A Coursebook

James R. Hurford, Brendan Heasley, Michael B. Smith

This practical coursebook introduces all the basics of semantics in a simple, step-by-step fashion. Each unit includes short sections of ...

Paul Rowlett

A concise and accessible guide to the syntax of Modern French, providing a clear overview of those aspects of the ...

Ron Batchelor

A Student Grammar of Spanish is a concise introduction to Spanish grammar, designed for English-speaking undergraduates. Assuming no prior knowledge ...

Miriam Butt

Case, a system which marks the relationships between words in a sentence, is fundamental to every language. This accessible ...

Wendy Sandler, Diane Lillo-Martin

Sign languages are of great interest to linguists because, while they are produced by the same brain, their physical transmission ...

A Student's Guide

Thomas Payne

Designed for those beginning to study linguistics, this is a lively introduction to two key aspects of the structure of ...

Norbert Hornstein, Jairo Nunes, Kleanthes K. Grohmann

Minimalist models of grammar are developed logically in this volume and the ways in which they contrast with GB analysis are clearly explained. ...

José Ignacio Hualde

This accessible textbook provides a clear introduction to the sounds of Spanish, designed particularly for English-speaking students. Assuming no prior ...

A Guide to Contemporary Usage

Derek Offord

Using Russian is a guide to Russian usage for those who have already acquired the basics of the language and ...

Robert D. Van Valin, Jr.

While all languages can achieve the same basic communicative ends, they each use different means to achieve them, particularly in ...

An Introduction

Paul R. Kroeger

Analyzing Grammar is a clear introductory textbook on grammatical analysis, designed for students beginning to study the discipline. Covering both ...

Beth Levin, Malka Rappaport Hovav

The relationship between verbs and their arguments is a widely debated topic in linguistics. This comprehensive survey provides an overview ...

Michael Ashby, John Maidment

This accessible new textbook provides a clear and practical introduction to phonetics, the study of speech. Assuming no prior knowledge ...

David Odden

This accessible textbook provides a clear and practical introduction to phonology, the study of sound patterns in language. Designed for ...

A Linguistic Introduction

Milton M. Azevedo

This accessible new book provides a comprehensive introduction to the linguistic structure of Portuguese, designed to help intermediate and advanced ...

Edited by James McGilvray

Noam Chomsky is one of the most influential thinkers of modern times. The most cited writer in the humanities, his ...

Daniel Büring

Binding theory seeks to explain how different kinds of nominal expressions such as names, noun phrases and pronouns have anaphoric ...

Edited by Carol Sanders

Ferdinand de Saussure is widely considered to be the founder of both modern Linguistics and Structuralism. This Companion brings together ...

Ideas and Ideals

Neil Smith

Noam Chomsky is one of the leading intellectual figures of modern times. In this rigorous yet accessible account, Neil Smith ...

Carlos Gussenhoven

Tone and Intonation are two types of pitch variation, which are used to give shape to utterances. More specifically, ...

Anna Siewierska

This textbook deals with the grammatical category of person, which covers the first person (the speaker), the second person (the ...

Exploring the Structure of English

Andrew Radford

Andrew Radford's latest textbook, Minimalist Syntax, provides a concise, clear, and accessible introduction to current work in syntactic theory, drawing ...

An Introduction

Andrew Radford

This textbook - an abridged version of Radford's Minimalist Syntax - provides a concise and accessible introduction to current syntactic ...

Terence Wade, Nijole White

This book, designed for students who have already developed a basic competence in Russian, aims to broaden and improve their ...

William Croft, D. Alan Cruse

Cognitive Linguistics argues that language is governed by general cognitive principles, rather than by a special-purpose language module. This introductory ...

Verbs, Nouns and Adjectives

Mark C. Baker

Mark C. Baker investigates the fundamental nature of nouns, verbs, and adjectives. He claims that the various superficial differences that ...

A Linguistic Introduction

Paul Cubberley

This book provides an accessible introduction to the structure, history and sociolinguistics of Russian. It particularly emphasises the special linguistic ...

Moira Yip

The sounds of language can be divided into consonants, vowels, and tones - the use of pitch to convey meaning. ...

Linguistics as Cognitive Physiology

Stephen R. Anderson, David W. Lightfoot

Challenging and original, The Language Organ treats human language as the manifestation of a faculty of the mind, a mental ...

Katalin É. Kiss

Clearly written and comprehensive in scope, this is an essential guide to syntax in the Hungarian language. It describes the ...

Bernd Heine, Tania Kuteva

While the comparative method is concerned with regularities in phonological change, grammaticalization theory deals with regularities of grammatical change. In ...

Barry J. Blake

This accessible introduction to the ways relations between words in sentences are marked in languages describes the systems of suffixes ...