Category: Grammar

By L. G. Alexander, R. A. Close

ISBN-10: 0582558921

ISBN-13: 9780582558922

This fundamental consultant offers motives and examples for all of the very important components of grammar.

By Jenneke A. Oosterhoff

ISBN-10: 0203883101

ISBN-13: 9780203883105

Basic Dutch: A Grammar and Workbook contains an obtainable reference grammar and similar routines in one volume.

This Workbook provides twenty-five person grammar issues in life like contexts, delivering a grammatical method in an effort to let scholars no longer already accustomed to those buildings to turn into familiar with their use. Grammar issues are by means of examples and workouts permitting scholars to enhance and consolidate their learning.

Suitable for sophistication use or self-study, easy Dutch introduces Dutch tradition and other people in the course of the medium of the language used this present day, supplying scholars with the fundamental instruments to precise themselves in a wide selection of situations.

Features include:
• helpful routines and a whole solution key
• grammar tables for simple reference
• common comparative references to English grammar
• an appendix of abnormal verbs
• an index of grammatical phrases.

By N. J. Enfield, Tanya Stivers

ISBN-10: 0521872456

ISBN-13: 9780521872454

How can we confer with humans in daily dialog? regardless of the language or tradition, we needs to make a choice from more than a few recommendations: complete identify ('Robert Smith'), lowered identify ('Bob'), description ('tall guy'), family time period ('my son') and so on. Our offerings replicate how we all know that individual in context, and make allowance us to take a specific point of view on them. This publication brings jointly a staff of prime linguists, sociologists and anthropologists to teach that there's extra to individual reference than meets the attention. Drawing on video-recorded, daily interactions in 9 languages, it examines the attention-grabbing ways that we take advantage of individual reference for social and cultural reasons, and divulges the underlying rules of individual reference throughout cultures from the Americas to Asia to the South Pacific. Combining wealthy ethnographic aspect with cross-linguistic generalizations, it is going to be welcomed by way of researchers and graduate scholars drawn to the connection among language and tradition.

By J. Randolph Valentine

ISBN-10: 0802083897

ISBN-13: 9780802083890

This descriptive reference grammar of Nishnaabemwin (Odawa and jap Ojibwe), an important dialect workforce inside modern Ojibwe spoken within the neighborhood of Lake Huron in Southern Ontario, represents the main finished works on an Algonquin language released thus far. It contains vast descriptive therapy of phonology, orthography, inflectional morphology, derivational morphology, and significant structural and sensible syntactic different types. issues of grammar are copiously illustrated with instance sentences listed with thorough grammatical annotations. an intensive thesaurus of normal Algonquian linguistic phrases is additionally provided.Written for either the start linguist in addition to the coed of Algonquian languages, this grammar offers uncomplicated causes of linguistic phrases in addition to an intensive and complete research of the language. Nishnaabemwin Reference Grammar represents an immense contribution to linguistics in most cases and to Algonquian language research specifically.

By Luis López

ISBN-10: 019156527X

ISBN-13: 9780191565274

ISBN-10: 0199557403

ISBN-13: 9780199557400

ISBN-10: 0199557411

ISBN-13: 9780199557417

During this quantity, Luis L?pez sheds new gentle on info constitution and makes an important contribution to paintings on grammatical operations within the Minimalist application. via a cautious research of dislocations and concentration fronting in Romance, the writer indicates that notions corresponding to 'topic' and 'focus', as often outlined, yield no predictions and proposes as an alternative a function procedure in keeping with the notions 'discourse anaphor' and 'contrast'. He offers a close version of syntax---information-structure interplay and argues that this interplay happens on the part point, with a privileged function for the sting of the section. additional, he investigates phenomena about the syntax of gadgets in Romance and Germanic - accusative A, p-movement, clitic doubling, scrambling, item shift - and indicates that there are cross-linguistic correlations among syntactic configuration and specificity, autonomous of discourse connectedness. the quantity ends with a longer research of the syntax of dislocations in Romance.

By Cedric Boeckx

ISBN-10: 1107034094

ISBN-13: 9781107034099

Such a lot syntacticians, irrespective of their theoretical persuasion, agree that includes (types or different types) are an important devices of study. inside of Chomskyan generative grammar, the significance of positive factors has grown progressively and inside of minimalism, it may be acknowledged that every little thing relies on positive aspects. they're hindrances in any interdisciplinary research about the nature of language and it's difficult to visualize a syntactic description that doesn't discover them. For the 1st time, this publication turns grammar the wrong way up and proposes a brand new version of syntax that's larger suited to interdisciplinary interactions, and exhibits how syntax can continue freed from lexical impact. The empirical area tested is huge, and the entire basic devices and homes of syntax (categories, parameters, final inn, labelling, and hierarchies) are rethought. establishing up new avenues of research, this publication could be necessary to researchers and scholars in syntactic thought, and linguistics extra greatly.

By Malka Rappaport Hovav, Edit Doron, Ivy Sichel

ISBN-10: 0199544328

ISBN-13: 9780199544325

ISBN-10: 0199544336

ISBN-13: 9780199544332

This publication specializes in the linguistic illustration of temporality within the verbal area and its interplay with the syntax and semantics of verbs, arguments, and modifiers. prime students discover the department of labour among syntax, compositional semantics, and lexical semantics within the encoding of occasion constitution, encompassing occasion contributors and the temporal homes linked to occasions. They research the interface among occasion constitution and the platforms with which it interacts, together with the interface among occasion constitution and the syntactic awareness of arguments and modifiers. Deploying various frameworks and theoretical views they think about relevant concerns and questions within the box, between them even if argument-structure is laid out in the lexical entries of verbs or syntactically developed in order that syntactic place determines thematic prestige; no matter if the hierarchical constitution evidenced in argument constitution locate parallels in signal language; should still the relation among individuals of an alternation pair, reminiscent of the causative-inchoative alternation, be understood lexically or derivationally; and the position of syntactic classification in making a choice on the configuration of argument constitution.

By Alice Sárközi

By László Varga (auth.)

ISBN-10: 0230505821

ISBN-13: 9780230505827

ISBN-10: 1349429767

ISBN-13: 9781349429769

By Barbara Ann Kipfer

ISBN-10: 0307574350

ISBN-13: 9780307574350

This all-new advisor to english is designed to be user-friendly.  Its cutting edge A-to-Z dictionary structure allows you to locate the solutions in your questions about grammar, punctuation, and hottest utilization speedy and easily.  Simply lookup the matter parts as you'll search for a note within the dictionary.  It's simply that straightforward and time-saving.  

A thesaurus of phrases and ample cross-references supply much more support if you want it.  Created by way of a number one specialist in linguistics and lexicography.  Covers all crucial components of grammar and style.  A key note index for quick entry. transparent, abundant examples.  

Up-to-date, glossy, most well liked educational and company usage.  Portable for faculty, domestic, or workplace.