Linguistics category: 5616 books

Cover of Essential Topics in Applied Linguistics and Multilingualism
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Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2013

This book brings together papers dealing with essential issues in applied linguistics and multilingualism that have been contributed by leading figures in these two fields and present state-of-the-art developments in theory and research. The first part includes articles touching on various aspects...
Cover of Theoretical Linguistics and Disordered Language (RLE Linguistics B: Grammar)
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Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2014

The rapid increase of interest in disordered speech and language among linguists over the past decade or so has resulted in many books of practical help to speech pathologists in terms of assessment and remediation. Little, however, has appeared to examine the theoretical implications of the interaction...
Cover of Plains Cree Morphosyntax (RLE Linguistics F: World Linguistics)
by Amy Dahlstrom
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2014

This book explores several topics in Cree morphology, syntax and discourse structure. Cree, an Algonquian language, is non-configurational: the grammatical relations of subject and object are not expressed by word order or other constituent structure relations, as they are in a configurational language...
Cover of A Dictionary of Grammatical Terms in Linguistics
by R.L. Trask
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2013

This dictionary of grammatical terms covers both current and traditional terminology in syntax and morphology. It includes descriptive terms, the major theoretical concepts of the most influential grammatical frameworks, and the chief terms from mathematical and computational linguistics. It contains...
Cover of Reduced Constructions in Spanish (RLE Linguistics E: Indo-European Linguistics)
by John C. Moore
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2014

This book discusses a class of Reduced Constructions which exhibit both mono- and bi-clausal characteristics. In Spanish, as well as other Romance languages, the most salient mono-clausal characteristic is the possibility of clitic climbing, i.e. the possibility of an object clitic attaching to a...
Cover of Universal Grammar (RLE Linguistics A: General Linguistics)
by Edward L. Keenan
Language: English
Release Date: February 3, 2014

This collection of 15 articles reflects Edward Keenan’s long-standing research interests in the comparative syntax of the languages of the world. It includes two seminal ‘foundation’ articles, Noun Phrase Accessibility and Universal Grammar (with Bernard Comrie) and Towards a Universal Definition...
Cover of A Theory of Stylistic Rules in English (RLE Linguistics A: General Linguistics)
by Michael Rochemont
Language: English
Release Date: February 3, 2014

This book defends in part a particular elaboration of the stylistic rule component of the grammatical model first presented in Chomsky and Lasnik (1977). It is argued that stylistic rules share a number of fundamental properties, most significantly that they characterize noncanonical focusing constructions...
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Understanding Language

A Basic Course in Linguistics

by Dr. Elizabeth Winkler
Language: English
Release Date: July 9, 2015

Understanding Language is the second edition of this introduction to linguistics aimed at all students who are new to the subject. The book is comprehensive in its coverage of the key areas of linguistics, yet explains these in an easy to understand, jargon-free way. Pictures, diagrams, tables and...
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Evaluating Cartesian Linguistics

From Historical Antecedents to Computational Modeling

by Christina Behme
Language: English
Release Date: June 11, 2014

This book evaluates Noam Chomsky’s contributions to linguistics and focuses on the historical justification for Cartesian Linguistics, the evolution of Chomsky’s theorizing, empirical language acquisition work, and computational modeling of language learning. Chomsky claims that his view is situated...
Cover of Lectures on Legal Linguistics
by Marcus Galdia
Language: English
Release Date: September 27, 2017

This book describes law from the perspective of its language. It expands, reformulates and reshapes the author’s previous book «Legal Linguistics». The recomposed text corresponds to lectures held for students of legal linguistics and scholars interested in the fundamental legal-linguistic research....
Cover of Variation in Linguistic Systems
by James A. Walker
Language: English
Release Date: July 26, 2012

Tying together work on a number of languages and linguistic varieties in different locales, this book provides students and researchers with a convenient, unified overview of variationist analysis in linguistics. Variation in Linguistic Systems takes a theoretical and quantitative approach to the...
Cover of The Conceptual Basis of Language (RLE Linguistics A: General Linguistics)
by David McNeill
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2014

In this volume, the author deals explicitly and literally with the speech-thought relationship. Departing boldly from contemporary linguistic and psycholinguistic thinking, the author offers us one of the truly serious efforts since Vygotsky to deal with this question. A unifying theme is the organization...
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Corpus Linguistics for ELT

Research and Practice

by Ivor Timmis
Language: English
Release Date: March 27, 2015

Corpus Linguistics for ELT provides a practical guide to undertaking ELT-related corpus research. Aimed at researchers, advanced undergraduate and postgraduate students of ELT and TESOL, and English language teachers, this volume: covers corpus research in the main areas of language study relevant...
Cover of Morphological Structure, Lexical Representation and Lexical Access (RLE Linguistics C: Applied Linguistics)
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Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2014

The main concern of this work is whether morphemes play a role in the lexical representation and processing of several types of polymorphemic words and, more particularly, at what precise representational and processing level. The book comprises two theoretical contributions and a number of empirical...
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