Longman Linguistics Library
General Linguistics
4th Edition
By R.H. Robins
June 05, 1989
The fourth edition of General Linguistics provides a comprehensive and accessible introduction to linguistics. The book considers: semantics and pragmatics dialect and style phonetics and phonology morphology and syntax, with reference both to traditional and current theories ...
The English Verb
2nd Edition
By F.R. Palmer
February 29, 1988
A long established and highly regarded account of all aspects of the English verb taking account of recent work on tense, phase and aspect, and of the author's own research. Theoretical discussion is kept to a minimum, but the arguments are always presented within a modern theoretical framework....
Generative Grammar
1st Edition
By Geoffrey Horrocks
November 16, 1987
This book provides a critical review of the development of generative grammar, both transformational and non-transformational, from the early 1960s to the present, and presents contemporary results in the context of an overall evaluation of recent research in the field.Geoffrey Horrocks compares ...
Principles of Pragmatics
1st Edition
By Geoffrey N. Leech
July 04, 1983
Over the years, pragmatics - the study of the use and meaning of utterances to their situations - has become a more and more important branch of linguistics, as the inadequacies of a purely formalist, abstract approach to the study of language have become more evident. This book presents a ...
Introduction to Text Linguistics
1st Edition
By Robert De Beaugrande, Wolfgang U. Dressler
August 24, 1981
Since its initiation some twenty years ago <i>Longman Linguistics Library</i> has established itself as a series aimed primarily at an undergraduate and postgraduate student readership. Some of its books serve as introductions to key aspects of the subject, others are more specialised: ...