Search results for “[Subject: linguistics-syntax]”

• Author(s): Edith A. Moravcsik • Publisher: Continuum • Publisher Imprint: Continuum • BISAC: Linguistics - GeneralThis comprehensive introduction to syntax explains the basic concepts of syntax, and how the structures which are in place for des...

• Author(s): Silvia Luraghi • Publisher: Continuum • Publisher Imprint: Continuum • BISAC: Grammar & PunctuationKey Terms in Syntax and Syntactic Theory explains all of the relevant terms which students of linguistics and English language are...

• Author(s): Edith A. Moravcsik • Publisher: Continuum • Publisher Imprint: Continuum • BISAC: Linguistics - GeneralThis textbook provides a comprehensive, balanced introduction to syntactic theory. The author shows how the diversity of syntactic...

• Author(s): Howard Jackson • Publisher: Continuum • Publisher Imprint: Continuum • BISAC: Linguistics - GeneralKey Terms in Linguistics explains the terms which students of linguistics and English language are likely to encounter during their un...

• Author(s): David Lockwood • Publisher: Continuum • Publisher Imprint: Continuum • BISAC: Linguistics - GeneralThis book is designed to teach undergraduate and beginning graduate students how to understand, analyse and describe syntactic phenome...

• Author(s): Jim Miller • Publisher: Continuum • Publisher Imprint: Continuum • BISAC: Grammar & PunctuationThis book introduces major areas of debate within the field of syntax: constructions, grammar and semantics, configurationality, usage...

• Author(s): Christian Matthiessen • Publisher: Continuum • Publisher Imprint: Continuum • BISAC: Linguistics - SemanticsThe field of Systemic Functional Linguistics is a social semiotic approach to language pioneered by M. A. K. Halliday, which ...

• Author(s): Louise J. Ravelli • Publisher: Continuum • Publisher Imprint: Continuum • BISAC: Linguistics - General'The balance struck in this volume between discussion of theory and reports on and suggestions for practice make it an invaluable c...

• Author(s): Michael Hoey • Publisher: Continuum • Publisher Imprint: Continuum • BISAC: Linguistics - SemanticsCorpus linguistics is often regarded as a methodology in its own right, but little attention has been given to the theoretical perspec...

• Author(s): M. A. K. Halliday • Publisher: Continuum • Publisher Imprint: Continuum • BISAC: Linguistics - GeneralFor nearly half a century, Professor M. A. K. Halliday has been enriching the discipline of linguistics with his keen insights into...

• Author(s): Mireille Ravassat | Jonathan Culpeper • Publisher: Continuum • Publisher Imprint: Continuum • Subject: English Literature • BISAC: Linguistics - SemanticsAbout the Book This innovative volume testifies to the current revived interest...

• Author(s): Len Unsworth • Publisher: Continuum • Publisher Imprint: Continuum • BISAC: Linguistics - GeneralResearching Language in Schools and Communities is designed for those who intend to carry out and / or study research in children's lang...

• Author(s): Leszek Berezowski • Publisher: Continuum • Publisher Imprint: Continuum • BISAC: Grammar & PunctuationThe zero article is a staple element of any description of English article usage from advanced research publications down to st...

• Author(s): Howard Jackson • Publisher: Continuum • Publisher Imprint: Continuum • BISAC: Linguistics - GeneralThis is a comprehensive guide to the nature of language and an introduction to linguistic analysis. This is a brand new edition of "An...

• Author(s): Michael a. K. Halliday • Publisher: Continuum • Publisher Imprint: Continuum • BISAC: Grammar & PunctuationFor nearly half a century, Professor M. A. K. Halliday has been enriching the discipline of linguistics with his keen insi...

• Author(s): Sanford Schane • Publisher: Continuum • Publisher Imprint: Continuum • BISAC: Linguistics - SemanticsThis comprehensive introduction to Language and the Law looks at the common areas of interaction between linguistics and the legal p...

• Author(s): Peter Sharpe • Publisher: Continuum • Publisher Imprint: Continuum • Subject: English Literature • BISAC: Linguistics - GeneralAbout the Book We use language everyday in every aspect of our lives, whether at school, work, or home, wi...

• Author(s): M.A.K. Halliday | Jonathan J. Webster • Publisher: Continuum • Publisher Imprint: Continuum • Subject: English Literature • BISAC: Linguistics - GeneralAbout the Book The Essential Halliday contains selected articles by M A K Hallida...

