Routledge Library Editions: Linguistics
Basic Word Order (RLE Linguistics B: Grammar): Functional Principles
1st Edition
By Russell S Tomlin
January 20, 2016
This book examines the frequencies of the six possible basic word (or constituent) orders (SOV, SVO, VSO, VOS, OSV, OVS) provides a typologically grounded explanation for those frequencies in terms of three independent, functional principles of linguistic organization. From a database of nearly ...
Language Processing in Bilinguals: Psycholinguistic and Neuropsychological Perspectives
1st Edition
Edited
By Jyotsna Vaid
January 20, 2016
For decades, bilingualism has resisted definition. If bilingualism is defined as habitual, fluent, correct and accent-free use of two languages, few individuals would qualify as bilinguals. A more viable approach may be to concede that ‘bilingual’ can be seen instead as a range of points on a ...
Morphology and Mind: A Unified Approach to Explanation in Linguistics
1st Edition
By Christopher J. Hall
January 20, 2016
The central concern of this book is the explanation of linguistic form. It examines in detail certain cross-linguistic patterns in morphological systems, providing unified explanations of the observation that suffixes predominate over prefixes and the correlation between affix position and ...
Reduced Constructions in Spanish
1st Edition
By John C. Moore
January 20, 2016
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 ...
Studies in Linguistic Geography (RLE Linguistics D: English Linguistics): The Dialects of English in Britain and Ireland
1st Edition
Edited
By John M. Kirk, Stewart Sanderson, J.D.A. Widdowson
January 20, 2016
The publication in the past ten years of linguistic atlases of England and Scotland has not only advanced our knowledge of the lexical and morphological variety inherent in the English language, but has made it possible to establish a number of methodological principles for the study of language ...
The Correct Language: Tojolabal
1st Edition
By Louanna Furbee-Losee
January 20, 2016
Definitions of language cluster around two non-contradictory views: one that language is a shared code, a social entity, and the other that language is the knowledge that enables a native speaker to produce and understand speech. In examining the language and culture of the Tojolabal (Mayan) ...
The Formal Grammar of Switch-Reference
1st Edition
By Daniel L Finer
January 20, 2016
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 hierarchically adjacent clauses is encoded by the ...
Two Grammatical Models of Modern English: The Old and New from A to Z
1st Edition
By Frits Stuurman
January 20, 2016
This book focuses on two major traditions in the study of Modern English grammar: ‘old grammar’ in the Great Tradition of Sweet, Poutsma, Kruisinga, Curme, Jespersen and Quirk; and ‘new grammar’ in applications to Modern English of Chomskyan generative syntax. The purpose is to promote the study of...
A Short History of the German Language (RLE Linguistics E: Indo-European Linguistics)
1st Edition
By William Walker Chambers, John Ritchie Wilkie
December 18, 2015
This simple introduction to the history of the German language seeks to provide students who have some knowledge of modern German, but no knowledge either of its development or of linguistic theories, with a short account of the essential factors – chronological, geographical and linguistic – and ...
Generative Grammar and Linguistic Competence
1st Edition
By P.H. Matthews
December 18, 2015
According to Chomsky, to learn a language is to develop a grammar for it – a generative grammar which assigns a definite structure and a definite meaning to each of a definite set of sentences. This forms the speaker’s linguistic competence, which represents a distinct faculty of the mind, called ...
Ideologies of Language
1st Edition
Edited
By John Joseph, Talbot J. Taylor
December 18, 2015
Is the study of language ideologically neutral? If so, is this study objective and autonomous? One of the most cherished assumptions of modern academic linguistics is that the study of language is, or should be, ideologically neutral. This professed ideological neutrality goes hand-in-hand with ...
Production and Comprehension of Utterances (RLE Linguistics B: Grammar)
1st Edition
Edited
By I.M. Schlesinger
December 18, 2015
In this volume, the author reviews the results of research on language performance and proposes a model of production and comprehension. Although recent developments in linguistics are taken into account, consideration of other requirements of a performance model leads to the conclusion that the ...