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Origins of Grammar
Continuum International Publishing 2010; US$ 130.00The book examines the origins of language and grammar and also looks at the nature of being human. As a species, we have a long history of trying to find aspects of ourselves that are exclusively human. Some of the features of humanity thought to be solely the realm of the spiritual - for example cognition and emotion - are... more...
Grammar of Spoken English Discourse
Continuum International Publishing 2010; US$ 140.00David Brazil's pioneering work on the grammar of spoken discourse ended at A Grammar Of Speech (1995) due to his untimely death. Gerard O'Grady picks up the baton in this book and tests the description of used language against a spoken corpus. He incorporates findings from the last decade of corpus linguistics... more...
Things That Make Us (Sic)
St. Martin's Press 2008; US$ 19.99This book is for people who experience heartbreak over love notes with subject-verb disagreements...for anyone who?s ever considered hanging up the phone on people who pepper their speech with such gems as ?irregardless,? ?expresso,? or ?disorientated?...and for the earnest souls who wonder if it?s ?Woe is Me,? or ?Woe is I,? or even ?Woe am I.?... more...
Narrow Syntax and Phonological Form
John Benjamins Publishing Company 2007; US$ 173.00?Scrambling?, the kind of word order variation found in West Germanic languages, has been commonly treated as a phenomenon completely unrelated to North Germanic ?Object Shift?. This book questions this view and defends a unified analysis on the basis of strictly syntactic and phonological evidence. Given that its main conclusions are drawn from German... more...
A Performance Theory of Order and Constituency
Cambridge University Press 1995; US$ 69.00Major new work arguing that grammars are profoundly shaped by language processing. more...
Syntax and Parsing
Cambridge University Press 1995; US$ 37.00An examination of the role of syntax in theories of sentence comprehension. more...
Cognitive Space and Linguistic Case
Cambridge University Press 1995; US$ 46.00This book develops an alternative approach to cases which permits better descriptions of certain syntactic phenomena. more...
Apposition in Contemporary English
Cambridge University Press 1992; US$ 36.00A detailed discussion of the linguistic relation apposition and its usage in various kinds of speech and writing. more...
Functional Sentence Perspective in Written and Spoken Communication
Cambridge University Press 1992; US$ 46.00Jan Firbas discusses the key phenomenon of communicative dynamism. more...
Switch-Reference and Discourse Representation
Cambridge University Press 1993; US$ 65.00This book argues that types of anaphoric linkage across clause boundaries cannot be adequately accounted for by Binding Theory, proposing instead an account for them which is formalised in Discourse Representation Theory. more...









