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  • The Cambridge Handbook of Comparative Syntax

    Edited by Sjef Barbiers, Norbert Corver, Maria Polinsky ...
    Series series Cambridge Handbooks in Language and Linguistics
    Bringing together a globally representative team of scholars, this Handbook provides a comprehensive overview of comparative syntax, the study of universal and variable properties of the structure of building blocks in natural language. Divided into four thematic parts, it covers the various theoretical and methodological approaches to syntactic variation; explores dependency relations and ... Read more

    $192.69 USD

  • The Cambridge Handbook of Heritage Languages and Linguistics

    Edited by Silvina Montrul, Maria Polinsky ...
    Series series Cambridge Handbooks in Language and Linguistics
    Heritage languages are minority languages learned in a bilingual environment. These include immigrant languages, aboriginal or indigenous languages and historical minority languages. In the last two decades, heritage languages have become central to many areas of linguistic research, from bilingual language acquisition, education and language policies, to theoretical linguistics. Bringing together ... Read more

    $55.79 USD

  • The Oxford Handbook of Languages of the Caucasus

    Edited by Maria Polinsky ...
    Series series Oxford Handbooks
    The Oxford Handbook of Languages of the Caucasus is an introduction to and overview of the linguistically diverse languages of southern Russia, Georgia, Azerbaijan, and Armenia. Though the languages of the Caucasus have often been mischaracterized or exoticized, many of them have cross-linguistically rare features found in few or no other languages. This handbook presents facts and descriptions of ... Read more

    $176.39 USD

  • Deconstructing Ergativity

    Two Types of Ergative Languages and Their Features

    by Maria Polinsky ...
    Series series Oxford Studies in Comparative Syntax
    Nominative-accusative and ergative are two common alignment types found across languages. In the former type, the subject of an intransitive verb and the subject of a transitive verb are expressed the same way, and differently from the object of a transitive. In ergative languages, the subject of an intransitive and the object of a transitive appear in the same form, the absolutive, and the ... Read more

    $38.69 USD

  • Heritage Languages and their Speakers

    by Maria Polinsky ...
    Series Book 159 - Cambridge Studies in Linguistics
    This book provides a pioneering introduction to heritage languages and their speakers, written by one of the founders of this new field. Using examples from a wide range of languages, it covers all the main components of grammar, including phonetics and phonology, morphology and morphosyntax, semantics and pragmatics, and shows easy familiarity with approaches ranging from formal grammar to ... Read more

    $43.49 USD

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  • 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

  • Clause Structure

    by Elly van Gelderen ...
    Series series Key Topics in Syntax
    Clause structure is the most widely-studied phenomenon within syntactic theory, because it refers to how words and phrases are embedded within a sentence, their relationships to each other within a sentence, and ultimately, how sentences are layered and represented in the human brain. This volume presents a clear and up-to-date overview of the Minimalist Program, synthesizes the most important ... Read more

    $35.29 USD

  • Morphosyntax

    Constructions of the World's Languages

    by William Croft ...
    Series series Cambridge Textbooks in Linguistics
    Bringing together the results of sixty years of research in typology and universals, this textbook presents a comprehensive survey of Morphosyntax - the combined study of syntax and morphology. Languages employ extremely diverse morphosyntactic strategies for expressing functions, and Croft provides a comprehensive functional framework to account for the full range of these constructions in the ... Read more

    $43.49 USD

  • The Oxford Handbook of Modality and Mood

    Edited by Jan Nuyts, Johan van der Auwera ...
    Series series Oxford Handbooks
    This handbook offers an in depth and comprehensive state of the art survey of the linguistic domains of modality and mood. An international team of experts in the field examines the full range of methodological and theoretical approaches to the many facets of the phenomena involved. Parts 1 and 2 of the volume present the basic linguistic facts about the systems of modality and mood in the ... Read more

    $44.99 USD

  • The Cambridge Handbook of Historical Syntax

    Edited by Adam Ledgeway, Ian Roberts ...
    Series series Cambridge Handbooks in Language and Linguistics
    Change is an inherent feature of all aspects of language, and syntax is no exception. While the synchronic study of syntax allows us to make discoveries about the nature of syntactic structure, the study of historical syntax offers even greater possibilities. Over recent decades, the study of historical syntax has proven to be a powerful scientific tool of enquiry with which to challenge and ... Read more

    $50.09 USD

  • The Oxford Handbook of Derivational Morphology

    Edited by Rochelle Lieber, Pavol Stekauer ...
    Series series Oxford Handbooks
    The Oxford Handbook of Derivational Morphology is intended as a companion volume to The Oxford Handbook of Compounding (OUP 2009) Written by distinguished scholars, its 41 chapters aim to provide a comprehensive and thorough overview of the study of derivational morphology. The handbook begins with an overview and a consideration of definitional matters, distinguishing derivation from inflection ... Read more

    $51.29 USD

  • The Cambridge Handbook of Linguistic Typology

    Edited by Alexandra Y. Aikhenvald, R. M. W. Dixon ...
    Series series Cambridge Handbooks in Language and Linguistics
    Linguistic typology identifies both how languages vary and what they all have in common. This Handbook provides a state-of-the art survey of the aims and methods of linguistic typology, and the conclusions we can draw from them. Part I covers phonological typology, morphological typology, sociolinguistic typology and the relationships between typology, historical linguistics and grammaticalization ... Read more

    $60.69 USD