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  • Portuguese Morphophonology: A Generative-Markedness Approach

    Volume 3 Verbs

    by Arthur Brakel ...
    ‘Verbs’ presents data concerning conjugation class, regularity, irregularity, frequency, and a person number hierarchy before examining regular verb inflection. Transparent past tense verbs provide the template for analysis of all tenses, moods and aspects. The present indicative has a Ø tense-mood-aspect morpheme. Present tense irregular verbs, including suppletives, evince vocalic and ... Read more

    $82.79 USD

  • Portuguese Morphophonology: A Generative-Markedness Approach

    Volume 2 Nominals

    by Arthur Brakel ...
    ‘Nominals’ examines and evaluates inflectional patterns for unproblematic nouns, adjectives, pronouns and demonstratives. The section on suffixal derivation of ordinary nominals evaluates the productivity and markedness of noun and adjective forming suffixes. An entire chapter demonstrates how the suffix +sion++e+ varies in words such nação ‘nation’ and nacional ‘national’. Problematic phenomena ... Read more

    $103.49 USD

  • Portuguese Morphophonology: A Generative-Markedness Approach

    Volume 1 Foundations

    by Arthur Brakel ...
    ‘Foundations’ reviews prior work in Portuguese phonology. The Portuguese (morpho)phonemic inventory illustrates its markedness approach. A 156 phoneme database demonstrates markedness in phonemes worldwide. Reviewing analyses of specific Portuguese segments, it proposes a phonemic inventory: 7 vowels, 18 consonants. The volume refines an analysis of Portuguese stress and reviews 2 acoustic studies ... Read more

    $90.89 USD

  • Chapters of Brazil's Colonial History 1500-1800

    by João Capistrano de Abreu, Arthur Brakel ...
    Series series Library of Latin America
    In Chapters in Brazil's Colonial History, Capistrano de Abreu created an integrated history of Brazil in a landmark work of scholarship that is also a literary masterpiece. Abreu offers a startlingly modern analysis of the past, based on the role of the economy, settlement, and the occupation of the interior. In these pages, he combines sharp portraits of dramatic events--close fought battles ... Read more

    $35.09 USD

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  • Spanish Verbalisations and the Internal Structure of Lexical Predicates

    by Antonio Fábregas ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Hispanic and Lusophone Linguistics
    Spanish Verbalisations and the Internal Structure of Lexical Predicates provides the first comprehensive and empirically detailed theoretical analysis of the different ways in which Spanish builds verbs from nouns and adjectives.This book poses questions about the nature of theme vowels, parasynthesis and the structural relation between the three major lexical word classes from within a Neo ... Read more

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  • The Romance Languages

    Edited by Martin Harris, Nigel Vincent ...
    Series series Routledge Language Family Series
    Available again, this book discusses nine Romance languages in context of their common Latin origins and then in individual studies. The final chapter is devoted to Romance-based Creole languages; a genuine innovation in a work of this kind. ... Read more

    $580.00 USD

  • Thinking like a Linguist

    An Introduction to the Science of Language

    by Jordan B. Sandoval, Kristin E. Denham ...
    This is an engaging introduction to the study of language for undergraduate or beginning graduate students, aimed especially at those who would like to continue further linguistic study. It introduces students to analytical thinking about language, but goes beyond existing texts to show what it means to think like a scientist about language, through the exploration of data and interactive problem ... Read more

    $31.19 USD

  • A History of the Spanish Language

    by Ralph Penny ...
    This is a thoroughly revised, updated and expanded 2002 edition of Ralph Penny's authoritative textbook, first published in 1991, which provides a clear and elegant account of the development of Spanish over the last 2,000 years. Although principally oriented towards 'internal' history, 'external' history is also considered and referred to throughout. In this new edition, as well as adding ... Read more

    $72.99 USD

  • Introducing Syntax

    by Olaf Koeneman, Hedde Zeijlstra ...
    Series series Cambridge Introductions to Language and Linguistics
    Syntax is the system of rules that we subconsciously follow when we build sentences. Whereas the grammar of English (or other languages) might look like a rather chaotic set of arbitrary patterns, linguistic science has revealed that these patterns can actually be understood as the result of a small number of grammatical principles. This lively introductory textbook is designed for undergraduate ... Read more

    $33.69 USD

  • An Introduction to Classical Nahuatl

    by Michel Launey, Christopher Mackay ...
    Now available to an English-speaking audience, this book is a comprehensive grammar of classical Nahuatl, the literary language of the Aztecs. It offers students of Nahuatl a complete and clear treatment of the language's structure, grammar and vocabulary. It is divided into 35 chapters, beginning with basic syntax and progressing gradually to more complex structures. Each grammatical concept is ... Read more

    $55.79 USD

  • Understanding Morphology

    by Martin Haspelmath, Andrea Sims ...
    Series series Understanding Language
    This new edition of Understanding Morphology has been fully revised in line with the latest research. It now includes 'big picture' questions to highlight central themes in morphology, as well as research exercises for each chapter.Understanding Morphology presents an introduction to the study of word structure that starts at the very beginning. Assuming no knowledge of the field of morphology on ... Read more

    $57.99 USD

  • Word-Formation in English

    by Ingo Plag ...
    Series series Cambridge Textbooks in Linguistics
    This book is the second edition of a highly successful introduction to the study of word-formation, that is, the ways in which new words are built on the bases of other words (e.g. happy - happy-ness), focusing on English. The book's didactic aim is to enable students with little or no prior linguistic knowledge to do their own practical analyses of complex words. Readers are familiarized with the ... Read more

    $40.99 USD