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  • The Verb Phrase in English

    Investigating Recent Language Change with Corpora

    Edited by Joanne Close, Sean Wallis, Bas Aarts, Geoffrey Leech ...
    Series series Studies in English Language
    The chapters in this volume feature new and groundbreaking research carried out by leading scholars and promising young researchers from around the world on recent changes in the English verb phrase. Drawing on authentic corpus data, the papers consider both spoken and written English in several genres. Each contribution pays particular attention to the methodologies used for investigating short ... Read more

    $54.99 USD

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  • Saving our Prepositions

    A Guide for the Perplexed

    by David Thatcher ...
    Prepositions (words like above, from, in, of and with which relate one part of a sentence to another) are, though few in number, among the most frequently used words in English. They are also among the most frequently misused: writers and speakers alike seem to have endless trouble in choosing the right or acceptable preposition. The sad result is widespread uncertainty, confusion and ... Read more

    $2.99 USD

  • Change in Contemporary English

    A Grammatical Study

    by Marianne Hundt, Christian Mair, Nicholas Smith, Geoffrey Leech ...
    Series series Studies in English Language
    Based on the systematic analysis of large amounts of computer-readable text, this book shows how the English language has been changing in the recent past, often in unexpected and previously undocumented ways. The study is based on a group of matching corpora, known as the 'Brown family' of corpora, supplemented by a range of other corpus materials, both written and spoken, drawn mainly from the ... Read more

    $54.99 USD

  • An Introduction to Genetics for Language Scientists

    Current Concepts, Methods, and Findings

    by Dan Dediu ...
    During the last few decades we have discovered enormous amounts about our genomes, their evolution and, importantly for linguists and language scientists, the genetic foundations of language and speech. Accessible and readable, this introduction is designed specifically for students and researchers working in language and linguistics. It carefully focuses on the most relevant concepts, methods and ... Read more

    $114.79 USD

  • The History of Modern Chinese Grammar Studies

    by Peter Peverelli ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    This book discusses the way Chinese scholars developed a national grammar. Chinese didn’t develop grammar until China’s contact with Western grammar books in the 19th Century. The first indigenous grammar was published in 1889. It included some traditional notions, but mainly imitated European grammar. It was followed by a number of other similar works. To move away from this imitation, a group of ... Read more

    $80.09 USD

  • A Brief History of English Syntax

    by Olga Fischer, Hendrik De Smet, Wim van der Wurff ...
    In its 1500-year history, the English language has seen dramatic grammatical changes. This book offers a comprehensive and reader-friendly account of the major developments, including changes in word order, the noun phrase and verb phrase, changing relations between clausal constituents and the development of new subordinate constructions. The book puts forward possible explanations for change, ... Read more

    $30.39 USD

  • Negation in Early English

    by Phillip W. Wallage ...
    Series series Studies in English Language
    Informed by detailed analysis of data from large-scale diachronic corpora, this book is a comprehensive account of changes to the expression of negation in English. Its methodological approach brings together up-to-date techniques from corpus linguistics and minimalist syntactic analysis to identify and characterise a series of interrelated changes affecting negation during the period 800–1700. ... Read more

    $118.89 USD

  • Subject Clitics in the Northern Italian Dialects

    A Comparative Study Based on the Minimalist Program and Optimality Theory

    by Cecilia Goria ...
    Series Book 60 - Studies in Natural Language and Linguistic Theory
    0 INTRODUCTION This book provides an encompassing analysis of Subject Clitics (SCLs) by giving a detailed description of these elements in two varieties of Piedmontese, a Northern Italian Dialect: Astigiano and Turinese spoken in the areas of Asti and Turin respectively. It accounts for the structural position and function of these elements inside the computational system and for their ... Read more

    $89.99 USD

  • Morphosyntactic Change

    A Comparative Study of Particles and Prefixes

    by Bettelou Los, Corrien Blom, Geert Booij, Marion Elenbaas, Ans van Kemenade ...
    Series Book 134 - Cambridge Studies in Linguistics
    Particle verbs (combinations of two words but lexical units) are a notorious problem in linguistics. Is a particle verb like look up one word or two? It has its own entry in dictionaries, as if it is one word, but look and up can be split up in a sentence: we can say He looked the information up and He looked up the information. But why can't we say He looked up it? In English look and up can only ... Read more

    $38.59 USD

  • 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

    $48.99 USD

  • The Function and Use of TO and OF in Multi-Word Units

    by Michael Pace-Sigge ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    The highly frequent word items TO and OF are often conceived merely as prepositions, carrying little meaning in themselves. This book disputes that notion by analysing the usage patterns found for OF and TO in different sets of text corpora. ... Read more

    $49.49 USD

  • The Entrenchment of the «unus alterum» Pattern

    Four Essays on Latin and Old Romance Reciprocal Constructions

    by Mikołaj Nkollo ...
    Series Book 49 - Lodz Studies in Language
    In this book, the author presents that although various Old Romance grammars can be traced back to the common Latin ancestor, the functional domain of reciprocity shows divergent paths of development. In this regard, each of the languages have worked up their unique solutions, with grammatical and semantic mechanisms underlying their diversity. ... Read more

    $38.99 USD