Routledge Library Editions: Linguistics
A Theory of Stylistic Rules in English
1st Edition
By Michael Rochemont
November 27, 2015
This book defends in part a particular elaboration of the stylistic rule component of the grammatical model first presented in Chomsky and Lasnik (1977). It is argued that stylistic rules share a number of fundamental properties, most significantly that they characterize noncanonical focusing ...
Sociolinguistics Today: International Perspectives
1st Edition
Edited
By Kingsley Bolton, Helen Kwok
November 27, 2015
This collection of essays developed out of a conference held in Hong Kong in 1988. The aim was to provide a forum for an exchange of views between academics working within the field of sociolinguistics, in particular between those working in the West and those working in the East. Sociolinguistics ...
A Situated Theory of Agreement
1st Edition
By Michael Barlow
November 24, 2015
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 matching of features, to defining agreement as...
Existential Sentences: Their Structure and Meaning
1st Edition
By Michael Lumsden
November 24, 2015
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 existential sentences (ES) and their meaning. The study...
Foundations of General Linguistics
1st Edition
By Martin Atkinson, Iggy Roca, David Kilby
November 24, 2015
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 and includes new chapters on syntax and on ...
Language and Literacy: The Sociolinguistics of Reading and Writing
1st Edition
By Michael Stubbs
November 24, 2015
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 meaningful language) and social skills (since ...
Learning about Linguistics
1st Edition
By F.C. Stork, J.D.A. Widdowson
November 24, 2015
This book offers a workbook approach to linguistics and provides guidelines for the study of language. It aims to give basic information and to indicate something of the background and development of the more important trends in the subject. Each chapter includes exercises which lead the reader ...
Lexical Phonology and Morphology
1st Edition
By Carole Paradis
November 24, 2015
This book presents a description of the phonology and morphology of the nominal class system in Fula, a dialect which displays 21 nominal classes. These are identified by suffixes, which can attach to nominal, verbal and adjectival stems. The main objective of this work is to show, through a ...
Linguistic Meaning
1st Edition
By Keith Allan
November 24, 2015
Dr Keith Allan presents a coherent, consistent and comprehensive account of linguistic meaning, centred around an informally presented theory of meaning. It is intended for graduate and undergraduate students of linguistics, or any linguist curious about what a theory of meaning should seek to ...
Linguistic Perspectives on Literature
1st Edition
By Marvin K.L. Ching, Michael C. Haley, Ronald F. Lunsford
November 24, 2015
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 collection of essays, by linguists on either side ...
Meanings and Prototypes: Studies in Linguistic Categorization
1st Edition
Edited
By S.L. Tsohatzidis
November 24, 2015
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 of which the universe is made to be ...
Morphological Structure, Lexical Representation and Lexical Access: A Special Issue of Language and Cognitive Processes
1st Edition
Edited
By Dominiek Sandra, Marcus Taft
November 24, 2015
The main concern of this work is whether morphemes play a role in the lexical representation and processing of several types of polymorphemic words and, more particularly, at what precise representational and processing level. The book comprises two theoretical contributions and a number of ...