Grammar, syntax & morphology
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Grammar, syntax & morphology
Hardback. Focusing primarily on Swedish, a Germanic language whose particles have not been studied extensively, this study develops a theory of non-projecting words in which particles are morphologically independent words that do not project phrases. It identifies the violations of the basic tenets of X-bar theory. Series: Studies in Natural Language and Linguistic Theory. Num Pages: 237 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2ACSW; CFK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 235 x 155 x 15. Weight in Grams: 540.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2003
- Publisher
- Kluwer Academic Publishers United States
- Number of pages
- 237
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781402015311
- ISBN
- 9781402015311
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Condition: New
€ 123.14
€ 123.14
Hardback. Explores the question of whether the notion of periphery has any real theoretical bite. This title addresses: the question of the fine-grainedness of syntactic representations, the relevance of syntactic edges to locality and semantic interpretation, and the nature of the dependencies connecting peripheral elements to the syntactic core. Editor(s): Adger, David; De Cat, Cecile (University of York); Tsoulas, George. Series: Studies in Natural Language and Linguistic Theory. Num Pages: 448 pages, biography. BIC Classification: CFK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 235 x 155 x 25. Weight in Grams: 852.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2004
- Publisher
- Springer-Verlag New York Inc. United States
- Number of pages
- 448
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781402019081
- ISBN
- 9781402019081
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Condition: New
€ 188.38
€ 188.38
Hardback. Includes papers focusing on the topic morphology and linguistic typology. These papers were presented at the Fourth Mediterranean Morphology Meeting in Catania, in September 2003. Within the context of this denominator, a number of issues are discussed which bear upon universals and typology. Editor(s): Booij, G.; Marle, Jaap van. Series: Yearbook of Morphology. Num Pages: 324 pages, biography. BIC Classification: CFK; GBCY. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 232 x 156 x 19. Weight in Grams: 647.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2004
- Publisher
- Springer-Verlag New York Inc. United States
- Edition
- New ed
- Number of pages
- 324
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781402028991
- ISBN
- 9781402028991
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Condition: New
€ 243.23
€ 243.23
Hardback. Presents a theoretical study in morphosyntax and an empirical study of Hebrew. Based on Hebrew data, this book defends the status of the root as a lexical and phonological unit and argues that roots are the primitives of word formation. Series: Studies in Natural Language and Linguistic Theory. Num Pages: 286 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2CSJ; CFK. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 235 x 155 x 17. Weight in Grams: 592.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2005
- Publisher
- Springer-Verlag New York Inc. United States
- Number of pages
- 286
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781402032431
- ISBN
- 9781402032431
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Condition: New
€ 126.94
€ 126.94
Hardback. Traces the many strands of study in the field of word formation that have developed since the seminal work of Marchand and Lees in the 1960s. This book covers the historical development of theories of word formation within generative grammar. It looks at individual English word formation processes (derivation, compounding, conversion). Editor(s): Stekauer, Pavol; Lieber, Rochelle. Series: Studies in Natural Language and Linguistic Theory. Num Pages: 470 pages, biography. BIC Classification: CFK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 232 x 156 x 26. Weight in Grams: 1900.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2005
- Publisher
- Springer-Verlag New York Inc. United States
- Number of pages
- 470
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781402035951
- ISBN
- 9781402035951
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€ 257.00
€ 257.00
Hardback. Provides an integrated view of preposition from morphology to reasoning, via syntax and semantics. This book offers insights in applied and formal linguistics, and cognitive science. It underlines the importance of prepositions in a number of computational linguistics applications, such as information retrieval and machine translation. Editor(s): Saint-Dizier, Patrick. Series: Text, Speech and Language Technology. Num Pages: 332 pages, biography. BIC Classification: CFK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 234 x 156 x 20. Weight in Grams: 664.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Publisher
- Springer-Verlag New York Inc. United States
- Number of pages
- 332
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781402038495
- ISBN
- 9781402038495
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€ 192.54
€ 192.54
hardcover. Discusses several theoretical issues such as: the role of inflectional paradigms in morphological analysis, the differences between words and affixes, and the adequacy of competing models of word structure. This work also discusses the role of phonological factors in shaping complex words. Editor(s): Booij, G.; Marle, Jaap van. Series: Yearbook of Morphology. Num Pages: 316 pages, biography. BIC Classification: CFK; GBCY. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 235 x 155 x 19. Weight in Grams: 1390.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Publisher
- Springer-Verlag New York Inc. United States
- Edition
- 2005th Edition
- Number of pages
- 316
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781402040658
- ISBN
- 9781402040658
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Condition: New
€ 358.51
€ 358.51
Hardback. Contributions to the Science of Text and Language Editor(s): Grzybek, Peter. Series: Text, Speech and Language Technology. Num Pages: 352 pages, biography. BIC Classification: CFK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 235 x 155 x 20. Weight in Grams: 691.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2005
- Publisher
- Springer-Verlag New York Inc. United States
- Number of pages
- 352
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781402040672
- ISBN
- 9781402040672
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Condition: New
€ 192.04
€ 192.04
Paperback. Features formal expression of the range and limits of ergativity. This title contains theoretical papers by top authors in the field, who also conduct original field work and brings fresh data to light. It also contains articles that apply the advanced theoretical tools to the area of ergativity, and then explore the issues that emerge. Editor(s): Johns, Alana; Massam, Diane; Ndayiragije, Juvenal. Series: Studies in Natural Language and Linguistic Theory. Num Pages: 360 pages, biography. BIC Classification: CFK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 234 x 156 x 20. Weight in Grams: 593.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- Springer-Verlag New York Inc. United States
- Number of pages
- 360
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781402041877
- ISBN
- 9781402041877
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€ 123.22
€ 123.22
