Linguistics

The main concern of this work is whether morphemes play a role in the lexical representation and processing of several types of polymorphemic words...

The past two decades have created quantitatively higher and qualitatively different demands for foreign language skills. Learners’ needs, expectati...

This book is a collection of linguistic and philosophical papers dealing with the semantic problems of determiners. The language under investigatio...

This book shows the evolution of the Concise Oxford Dictionary, a famous and innovative dictionary for native speakers of English. It traces change...

Auf qui und auf qua L‘ accento non va Mit Übungsaufgaben samt Lösungen Steht der nächste Test an, haben Sie italienische Kollegen, mit denen Sie si...

Over the years, a major strand of Miyagawa's research has been to study how syntax, case marking, and argument structure interact. In particular, M...

Over the past decade, the focus of inquiry into the psychology of SLA has shifted from the analysis of various characteristics within individuals t...

In this study, Bartlett presents a theoretical and descriptive development in the discipline of Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA) extending the rec...

First Published in 2002. This volume is part of the 'Outstanding Dissertations in Linguistics' series, and focuses on phonetics, phonology and diac...

Talking the Talk provides a comprehensive introduction to the psychology of language, written for the reader with no background in the field or any...

This volume of papers from the 14th International Conference on Methods in Dialectology, held at the University of Western Ontario (Canada), 2 to 6...

The fourteen essays presented here discuss the development of English during the Middle English period: how the language developed from Old English...

This book investigates two prominent issues with regard to the inflected infinitive-the syntactic distribution of the Portuguese inflected infiniti...

Comment les mots permettent-ils d’appréhender ces objets obscurs que sont nos emotions ? Diverses langues européennes offrent-elles les mêmes persp...

This book focuses on two major traditions in the study of Modern English grammar: ‘old grammar’ in the Great Tradition of Sweet, Poutsma, Kruisinga...

Turkic languages present particularly rich sources of data for the study of language contact, given the number and diversity of languages with whic...

This book provides an extended exploration of the multimodal analysis of spatial (three-dimensional) texts of the built environment, culminating in...

Spoken word access processes are the mental processes which underlie our ability to recognise spoken words. They are the perceptual processes which...

The Kets of Central Siberia are perhaps the most enigmatic of Siberia's aboriginal tribes. Today numbering barely 1,100 souls living in several sma...

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...