Optimality Theoretic Syntax, Semantics, and Pragmatics

• Hardcover | Engels | Oxford Studies in Theoretical Linguistics
• This book investigates the morphosyntactic, semantic, and pragmatic properties of language, and the interactions between them, from the perspective of... Lees meer

The Morphosyntax of Imperatives

Daniela Isac

• Paperback | Engels | Oxford Studies in Theoretical Linguistics
• This book studies the properties of imperative clauses in the context of a theory of Universal Grammar. Daniela Isac argues that the specificity of im... Lees meer

A Derivational Syntax for Information Structure

Luis Lopez

• Paperback | Engels | Oxford Studies in Theoretical Linguistics | nr. 23
• In this volume, Luis López sheds new light on information structure and makes a significant contribution to work on grammatical operations in the Mini... Lees meer

The Morphology and Phonology of Exponence

Trommer

• Paperback | Engels | Oxford Studies in Theoretical Linguistics
• Exponence refers to the mapping of morphosyntactic structure to phonological representations, a research area which is not only highly controversial, ... Lees meer

The Theta System

Everaert

• Paperback | Engels | Oxford Studies in Theoretical Linguistics
• Before she died in 2007, Tanya Reinhart had gone a long way towards developing the Theta System, a theory in which formal features defining the themat... Lees meer

Majority Quantification and Quantity Superlatives

Carmen Dobrovie-Sorin, Ion Giurgea

• Paperback | Engels | Oxford Studies in Theoretical Linguistics
• This book investigates the syntax and semantics of proportional most and other majority quantifiers across languages. Carmen Dobrovie-Sorin and Ion Gi... Lees meer

Non-Interrogative Subordinate Wh-Clauses

• Hardcover | Engels | Oxford Studies in Theoretical Linguistics
• This volume examines subordinate wh -clauses that lack an interrogative interpretation, particularly those in which the wh -word seems to deviate from... Lees meer

Genericity

• Paperback | Engels | Oxford Studies in Theoretical Linguistics
• Providing an up-to-date introduction to the study of generics, this volume gathers new work from senior and young researchers. It is organised along t... Lees meer

The Morphosyntax of Imperatives

Daniela Isac

• Hardcover | Engels | Oxford Studies in Theoretical Linguistics
• This book studies the properties of imperative clauses in the context of a theory of Universal Grammar. The analysis, based on data from a wide range ... Lees meer

Continuations and Natural Language

Chris Barker, Chung-Chieh Shan

• Hardcover | Engels | Oxford Studies in Theoretical Linguistics
• This book takes concepts developed by researchers in theoretical computer science and adapts and applies them to the study of natural language meaning... Lees meer

Continuations and Natural Language

Chris Barker, Chung-Chieh Shan

• Paperback | Engels | Oxford Studies in Theoretical Linguistics
• This book takes concepts developed by researchers in theoretical computer science and adapts and applies them to the study of natural language meaning... Lees meer

The Unaccusativity Puzzle

• Hardcover | Oxford Studies in Theoretical Linguistics
• The phenomenon of unaccusativity is a central focus for the study of the complex properties of verb classes. This book combines contemporary approache... Lees meer

Phi Theory

• Paperback | Engels | Oxford Studies in Theoretical Linguistics
• Phi-features, such as person, number, and gender, present a rare opportunity for syntacticians, morphologists and semanticists to collaborate on a res... Lees meer

Adjectives & Adverbs Ostl C

McNally & Kennedy

• Hardcover | Engels | Oxford Studies in Theoretical Linguistics | nr. 19
• In this volume leading researchers present new work on the semantics and pragmatics of adjectives and adverbs, and their interfaces with syntax. Its c... Lees meer

Syntax, Lexical Semantics, and Event Structure

Ivy Sichel

• Paperback | Engels | Oxford Studies in Theoretical Linguistics
• This book focuses on the linguistic representation of temporality in the verbal domain and its interaction with the syntax and semantics of verbs, arg... Lees meer

The Structure of Words at the Interfaces

• Hardcover | Engels | Oxford Studies in Theoretical Linguistics
• This volume takes a variety of approaches to the question 'what is a word?', with particular emphasis on where in the grammar wordhood is determined. ... Lees meer

Sentence and Discourse

• Hardcover | Engels | Oxford Studies in Theoretical Linguistics
• This book looks at the relationship between the structure of the sentence and the organization of discourse. While a sentence obeys specific grammatic... Lees meer

The Derivational Timing of Ellipsis

• Paperback | Engels | Oxford Studies in Theoretical Linguistics
• This volume explores the nature of ellipsis, the core phenomenon that results in various types of omission in sentences. The chapters adopt the popula... Lees meer

Negative Indefinites

Doris Penka

• Hardcover | Engels | Oxford Studies in Theoretical Linguistics
• In this book, Doris Penka delivers a cross-linguistic, unified analysis of the semantics and syntax of negative indefinites, as in the expressions nob... Lees meer

Semantics and Morphosyntactic Variation

Itamar Francez, Andrew Koontz-Garboden

• Hardcover | Engels | Oxford Studies in Theoretical Linguistics
• This is an open access title available under the terms of a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 International licence. It is free to read at Oxford Scholarship Online and... Lees meer

Syntax and Its Limits

Raffaella R Folli, Christina C Sevdali, Robert Truswell

• Hardcover | Engels | Oxford Studies in Theoretical Linguistics
• In this book, leading linguists explore the empirical scope of syntactic theory, by concentrating on a set of phenomena for which both syntactic and n... Lees meer

Dissolving Binding Theory

Johan Rooryck, Guido Vanden Wyngaerd

• Hardcover | Engels | Oxford Studies in Theoretical Linguistics
• This book examines the distribution and interpretation of anaphors and pronouns. Through a detailed analysis of simplex and complex anaphors in Dutch ... Lees meer

The Interaction of Focus and Givenness in Italian Clause Structure

Vieri Samek-Lodovici

• Paperback | Engels | Oxford Studies in Theoretical Linguistics
• This is an open access title available under the terms of a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 International licence. It is free to read at Oxford Scholarship Online and... Lees meer

Nominalization

• Paperback | Engels | Oxford Studies in Theoretical Linguistics
• This volume explores the progress of cross-linguistic research into the structure of complex nominals since the publication of Chomsky's 'Remarks on N... Lees meer