Longman Linguistics Library
A History of English Phonology
1st Edition
By Charles Jones
March 06, 2017
This is an attempt to view historical phonological change as an ongoing, recurrent process. The author sees like events occurring at all periods, a phenomenon which he considers is disguised by too great a reliance upon certain characteristics of the scholarly tradition. Thus he argues that those ...
History of Linguistics, Volume IV: Nineteenth-Century Linguistics
1st Edition
By Anna Morpurgo Davies, Giulio C. Lepschy
August 17, 2016
The History of Linguistics, to be published in five volumes, aims to provide the reader with an authoritative and comprehensive account of the attitudes to language prevailing in different civilizations and in different periods by examining the very varied development of linguistic thought in the ...
A History of English Negation
1st Edition
By Gabriella Mazzon
March 11, 2004
Negation is one of the main functions in human communication.A History of English Negation is the first book to analyse English negation over the whole of its documented history, using a wide database and accessible terminology. After an introductory chapter, the book analyses evidence from the ...
Psycholinguistics: Language, Mind and World
2nd Edition
By Danny D. Steinberg, Hiroshi Nagata, David P. Aline
March 20, 2001
How do we learn to produce and comprehend speech? How does language relate to thought?This second edition of the successful text Psycholinguistics- Language, Mind and World considers the psychology of language as it relates to learning, mind and brain as well as various aspects of society and ...
Problems and Perspectives: Studies in the Modern French Language
1st Edition
By Wendy Ayres-Bennett, Janice Carruthers, Rosalind Temple
December 29, 2000
Problems and Perspectives- Studies in the Modern French Language looks at a number of interesting or problematic areas in the phonology, morphology, syntax and lexis of the French language and encourages the reader to think critically about different ways of approaching, describing and explaining ...
Linguistic Typology: Morphology and Syntax
1st Edition
By Jae Jung Song
August 11, 2000
There are generally estimated to be between 4,000 and 6,000 languages in the world. This number alone gives an idea of the immense diversity of languages: at the same time, there also has to be an underlying unity to human languages. Linguistic Typology is the study of the structural ...
Experimental Phonetics: An Introduction
1st Edition
By Katrina Hayward
May 26, 2000
Traditionally, investigations into speech and pronounciation have relied on the unaided skills of the phonetician in recognising and reproducing speech sounds. But many practicioners are now using instruments to gain a greater understanding of speech and to be able to analyse speech patterns in ...
The Acquisition of Syntax: Studies in Comparative Developmental Linguistics
1st Edition
By Marc-Ariel Friedemann, Luigi Rizzi
October 18, 1999
This volume contains a collection of studies that survey recent research in developmental linguistics, illustrating the fruitful interaction between comparative syntax and language acquisition. The contributors each analyse a well defined range of acquisition data, aiming to derive them from ...
History of Linguistics Vol III: Renaissance and Early Modern Linguistics
1st Edition
By Giulio C. Lepschy
November 11, 1997
TheHistory of Linguistics, to be published in five volumes, aims to provide the reader with an authoritative and comprehensive account of the attitudes to language prevailing in different civilizations and in different periods by examining the very varied development of linguistic thought in the ...
A Short History of Linguistics
4th Edition
By R.H. Robins
February 28, 1997
This complete revision and updating of Professor Robins' classic text offers a comprehensive account of the history of linguistic thought from its European origins some 2500 years ago to the present day. It examines the independent development of linguistic science in China and Medieval Islam, and ...
Causatives and Causation: A Universal -typological perspective
1st Edition
By Jae Jung Song
August 20, 1996
Causatives and Causation is the first comprehensive study of causative constructions found in the world's languages. This important new research, based on a data base of more than 600 languages, not only investigates fully the richness and variety of causative types, but also presents an ...
An Introduction to the Celtic Languages
1st Edition
By Paul Russell
June 27, 1995
This text provides a single-volume, single-author general introduction to the Celtic languages.The first half of the book considers the historical background of the language group as a whole. There follows a discussion of the two main sub-groups of Celtic, Goidelic (comprising Irish, Scottish, ...