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This fourth edition seeks to cover recent developments in linguistic theory while continuing to provide an introductory survey of the whole range of general linguistic studies. It is aimed at both students and the interested general reader.

A view of the major elements in the structural evolution of the Italian language, this study aims to be accessible to those who know the modern language and seek the historical rationale behind some of its features, and to those who are interested in the history of the Romance languages.

An attempt to view historical phonological change as an ongoing, recurrent process, a phenomenon which the author feels is disguised by too great a reliance upon certain characteristics of the scholarly tradition.

An examination of a variety of linguistic theories, this book analyzes the work of such theorists as Ferdinand de Saussure, Edward Sapir, Noam Chomsky, and Kenneth Pike. The text concludes with a comparison of linguistics and language.

Linguistic typology is the study of the structural similarities between languages regardless of their history. This book provides an accessible overview of the most prominent areas of study and research in the subject using examples taken from a wide range of languages.

Brings together many of the resources needed for the exploration of English historical syntax and deals with the important changes in English sentence structure from old English to the present.

Presents a comprehensive account of linguistic history from its origins in Europe some 2500 years ago to the present day. Whilst focusing on European linguistics, the author also examines the linguistic science which developed independently in China and medieval Islam, especially in India.

This is a study of the grammatical variations to be found in English dialects. It looks at aspects as diverse as the personal dative in Appalachian speech, and transitivity and intransitivity in the dialects of the south-west of England.

Part of a five volume set which provides a comprehensive account of the attitudes to language prevailing in different periods and civilizations, in this case the Renaissance and Early Modern period. It examines the development of linguistic thought in the social, cultural and religious contexts.

Analyses English negation over the evidence from the sample of Old English documents, and from Middle English and Renaissance documents, showing that the range of forms used at a single stage is wider, and the pace of their change considerably faster.

This text provides an introduction to the Celtic languages covering their historical background. Goidelic languages, Irish, Welsh and Brettonic languages are included. The topics covered include: orthographies; phoentics; phonology; morphology; and word order.

This is the result of an investigation of a set of written and spoken texts in order to attain a solution to the problem of the system of modals. The texts are drawn from the Survey of English Usage in University College London. This edition has been revised and the theoretical chapters rewritten.

This book is part of a series intended for students at undergraduate and postgraduate level and aims to provide a broad view of the linguistics field such as is hard to obtain exclusively from scholarly journals.

Suzanne Romaine defines and describes the linguistic features of Pidgin and Creole languages. Ongoing development places the study of these languages within the context of current issues of linguistic theory: language acquisition, and universals of change.

An Introduction to Bilingualism provides a comprehensive review of the most important aspects of individual and societal bilingualism, examining both theoretcial and practical issues. The book is also concerned with multilingualism and includes several case studies of European linguistic minorities.

Aims to provide a history of linguistic thought rather than an account of the development of linguistic science. For different societies and different periods, the editor presents prevailing attitudes towards language: its social, cultural, religious and liturgical functions and so on.

A collection of essays that present a selective overview of recent trends in the linguistic analysis of sound structure. This book explores theoretical issues in three core areas of phonological theory from a number of different perspectives.

This volume shows how linguistics came into its own as a discipline separated from philosophical and literary studies and enjoyed intellectual success tied to the research ethos of the new universities, until it became a model for other humanistic subjects which aimed at "scientific status".

This book provides a critical review of the development of generative grammar, both transformational and non-transformational, from the early 1960s to the present, and presents contemporary results in the context of an overall evaluation of recent research in the field.

This text examines the structural similarities of causatives between languages and the pragmatic foundations of causatives. A wide range of languages are considered, taken from a database of over 600 languages, offering an international approach to causative construction.

Part of the "Longman Linguistics Library" series, this text examines the extent to which synchronic theoretical models have been found useful or wanting as accounts of temporal language mutation and progress in the production of general models which provide explanations for language change itself.

This volume is an introduction to the linguistic structure of the French language. It looks at how the language is structured and varies depending on gender, medium, register, age, etc. It contains coverage of important topics in phonology, morphology, syntax, and lexis.

Written for postgraduates and professionals working in linguistics and phonetics, Katrina Hayward's study provides an introduction to the methods and applications of experimental phonetics: the study of speech by means of instrumentation.

This book presents a rhetorical model of pragmatics. Geoffrey Leech argues for a rapprochement between linguistics and the traditional discipline of rhetoric, maintaining that the language system in the abstract must be studied in relation to a fully developed theory of language use.

Psycholinguistics is the psychology of language as it relates to learning, mind and brain. This book covers crucial areas such as how children learn language, the deaf and language, animals and language learning, second-language learning and bilingualism.