Routledge Library Editions: The English Language
The Phrase Phonology of English and French
1st Edition
By Elisabeth O. Selkirk
February 06, 2017
This work, first published in 1980, was a doctoral dissertation submitted to the Department of Foreign Literatures and Linguistics of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1972. This study concerns certain aspects of the relationship between syntax and phonology in English and French. In ...
The Structure of English Clauses
1st Edition
By David Young
February 06, 2017
First published in 1980, this book provides a clear and practical introduction to a wide variety of English structures. It concentrates on a large and crucial area of English grammar, which covers units of higher rank than words, and structures that have verbs rather than nouns as their nuclear ...
A Comparative Typology of English and German: Unifying the Contrasts
1st Edition
By John Hawkins
February 03, 2017
First 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 systematically related to contrasts in another, and ...
Anaphoric Relations in English and French: A Discourse Perspective
1st Edition
By Francis Cornish
February 03, 2017
First 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 subject have tended to underestimate the effect upon...
Cleft and Pseudo-Cleft Constructions in English
1st Edition
By Peter Collins
February 03, 2017
First published in 1991, this book examines the communicative properties of ‘cleft’ and ‘pseudo-cleft’ constructions in contemporary English. The book argues that these properties cannot be ignored in any attempt to provide an adequate grammatical description of the constructions. Furthermore, they...
Grammatical Gender in English: 950 to 1250
1st Edition
By Charles Jones
February 03, 2017
First published in 1988, this book explores the grammatical loss of gender in English. It demonstrates that from the end of the Old English period, there was a considerable time period, of about three hundred years, during which there existed "echoes" of the gender classification of nouns. The ...
Listeners' Guide to Medieval English: A Discography
1st Edition
By Betsy Bowden
February 03, 2017
From the middle of the twentieth century, dozens of medievalists and other performers have recorded early English. Many educational institutions already own sound recordings of English before 1500, or may wish to purchase the most useful ones available. This discography aims to assist teachers, ...
On the Semantics of Syntax: Mood and Condition in English
1st Edition
By Eirian Davies
February 03, 2017
First 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’) and surface grammar, without reverting to an ...
Pronouns and Word Order in Old English: With Particular Reference to the Indefinite Pronoun Man
1st Edition
By Linda van Bergen
February 03, 2017
First published in 2003, this is a study of the syntactic behaviour of personal pronoun subjects and the indefinite pronoun man in Old English. It focuses on differences in word order as compared to full noun phrases. In generative work on Old English, noun phrases are usually divided into two ...
Syllable-Based Generalizations in English Phonology
1st Edition
By Daniel Kahn
February 03, 2017
This dissertation, first published in 1980, is concerned with the role of the syllable in generative grammar. Kahn argues that the syllable is a necessary element in phonological descriptions by identifying aspects of phonology that seem to call for analysis in terms of syllabic structure and ...
Tense in English: Its Structure and Use in Discourse
1st Edition
By Renaat Declerck
February 03, 2017
First published in 1991, this book looks at tense in English, one of the most controversial areas of grammar. Prior to the book’s original publication, the problems and interest in the subject led to an impressive number of books and articles. Yet, despite the amount of work produced, nothing ...
The Elements of English: An Introduction to the Principles of the Study of Language
1st Edition
By Peter Collins
February 03, 2017
First 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 concerned with the teaching and learning of ...