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Grammar in Cross-Linguistic Perspective: The Syntax, Semantics, and Pragmatics of Japanese and Chinese

Grammar in Cross-Linguistic Perspective: The Syntax,...

Author: Teruhiro Ishiguro ,  Kang-Kwong Luke
ISBN: 9781299548558
Format: Electronic book text
$250.67

In this collection of papers on syntax, semantics and pragmatics, linguists specialising in the study of Japanese...  Read More >>

Film Translation from East to West: Dubbing, Subtitling and Didactic Practice

Film Translation from East to West: Dubbing, Subtitling...

Author: Claudia Buffagni ,  Beatrice Garzelli
ISBN: 9781299551848
Format: Electronic book text
$290.27

Observing filmic product translation from multiple perspectives is a challenging subject, which opens up new ways...  Read More >>

Essentials of English Grammar

Essentials of English Grammar

Author: Otto Jespersen
ISBN: 9781299631885
Format: Electronic book text
$607.20

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Argument Structure in Flux: The Naples-Capri Papers

Argument Structure in Flux: The Naples-Capri Papers...

Author: Elly Van Gelderen (Arizona State University) ,  Ass Prof Michela Cennamo (University of Naples Federico II)
ISBN: 9781299673861
Format: Electronic book text
$393.36

The present volume is centered around five linguistic themes: argument structure and encoding strategies; argument...  Read More >>

Autour de Que - El Entorno de Que

Autour de Que - El Entorno de Que

Author: Daniel Jacob (Albert-Ludwigs University, Freiburg) ,  Katja Ploog
ISBN: 9781299675759
Format: Electronic book text
$129.23

La polyfonctionnalite de que est parmi les plus spectaculaires dans le domaine roman. En placant la diversite interlinguistique...  Read More >>

Flexible Word Classes: Typological Studies of Underspecified Parts of Speech

Flexible Word Classes: Typological Studies of Underspecified...

Author: Associate Professor Department of Linguistics Jan Rijkhoff (Associate Professor of Linguistics, Aarhus University University of Aarhus, Denmark University of Aarhus, Denmark) ,  Eva Van Lier
ISBN: 9781299802957
Format: Electronic book text
$887.04

This book is the first major cross-linguistic study of 'flexible words', i.e. words that cannot be classified in...  Read More >>

Category Mistakes

Category Mistakes

Author: Fairfax Tutor and Fellow in Philosophy Ofra Magidor (Balliol College, Oxford)
ISBN: 9781299805545
Format: Electronic book text
$380.16

Category mistakes are sentences such as 'Green ideas sleep furiously', 'Saturday is in bed', and The theory of relactivity...  Read More >>

Dictionary of Confusable Words

Dictionary of Confusable Words

Author: Adrian Room
ISBN: 9781299810501
Format: Electronic book text
$264.00

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The Regularity of the 'Irregular' Verbs and Nouns in English

The Regularity of the 'Irregular' Verbs and Nouns in...

Author: Elena Even-Simkin (Ben-Gurion University of the Negev) ,  Dr Yishai Tobin (Ben-Gurion University of the Negev)
ISBN: 9781299850996
Format: Electronic book text
$417.12

This volume presents an in-depth study of the so-called irregular Past Tense ( sing/sang ) and Noun Plural ( foot/feet...  Read More >>

Pseudogapping and Ellipsis

Pseudogapping and Ellipsis

Author: Kirsten Gengel (University of Stuttgart)
ISBN: 9781299861510
Format: Electronic book text
$633.39

This book is all about ellipsis in natural language - the phenomena in which words and phrases go missing in the...  Read More >>

Possible Worlds Semantics for Indicative and Counterfactual Conditionals?

Possible Worlds Semantics for Indicative and Counterfactual...

Author: Matthias Unterhuber
ISBN: 9781299731233
Format: Electronic book text
$361.68

Conditional structures lie at the heart of the sciences, humanities, and everyday reasoning. This is why conditional...  Read More >>

Change of Object Expression in the History of French: Verbs of Helping and Hindering

Change of Object Expression in the History of French:...

Author: Michelle Troberg
ISBN: 9781299765139
Format: Electronic book text
$214.32

This comprehensive case study of a systematic shift in object expression provides insight into the construal of...  Read More >>

Extra-Grammatical Morphology in English

Extra-Grammatical Morphology in English

Author: Elisa Mattiello
ISBN: 9781299722590
Format: Electronic book text
$369.60

Extra-grammatical morphology is a hitherto neglected area of research, highly marginalised because of its irregularity...  Read More >>

Challenges to Linearization

Challenges to Linearization

Author: Theresa Biberauer (University of Cambridge University of Cambridge and Stellenbosch University University of Cambridge and Stellenbosch University Senior Research Associate, University of Cambridge) ,  Ian Roberts
ISBN: 9781299724792
Format: Electronic book text
$443.52

Suitable for advanced students and researchers with interests in externalisation of linguistic structure, the architecture...  Read More >>

Security Arabic

Security Arabic

Author: Mark Evans
ISBN: 9781299735811
Format: Electronic book text
$55.41

All the Arabic words you need to read, write and translate on the topic of intelligence and security. What is the...  Read More >>

Contributions Suisses Au Xve Congres Mondial Des Slavistes a Minsk, Aout 2013 Schweizerische Beitrage Zum XV. Internationalen Slavistenkongress in Minsk, August 2013

Contributions Suisses Au Xve Congres Mondial Des Slavistes...

Author: Ekaterina Velmezova
ISBN: 9781299991743
Format: Electronic book text
$158.27

Cet ouvrage reflete la richesse et la diversite des recherches en slavistique qui sont menees actuellement en Suisse....  Read More >>

Discourse Adjectives

Discourse Adjectives

Author: Gina Taranto
ISBN: 9781299995567
Format: Electronic book text
$356.40

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Long-Distance Dependencies

Long-Distance Dependencies

Author: Mihoko Zushi ,  Helen Dickinson (University of Birmingham)
ISBN: 9781306110211
Format: Electronic book text
$488.40

This book investigates the theory of locality within the framework of minimalism, with a special focus on restructuring...  Read More >>

Deverbal Adjectives at the Interface

Deverbal Adjectives at the Interface

Author: Isabel Oltra-Massuet
ISBN: 9781306205238
Format: Electronic book text
$369.60

This volume explores the syntactic, semantic and morphological properties of -ble adjectives from a comparative...  Read More >>

Strengthening the Pro Hypothesis

Strengthening the Pro Hypothesis

Author: Lisa A Reed (The Pennsylvania State University)
ISBN: 9781306205177
Format: Electronic book text
$396.00

Generative theory has long sought to capture the syntax of Control, questioning whether the complement clause contains...  Read More >>

Vocatives: How Syntax Meets with Pragmatics

Vocatives: How Syntax Meets with Pragmatics

Author: Virginia Hill (University of New Brunswick, Saint John)
ISBN: 9781306210188
Format: Electronic book text
$335.28

Vocatives proposes a formal syntactic approach to vocatives. The analysis focuses on the internal structure of vocatives...  Read More >>

Locality

Locality

Author: Professor of Linguistics Enoch Olade Aboh (University of Amsterdam) ,  Professor of Linguistics Maria Teresa Guasti (University of Milano-Bicocca)
ISBN: 9781306134828
Format: Electronic book text
$352.84

Locality is a key concept not only in linguistic theorizing, but in explaining pattern of acquisition and patterns...  Read More >>

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