Linguistic Minimalism

Cedric Boeckx

• Paperback | Engels | Oxford Linguistics
• Boeckx examines the foundations and explains the underlying philosophy of the Minimalist Program for linguistic theory, the most radical version to da... Lees meer

Chinese Grammar

Hilary (, La Trobe University, Melbourne) Chappell

• Paperback | Engels | Oxford Linguistics
• This book melds historical and typological approaches in the examination of grammatical phenomena in order to show the extent to which both earlier st... Lees meer

Morphology, Paradigms, and Periphrases

John M Anderson

• Hardcover | Engels | Oxford Linguistics
• The three volumes of The Substance of Language collectively overhaul linguistic theory from phonology to semantics and syntax to pragmatics and offer ... Lees meer

Analogy in Grammar

• Hardcover | Engels | Oxford Linguistics
• In this book, leading researchers in morphology, syntax, language acquisition, psycholinguistics, and computational linguistics address central questi... Lees meer

Information Structure

• Hardcover | Engels | Oxford Linguistics
• In this book leading scholars provide state-of-the-art overviews of approaches to the formal expression of information structure in natural language a... Lees meer

Approaches to Language Typology

• Paperback | Engels | Oxford Linguistics
• What do all languages have in common, and what gives each language its individuality? These typological questions are fundamental to linguistic theory... Lees meer

Prosodic Features and Prosodic Structure

Anthony Fox

• Paperback | Engels | Oxford Linguistics
• This book focuses on the description and analysis of the "prosodic" features of speech, including length, accent and stress, tone, and intonation. Fox... Lees meer

Prosodic Features and Prosodic Structure

Anthony Fox

• Hardcover | Engels | Oxford Linguistics
• Fox's book, the first substantial overview on the subject in twenty years, presents an overall view of the nature of prosodic features of language--ac... Lees meer

Introduction to Indo-European Linguistics

Oswald J L Szemerenyi

• Paperback | Engels | Oxford Linguistics
• This translation of the German edition, first published in 1970, introduces the standard text on the comparative-historical method to an English-speak... Lees meer

Knowledge and Learning in Natural Language

Charles D Yang

• Paperback | Engels | Oxford Linguistics
• It is a simple observation that children make mistakes when they learn a language. Yet, to the trained eye, these mistakes are far from random; in fac... Lees meer

Nonfinite Structures in Theory and Change

D Gary Miller

• Hardcover | Engels | Oxford Linguistics
• This book seeks to answer the questions: why do grammars change, and why is the rate of such change so variable? A principal focus is on changes in En... Lees meer

A Linguistic History of Arabic

Jonathan Owens

• Paperback | Engels | Oxford Linguistics
• A Linguistic History of Arabic presents a reconstruction of proto-Arabic by the methods of historical-comparative linguistics. It challenges the tradi... Lees meer

Latin Suffixal Derivatives in English

D Gary Miller

• Hardcover | Engels | Oxford Linguistics
• This is the fullest account ever published of Latin suffixes in English. It explores the rich variety of English words formed by the addition of one o... Lees meer

Language Classification by Numbers

April McMahon, Robert McMahon

• Paperback | Engels | Oxford Linguistics
• This book considers how languages have traditionally been divided into families, and asks how they should classified in the future. It describes and a... Lees meer

Typological Change in Chinese Syntax

Dan Xu

• Hardcover | Engels | Oxford Linguistics
• This new interpretation of the early history of Chinese argues that Old Chinese was typologically a "mixed" language. It shows that, though its domina... Lees meer

Brevity

• Hardcover | Engels | Oxford Linguistics
• Brevity in conversation is a window to the workings of the mind. People use ellipsis and various kinds of pragmatic enrichment, keyed to the particula... Lees meer

Flexible Word Classes

• Hardcover | Engels | Oxford Linguistics
• This book is the first major cross-linguistic study of 'flexible words', i.e. words that cannot be classified in terms of the traditional lexical cate... Lees meer

Optimality Theory

• Paperback | Engels | Oxford Linguistics
• Optimality Theory has revolutionized phonological theory, and its insights are now being applied to other central aspects of language. With contributo... Lees meer

Evaluation in Text' Authorial Stance and the Construction of Discourse '

• Paperback | Engels | Oxford Linguistics
• Long neglected as a focus of linguistic research, evaluation in its various guises is now being recognized as a crucial aspect of any study of discour... Lees meer

Meaning

Paul Elbourne

• Paperback | Engels | Oxford Linguistics
• Our outstanding ability to communicate is a distinguishing features of our species. To communicate is to convey meaning, but what is meaning? How do w... Lees meer

Negation and Polarity

• Paperback | Engels | Oxford Linguistics
• This book provides a detailed exploration of negation and negative polarity phenomena and their implications for linguistic theory. Including new, spe... Lees meer

External Influences on English

D Gary Miller

• Hardcover | Engels | Oxford Linguistics
• This book provides the fullest account ever published of the external influences on English during the first thousand years of its formation. In doing... Lees meer

Structuring Sense

Hagit Borer

• Hardcover | Engels | Oxford Linguistics
• Structuring Sense explores the difference between words however defined and structures however constructed. It sets out to demonstrate over three volu... Lees meer

Modality, Subjectivity, and Semantic Change: A Cross-Linguistic Perspective

Heiko Narrog

• Hardcover | Engels | Oxford Linguistics
• This book is a cross-linguistic exploration of semantic and functional change in modal markers. Its approach is broadly functional typological but mak... Lees meer