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Linguistic Landscape
Taylor and Francis 2008; US$ 55.95In this comprehensive and pioneering volume, language scholars from around the world examine the "linguistic landscape" from multiple perspectives ? theoretical, methodological, and critical. Written by widely recognized experts, the articles in Linguistic Landscape analyze linguistic landscapes in a range of international contexts. Dozens of photographs... more...
The Handbook of Linguistics
Wiley 2008; US$ 138.95Presupposing no prior knowledge of linguistics, The Handbook of Linguistics is the ideal resource for people who want to learn about the subject and its subdisciplines. more...
Invitation to Systemic Functional Linguistics through the Cardiff Grammar
Equinox Publishing Ltd 2008; US$ 28.45This short book is intended for two groups of readers, and so is two books in one. First, it is a genuinely introductory introduction to Systemic Functional Grammar (SFG) for the 21st century. But this is also a book for experienced linguists who are interested in a scholarly comparison of the two main current versions of SFG the Sydney Grammar... more...
Structure in Language
Taylor and Francis 2011; US$ 44.95This book examines one of the allegedly unique features of human language: structure sensitivity. Its point of departure is the distinction between content and structural units, which are defined in psycholinguistic terms. The focus of the book is on structural representations, in particular their hierarchicalness and their branching direction. Structural... more...
Aspects of Language Contact
De Gruyter 2008; US$ 196.00This edited volume brings together fourteen original contributions to the on-going debate about what is possible in contact-induced language change. The authors present a number of new vistas on language contact which represent new developments in the field. In the first part of the volume, the focus is on methodology and theory. The second part of... more...
Roots
De Gruyter 2007; US$ 182.00The renewed focus on the evidential base of linguistics in general, but particularly on syntax, is in to a large degree dependent on technological developments: computers, electronic storage and transmission. These factors have enabled a revolution in the accessibility of digitally stored language, both in sampled and organized corpora and in its raw... more...
Variation, Selection, Development
De Gruyter 2008; US$ 168.00Can language change be modelled as an evolutionary process? Can notions like variation, selection and competition be fruitfully applied to facts of language development? This volume offers a rich spectrum of ways to elucidate these questions, confronting studies from the perspective of historical and creole linguistics with research in Artificial Intelligence... more...
Fortgeschrittene Lernervarietäten
De Gruyter 2008; US$ 126.00This collected volume presents papers dealing with the language behaviour of advanced learners of a foreign language. In recent decades, research into second language acquisition has concerned itself principally with the early stages. In contrast to these early stages, the language behaviour of advanced learners is far more difficult to analyse, as... more...
Linguistic Fieldwork
Palgrave Macmillan 2007; US$ 38.00This is a practical guide to all aspects of linguistic fieldwork. It not only discusses techniques for working on the phonetics, phonology, morphology, syntax and discourse of an undescribed language, but also considers field technology, grant application preparation, ethical research methods and problems which might arise when in the field. more...
Constructions and Language Change
De Gruyter 2008; US$ 168.00Studies in diachronic linguistics increasingly acknowledge that linguistic change is highly context-dependent and somehow tied to constructions as linguistic units. This is the first volume to investigate the role of constructions and the potential of constructional approaches in linguistic change. The contributions in this volume comprise both theoretical... more...









