Language & Linguistics

Howard Jackson analyses a wide range of dictionaries to reveal the ways in which dictionaries fulfil their dual function of describing the vocabulary of English and providing a useful and accessible reference resource...

Lexis and Creativity in Translation..

This book, originally published in 1966, deals mainly with morphemes and with grammatical and syntactic behaviour.  Although some vocabulary material is contained in this volume, and some more in the Linguistic Survey of the Northern Bantu Borderland, vocabulary comparison itself plays little part. ..

Linguistics Archaeology of South Asia brings together linguistics and archaeological evidence of South Asian prehistory...

In this topical study of the large scale loss of human language, the author examines the transformation of the Pacific language region. He focuses on cultural and historical forces to explain such loss...

This is a major survey of the leading work of the most important twentieth-century linguisticians, including de Saussure, Firth, Chomsky, Halliday and van Dijk. An understanding of past theories is crucial to studying modern linguistics, and this volume carefully presents both the range of theories ..

This is a major survey of the leading work of the most important twentieth-century linguisticians, including de Saussure, Firth, Chomsky, Halliday and van Dijk. An understanding of past theories is crucial to studying modern linguistics, and this volume carefully presents both the range of theories ..

There are generally estimated to be between 4,000 and 6,000 languages in the world. This number alone gives an idea of the immense diversity of languages: at the same time, there also has to be an underlying unity to human languages. Linguistic Typology is the study of the structural similarities be..

This volume, first published in 1933, brings together a collection of Otto Jespersen’s papers in English, German, and French, which he himself felt should be presented to an international public. This title gives a picture of Jespersen’s development and endeavours as a linguist, and covers a wide ti..

This volume, first published in 1933, brings together a collection of Otto Jespersen’s papers in English, German, and French, which he himself felt should be presented to an international public. This title gives a picture of Jespersen’s development and endeavours as a linguist, and covers a wide ti..

This book is an insightful account of the academic politics of the Nazi era. Hutton situates Nazi linguistics within the politics of Hitler's state and the history of modern linguistics...

Linguistics for Clinicians provides an introduction to linguistic analysis in the clinical context. The book draws on a range of linguistic theories and descriptions, equipping readers with a conceptual toolkit that will enable them to analyse data systematically, pick out significant patterns that ..