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The Intonation of English Statements and Questions: A Compositional Interpretation by Christine Bartels 9781138973220
RRP: £45.99£40.13First 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 -
Intensifiers in English and German: A Comparison by Peter Siemund 9781138972919
RRP: £9.99£8.95This 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... -
Input-based Phonological Acquisition by Tania S. Zamuner 9781138972803
RRP: £47.99£41.81This 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... -
Constraints on Reflexivization in Mandarin Chinese by Haihua Pan 9781138971592
RRP: £47.99£41.81First 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 -
Consonant Strength: Phonological Patterns and Phonetic Manifestations by Lisa M. Lavoie 9781138971578
RRP: £47.99£41.81This 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... -
Confessions of a Lapsed Neo-Davidsonian: Events and Arguments in Compositional Semantics by Samuel L. Bayer 9781138971509
RRP: £47.99£42.21First 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 -
Existential Sentences: Their Structure and Meaning by Michael Lumsden 9781138969278
RRP: £43.99£38.44What 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... -
Distinctiveness, Coercion and Sonority: A Unified Theory of Weight by Bruce Moren 9781138967816
RRP: £47.99£41.81This 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... -
Embodying Beauty: Twentieth-Century American Women Writers' Aesthetics by Malin Pereira 9781138968615
RRP: £47.99£41.81First 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 by Mira Ariel 9781138965737
RRP: £43.99£38.44Accessing 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... -
A Linguistic Description and Computer Program for Children's Speech by Geoffrey J. Turner 9781138965553
RRP: £19.99£17.69This 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... -
Ellipsis and wa-marking in Japanese Conversation by John Fry 9781138968585
RRP: £47.99£41.81First 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 -
A Situated Theory of Agreement by Michael Barlow 9781138965638
RRP: £43.99£38.84Typical 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... -
Basque Phonology by Jose Ignacio Hualde 9781138964433
RRP: £43.99£38.44This 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... -
Auditory Representations in Phonology by Edward Stanton Flemming 9781138964143
RRP: £47.99£41.81This book provides evidence for the importance of auditory properties of speech sounds in phonology.Book InformationISBN 9781138964143Author Edward Stanton FlemmingFormat PaperbackPage Count 184Imprint RoutledgePublisher Taylor & Francis... -
Women, Men and Language: A Sociolinguistic Account of Gender Differences in Language by Jennifer Coates 9781138948778
RRP: £125.00£107.86Women, Men and Language has long been established as a seminal text in the field of language and gender, providing an account of the many ways in which language and gender intersect. In this pioneering book, bestselling author Jennifer Coates explores... -
English Language Proficiency Assessments for Young Learners by Mikyung Kim Wolf 9781138940352
RRP: £135.00£117.68English Language Proficiency Assessments for Young Learners provides both theoretical and empirical information about assessing the English language proficiency of young learners. Using large-scale standardized English language proficiency assessments... -
Practical Phonetics for Students of African Languages by Ida C. Ward 9781138930940
RRP: £37.99£33.38First published in 1933, this book looks at the phonetics of African languages. It argues that a good grounding in phonetics and tone work is an indispensable preliminary to any one embarking on a study of African language and so provides the material... -
The Routledge Student Guide to English Usage: A guide to academic writing for students by Stewart Clark 9781138933583
RRP: £135.00£117.68The Routledge Student Guide to English Usage is an invaluable A-Z guide to the appropriate use of English in academic contexts. The first part of the book covers approximately 4000 carefully selected words, focusing on groups of confusable words... -
Race(ing) Intercultural Communication: Racial Logics in a Colorblind Era by Eama G. Moon 9781138921764
RRP: £86.99£75.54Race(ing) Intercultural Communication signals a crucial intervention in the field, as well as in wider society, where social and political events are calling for new ways of making sense of race in the 21st century. Contributors to this book work at... -
The Languages of Ghana by Mary E. Kropp Dakubu 9781138926202
RRP: £110.00£95.11First published in 1988, this book provides an easily accessible handbook of knowledge about the languages of Ghana; their geographical distribution, their relationships with each other, the social patterns of their use, and their structures. Besides the... -
Why Study Linguistics by Kristin Denham 9781138925878
RRP: £105.00£90.86Why Study Linguistics is designed to help anyone with an interest in studying language understand what linguistics is, and what linguists do. Exploring how the scientific study of language differs from other ways of investigating this uniquely human... -
Towards a Contextual Grammar of English: The Clause and its Place in the Definition of Sentence by Eugene Winter 9781138918566
RRP: £37.99£33.38This study, first published in 1982, attempts to show that the foundations of a contextual grammar of English must be firmly based on an adequate definition of the sentence. This book will be of interest to students of language and linguistics.Book... -
Questions of Intonation by Karen L. Currie 9781138918214
