Language: History & General Works

First published in 1940, this book provides a literary dictionary to the New Testament. The treatment of selected words and phrases is not theologi...

Adopting a multi-disciplinary approach, the book provides a thorough grounding in metaphor and word meaning, theories on the processing and underst...

This work, first published in 1979, was a doctoral dissertation submitted to the Department of Foreign Literatures and Linguistics of the Massachus...

This volume, first published in 1988, represents in its papers the wide-ranging yet coherent linguistic interests of the late Barbara Strang (1925-...

Standard English draws together the leading international scholars in the field, who confront the debates surrounding 'Standard English', grammar a...

First published in 1942, this dictionary was designed to help civilians and members of H.M. forces to make their way amid the jungle of wartime abb...

First published in 1939, this book provides a brief but comprehensive view of language in general, and of English and American language in particul...

Subject and Object in Modern English, first published in 1979, deals with subjects in the English language (one of the two main constituents of a c...

This work, first published in 1979, was a doctoral dissertation submitted to the Department of Foreign Literatures and Linguistics of the Massachus...

The genius of Shakespeare is not always accessible or easily understandable to readers and audiences. Leon Kellner points out that sometimes Shakes...

First published in 1991, this book examines the communicative properties of ‘cleft’ and ‘pseudo-cleft’ constructions in contemporary English. The b...

First published in 1942, this dictionary was designed to help civilians and members of H.M. forces to make their way amid the jungle of wartime abb...

This book investigates the theoretical, empirical and pedagogical issues to help us better understand what is happening with English as a Lingua Fr...

First published in 1991, this book looks at tense in English, one of the most controversial areas of grammar. Prior to the book’s original publicat...

This work, first published in 1980, was a doctoral dissertation submitted to the Department of Foreign Literatures and Linguistics of the Massachus...

First published in 1940, this book provides a literary dictionary to the New Testament. The treatment of selected words and phrases is not theologi...

First published in 1933 (this edition in 1939), this book sees Partridge introducing the reader to the eccentric lexicographers Wesley and Captain ...

First published in 1988, this book explores the grammatical loss of gender in English. It demonstrates that from the end of the Old English period,...

Corpus Linguistics for Translation and Contrastive Studies provides a clear and practical introduction to using corpora in these fields. Giving spe...

First published in 1933, this book explores both contemporary and historical slang, focusing on the characteristics and quirks of the English and A...

M.A.K Halliday’s work has been hugely influential in linguistics and beyond since the 1960s. This is a collection of interviews with key figures in...

Since the 1960s, the literary critic Harold Bloom has been producing some of the most powerful criticism in the United States. This large body of w...

Up until the mid-1980s most pragmatic analysis had been done on spoken language use, considerably less on written use, and very little at all on li...

First published in 1933, this book explores both contemporary and historical slang, focusing on the characteristics and quirks of the English and A...

First published in 1986, this book draws together analyses of English and German. It defines the contrasts and similarities between the two languag...

The Routledge Dictionary of Modern American Slang offers the ultimate record of modern, post WW2 American Slang. The 25,000 entries are accompanied...

First published in 1979, this book develops a grammatically orientated semantics (as opposed to a semantically orientated grammar) of mood and cond...

This dissertation, first published in 1980, is concerned with the role of the syllable in generative grammar. Kahn argues that the syllable is a ne...

This standard work on punctuation has long been judged the foremost study of the subject. It reveals punctuation to be both an indispensable craft ...

In the period A.D. 400-1100, perhaps more than in any other, it is necessary to bring together the results of historical, archaeological and place-...

First published in 1990, this collection celebrates the life and work of Professor A. C. Gimson, four years after his untimely death in 1985. A. C....

**NOT FOR SALE IN THE USA, CANADA OR THE PHILIPPINES**A History of the English Language explores the linguistic and cultural development of English...

A pioneering critic, educator, and poet, I. A. Richards (1893-1979) helped the English-speaking world decide not only what to read but how to read ...

From 'shotclog', a Yorkshire term for a companion only tolerated because he is paying for the drinks, to Albanian having 29 words to describe diffe...

This book provides the first comprehensive overview of theoretical issues, historical developments and current trends in ICALL (Intelligent Compute...

First published in 1988, this book is concerned with the definite and indefinite articles in English. It provides an integrated pragmatic-semantic ...