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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 ...
With Pen in Hand : Becoming a Better Writer
Claude Crum
Paperback - $47.95
This book is designed to teach grammar one step at a time.
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 ...
The Limits of Syntax : The Limits of Syntax
Peter Culicover
Hardcover - $257.95
The Limits of Syntax is a collection of original, never before published essays. Each essay explores the ways in which greater incorporation of nonsyntactic explanations into linguistic research may deepen our understanding of problematic linguistic ...
Principles and Parameters : An Introduction to Syntactic Theory
Peter W. Culicover
Paperback - $74.95
This authoritative survey shows readers how specific methodological assumptions underlie the core analyses on which syntactic theory is based. The author, an internationally respected figure in the field, gives extensive treatment of Government and B ...
Syntactic Nuts : Hard Cases, Syntactic Theory, and Language Acquisition
Peter W. Culicover
Paperback - $128.95
How are native speakers of a language instinctively able to make precise linguistic judgements about marginal syntactic matters? What does this tell us about both the structure of language and our innate language ability as humans? These questions fo ...
Conditionals and Prediction : Time, Knowledge and Causation in Conditional Constructions
Barbara Dancygier
Paperback - $82.95
This book offers a new and in-depth analysis of English conditional sentences. Dancygier classifies conditional constructions according to time-reference and modality. She shows how the basic meaning parameters of conditionality correlate to formal p ...
Grammar of Raising and Control : A Course in Syntactic Argumentation
William D. Davies
Paperback - $88.95
"The Grammar of Raising and Control "surveys analyses across a range of theoretical frameworks from Rosenbaum's classic Standard Theory analysis (1967) to current proposals within the Minimalist Program, and provides readers with a critical understan ...