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The English Language
The English Language: A Historical Introduction covers the history of the English language from its prehistoric Indo-European origins to the present... Les mer
An Independent Study Guide to Reading Latin
Reading Latin, written by Peter V. Jones and Keith C. Sidwell and published by Cambridge University Press in 1986, is a Latin course designed to help... Les mer
Language and Conceptualization
To what extent is conceptualization based on linguistic representation? And to what extent is it variable across cultures, communities, or even... Les mer
Using Japanese
This is a guide to Japanese usage for students who have already acquired the basics of the language and wish to extend their knowledge. Unlike... Les mer
African Languages: An Introduction
This book is an introduction to African languages and linguistics, covering typology, structure and sociolinguistics. The twelve chapters are written... Les mer
Number
Number is the most underestimated of the grammatical categories. It is deceptively simple yet the number system which philosophers, logicians and... Les mer
The Evolutionary Emergence of Language
Language has no counterpart in the animal world. Unique to Homo sapiens, it appears inseparable from human nature. But how, when and why did it... Les mer
Using Japanese
This is a guide to Japanese usage for students who have already acquired the basics of the language and wish to extend their knowledge. Unlike... Les mer
Biolinguistics
This book investigates the nature of human language and its importance for the study of the mind. In particular, it examines current work on the... Les mer
Morpheme Order and Semantic Scope
Athapaskan languages are well known for their intricate morphology, in particular the complexity of their verbs. The significance of these languages... Les mer
Number
Number is the most underestimated of the grammatical categories. It is deceptively simple yet the number system which philosophers, logicians and... Les mer
Changing Valency
This book provides a general perspective on valency-changing mechanisms - passives, antipassives, causatives, applicatives - in the languages of the... Les mer
Studies in Contemporary Phrase Structure Grammar
This book explores a wide variety of theoretically central issues in the framework of Head-Driven Phrase Structure Grammar (HPSG), a major theory of... Les mer
Lexical Phonology and the History of English
This book has two main goals: the re-establishment of a rule-based phonology as a viable alternative to current non-derivational models and the... Les mer
African Languages: An Introduction
This book is an introduction to African languages and linguistics, covering typology, structure and sociolinguistics. The twelve chapters are written... Les mer
Systems of Nominal Classification
This book addresses the fundamental linguistic question of how the perceived world is expressed through systems of nominal classification that are... Les mer
The Morphology of Chinese
This ground breaking study dispels the common belief that Chinese doesn’t have words but instead has characters. Jerome Packard’s book provides a... Les mer
Tone Sandhi
Matthew Chen’s study offers a most comprehensive analysis of the rich and complex patterns of tone used in Chinese languages. Chinese has a wide... Les mer
The Cambridge History of the English Language
This volume of the Cambridge History of the English Language covers the period 1476–1776, beginning at the time of the establishment of Caxton’s... Les mer
Optimality Theory
This is an introduction to Optimality Theory, whose central idea is that surface forms of language reflect resolutions of conflicts between competing... Les mer
The Linguistics of British Sign Language
This is the first detailed explanation of the way British Sign Language works and is the product of many years’ experience of research and teaching... Les mer
Standard Arabic Teacher’s handbook
This course is designed for students who have completed a first-level course in Arabic and wish to pursue the subject to degree level. It aims to... Les mer
Modern Chinese
The Chinese language, spoken by over one billion people, has undergone drastic changes over the past century in a way unparalleled at any time... Les mer
Conditionals and Prediction
This book offers a new and in-depth analysis of English conditional sentences. In a wide-ranging discussion, Dancygier classifies conditional... Les mer