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Gender
Greville G. Corbett
Hardcover - $224.95
Gender is a fascinating category, central and pervasive in some languages and totally absent in others. In this new, overall account of gender systems, over 200 languages are discussed, from English and Russian to Archi and Chichewa. More detailed an ...
Gender
Greville G. Corbett
Paperback - $92.95
Gender is arguably the most puzzling and fascinating of all grammatical categories. In this new, comprehensive account of gender systems (including noun class systems), Greville Corbett describes both the diversity of the data and the common patterns ...
Heads in Grammatical Theory
Greville G. Corbett
Hardcover - $265.95
A study of the idea of the ???head??? or dominating element of a phrase.
Heads in Grammatical Theory :
Greville G. Corbett
Paperback - $123.95
Contemporary linguistic theories distinguish the principal element of a phrase - the 'head' - from the subordinate elements it dominates. This pervasive grammatical concept has been used to describe and account for linguistic phenomena ranging from a ...
Processing Interclausal Relationships : Studies in the Production and Comprehension of Text
Jean Costermans
Paperback - $76.95
Experimental Syntax : Applying Objective Methods to Sentence Judgments
Wayne Cowart
Paperback - $120.95
Subordination
Sonia Cristofaro
Hardcover - $458.95
This book presents a typology of subordination systems across the world's languages. Traditional definitions of subordination are based on morphosyntactic criteria, such as clausal embedding or non-finiteness. The book shows that these definitions ar ...
Syntactic Categories and Grammatical Relations : The Cognitive Organization of Information
William Croft
Paperback - $92.95
The Fight for English : How Language Pundits Ate, Shot, and Left
David Crystal
Paperback - $18.95
Weve all been taught that this sentence--"Driving in from the airport, the flags flapped furiously"--is wrong, wrong, wrong. But is it, asks David Crystal. Everyone knows what this sentence means. No one actually thinks that the flags were driving th ...