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English Vocabulary Elements: A Course in the Structure of English Words

Third Edition

£19.99

William R. Leben, Brett Kessler, Keith Denning

9780190925482
Paperback
20 April 2023

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Digital Grooming: Discourses of Manipulation and Cyber-Crime

£25.99

Nuria Lorenzo-Dus

9780190845186
Paperback
21 February 2023

Oxford Studies in Sociolinguistics

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Coordination and the Syntax – Discourse Interface

£35.00

Daniel Altshuler, Robert Truswell

9780198804246
Paperback
09 June 2022

Oxford Surveys in Syntax & Morphology

This survey explores interactions between syntax and discourse, through a case study of patterns of extraction from coordinate structures. It offers a starting point for further research on extraction from coordinate structures and provides a guide to how to tease out the theoretical implications of empirical findings.

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The Derivational Timing of Ellipsis

£35.00

Güliz Güneş, Anikó Lipták

9780198849506
Paperback
31 March 2022

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 popular 'silent structure' accounts of ellipsis, and investigate the question of when linguistic material becomes silenced during the derivation and realization of syntactic structure.

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Gradient Acceptability and Linguistic Theory

£75.00

Elaine J. Francis

9780192898944
Hardback
15 December 2021

Oxford Surveys in Syntax & Morphology

This volume examines the interpretation of gradient judgments of sentence acceptability in relation to theories of grammatical knowledge. It uses experimental and corpus-based research, along with a range of case studies, to argue for a new approach to this crucial problem.

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Gradient Acceptability and Linguistic Theory

£30.00

Elaine J. Francis

9780192898951
Paperback
15 December 2021

Oxford Surveys in Syntax & Morphology

This volume examines the interpretation of gradient judgments of sentence acceptability in relation to theories of grammatical knowledge. It uses experimental and corpus-based research, along with a range of case studies, to argue for a new approach to this crucial problem.

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Diachronic Syntax

Second Edition

£45.00

Ian Roberts

9780198861461
Paperback
18 November 2021

Oxford Textbooks in Linguistics

This second edition of Diachronic Syntax has been fully revised and updated throughout to cover the multiple developments in the area in the last decade. Written by one of the leading scholars in the field and including a glossary and suggestions for further reading, it will be an ideal textbook for undergraduate students of historical linguistics.

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English Prepositions: Their Meanings and Uses

£35.00

R. M. W. Dixon

9780198868712
Paperback
03 November 2021

This book provides an integrated account of the main prepositions of English, outlining their various forms and illustrating contrastive senses. It is written in a clear and accessible style, and will be of interest to to students and scholars of the English language, including instructors of English as a second language.

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The Texture of the Lexicon: Relational Morphology and the Parallel Architecture

£19.99

Ray Jackendoff, Jenny Audring

9780198827917
Paperback
28 October 2021

This volume offers a major reconceptualization of linguistic theory through the lens of morphology, crucially collapsing the distinction between the lexicon and the grammar. This approach accounts for both productive and non-productive morphological phenomena, and moreover integrates linguistic theory into psycholinguistics and human cognition.

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Majority Quantification and Quantity Superlatives: A Crosslinguistic Analysis of Most

£32.99

Carmen Dobrovie-Sorin, Ion Giurgea

9780198791256
Paperback
31 March 2021

Oxford Studies in Theoretical Linguistics

This book investigates the syntax and semantics of proportional most and other majority quantifiers across a wide range of languages. The findings have implications for the study of a variety of crucial issues in linguistic theory, including number marking, partitivity, kind reference, and (in)definiteness marking.

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Grammaticalization

£29.99

Heiko Narrog, Bernd Heine

9780198748540
Paperback
31 March 2021

Oxford Textbooks in Linguistics

This textbook introduces and explains the fundamental issues, major research questions, and current approaches in the study of grammaticalization. Each chapter offers guidance on further reading, and concludes with study questions to encourage further discussion; there is also a glossary of key terminology in the field.

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Unbounded Dependency Constructions: Theoretical and Experimental Perspectives

£38.99

Rui P. Chaves, Michael T. Putnam

9780198785002
Paperback
15 December 2020

Oxford Surveys in Syntax & Morphology

This book examines the nature, creation, and comprehension of constructions in which words that go together in meaning occur arbitrarily far away from each other. It provides a detailed survey of the factors responsible for their creation and comprehension, alongside new experimental evidence and suggestions for future research.

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Nominalization: 50 Years on from Chomsky's Remarks

£38.99

Artemis Alexiadou, Hagit Borer

9780198865582
Paperback
19 November 2020

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 Nominalization' in 1970. The contributors take stock of developments in this area and offer new perspectives based on data from a wide range of typologically diverse languages.

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A Functional Discourse Grammar for English

£33.99

Evelien Keizer

9780199571871
Paperback
29 January 2015

Oxford Textbooks in Linguistics

This is the first textbook on Functional Discourse Grammar, a recently developed theory of language structure which analyses utterances at the pragmatic, semantic, morphosyntactic and phonological level. It focuses principally on English and provides extensive exercises for students to use and evaluate the theory.

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The Grammar of Words: An Introduction to Linguistic Morphology

Third Edition

£22.49

Geert Booij

9780199691838
Paperback
13 September 2012

Oxford Textbooks in Linguistics

Geert Booij's popular textbook has been revised and updated. It covers every aspect of morphological theory and the analysis of words, examines the relation between morphology and other modules of grammar, and is the only introductory text to explore the role of morphology in language processing and change.

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Core Syntax: A Minimalist Approach

£25.99

David Adger

9780199243709
Paperback
20 March 2003

Oxford Core Linguistics

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