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Elements in Generative Syntax eBook Series

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  • Control

    by Idan Landau ...
    Series series Elements in Generative Syntax
    This Elements presents the major findings and theoretical advances in the area of Control. We describe the different types of control (complement, adjunct, obligatory, nonobligatory) and illustrate their profiles in several languages. It is shown that while certain features of Obligatory Control (OC) are common – nullness of PRO, nonfinite complements – they are not universal, hence should not ... Read more

    $23.19 CAD

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  • Foundations of Language

    Brain, Meaning, Grammar, Evolution

    by Ray Jackendoff ...
    How does human language work? How do we put ideas into words that others can understand? Can linguistics shed light on the way the brain operates? Foundations of Language puts linguistics back at the centre of the search to understand human consciousness. Ray Jackendoff begins by surveying the developments in linguistics over the years since Noam Chomsky's Aspects of the Theory of Syntax. He goes ... Read more

    $40.79 CAD

  • Semantics

    by John I. Saeed ...
    Series series Introducing Linguistics
    The latest edition of the bestselling introduction to the field of linguistic semantics, updated throughout and featuring a wholly new chapter on inferential pragmaticsSemantics, Fifth Edition, is a comprehensive and well-balanced introduction to the study of the communication of meaning in language. Assuming no previous background in semantics and limited familiarity with formal linguistics, this ... Read more

    $51.99 CAD

  • The Cambridge Handbook of Generative Syntax

    Edited by Marcel den Dikken ...
    Series series Cambridge Handbooks in Language and Linguistics
    Syntax – the study of sentence structure – has been at the centre of generative linguistics from its inception and has developed rapidly and in various directions. The Cambridge Handbook of Generative Syntax provides a historical context for what is happening in the field of generative syntax today, a survey of the various generative approaches to syntactic structure available in the literature ... Read more

    $67.99 CAD

  • 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

    $39.19 CAD

  • Construction Grammar

    by Thomas Hoffmann ...
    Series series Cambridge Textbooks in Linguistics
    What do speakers of a language have to know, and what can they 'figure out' on the basis of that knowledge, in order for them to use their language successfully? This is the question at the heart of Construction Grammar, an approach to the study of language that views all dimensions of language as equal contributors to shaping linguistic expressions. The trademark characteristic of Construction ... Read more

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  • The Cambridge Handbook of Morphology

    Edited by Andrew Hippisley, Gregory Stump ...
    Series series Cambridge Handbooks in Language and Linguistics
    The Cambridge Handbook of Morphology describes the diversity of morphological phenomena in the world's languages, surveying the methodologies by which these phenomena are investigated and the theoretical interpretations that have been proposed to explain them. The Handbook provides morphologists with a comprehensive account of the interlocking issues and hypotheses that drive research in ... Read more

    $197.59 CAD

  • The Oxford Handbook of Universal Grammar

    Edited by Ian Roberts ...
    Series series Oxford Handbooks
    This handbook provides a critical guide to the most central proposition in modern linguistics: the notion, generally known as Universal Grammar, that a universal set of structural principles underlies the grammatical diversity of the world's languages. Part I considers the implications of Universal Grammar for philosophy of mind and philosophy of language, and examines the history of the theory. ... Read more

    $49.59 CAD

  • The Handbook of Phonological Theory

    Edited by John A. Goldsmith, Jason Riggle, Alan C. L. Yu ...
    Series Book 75 - Blackwell Handbooks in Linguistics
    The Handbook of Phonological Theory, second edition offers an innovative and detailed examination of recent developments in phonology, and the implications of these within linguistic theory and related disciplines.Revised from the ground-up for the second edition, the book is comprised almost entirely of newly-written and previously unpublished chaptersAddresses the important questions in the ... Read more

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  • The New Psychology of Language

    Cognitive and Functional Approaches To Language Structure, Volume II

    Edited by Michael Tomasello ...
    From the point of view of psychology and cognitive science, much of modern linguistics is too formal and mathematical to be of much use. The newly emerging approaches to language termed, "Functional and Cognitive Linguistics," however, are much less formally oriented. Instead, functional and cognitive approaches to language structure are typically couched in terms already familiar to cognitive ... Read more

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  • 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

    $48.79 CAD

  • The Cambridge Handbook of Linguistic Code-switching

    Edited by Barbara E. Bullock, Almeida Jacqueline Toribio ...
    Series series Cambridge Handbooks in Language and Linguistics
    Code-switching – the alternating use of two languages in the same stretch of discourse by a bilingual speaker – is a dominant topic in the study of bilingualism and a phenomenon that generates a great deal of pointed discussion in the public domain. This handbook provides the most comprehensive guide to this bilingual phenomenon to date. Drawing on empirical data from a wide range of language ... Read more

    $72.79 CAD