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This book is based on a close study of modern drama texts. In the first section - Dialogue - it studies specific drama texts. Drama has been neglected by linguistic studies of literature, and this book develops a new area of literary-linguistic...

First Published in 2002. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.Book InformationISBN 9781138994751Author Katy CarlsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 244Imprint RoutledgePublisher Taylor & Francis LtdWeight(grams) 449g

This book studies the syntax of switch-reference and its implications for the theory of grammar. Switch-reference, found in many genetically and geographically diverse languages, is a phenomenon whereby referential identity between subjects of...

In recent work the imperative seems to have attracted much less attention than the interrogative, perhaps because it appears to be a rather simple structure, easily accounted for in a page or two in manuals of English grammar, and probably also because...

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...

Tense is one of the central issues of linguistics, and has been the focus of much attention in recent years. In this book, Declerck offers a detailed discussion of the temporal structures that are expressed by the combination of tense forms with the...

Raymond Harris-Northall uses the distinctive features of generative phonology to present synchronic and diachronic rules, but exploits the evidence of the history of the Spanish sound system to show that the 'simplicity' required by the generativists...

First Published in 1999. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.Book InformationISBN 9781138983939Author Christopher KennedyFormat PaperbackPage Count 264Imprint RoutledgePublisher Taylor & Francis LtdWeight(grams) 490g

First Published in 2000. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.Book InformationISBN 9781138984011Author Sonia FrotaFormat PaperbackPage Count 460Imprint RoutledgePublisher Taylor & Francis LtdWeight(grams) 848g

Turkic languages present particularly rich sources of data for the study of language contact, given the number and diversity of languages with which they have been in contact. Many common, false generalisations are laid bare and the methodology used in...

In acquiring communicative competence, children must learn to speak not only grammatically but also appropriately. Although rules for appropriate language use may vary from culture to culture, they are usually sensitive across languages to many of the...

Natural language understanding is central to the goals of artificial intelligence. Any truly intelligent machine must be capable of carrying on a conversation: dialogue, particularly clarification dialogue, is essential if we are to avoid disasters...

Using acoustic studies of Bernese, Hungarian, Levantine Arabic and Madurese, the author argues that differences in geminate timing are ultimately correlated with whether a language is syllable-or mora-timed.Book InformationISBN 9781138978430Author...

First Published in 1999. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.Book InformationISBN 9781138981157Author Jeff MacSwanFormat PaperbackPage Count 306Imprint RoutledgePublisher Taylor & Francis LtdWeight(grams) 608g

This book investigates the nature of the relationship between phonology and syntax and proposes a theory of Minimal Indirect Reference that solves many classic problems relating to the topic.Book InformationISBN 9781138981140Author Amanda SeidlFormat...

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...

There are fewer distinctions in any language than there are distinct things in the universe. If, therefore, languages are ways of representing the universe, a primary function of their elements must be to allow the much more varied kinds of elements out...

This study provides an illuminating and ground-breaking account of the complex interaction of intonational phenomena, semantics and pragmatics. Based on examples from German and English, and centred on an analysis of the fall-rise intonation contour, a...

Although linguistics is often a technical and increasingly abstruse discipline, many linguists retain a concern for the way in which linguistics can shed light on literature and literary problems. In their introductory chapter, the editors of this...

The main topic of this work is the interaction between syntactic structure and meanin within the noun phrase, with data drwn primarily from English and Italian.Book InformationISBN 9781138979529Author Rob ZamparelliFormat PaperbackPage Count 332Imprint...

This book discusses to what extent errors young children make with their interpretation of definite articles and pronouns are due to their immature pragmatic skills, and to what extent incomplete syntactic development plays a role.Book InformationISBN...

First Published in 2005. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.Book InformationISBN 9781138974180Author J. VendryesFormat PaperbackPage Count 408Imprint RoutledgePublisher Taylor & Francis LtdWeight(grams) 454g

The first edition of this major introduction to linguistics rapidly established itself as an important student textbook, and a reference tool for those who already have some acquaintance with linguistics. This second edition has been updated and revised...

Despite a vast amount of study, literacy is still a very confused topic, which requires the integration of findings from different areas. Reading and writing are psychological skills, but they are also linguistic skills (since people read and write...

Despite the advances of radio and television and increasing mobility and urbanization, spoken English is by no means becoming more like the written standard. English dialect grammar, however, is still a new and relatively undeveloped area of research,...

First Published in 1998. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.Book InformationISBN 9781138975415Author Diane C. NelsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 282Imprint RoutledgePublisher Taylor & Francis LtdWeight(grams) 454g

First Published in 1999. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.Book InformationISBN 9781138973220Author Christine BartelsFormat PaperbackPage Count 316Imprint RoutledgePublisher Taylor & Francis LtdWeight(grams) 581g

This book deals with expressions like English myself, yourself, himself and so on, and German selbst from a perspective of language comparison. It is the first book-length study of intensifiers ever written. The study investigates the syntax and...

This book provides an analysis of two theories of language acquisition: the theory that acquisition is primarily mediated by innate properties of language provided by universal grammar, and the opposing theory that language is acquired based on the...

First Published in 1997. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.Book InformationISBN 9781138971592Author Haihua PanFormat PaperbackPage Count 276Imprint RoutledgePublisher Taylor & Francis LtdWeight(grams) 454g

This book is a detailed examination of the phonetics and phonology of consonant strength, drawing data from parallel acoustic and articulatory studies of English and Spanish, as well as a cross linguistic survey of lenition and fortition.Book...

First Published in 1997. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.Book InformationISBN 9781138971509Author Samuel L. BayerFormat PaperbackPage Count 312Imprint RoutledgePublisher Taylor & Francis LtdWeight(grams) 454g

What is the relationship between the structure of existential sentences and their meaning? How do hearers interpret existential sentences using pragmatic assumptions? This study attempts to account for the relationship between the structure of...

This volume proposes a unified weight theory that challenges traditionally held beliefs regarding the vowel/consonant dichotomy inherent in moraicity and illuminates many previously intractable issues.Book InformationISBN 9781138967816Author Bruce...

First Published in 2000. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.Book InformationISBN 9781138968615Author Malin PereiraFormat PaperbackPage Count 210Imprint RoutledgePublisher Taylor & Francis LtdWeight(grams) 390g

Accessing Noun-Phrase Antecedents offers a radical shift in the analysis of discourse anaphora, from a purely pragmatic account to a cognitive account, in terms of processing procedures. Mira Ariel defines referring expressions as markers signalling the...

This book presents a framework for the linguistic analysis of speech and a computer program to process the results of this analysis. The model of description for the linguistic analysis is that known as 'scale-and-category' grammar. It is particularly...

First published in 2003. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.Book InformationISBN 9781138968585Author John FryFormat PaperbackPage Count 220Imprint RoutledgePublisher Taylor & Francis LtdWeight(grams) 408g

Typical cases of agreement are easy to identify, but where the boundaries of agreement lie depend on what aspects of the agreement relation are considered to be defining properties. It is a short step from viewing agreement in the traditional way, as a...

This book is the first comprehensive treatment of the phonological system of Basque available in English. Basque is a morphologically rich and fairly regular language with a number of active phonological rules that are limited to certain morphological...