This book provides a concise yet thorough introduction to methods that linguists can use to study patterns of sentence acceptability in speech. Experimental Syntax shows how to design, execute and analyze an appropriate survey experiment for a well-formed question about a matter of fact relative to sentence acceptability. The book also ......
Offers a descriptive analysis of the elements of English grammar. This title includes exercises that test what is taught, simplified and clarified explanations, and glossary of over 200 technical terms.
Presenting advanced research in syntax and semantics, this title furthers theoretical claims in generative linguistics. It also features crosslinguistic studies that deal with clausal architecture, negation, and tense and aspect, and the issue of whether a statistical model can by itself capture the richness of human linguistic abilities.
In this study of the English language as it is spelled in America, D. W. Cummings demonstrates that behind the apparent disorder of spelling in American English lies a self-regulating and self-reorganizing system that is responsive to four kinds of imperative: phonetic, semantic, etymological, and systemic. Cummings offers a systematic theory of ......
Offers introductions to linguistic morphology - the study and description of word formations in languages - that deals with inflection, derivation, and compounding, the system of word-forming elements and processes in a language.
A reference on the structure of the Arabic language and issues in Arabic linguistics, from dialectics to literature. It is suitable for researchers, linguists, students, area specialists, and others interested in Arabic.
A Comparative Study of Moroccan, Egyptian, Syrian, and Kuwaiti Dialects
A comparative study of the syntax of Arabic dialects, based on natural language data recorded in Morocco, Egypt, Syria, and Kuwait. It provides a nuanced description of spoken Arabic syntax, widens the theoretical base of Arabic linguistics, and gives both scholars and students of Arabic tools for greater cross-dialect comprehension.
The Structure and Origins of American English Orthography
This text covers a broad range of topics, from the historical origins of the 26 letters to the regularities and irregularities of spelling in food and drink words, and ending with the rules of spelling.
James Joyce never used quotation marks, calling them ""perverted"" and ""unreal"". This book springs from that aversion, presenting an account of citation from the ancient world forward and tracing Joyce's transgressive relation to that history from ""Memorabilia"" to ""Finnegan's Wake"". The author argues Joyce's rejection of the mark signals a ......
