Provides demonstrations of conjugations for regular and irregular verbs. This title features examples and exercises to help you remember verb tenses. It explains when and why to use them. It includes two appendices (one listing conjugations and another matching verbs with their prepositions) that make it easy to find the right words in Italian.

Shows how quantitative methods and statistical techniques can supplement qualitative analyses of language. This book presents some mathematical and statistical properties of natural languages, and introduces some of the quantitative methods which are of the most value in working empirically with texts and corpora.

A new account of the peculiar syntax of psychological verbs argues that experiencers are grammaticalized as locative phrases.

Examines the 'subject' of a sentence, and how it displays similarities across typologically different languages.

A broad coverage of German syntax, providing an in-depth look at object-verb sentence formation in comparison with other languages.

Looks at the nature of free word order and phrase structure, with particular reference to a single endangered language - Kiowa.

This book explores the nature and scope of modality in Japanese. It contains a review of the history of Japanese modality studies, as well as theoretical and empirical research and is the first collection of studies on Japanese modality written in English and offers a stimulating contrast to existing studies on Western languages.

Presents a collection of papers in phonology and syntax on the topic of ineffability, or absolute ungrammaticality. These papers contribute analyses of carefully presented cases. The theoretical context for the papers is the analytical challenge which these cases present for Optimality Theory.

An assessment of how English grammar is changing, and the linguistic and social factors that are contributing to this process.

Contextual grammars generate languages by adjoining contexts in each sentencial form, according to a selector present in the string and the grammars have no distinction between terminal and non-terminal. This book presents a few results which are of interest to the domain of mildly context sensitive (MCS) formalisms.

In this book, Vyvyan Evans builds a framework for the understanding and analysis of meaning that is at once descriptively adequate and psychologically plausible. In so doing he also addresses current issues in lexical semantics and semantic compositionality, polysemy, figurative language, and the semantics of time and space.

Of interest to those without any prior grammatical knowledge, this title includes discussion and exemplification of key terms, and introduces essential topics. It features sections, diagrams and shaded boxes.

The first truly comprehensive grammar of the Greek language to be produced, concentrating on the real patterns of use in today's Greek.

A Latin grammatical reference that combines traditional knowledge, linguistic innovation, and didactic clarity. It explains linguistic concepts, describing the structure of the sentence and its parts.

Useful for language learning, this title gives clear explanations of almost all the key points of Latin grammar. It also includes additional features, such as a glossary of grammatical terms, a vocabulary list covering all the Latin words found in the main text, study tips, and notes on Roman dates, money, weights and measures, and names.

This book explores interdisciplinary work on the mental processing of syntax and morphology. It is divided into four parts concerned with word structure, sentence structure, processing syntax and morphology at the interfaces, and a comparison of different models of syntactic and morphological processing in the neurophysiological domain.

A practical and accessible book for people who know little or nothing about grammar.

Introduces the reader to Noam Chomsky's theory of language by setting the specifics of syntactic analysis in the framework of his general ideas. This book traces the development of Chomsky's thinking and of the Minimalist Program since 1995, providing a fresh picture of the model of syntactic theory.