Routledge Library Editions: The English Language
Studies in the Pronunciation of English: A Commemorative Volume in Honour of A.C. Gimson
1st Edition
Edited
By Susan Ramsaran
February 02, 2017
First published in 1990, this collection celebrates the life and work of Professor A. C. Gimson, four years after his untimely death in 1985. A. C. Gimson, Professor of Phonetics at University College London, 1966-83, was the most distinguished and influential phonetician of his day, concentrating ...
Subject and Object in Modern English
1st Edition
By Barbara H Partee
February 02, 2017
Subject and Object in Modern English, first published in 1979, deals with subjects in the English language (one of the two main constituents of a clause), first comparing two possible notions of derived subject and then re-examining some derived subjects which had been assumed to be underlying ...
The Grammar of English Reflexives
1st Edition
By Michael Helke
February 02, 2017
This work, first published in 1979, was a doctoral dissertation submitted to the Department of Foreign Literatures and Linguistics of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1970. The first chapter of this thesis concerns the supposed complementarity of reflexives and ordinary anaphoric ...
Towards a Contextual Grammar of English: The Clause and its Place in the Definition of Sentence
1st Edition
By Eugene Winter
February 02, 2017
This study, first published in 1982, attempts to show that the foundations of a contextual grammar of English must be firmly based on an adequate definition of the sentence. This book will be of interest to students of language and linguistics....
Word Maps: A Dialect Atlas of English
1st Edition
By Clive Upton, John Widdowson, Stewart Sanderson
February 02, 2017
The maps presented in this volume, first published in 1987, are based on the material of the Survey of English Dialects which was collected from over 300 localities between 1948 and 1961. The 200 word and sound maps included in this title will lead the reader into the fascinating world of the ...
Routledge Library Editions: The English Language
1st Edition
By Timothy Hall
July 01, 2015
This set reissues 29 books on the English language, originally published between 1932 and 2003. Together, the volumes cover key topics within the larger subject of the English Language, including grammar, dialect and the history of English. Written and edited by an international set of scholars, ...