edition over the years.
Predicative ownership will curiosity students and complex scholars of language typology, diachronic linguistics, morphology and syntax.

By Hunn, Eugene S.; Baron, Akesha; Reeck, Roger; Hernández Pérez, Meinardo; Silva Cruz, Hermilo

By Guglielmo Cinque, Richard S. Kayne

ISBN-10: 0195136500

ISBN-13: 9780195136500

ISBN-10: 1423719980

ISBN-13: 9781423719984

Comparability throughout formal languages is a vital a part of formal linguistics. The examine of closely-related forms has confirmed super precious in illuminating family among cross-linguistic syntactic changes that will in a different way look unrelated, and has helped to spot the middle ideas of common Grammar. Comparative reports have grown to the purpose the place a reference paintings is required to comprehensively clarify the nation of the sector and makes its effects extra widely recognized, and this guide fulfills that desire. Its twenty-one commissioned chapters serve features: they supply a basic and theoretical advent to comparative syntax, its method, and its relation to different domain names on linguistic inquiry; and so they offer a scientific collection of the simplest comparative paintings being performed this day on these language teams and households the place vast development has been achieved.

With top-notch editors and participants from world wide, this quantity can be a necessary source for students and scholars in formal linguistics.

By J. H. Allen, J. B. Greenough

ISBN-10: 0486131041

ISBN-13: 9780486131047

A venerable source for greater than a century, Allen and Greenough's New Latin Grammar continues to be seemed by means of scholars and lecturers because the most interesting Latin reference grammar to be had. Concise, entire, and good geared up, it really is unequalled extensive and readability, putting a wealth of recommendation on utilization, vocabulary, diction, composition, and syntax inside of effortless succeed in of Latin students in any respect levels.

This sourcebook's three-part remedy begins with phrases and kinds, overlaying components of speech, declensions, and conjugations. the second one half, syntax, explores instances, moods, and tenses. The concluding part deals info on archaic usages, Latin verse, and prose composition, between different topics. broad appendixes characteristic a word list of phrases and indexes. scholars of historical past, faith, and literature will locate lasting worth during this modestly priced version of a vintage advisor to Latin.

By Jenneke A. Oosterhoff

ISBN-10: 020388275X

ISBN-13: 9780203882757

Intermediate Dutch is designed for newcomers who've accomplished a simple talent and want to refine their wisdom of grammatical structures.

This Workbook, in addition to its significant other quantity simple Dutch, presents transparent and concise summaries of the basic issues of Dutch grammar in addition to possibilities to perform utilizing the constructions of the language. construction at the classes of simple Dutch, all of the twenty-four devices offers a grammatical subject with an advent and review, by way of contextualized routines to enhance learning.

Features include:
• a transparent available format
• many helpful language examples
• ample routines with an entire resolution key
• common references to English grammar
• an appendix on abnormal verbs
• an index of grammatical keywords.

Suitable for autonomous newbies and scholars on taught classes, Intermediate Dutch, including its sister quantity easy Dutch, types a established path within the necessities of Dutch grammar.

By Liliane Haegeman

ISBN-10: 0792342976

ISBN-13: 9780792342977

The purpose of this guide is to supply a discussion board within which a few of the generative syntacticians whose paintings has had an effect on theoretical syntax during the last two decades are invited to provide their perspectives on a number of points of present syntactic idea.
the subsequent authors have contributed to the amount: Mark Baker, Michael Brody, Jane Grimshaw, James McCloskey, Jean-Yves Pollock, and Luigi Rizzi. each one contribution specializes in one particular element of the grammar. As a basic subject matter, the papers are interested by the query of the composition of the clause, i.e. what sort of elements the clause is made from, and the way those parts are placed jointly within the clause. The creation to the quantity presents the backdrop for the papers and highlights a number of the advancements that have happened in theoretical syntax within the final ten years.
Elements of Grammar is destined for an viewers of linguists operating within the generative framework.

By Noam Chomsky

ISBN-10: 0262530074

ISBN-13: 9780262530071

Starting within the mid-fifties and emanating principally shape MIT, and strategy was once constructed to linguistic conception and to the examine of the constitution of specific languages that diverges in lots of respects from smooth linguistics. even though this process is attached to the conventional learn of languages, it differs sufficient in its particular conclusions concerning the constitution and in its particular conclusions concerning the constitution of language to warrant a reputation, "generative grammar."

Various deficiencies were stumbled on within the first makes an attempt to formulate a idea of transformational generative grammar and within the descriptive research of specific languages that influenced those formulations. whilst, it has turn into obvious that those formulations will be prolonged and deepened.

The significant goal of this publication is to study those advancements and to suggest a reformulation of the idea of transformational generative grammar that takes them under consideration. The emphasis during this examine is syntax; semantic and phonological points of the language constitution are mentioned basically insofar as they undergo on syntactic concept.

By Geoffrey Leech, Margaret Deuchar, Robert Hoogenraad

ISBN-10: 0333306449

ISBN-13: 9780333306444

Written via a staff led by means of a global authority in English grammar, English Grammar for Today has confirmed itself as a wealthy academic event for either local- and non-native-speaking scholars. This attractive and stimulating coursebook permits scholars to benefit grammar not only for its personal sake, but additionally for the excitement of exploring, appreciating and realizing the way in which language communicates in written textual content and spoken discourse. all through, the emphasis is on utilizing grammar in present-day English.

After an creation putting grammar in its academic and cultural context, the authors current a 'toolkit' for analysing sentences. the second one a part of the publication demonstrates tips on how to follow this toolkit to spoken and written language, utilizing quite a lot of actual textual fabrics. each one bankruptcy ends with a collection of carefully-designed routines and initiatives to help figuring out, with solutions supplied on the finish of the quantity. Now completely revised and up-to-date to satisfy the desires of brand new scholars, this new version features:

- a brand new Foreword by way of the English Association
- an extra introductory bankruptcy, 'Getting began with Grammar', which introduces the topic for people with no previous knowledge
- stronger and prolonged diagrams, workouts and answers
- updated textual passages and examples

Lively and approachable, this fundamental advisor is perfect for either scholars and academics who're searching for their first severe engagement with - or wishing to rediscover- English grammar.

By Monika Schwarz-Friesel, Manfred Consten, Mareile Knees

ISBN-10: 902723096X

ISBN-13: 9789027230966

ISBN-10: 9027292582

ISBN-13: 9789027292582

This quantity features a cautious choice of papers interested by genuine learn questions about anaphoric reference, an issue of present curiosity with numerous linguistic subdisciplines. this can be mirrored during this e-book because it methodically covers commonly invested techniques from cognitive, neurolinguistic, formal and computational views, every one contribution representing the respective ‘state of the paintings’ on a excessive theoretical and empirical point. the quantity comprises 3 thematic elements: Anaphors in Cognitive, textual content- and Discourse Linguistics; The Syntax and Semantics of Anaphors; and Neurolinguistic reviews at the reception of anaphoric reference. The contributions examine numerous Indo-European languages.