RRP: £29.99£26.64First published in 1980, this book questions many of the assumptions that have accumulated around the subject of intonation as it occurs in spontaneous speech, as well as texts read aloud. The book suggests alternative ways of examining the subject and... -
Anaphoric Relations in English and French: A Discourse Perspective by Francis Cornish 9781138918351
RRP: £37.99£33.38First published in 1986, this book focuses on Anaphoric relations in the English and French languages, a phenomenon that involves a complex interaction between grammar and discourse. Studies of anaphora taking a largely 'textual' approach to the... -
Questions of Intonation by Joanne Kenworthy 9781138917972
£91.60First published in 1980, this book questions many of the assumptions that have accumulated around the subject of intonation as it occurs in spontaneous speech, as well as texts read aloud. The book suggests alternative ways of examining the subject and... -
An Historic Tongue: Studies in English Linguistics in Memory of Barbara Strang by Graham Nixon 9781138917446
RRP: £24.99£21.81This volume, first published in 1988, represents in its papers the wide-ranging yet coherent linguistic interests of the late Barbara Strang (1925-1982). For her, the history of English and its current state were two sides of the same coin, and the... -
On the Semantics of Syntax: Mood and Condition in English by Eirian C. Davies 9781138919440
RRP: £37.99£33.38First published in 1979, this book develops a grammatically orientated semantics (as opposed to a semantically orientated grammar) of mood and condition in English. It seeks to establish correspondences between areas of semantic organisation ('planes')... -
A Comparative Typology of English and German: Unifying the Contrasts by John A. Hawkins 9781138919228
RRP: £105.00£90.86First published in 1986, this book draws together analyses of English and German. It defines the contrasts and similarities between the two languages and, in particular, looks at the question of whether contrasts in one area of the grammar is... -
The Elements of English: An Introduction to the Principles of the Study of Language by William Branford 9781138918788
RRP: £37.99£33.38First published in 1967, this book was based on new descriptions of English emerging from recent research. It provides an introduction to the study of the English language for the first-year university student. It will also be invaluable to all those... -
Studies in the Pronunciation of English: A Commemorative Volume in Honour of A.C. Gimson by Susan Ramsaran 9781138918658
RRP: £49.99£43.50First 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. Gimson, Professor of Phonetics at University College London, 1966-83, was the most distinguished and... -
Pattern in English: A Fresh Approach to Grammar by W. H. Mittins 9781138917132
RRP: £37.99£33.38This book, first published in 1950, is a collection of what the author felt to be the minimum of English grammar relevant to efficient communication in language. The scope of this title was determined by collecting from children's writings examples of... -
A Dictionary of Abbreviations: With Especial Attention to War-Time Abbreviations by Eric Partridge 9781138912243
RRP: £47.99£41.81First 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 abbreviations. The preface notes that newspaper readers, sailors, soldiers and airmen had to thrust... -
A Dictionary of Abbreviations: With Especial Attention to War-Time Abbreviations by Eric Partridge 9781138912120
RRP: £120.00£103.61First 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 abbreviations. The preface notes that newspaper readers, sailors, soldiers and airmen had to thrust... -
Studies in the Phonology of Colloquial English by K. R. Lodge 9781138909663
£71.60This book, first published in 1984, presents a series of analysis of colloquial spoken language, to illustrate some of the variety of phonological features of British English. These studies provide significant insights into linguistic varieties and their... -
Linguistica: Selected Papers in English, French and German by Otto Jespersen 9781138908529
RRP: £41.99£37.15This volume, first published in 1933, brings together a collection of Otto Jespersen's papers in English, German, and French, which he himself felt should be presented to an international public. This title gives a picture of Jespersen's development and... -
Language in Children by Eve V. Clark 9781138906044
RRP: £105.00£90.86Language in Children provides a concise and basic introduction for students studying child language acquisition for the first time. Starting from the first sounds a child produces, this book covers all the stages a child goes through in acquiring a... -
The World of Words: An Introduction to Language in General and to English and American in Particular by Eric Partridge 9781138904446
RRP: £47.99£41.81First published in 1939, this book provides a brief but comprehensive view of language in general, and of English and American language in particular. It is suitable for beginners and those who wish to learn about the basics of linguistics.Book... -
Comic Alphabets: Their Origin, Development, Nature by Eric Partridge 9781138904378
RRP: £47.99£41.81Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
Origins of Predicates: Evidence from Plains Cree by Tomio Hirose 9781138994690
RRP: £45.99£40.13This book offers a new perspective on natural language predicates by analyzing data from the Plains Cree language. Contrary to traditional understanding, Cree verbal complexes are syntactic constructs composed of morphemes as syntactic objects that are...