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By David Beck
September 03, 2013
This book presents rigorous and criterial definitions of the major parts of speech - noun, verb, and adjective - that account both for their syntactic behaviour and for their observed typological variation. Based on an examination of languages from five different groups - Salishan, Cora, Quechua, ...
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By Laurence Horn, Andrea Hoa Pham
September 03, 2013
This new book offers research that will affect further study of tone in Vietnamese and other tonal languages....
By Andrea Luise Wilhelm
May 01, 2013
This book studies the linguistic representation of events by examining the relevance of two salient event characteristics-- telicity and durativity-- to the grammatical system of natural language. The study of events, and of event characteristics, is an important testing ground for theories on the...
By Ren Zhang
March 21, 2013
As with many other languages, Mandarin Chinese exhibits a rich variety of ways in expressing the arguments of the predicator in a sentence. Unlike other languages, such variation is typically devoid of any formal marking. Previous attempts in explaining such phenomena usually focus on the syntax as...
By Eugenia Casielles-Suárez
April 10, 2012
In the last decade, the notions of topic and focus have come to play an increasingly relevant role in theoretical linguistics. Although these notions are often taken for granted, they are still poorly understood. This study offers a detailed analysis of the precise definitions of these and related ...
By Bridget Copley
August 15, 2011
This book builds a semantics for several kinds of future-referring expressions, including will sentences, be going to sentences, and futurates. While there exists previous work on future-referring expressions, this is the first treatment of such a variety of expressions in a formal semantic ...
By Katherine Crosswhite
October 26, 2001
This book examines the phenomenon of vowel reduction, in which two or more underlying vowel qualities are neutralized in unstressed position....
By Laura Benua
July 27, 2000
This book develops the hypothesis that morphologically-related words are required to be phonologically identical by ranked and violable constraints....
By Hana Filip
April 01, 1999
First published in 1999. This book examines the interplay between the semantics of noun phrases and verbal predicates, with an emphasis on data drawn from Czech and English, and comparisons to German and Finnish. This book will be of interest to a wide range of linguists concerned with aspect and ...
By Chiharu Uda
March 01, 1994
First Published in 1994. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company....
By Patrick Farrell
February 01, 1994
First Published in 1994. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company....
By Jane Smirniotopoulos
July 01, 1992
First Published in 1992. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company....