Cantonese: A Comprehensive Grammar is a complete reference guide to Cantonese as
spoken by native speakers in Hong Kong. It presents a fresh and accessible description of …

Language is one of the most fundamental defining features of the human being, and
scholars have been trying to capture its essentials for thousands of years. One way of doing …

At first glance, the syntax of quotation appears to be a rather straightforward matter of
transitivity and complementation. However, quotation raises a number of intriguing and …

This paper hypothesizes that as an expression becomes more frequent in one grammatical
context, its mental retrievability improves, which in turn makes it more easily available in …

Drawing on vast amounts of new data from live, unscripted radio and TV broadcasts, and the
internet, this is a brilliant and original analysis of colloquial English, revealing unusual and …

Talk-in-interaction, Schegloff (1992) remarks, is 'the primordial site of human sociality'. It is
the fundamental resource through which the business of all societies is managed, their …

This thesis explores the meaning and functions of discourse enclitics in Tena Kichwa, a
Quechuan language spoken in the Ecuadorian Amazon. The enclitics in question are non …

Many proposals on restructuring suggest that restructuring phenomena are only observed
when a control predicate takes as a complement a functional projection smaller than a …

It is widely acknowledged that developments in bilingual individuals parallel, and ultimately
underlie, those taking place in the course of contact-induced change. In this paper we …

This dissertation investigates the syntax and semantics of the verb" say''and clausal
complementation involving the verb" say''. Clausal complementation involving the verb" …