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This work investigates the phenomenon of verb-second in Kashmiri, a language outside the Germanic family, unique in that it exhibits both the German/Dutch type of verb-second as well as the Yiddish/Icelandic type.
Analyzes the interpretation of interrogative phrases in single and multiple constituent questions, including their interpretation under adverbs of quantification. This work is intended for researchers and students in syntax, semantics and their interface.
Contains eight papers that cover the areas of field-work, dialectology, and synchronic studies of segmental and tonal systems of the Chinese language family. These papers are related to the theoretical issues in: the SPE Model; Lexical Phonology and Morphology; Autosegmental Phonology; Metrical Phonology; and Optimality Theory.
A comprehensive study of the Etruscan language in English, this work provides a collection of Etruscan inscriptions and texts currently in print. A substantial archeological introduction sets language and inscriptions in their historical, geographical and cultural context.
This book explores the intersection of linguistics and literature and offers new insight into linguistic methods of literary criticism.
Grammar and Meaning is an introduction to the study of grammar of contemporary English. It provides an impressive survey of all the main areas of English grammar, and introduces and explains the linguistic terms needed to illustrate the ways in which language works. Unlike many studies of grammar that are available, this text adopts an innovative approach to the study of English grammar, examining the 'meanings' people want to express when using language. These notions are closer to our...
Suzanne Romaine defines and describes the linguistic features of Pidgin and Creole languages. Ongoing development places the study of these languages within the context of current issues of linguistic theory: language acquisition, and universals of change.
Spanish Subjunctive in Context is a new type of subjunctive resource manual. It aims to prove the essential ingredient missing in traditional grammar explorations and isolated single sentence examples; the full context of the situation.
This volume is not the product of direct field-work but a gathering together, a sifting and an analysis of all the material available - whether previously collected by collectors of Romani song, or preserved whole or in fragments within literary or other texts.
This volume provides a survey of the principal features of segmental phonology in the dialects of Welsh, and includes some morphophonology and morphology. It presents the data of five years of extensive fieldwork and contains 700 pages of data sets and appendices.