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Patterns of Language : Structure, Variation, Change
Robbins Burling
Paperback - $147.95
A comprehensive advanced introduction to linguistics unique in its integration of variation and change with the more structural or synchronic topics. It includes chapters on variation and change in lexicon, phonology, and syntax. It also covers the t ...
The History of the English Language : A Source Book
David Burnley
Paperback - $91.95
A new edition of this comprehensive guide to the history of the English language. The book contains carefully chosen extracts to illustrate the development of English, looking particularly at the stylistic and dialectical variety of English. For the ...
Collaborative Action Research for English Language Teachers
Anne Burns
Paperback - $59.95
Collaborative Action Research for English Language Teachers proposes that action research should be a collaborative process emerging from the practical concerns of groups of teachers working in a common or similar context. Teachers' first-person acco ...
Weeds in the Garden of Words : Further Observations on the Tangled History of the English Language
Kate Burridge
Paperback - $33.95
Kate Burridge follows the international success of Blooming English with another entertaining excursion into the ever-changing nature of the complex and captivating English language. If language is a glorious garden, filled with exotic hybrids as wel ...
Pragmatics
Noel Burton-Roberts
Hardcover - $201.95
This contribution to Palgrave's 'Advances' series addresses a wide range of issues that have arisen in post-Gricean pragmatic theory, in chapters by distinguished authors. Among the specific topics covered are scalar implicatures, lexical semantics a ...
Principles of English Stress
Luigi Burzio
Paperback - $128.95
In this provocative work, Luigi Burzio argues that many common assumptions within stress theory, and phonological theory more generally, are in fact rather arbitrary. He proposes radical departures from recent tradition. In Part I he analyzes stress ...
Routledge Dictionary of Language and Linguistics
Hadumod Bussmann
Paperback - $124.95
This translation of the highly regarded second edition of the "Lexikon der Sprachwissenschaft" by Hadumod Bussmann has been specifically adapted by a team of over thirty specialist linguists to form the most comprehensive and up-to-date work of it ...
The Projection of Arguments : Lexical and Compositional Factors
Miriam Butt
Paperback - $65.95
It is becoming increasingly clear that the standard approach to argument linking in terms of 'thematic roles', which are determined by the lexical meaning of verbs, has some serious shortcomings. This volume sets out to explore alternatives to a rigi ...