Developmental research is abandoning formal syntax, probably because Chomskyan generative syntax lacks psychological rea......more
This book explores the syntactic variation across various styles and genres in contemporary written Czech using quantita......more
A simple grammar formalism--dependency grammar--motivated by the observation that longer distance connections between wo......more
This volume contributes to the growing body of cutting-edge research into the Natural Semantic Metalanguage (NSM) approa......more
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This book provides a detailed, empirically supported, and theoretically informed examination of alignment and subject as......more
This book seeks to build further links between (im)politeness research and autism by countering prevailing notions in pr......more
The Syntax of Dutch will be published in at least seven volumes in the period 2012-2016 and aims at presenting a synthes......more
The multi-volume work Syntax of Dutch presents a synthesis of current thinking on Dutch syntax. The text of the seven al......more
The Syntax of Dutch aims at presenting a synthesis of the currently available syntactic knowledge of Dutch. It is primar......more
Syntax of Hungarian aims to present a synthesis of the currently available syntactic knowledge of the Hungarian language......more
This book explores medieval pragmatic theory across diverse social discourses, revealing how pragmatic thinking permeate......more
The Syntax of Dutch will be published in at least seven volumes in the period 2012-2016 and aims at presenting a synthes......more
The Syntax of Hungarian aims to present a synthesis of the currently available syntactic knowledge of the Hungarian lang......more
Light verb constructions are complex predicates consisting of a semantically reduced verb and an additional often phrasa......more
On the basis of a corpus of Old Irish texts justified and described in the introductory chapter, this monograph consider......more
This volume gathers a thematic selection of scientific contributions presented at the 17th Cambridge Italian Dialect Syn......more
This volume explores how metadiscourse shapes communication across cultures and time. Drawing on contemporary and histor......more
This book offers the first book-length treatment of the diachronic study of English exclamatives, tracing their developm......more
Marking 30 years of contrastive corpus linguistics, this volume provides a state-of-the-art of the field, charting its d......more
This volume presents contemporary research across various facets of Maltese linguistics. Part I examines Maltese from a ......more
Learn the Art of the Perfect British Put-Down Dry, devastating, and delightfully witty-The Ultimate Guide to British Ins......more
This open access book is the first comprehensive guide to identifying antisemitism online today, in both its explicit an......more
An argument for replacing Chomsky’s set-theoretic Merge view of syntax with a theory of syntax based on mereological obj......more