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Principles of English Stress
Luigi Burzio’s Principles of English Stress challenges many of the assumptions that have underpinned the generative description of English stress... Les mer
The Cambridge History of the English Language
The Cambridge History of the English Language is the first multi-volume work to provide a full account of the history of English. Its authoritative... Les mer
Discourse Structure and Anaphora
Barbara Fox’s thoughtful study examines the use of anaphora in both written and spoken discourse. Any treatment of anaphora must consider the... Les mer
Formal Semantics
This book provides a clear and accessible introduction to formal, and especially Montague, semantics within a linguistic framework. It presupposes no... Les mer
Language, Thought, and Logic
John M. Ellis's Against Deconstruction was hailed as the definitive critique of that complex movement. Now in Language, Thought, and Logic, Ellis... Les mer
Etymology
Etymology has been largely neglected since the beginning of this century. Professor Yakov Malkiel here sets out to rescue it from its fate. He... Les mer
Grammatical Theory in the United States
This is a history of modern linguistics which focuses on the spread and dominance of linguistic theory originating in North America. It concentrates... Les mer
The Indo-Aryan Languages
In his ambitious survey of the Indo-Aryan languages, Colin Masica has provided a fundamental introduction which will interest not only general and... Les mer
Formal Semantics
This book provides a clear and accessible introduction to formal, and especially Montague, semantics within a linguistic framework. It presupposes no... Les mer
Switch-Reference and Discourse Representation
In central cases of switch-reference, a marker on the verb of one clause is used to indicate whether its subject has the same or different reference... Les mer
The Celtic Languages
This volume describes the six modern Celtic languages. Four of these, Modern Irish, Scottish Gaelic, Welsh and Breton, are living community... Les mer
Planning English Sentences
This book is an investigation into the problems of generating natural language utterances to satisfy specific goals the speaker has in mind. It is... Les mer
A-Morphous Morphology
In A-Morphous Morphology, Stephen Anderson presents a theory of word structure which relates to a full generative grammar of language. He holds word... Les mer
Apposition in Contemporary English
Apposition in Contemporary English is a full-length treatment of apposition. It provides detailed discussion of its linguistic characteristics and of... Les mer
The Cambridge History of the English Language
The Cambridge History of the English Language is the first multi-volume work to provide a full account of the history of English. Its authoritative... Les mer
The Cambridge History of the English Language
The Cambridge History of the English Language is the first multi-volume work to provide a comprehensive and authoritative account of the history of... Les mer
From Etymology to Pragmatics
This book offers a new approach to the analysis of the multiple meanings of English modals, conjunctions, conditionals and perception verbs. Although... Les mer
Morphology
This is an updated and substantially revised edition of Peter Matthews’s well-known Morphology, first published in 1974. It includes chapters on... Les mer
The Syntax of Noun Phrases
Alessandra Giorgi and Giuseppe Longobardi’s important study of the argument structure of lexical projections, in particular of Noun Phrases, makes... Les mer
Modern Irish
Micheal O Siadhail considers modern Irish dialects against the background of their common grammar, providing a comprehensive overview for Celticists... Les mer
Introduction to Early Modern English
The period between 1500 and 1700 was the most decisive one in the formation of standard modern English, yet no really comprehensive account of Early... Les mer
English around the World
Only a few centuries ago the English language consisted of a collection of dialects spoken mainly by monolinguals and only within the shores of a... Les mer
Conditions on Phonological Government
This is the first extended study written within the framework of Government Phonology. Following the presentation of the main aspects of this theory,... Les mer
On Definiteness
This book proposes a new theory of definiteness in language. It argues that definiteness should be viewed as a cover-term comprising three basic... Les mer