Language and History

Integrationist Perspectives

Edited by Nigel Love

When linguistics was first established as an academic discipline in the nineteenth century, it was envisaged as an essentially historical study. Languages were to be...

Published March 9th 2006 by Routledge.

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Language and Region

By Joan Beal

Language and Region:

• provides an accessible guide to regional variation in English
• covers topical issues including loss of regional diversity and attitudes to regional accents and dialects
• examines...

Published January 23rd 2006 by Routledge.

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Theoretical Comparative Syntax

Studies in Macroparameters

By Naoki Fukui

Collected for the first time in a single volume, these essays and articles by Naoki Fukui form an outline of some of the most significant...

Published January 17th 2006 by Routledge.

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Grammar and Context

An Advanced Resource Book

By Ann Hewings, Martin Hewings

Grammar and Context:

• considers how grammatical choices influence and are influenced by the context in which communication takes place
• examines the interaction of a wide variety of...

Published February 25th 2005 by Routledge.

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Sentence Structure

By Nigel Fabb

Sentence Structure:

• introduces the evidence for sentence structure and reveals its purpose
• is based on a problem-solving approach to language
• teaches the reader how to identify word classes,...

Published January 10th 2005 by Routledge.

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Linguistic Convergence and Areal Diffusion

Case Studies from Iranian, Semitic and Turkic

By Éva Ágnes Csató, Bo Isaksson, Carina Jahani

The authors are outstanding scholars engaged in the study of language varieties spoken in 'convergence areas' in which speakers are multilingual in languages of at...

Published July 29th 2004 by Routledge.

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Universal Grammar in Second-Language Acquisition

A History

By Margaret Thomas

From the ancient Mediterranean world to the present day, our conceptions of what is universal in language have interacted with our experiences of language learning....

Published April 15th 2004 by Routledge.

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A History of the German Language Through Texts

By Thomas Gloning, Christopher Young

A History of the German Language Through Texts examines the evolution of German, from the Early Medieval period to the present day.
Written in a lively...

Published October 23rd 2003 by Routledge.

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Old Japanese

A Phonetic Reconstruction

By Marc Hideo Miyake

What did eighth century Japanese sound like? How does one decode its complex script? This book provides the definitive answers to these questions using an...

Published September 25th 2003 by Routledge.

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Functional Structure(s), Form and Interpretation

Perspectives from East Asian Languages

Edited by Andrew Simpson, Audrey-Li Yen-hui

The issue of how interpretation results from the form and type of syntactic structures present in language is one which is central and hotly debated...

Published June 12th 2003 by Routledge.

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