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Syntax
Structure, Meaning, and Function
Av Robert D. van Valin Jr, Randy J. LaPolla
Häftad, 1997
1073 kr
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This book is an introduction to syntactic theory and analysis which can be used for both introductory and advanced courses in theoretical syntax. Offering an alternative to the standard generative view of the subject, it deals with the major issues in syntax with which all theories are concerned. …
Stylistics
Av Lesley Jeffries, Dan McIntyre
Häftad, 2025
558 kr
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Stylistics is the linguistic study of style in language. Now in its second edition, this book is an introduction to stylistics that locates it firmly within the traditions of linguistics. Organised to reflect the historical development of stylistics, it covers key principles such as foregrounding …
Child Language
Häftad, 1981
720 kr
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The way children learn their native language has been the subject of intense and widespread investigation in the last decades, stimulated by advances in theoretical linguistics and the behavioural sciences. For the student, this has meant a bewildering number of research reports, often differing in …
Agreement
Häftad, 2006
770 kr
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Agreement in language relates to the correspondence between words in a sentence, in terms of gender, case, person, or number. For example, in the sentence 'he runs', the suffix -s 'agrees' in number with the singular pronoun 'he'. Patterns of agreement vary dramatically cross-linguistically, with …
Typology and Universals
Av William Croft, S. R. Anderson m. fl.
Häftad, 2002
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754 kr
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Comparison of the grammars of human languages reveals systematic patterns of variation. Typology and universals research uncovers those patterns to formulate universal constraints on language and seek their exploration. In this essential textbook, William Croft presents a comprehensive introduction …
Grammaticalization
Av Paul J. Hopper, Elizabeth Closs Traugott
Inbunden, 2003
1362 kr
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This is a general introduction to grammaticalization, the change whereby lexical terms and constructions come in certain linguistic contexts to serve grammatical functions, and, once grammaticalized, continue to develop new grammatical functions. The authors synthesize work from several areas of …
Binding Theory
Häftad, 2005
1223 kr
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Binding theory seeks to explain how different kinds of nominal expressions such as names, noun phrases and pronouns have anaphoric relations amongst one another, and how they come to have reference to things in the world. This textbook provides a thorough and comprehensive introduction to modern …
Case
Häftad, 2001
737 kr
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Case is an accessible introduction for students of linguistics to the ways relations between words in sentences are marked in languages. Case is fundamental to the whole system of language. One of its most interesting features is the recurrence of apparently idiosyncratic patterns and devices in …
Analyzing Sound Patterns
An Introduction to Phonology
Av Long Peng
Häftad, 2013
754 kr
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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 textbook shows students how to analyze phonological …
Conversation Analysis
Häftad, 2016
586 kr
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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 is the first ever book-length linguistic introduction to conversation analysis (CA), the …
Figurative Language
Av Barbara Dancygier, Eve Sweetser
Häftad, 2014
553 kr
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This lively introduction to figurative language explains a broad range of concepts, including metaphor, metonymy, simile, and blending, and develops new tools for analyzing them. It coherently grounds the linguistic understanding of these concepts in basic cognitive mechanisms such as …
Analyzing Sound Patterns
An Introduction to Phonology
Av Long Peng
Inbunden, 2013
1677 kr
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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 textbook shows students how to analyze phonological …
Conversation Analysis
Inbunden, 2016
1307 kr
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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 is the first ever book-length linguistic introduction to conversation analysis (CA), the …
Statistics in Language Studies
Av Anthony Woods, Paul Fletcher m. fl.
Inbunden, 1986
1506 kr
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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 aspects of applied linguistics. The authors give a wide …
Second Language Acquisition
Inbunden, 1986
860 kr
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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 and psychologists have become increasingly …
Statistics in Language Studies
Av Anthony Woods, Paul Fletcher m. fl.
Häftad, 1986
770 kr
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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 aspects of applied linguistics. The authors give a wide …
Psycholinguistics
Av Michael Garman, S. R. Anderson m. fl.
Häftad, 1990
1056 kr
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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. It aims to be comprehensive in its coverage, dealing with both written and spoken …
Lexical Semantics
Av D. A. Cruse
Häftad, 1986
874 kr
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Lexical Semantics is about the meaning of words. Although obviously a central concern of linguistics, the semantic behaviour of words has been unduly neglected in the current literature, which has tended to emphasize sentential semantics and its relation to formal systems of logic. In this textbook …
Tense
Av Bernard Comrie, S. R. Anderson m. fl.
Häftad, 1985
544 kr
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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, bringing together a rich collection of illustrative material that student and specialist alike will …
Phonology
An Introduction to Basic Concepts
Av Roger Lass
Häftad, 1984
901 kr
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What is the phonological organisation of natural languages like? What theoretical and analytical approaches are most fruitful? Is there any phonological theory that is 'the best' in all ways? The student of phonology is currently faced with a number of major and apparently competing theories, and …
Discourse Analysis
Av Gillian Brown, George Yule m. fl.
Häftad, 1983
599 kr
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Discourse analysis is a term that has come to have different interpretations for scholars working in different disciplines. For a sociolinguist, it is concerned mainly with the structure of social interaction manifested in conversation; for a psycholinguist, it is primarily concerned with the …
English Word-Formation
Av Laurie Bauer, S. R. Anderson
Häftad, 1983
770 kr
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Interest in word-formation is probably as old as interest in language itself. As Dr Bauer points out in his Introduction, many of the questions that scholars are asking now were also being asked in the seventeenth, eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. However, there is still little agreement on …
Aspect
An Introduction to the Study of Verbal Aspect and Related Problems
Häftad, 1976
612 kr
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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. Dr Comrie draws his examples particularly from English and the Slavonic and Romance …
Logic in Linguistics
Av Jens Allwood, Jens Allwood m. fl.
Häftad, 1977
804 kr
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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 applied to the study of natural languages and some …
Historical Linguistics
Av Theodora Bynon, S. R. Anderson m. fl.
Häftad, 1977
599 kr
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Historical Linguistics is concerned with the process of language change through time. It investigates how and why the language of individuals, a social group or a whole 'speech community' develops in respect of its pronunciation, vocabulary and grammar. Dr Bynon regards language as essentially a …
Semantic Theory
Häftad, 1977
640 kr
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Semantics is a bridge discipline between linguistics and philosophy; but linguistics student are rarely able to reach that bridge, let alone cross it to inspect and assess the activity on the other side. Professor Kempson's textbook seeks particularly to encourage such exchanges. She deals with the …
The Physics of Speech
Häftad, 1979
599 kr
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The mechanism of speech is a very complex one and in order to undertake any analysis of language it is important to understand the processes that go to make up the message that a speaker transmits and a listener receives. Professor Fry therefore first takes the reader through the various stages of …
Pragmatics
Häftad, 1983
791 kr
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Those aspects of language use that are crucial to an understanding of language as a system, and especially to an understanding of meaning, are the acknowledged concern of linguistic pragmatics. This textbook provides a lucid and integrative analysis of the central topics in pragmatics - deixis, …
Introduction to the Grammar of English
Av Rodney Huddleston, S. R. Anderson
Häftad, 1984
838 kr
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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. The book is written for students who may have no previous knowledge of linguistics …
Second Language Acquisition
Av Wolfgang Klein, S. R. Anderson m. fl.
Häftad, 1986
737 kr
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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 and psychologists have become increasingly …
