The C-ORAL-ROM book and DVD provide a unique set of comparable corpora of
spontaneous speech for the main Romance languages, French, Italian, Portuguese and …

This book describes and evaluates alternative approaches within Systemic Functional
Linguistics (SFL) to representing the structure of language at the level of form. It assumes no …

The two related issues of word order, and subject-verb agreement have occupied center
stage in the study of Arabic syntax since the time of Sibawayhi in the eighth century. This …

The idea for this book was suggested by Bill Cobern. We would like to thank him for his
encouragement and support. A number of people assisted in the preparation of this book …

This book is about Acadian French, a dialect of French which developed from the centre-
ouest varieties of France spoken by the original French colonists of Atlantic Canada. Today …

French is a syntactically interesting language, with aspects of its word order and clause
structure triggering a variety of important developments in syntactic theory. This is a concise …

Polarity and negation, more perhaps than any other grammatical phenomena, sprawl
awkwardly along the messy border separating semantics and pragmatics. Depending on …

This is the first full-length study of sentential negation phenomena in French. Paul Rowlett
assesses, from a generative perspective, the respective contribution made to the expression …

This book deals with a conception of the syntax/semantics interface that incorporates event
type in the syntax of sentences. The goal is to capture the fact that different event types show …

The syntactic category of adverbs is generally associated with the copresence of two
properties. First, adverbs, which are typically used with the function of an adjunct, have a …