Linguistics

This volume brings together a number of previously published papers, which reflect a middle-of-the-road approach in Linguistic Analysis. The first ...

This edited volume represents the best of the scholarship presented at the 18th National Communication Association/American Forensic Association Co...

This book, first published in 1950, is a collection of what the author felt to be the minimum of English grammar relevant to efficient communicatio...

For Roy Harris, the fundamental problem about linguistics is that it has been led astray by the fact that we are capable intellectually of ‘deconte...

Our use of spatial prepositions carries an implicit understanding of the functional relationships both between objects themselves and human interac...

This book primarily examines verbal prefixes expressing aspectuality in the Old and Middle English periods, but it also takes a look at the post-ve...

This study is an investigation into the comparative phonology and lexicon of six barely-known Bantu varieties spoken in Kenya. These varieties (Ime...

History and Development of the Arabic Language is a general introduction for students to the history of the Arabic language. It is divided into two...

Dieser Band versammelt Beiträge des 47. Linguistischen Kolloquiums an der Universität Olsztyn (Polen) zum Thema Materialität und Medialität der spr...

An Introduction to English Grammar provides a comprehensive overview of all aspects of English grammar. The first part of the book (‘The Grammar’) ...

A famous English hymn does not start with He who would be valiant, but He who would valiant be with valiant in dislocated position in the clause. T...

This book was shortlisted for the ESSE Book Awards 2014This volume investigates Left Dislocation (LD) in the recent history of English, especially ...

This volume contains contributions from leaders in the field of child language in honor of one of the preeminent scholars in the field of child lan...

This study makes Romania’s largely unknown Joycean heritage visible to an international readership. Reviewing Joyce’s critical reception and transl...

The global spread of English both reproduces and reinforces oppressive structures of inequality. But such structures can no longer be seen as impos...

Migration as a process has achieved increasing attention in the context of nation-states and globalisation. In linguistics the field of language co...

This book presents a selection of papers on teaching English as a foreign language and the role of language education in human development. As thin...

This book sets out to explore the reception of Scotland’s best-loved writer Robert Burns in Germany, beginning with Burns’s contemporaries in a Ger...

The fifth volume in the series Language Competence and Language Awareness in Europe unites a collection of peer-reviewed papers delivered at the Th...

The goal of the present study was to identify, describe and account for bilingual (Russian-Hebrew) varieties spoken in the Russian immigrant commun...

First Published in 1999. This book is divided into two parts. The first part is essentially a response to a minimalist question: how perfect is lan...

The globalisation of the present day world economy means that more and more people are experiencing different cultures through their work. Focusing...

The application of postcolonial theories to Irish literature remains a contentious issue. Unlike other colonised nations, Ireland shared a long his...

This book aims to aid English teachers at the junior and senior secondary school levels in teaching pronunciation within a regular EFL syllabus. It...