Books in the Continuum Studies in Theoretical Linguistics series

Alan Brazil's pioneering work on the grammar of spoken discourse ended at "A Grammar Of Speech" (1995) due to his untimely death. In this title, the author picks up the baton and tests the description of used language against a conversational corpus. It is of interest to researchers in applied linguistics, discourse analysis and also EFL/ESL.

Offers a detailed overview of research on discourse markers covering different areas of linguistics: from a discourse analysis point of view, to a Relevance Theory perspective going through a computational linguistics approach. This book is of interest to researchers in semantics, pragmatics, grammar and discourse analysis.

A study of the mental lexicon - the way in which the form and meaning of words is stored by speakers of specific languages. It provides a principled means of distinguishing those semantic features required by a mental lexicon that have a direct bearing on grammar from those that do not.

Presents a study of various important aspects of Tamazight Berber syntax within the generative tradition. The author looks at three seemingly disparate ranges of syntactic phenomena, namely Subject-verb agreement, Clitic-doubling, and Negative Concord.

Provides insight on the acquisition of functional categories within the Minimalist Framework. This book examines the availability of Determiner Phrases in the grammar of young children acquiring Spanish as a first language. It addresses the language acquisition debate between the continuity and discontinuity hypothesis.