Hardback. Analyzes the syntactic and semantic consequences of event structure. This text contains the studies which test the hypothesis that event structure correlates with a number of things, including word order, the presence or absence of the verbal particle, and the [+/- specific] feature of the internal argument. Editor(s): Kiss, Katalin E. Series: Studies in Natural Language and Linguistic Theory. Num Pages: 304 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2FCM; CFK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 235 x 155 x 19. Weight in Grams: 620.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Publisher
- Springer-Verlag New York Inc. United States
- Number of pages
- 304
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781402047534
- ISBN
- 9781402047534
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€ 190.33
€ 190.33
Hardback. This book provides a detailed study and a novel Minimalist account of copular sentences in Russian, focusing on case marking alternations (nominative vs. instrumental) and drawing a distinction between two types of copular sentences. Series: Studies in Natural Language and Linguistic Theory. Num Pages: 166 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AGR; CFK. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 234 x 156 x 11. Weight in Grams: 950.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- Springer-Verlag New York Inc. United States
- Number of pages
- 166
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781402057922
- ISBN
- 9781402057922
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Condition: New
€ 125.46
€ 125.46
Hardback. Offering an investigation of the structural properties of six different patterns of English name truncation and word clipping. This book presents an optimality-theoretic account of the data in the framework of Prosodic Morphology. It is suitable for linguistic academics and speech therapists. Num Pages: 316 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; CFK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 234 x 156 x 20. Weight in Grams: 1450.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- Springer-Verlag New York Inc. United States
- Number of pages
- 316
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781402060052
- ISBN
- 9781402060052
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Condition: New
€ 128.65
€ 128.65
Hardback. This collection is an important contribution to the semantic and syntactic analysis of the expression of existence. The focus is on the three main linguistic constructions expressing existence: copular clauses, existential sentences, and (in)definiteness. Editor(s): Comorovski, Ileana; Heusinger, Klaus von. Series: Studies in Linguistics and Philosophy. Num Pages: 344 pages, biography. BIC Classification: CFG; CFK. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 234 x 156 x 20. Weight in Grams: 664.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- Springer-Verlag New York Inc. United States
- Number of pages
- 344
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781402061967
- ISBN
- 9781402061967
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Condition: New
€ 202.77
€ 202.77
Hardback. Containing illuminating discussions of Differential Subject Marking (DSM) from languages all over the world, this book shows that DSM is often the result of interactions between conflicting constraints on language use. Editor(s): Hoop, Helen de; Swart, Peter de. Series: Studies in Natural Language and Linguistic Theory. Num Pages: 312 pages, biography. BIC Classification: CFK. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 234 x 156 x 19. Weight in Grams: 1390.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- Springer-Verlag New York Inc. United States
- Number of pages
- 312
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781402064982
- ISBN
- 9781402064982
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Condition: New
€ 242.97
€ 242.97
Hardback. Linking - how semantic arguments map to the syntax - is one of the challenges invloved with theories of the syntax-semantics interface. The text explores the hypothesis that the positions of syntactic arguments are strictly determined by lexical argument geometry. Series: Studies in Natural Language and Linguistic Theory. Num Pages: 326 pages, biography. BIC Classification: CFK. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 234 x 156 x 20. Weight in Grams: 1450.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- Springer-Verlag New York Inc. United States
- Number of pages
- 326
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781402083075
- ISBN
- 9781402083075
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Condition: New
€ 190.84
€ 190.84
Hardback. Here are the collected contributions presented at the international congress held in Bologna in 2007, where leading scholars of different persuasions and interests offered an up-to-date overview of the current status of research on linguistic universals. Editor(s): Scalise, Sergio; Magni, Elisabetta; Bisetto, Antonietta. Series: Studies in Natural Language and Linguistic Theory. Num Pages: 281 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2ZX; CFH; CFK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 235 x 156 x 19. Weight in Grams: 1360.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- Springer-Verlag New York Inc. United States
- Number of pages
- 281
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781402088247
- ISBN
- 9781402088247
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Condition: New
€ 242.80
€ 242.80
Hardback. Num Pages: 162 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2ADS; CFK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 11. Weight in Grams: 340.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2003
- Publisher
- Palgrave USA United States
- Number of pages
- 162
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781403900524
- ISBN
- 9781403900524
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Condition: New
€ 63.46
€ 63.46
Hardback. Editor(s): Recanati, Francois; Wilson, Deirdre. Series: Palgrave Studies in Pragmatics, Language & Cognition. Num Pages: 315 pages, 2 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: CFD; CFG; CFK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 21. Weight in Grams: 499.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2003
- Publisher
- Palgrave USA United States
- Number of pages
- 315
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781403901293
- ISBN
- 9781403901293
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Condition: New
€ 64.43
€ 64.43
Hardback. Editor(s): Noveck, Ira A.; Sperber, Dan; Bach, Kent; Bezuidenhout, Anne; Breheny, Richard; Glucksberg, Sam; Happe, Francesca; Recanati, Francois; Wilson, Deirdre. Series: Palgrave Studies in Pragmatics, Language & Cognition. Num Pages: 356 pages, biography. BIC Classification: CFD; CFG; CFK; HPM; JML; JMR; PSAN. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 223 x 145 x 25. Weight in Grams: 554.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2004
- Publisher
- Palgrave USA United States
- Number of pages
- 356
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781403903501
- ISBN
- 9781403903501
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Condition: New
€ 123.14
€ 123.14
Hardcover. Num Pages: 258 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2GJ; CFK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 19. Weight in Grams: 480.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2005
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 260
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781403912350
- ISBN
- 9781403912350
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 122.09
€ 122.09