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Morphological Productivity
Cambridge University Press 2001; US$ 46.00This book takes an eclectic approach to the topic of morphological productivity, applying the findings for morphology to syntax and phonology. Bringing together the results of twenty years' work in the field, it provides new insights and considers a wide range of linguistic and psycholinguistic evidence. more...
Regularity in Semantic Change
Cambridge University Press 2001; US$ 42.00This new and important study of semantic change examines the various ways in which new meanings arise through language use, especially the ways in which speakers and writers experiment with words and constructions in the flow of strategic interaction with addressees. more...
Alliteration and Sound Change in Early English
Cambridge University Press 2003; US$ 69.00This study uses evidence from early English verse to reconstruct the course of some central phonological changes in the history of the language. Examination of the behaviour of onset clusters sheds new light on the special treatment of sp-, st-, sk-, and the chronology and motivation of cluster reduction. more...
Conditionals and Prediction
Cambridge University Press 1999; US$ 42.00This book offers an in-depth analysis of English conditional sentences. Dancygier classifies conditional constructions according to time-reference and modality. Focused on English, the study also provides a framework that can be extended to a range of grammatical phenomena in many other languages. more...
Phonology and Language Use
Cambridge University Press 2001; US$ 42.00Referencing new developments, this book investigates various ways in which a speaker/hearer's experience with language affects the representation of phonology. Rather than assuming phonological representations in terms of phonemes, Joan Bybee adopts an exemplar model, in which specific tokens of use are stored and categorized phonetically with reference... more...
Tone Sandhi
Cambridge University Press 2000; US$ 65.00Matthew Chen's landmark study offers the most comprehensive analysis to date of the rich and complex patterns of tone used in Chinese languages. His book, the culmination of a ten-year research project, explores a range of important theoretical issues against a wealth of empirical data not previously accessible to linguists. more...
Syntactic Change
Cambridge University Press 2003; US$ 34.00The phenomenon of grammaticalization - the historical process whereby new grammatical material is created - has attracted a great deal of attention within linguistics in recent years. However, until now no attempt has been made to provide a general account of this phenomenon in terms of a formal theory of syntax. more...
The Syntax of Adjuncts
Cambridge University Press 2001; US$ 65.00This book proposes a theory of the distribution of adverbial adjuncts in a Principles and Parameters framework, claiming that there are few syntactic principles specific to adverbials; rather, for the most part, adverbials adjoin freely to any projection. more...
Lexical Strata in English
Cambridge University Press 1999; US$ 60.00Heinz Giegerich investigates the way in which alternations in the sound patterns of words interact with the processes of word formation in a language. He develops a coherent theory of 'base-driven' stratification, which offers new accounts of some central phenomena in the phonology of English. more...
Lexical Phonology and the History of English
Cambridge University Press 2000; US$ 54.00This book analyses some differences between English, Scottish and American accents of English, shows how they developed and why they have their current form. Although the revised version of lexical phonology presented here is intended to describe present-day patterns, it shows how historical sound changes gave rise to these patterns. more...









