Category change, broadly defined as the shift from one word class to another, is often studied as part of other changes, such as grammaticalization or lexicalization, but not in its own right. This volume offers a survey of different types of category change and their properties…
This book presents rigorous and criterial definitions of the major parts of speech - noun, verb, and adjective - that account both for their syntactic behaviour and for their observed typological variation. Based on an examination of languages from five different groups - Salish…
"This book presents a semantic model to describe the underlying structure of noun phrases in any natural human language. It examines the semantic and morpho-syntactic properties of the constituents of the noun phrase in a representative sample of the world's 6,000 or so language…
"Description of the major formal and semantic characteristics of verb superclassification systems in Australia, identifying the parameters of similarity and variation; hypothesises about the historical origins and subsequent development of the systems, culminating in degrammatic…
This book deals with systems of verb classification in Australian Aboriginal languages, with particular focus on languages of the north-west. It proposes a typology of the systems according to their main formal and semantic characteristics. It also makes some proposals concernin…
Estudio basado en el estructuralismo funcionalista que pone de relieve el hecho de que la función de cuantificación va más allá del posible significado de cantidad del adverbio modificador.
Blending communicative and interactive approaches with tried-and-true grammar teaching, "Basic English Grammar, " Third Edition, by Betty Schrampfer Azar and Stacy A. Hagen, offers concise, accurate, level-appropriate grammar information with an abundance of exercises, contexts,…
Blending communicative and interactive approaches with tried-and-true grammar teaching, "Basic English Grammar, " Third Edition, by Betty Schrampfer Azar and Stacy A. Hagen, offers concise, accurate, level-appropriate grammar information with an abundance of exercises, contexts,…
Blending communicative and interactive approaches with tried-and-true grammar teaching, "Basic English Grammar, " Third Edition, by Betty Schrampfer Azar and Stacy A. Hagen, offers concise, accurate, level-appropriate grammar information with an abundance of exercises, contexts,…