Finnish

By Merja Karalainen, Helena Sulkala

Finnish is one of the Finno-Ugrian family of languages, and being historically linked with Swedish, can be compared with that language, particularly in its vocabulary....

1992 | Hardback: 978-0-415-02643-7 (Routledge)

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Free Adjuncts and Absolutes in English

Problems of Control and Interpretation

By Bernd Kortmann

Free adjuncts and absolutes typically function as adverbial clauses which are not overtly specified for any particular adverbial relation. The book is a non-formal, corpus...

1991 | Hardback: 978-0-415-06391-3 (Routledge)

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Cleft and Pseudo-Cleft Constructions in English

By Peter C. Collins

This book is a corpus-based investigation of cleft and pseudo-cleft constructions in contemporary English. It is the first study of such constructions to fully explore...

1991 | Hardback: 978-0-415-06328-9 (Routledge)

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Basque Phonology

1991 | Hardback: 978-0-415-05655-7 (Routledge)

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Grammatical Relations

The Evidence Against Their Necessity and Universality

By D. N. S. Bhat

This book argues that the assumption that grammatical relations are both necessary and universal is an unwarranted generalization. The grammatical relations of subject and object...

1991 | Hardback: 978-0-415-06323-4 (Routledge)

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Syntax

A Linguistic Introduction to Sentence Structure

By Keith Brown, Jim Miller

The second edition of this invaluable introductory text takes account of developments in syntactic studies. Dealing with the whole range of syntax, this book explains,...

1991 | Paperback: 978-0-415-08421-5 (Routledge)

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Pidgins and Creoles

By Professor Loreto Todd, Loreto Todd

The focus of this study is upon those pidgins and creoles which are English based and which have arisen since the fifteenth century. The book...

1990 | Paperback: 978-0-415-05311-2 (Routledge)

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Relational Grammar

By Barry Blake

Relational Grammar had its beginnings in the early 1970s. In this theory of the structure of language grammatical relations are taken to be `undefined primitives'....

1990 | Paperback: 978-0-415-04660-2 (Routledge)

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Change in Language

Whitney, Breal and Wegener

By Brigitte Nerlich

The aim of this book is to provide a fresh view of the history of nineteenth-century language study by focusing on the writings of three...

1990 | Hardback: 978-0-415-00991-1 (Routledge)

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The Dialects of Modern German

A Linguistic Survey

Edited by Charles Russ

This unique reference volume covers the 18 dialects of Germany, Austria, Switzerland, Alsace and Luxembourg. Each section discusses the status of dialect in the region...

1989 | Hardback: 978-0-415-00308-7 (Routledge)

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