Grammatik, syntax

Derek Nurse looks at variations in the form and function of tense and aspect in Bantu, a branch of Niger-Congo, the world's largest language phylum. Bantu languages are spoken in …

'Non-finiteness' is a phenomenon that occurs in most natural languages, whereby a verb is not inflected by grammatical tense, and does not possess the grammatical features of …

Der Band vereint Vortrage, die im Rahmen des Kolloquiums Lo metalinguistico en espanol: balance y perspectivas im November 2005 in Pamplona, Spanien, gehalten worden sind. Es wird …

THIS BOOK From time immemorial, language was seen as a fascinating "enigma" by many. It included philosophers, religious men, psychologists, politicians and sometimes even the …

An exploration of the architecture of the grammar, where conditions apply, and the nature of the lexical/functional split.This concise but wide-ranging monograph examines where the …

Mapping the Left Periphery, the fifth volume in "e;The Cartography of Syntactic Structures,"e; is entirely devoted to the functional articulation of the so-called …

In the last 25 years foreign language teaching has been able to increase its efficiency through an orientation towards authentic language materials, pragmatic language functions …

This collection of 15 articles reflects Edward Keenan’s long-standing research interests in the comparative syntax of the languages of the world. It includes two seminal …

This book explores aspects of the Arabic Grammatical Tradition and Arabic Linguistics from both a theoretical and descriptive perspective. It also touches on issues of relevance to …

Derivation or Representation? Hubert Haider & Klaus Netter 1 The Issue Derivation and Representation - these keywords refer both to a conceptual as well as to an empirical issue. …