Cambridge Textbooks in Linguistics - Böcker

Bringing together the results of sixty years of research in typology and universals, this textbook presents a comprehensive survey of Morphosyntax - the combined study of syntax and morphology. Languages employ extremely diverse morphosyntactic st...

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Agreement in language relates to the correspondence between words in a sentence, in terms of gender, case, person, or number. This textbook offers an insight into how agreement works, and how it varies cross-linguistically. It will be essential re...

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William Croft presents a comprehensive introduction to the method and theory used in studying typology and universals. The second edition of this essential textbook has been thoroughly rewritten and updated to reflect advances in typology and univ...

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The 2003 second edition of this general introduction to grammaticalization has been thoroughly revised with substantial updates on theoretical and methodological issues, and includes a significantly expanded bibliography. Particular attention is p...

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This textbook provides a thorough and comprehensive introduction to modern binding theory, exploring the anaphoric relations between different kinds of nominal expressions. Written in a clear and accessible style, and with numerous exercises and e...

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Case is an accessible introduction to the ways relations between words in sentences are marked in languages. In this revised 2001 edition, Blake refines and expands on his discussions of the most important concepts in the study of case and incorpo...

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Analyzing Sound Patterns is a clear and concise introduction to phonological phenomena, covering a wide range of issues from segmental to suprasegmental problems and prosodic morphology. Assuming no prior knowledge of problem solving, this textboo...

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We live our lives in conversation, building families, societies and civilisations. In over seven thousand languages across the world, the basic infrastructure by which we communicate remains the same. This book introduces the methods and findings ...

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This lively introduction to figurative language develops new analytical tools and proposes a cohesive view of a broad range of concepts, including metaphor, metonymy, simile, and irony. Comprehensive and practical, the book provides definitions of...

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Analyzing Sound Patterns is a clear and concise introduction to phonological phenomena, covering a wide range of issues from segmental to suprasegmental problems and prosodic morphology. Assuming no prior knowledge of problem solving, this textboo...

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We live our lives in conversation, building families, societies and civilisations. In over seven thousand languages across the world, the basic infrastructure by which we communicate remains the same. This book introduces the methods and findings ...

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This book demonstrates the contribution that statistics can and should make to linguistic studies. The range of work to which statistical analysis is applicable is vast: including, for example, language acquisition, language variation and many asp...

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This 1986 textbook presents an account of the main concerns, problems and theoretical and practical issues raised by second language acquisition research. Research in this field had been mainly pedagogically oriented, but since the 1970s linguists...

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This book demonstrates the contribution that statistics can and should make to linguistic studies. The range of work to which statistical analysis is applicable is vast: including, for example, language acquisition, language variation and many asp...

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This book is an introduction to psycholinguistics, the study of human language processing. It deals with the central area of this field, the language abilities of the linguistically mature, monolingual adult.

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This text discusses the meaning of words. The author establishes the descriptive and generalizable facts about lexical relations that any formal theory of semantics will have to encompass, then goes on to discuss such topics as idiomaticity, lexic...

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Bernard Comrie defines tense as the grammaticalisation of location in time. In this textbook he introduces readers to the range of variation found in tense systems across the languages of the world. This coherent and elegant account of this comple...

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This work gives broad, unbiased answers to such questions as: what is the phonological organisation of natural languages like?; what theoretical and analytical approaches are most fruitful?; and is there any phonological theory that is the best in...

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In this textbook, first published in 1983, the authors provide an extensive overview of the many and diverse approaches to the study of discourse, but base their own approach centrally on the discipline which, to varying degrees, is common to them...

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Dr Bauer here provides students and general linguists alike with a new perspective on what is a confused and often controversial field of study, providing a resolution to the terminological confusion which currently reigns in this area. In doing s...

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An introduction to the general linguistic study of aspect. Topics covered include the relation of tense and aspect, the morphology and the semantics of aspect, and structuralist and philosophical approaches. The first study of aspect as a general ...

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An elementary introduction to formal logic, particularly intended for linguists and others interested in languages. Concepts and theories developed within formal logic for the study of artificial languages have for some time been fruitfully applie...

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Designed primarily as a textbook for linguistics and philology students, this book will also be of interest to those studying English language, classics and modern languages.

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Semantics is a bridge discipline between linguistics and philosophy; but students are rarely able to reach that bridge, let alone cross it to inspect and assess the activity on the other side. Professor Kempston's textbook deals with the standard ...

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This book provides a basic textbook for such courses as well as being of interest to people working in departments of speech and in communications generally.

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This textbook provides a lucid and integrative analysis of the central topics in pragmatics - deixis, implicature, presupposition, speech acts, and conversational structure. The exposition is always clear and supported by helpful exemplification.

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This textbook provides a thorough and precise account of all the major areas of English grammar. For practical reasons the author concentrates on Standard English and only selected aspects of its regional variation.

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This 1986 textbook presents an account of the main concerns, problems and theoretical and practical issues raised by second language acquisition research. It provides students of linguistics and applied linguistics and anyone concerned with foreig...

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This is an introduction to the phonology of present-day English, dealing with three varieties of English: 'General American', Southern British 'Received Pronunciation' and 'Scottish Standard English'.

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