• Author(s): Anne McCabe • Publisher: Continuum • Publisher Imprint: Continuum • BISAC: Linguistics - Historical & ComparativeThis book examines new functional approaches to language and education, and the impact of these on literacy in the c...

• Author(s): Christopher J. Hall • Publisher: Continuum • Publisher Imprint: Continuum • BISAC: Linguistics - General'Christopher Hall's book is the best new introduction to linguistics that I have seen in decades. It is engagingly written withou...

• Author(s): Paul Baker • Publisher: Continuum • Publisher Imprint: Continuum • BISAC: Linguistics - SemanticsCorpus linguistics uses large electronic databases of language to examine hypotheses about language use. These can be tested scientifica...

• Author(s): Alwin Fill • Publisher: Continuum • Publisher Imprint: Continuum • BISAC: Linguistics - GeneralThirty years ago, a new linguistic paradigm was created when Einar Haugen, for the first time, combined language with ecology. For Haugen,...

• Author(s): Bettina Fischer-Starcke • Publisher: Continuum • Publisher Imprint: Continuum • Subject: English Literature • BISAC: Linguistics - SemanticsProvides a theoretical introduction to corpus stylistics. This title demonstrates its applica...

• Author(s): M. A. K. Halliday • Publisher: Continuum • Publisher Imprint: Continuum • BISAC: Linguistics - SemanticsFor nearly half a century, Professor M. A. K. Halliday has been enriching the discipline of linguistics with his keen insights in...

• Author(s): Jorgen Christian Bang • Publisher: Continuum • Publisher Imprint: Continuum • BISAC: Linguistics - SociolinguisticsLanguage, Ecology and Society presents a view of language and ecology from a dialectical perspective. In this analysis...

• Author(s): M. Lynne Murphy • Publisher: Continuum • Publisher Imprint: Continuum • BISAC: Linguistics - SemanticsKey Terms in Semantics explains the all the terms and concepts in semantics which students on linguistics and language studies cour...

• Author(s): Joseph Foley • Publisher: Continuum • Publisher Imprint: Continuum • BISAC: Linguistics - GeneralThis collection of essays by leading functional linguists presents the latest perspectives on language and discourse in educational sett...

• Author(s): Wolfgang Teubert • Publisher: Continuum • Publisher Imprint: Continuum • BISAC: Linguistics - SemanticsThis readable introductory textbook presents a concise survey of corpus linguistics. The first section of the book introduces the ...

• Author(s): J. R. Martin • Publisher: Continuum • Publisher Imprint: Continuum • BISAC: Linguistics - SemanticsThis second edition of the best-selling textbook Working with Discourse has been revised and updated throughout. The book builds an ac...

• Author(s): Nina Norgaard • Publisher: Continuum • Publisher Imprint: Continuum • BISAC: Linguistics - SemanticsStylistics is the study of the ways in which meaning is created and shaped through language in literature and in other types of text....

• Author(s): Geoffrey Sampson • Publisher: Continuum • Publisher Imprint: Continuum • BISAC: Linguistics - GeneralCorpus Linguistics seeks to provide a comprehensive sampling of real-life usage in a given language, and to use these empirical data...

• Author(s): Victor Yngve • Publisher: Continuum • Publisher Imprint: Continuum • BISAC: Linguistics - GeneralThe impossibility of testing the depth hypothesis of 1960 of a connection between the complexities of grammar and a limited human tempor...

• Author(s): John Edwards • Publisher: Continuum • Publisher Imprint: Continuum • BISAC: Linguistics - GeneralHOW DO LANGUAGES LIVE AND DIE? WHAT ROLE DOES TRANSLATION PLAY IN HELPING LANGUAGES TO THRIVE? ARE POLYGLOTS VIEWED WITH SUSPICION, GIVE...

• Author(s): Ian Bruce • Publisher: Continuum • Publisher Imprint: Continuum • BISAC: Linguistics - SemanticsThe focus of this book is the use of genre-based approaches to teaching academic writing. Genre-based courses enable second language lear...

• Author(s): Paul Bouissac • Publisher: Continuum • Publisher Imprint: Continuum • BISAC: Linguistics - Historical & ComparativeFerdinand de Saussure (1857-1913) is generally considered one of the main founders of modern linguistics and semio...

• Author(s): Toshiko Yamaguchi • Publisher: Continuum • Publisher Imprint: Continuum • BISAC: Grammar & PunctuationThis introduction to Japanese linguistics is designed to introduce students to all of the main areas of the subject. What makes...