Books written by Greville G. Corbett

  • The Syntax-Morphology Interface: A Study of Syncretism
    The Syntax-Morphology Interface: A Study of Syncretism

    ... of order and constituency 74 ALICE C. HARRIS AND LYLE CAMPBELL : Historical syntax in cross - linguistic perspective ... meaning : The semantics and pragmatics of discourse markers 100 IAN ROBERTS AND ANNA ROUSSOU : Syntactic change :

  • Gender
    Gender

    Surveys gender across a range of languages. For class use and as a reference resource for students and researchers in linguistics. Gender is arguably the most puzzling and fascinating of all grammatical categories.

  • Heads in Grammatical Theory
    Heads in Grammatical Theory

    A study of the idea of the 'head' or dominating element of a phrase.

  • The Expression of Gender
    The Expression of Gender

    ... ('brush') common eend ('duck') common jurk (“dress') common fiets ('bike') common tand (tooth') common hoed (“hat') common bal ('ball') common schaar ('scissors') common tijger (tiger') common vis ('vis') common klomp ('clog) common ...

  • Understanding and Measuring Morphological Complexity
    Understanding and Measuring Morphological Complexity

    This book aims to assess the nature of morphological complexity, and the properties that distinguish it from the complexity manifested in other components of language.

  • Features: Perspectives on a Key Notion in Linguistics
    Features: Perspectives on a Key Notion in Linguistics

    This book presents a critical overview of current work on linguistic features and establishes new bases for their use in the study and understanding of language.Features are fundamental components of linguistic description: they include ...

  • Case and Grammatical Relations: Studies in Honor of Bernard Comrie
    Case and Grammatical Relations: Studies in Honor of Bernard Comrie

    The papers in this volume can be grouped into two broad, overlapping classes: those dealing primarily with case and those dealing primarily with grammatical relations.

  • The Expression of Gender
    The Expression of Gender

    Gender is a fascinating category, which has grown steadily in importance across the humanities and social sciences. The book centres on the core of the category within language.

  • The Expression of Gender
    The Expression of Gender

    Gender is a fascinating category, which has grown steadily in importance across the humanities and social sciences. The book centres on the core of the category within language.

  • The Syntax-Morphology Interface: A Study of Syncretism
    The Syntax-Morphology Interface: A Study of Syncretism

    This book presents a compelling argument for the autonomy of morphology and the resulting analysis is illustrated in a series of formal case studies within Network Morphology.

  • Morphological Complexity
    Morphological Complexity

    Matthew Baerman, Dunstan Brown, Greville G. Corbett. 164 Morphological Complexity and Morphological ... Morphological Complexity and Morphological Autonomy 165 morphology is parasitic of Morphological Complexity and Morphological Autonomy.

  • Agreement
    Agreement

    ... matematik-a i fizik-a taught-pst-pl-refl mathematics(f)-sg and physics(f)-sg 'mathematics and physics were taught' (67) prepodava-l-a-s ́ matematik-a i fizik-a taught-pst-f.sg-refl mathematics(f)-sg and physics(f)-sg 'mathematics and ...

  • Number
    Number

    ... masculine plural might be considered the same as that for the feminine singular , while that for the feminine plural is the same as that for the masculine singular . The basic forms are as in table 5.16 . Here masculine singular and ...

  • Non-Canonical Gender Systems
    Non-Canonical Gender Systems

    This book explores the boundaries of the category of gender and their theoretical significance within the framework of Canonical Typology.