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  • Morphological Complexity

    by Matthew Baerman, Dunstan Brown, Greville G. Corbett ...
    Series Book 153 - Cambridge Studies in Linguistics
    Inflectional morphology plays a paradoxical role in language. On the one hand it tells us useful things, for example that a noun is plural or a verb is in the past tense. On the other hand many languages get along perfectly well without it, so the baroquely ornamented forms we sometimes find come across as a gratuitous over-elaboration. This is especially apparent where the morphological ... Read more

    $27.89 USD

  • Network Morphology

    A Defaults-based Theory of Word Structure

    by Dunstan Brown, Andrew Hippisley ...
    Series Book 133 - Cambridge Studies in Linguistics
    Morphology is particularly challenging, because it is pervaded by irregularity and idiosyncrasy. This book is a study of word structure using a specific theoretical framework known as 'Network Morphology'. It describes the systems of rules which determine the structure of words by construing irregularity as a matter of degree, using examples from a diverse range of languages and phenomena to ... Read more

    $118.89 USD

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  • Introducing Linguistics

    A Graphic Guide

    by R. L. Trask ...
    Series Book 0 - Graphic Guides
    Covering thinkers from Aristotle to Saussure and Chomsky, "Introducing Linguistics" reveals the rules and beauty that underlie language, our most human skill. ... Read more

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  • Word-Formation in the World's Languages

    A Typological Survey

    by Pavol Štekauer, Salvador Valera, Lívia Kőrtvélyessy ...
    A pioneering book establishing the foundations for research into word-formation typology and tendencies. It fills a gap in cross-linguistic research by being the first systematic survey of the word-formation of the world's languages. Drawing on over 1500 examples from fifty-five languages, it provides a wider global representation than any other volume. This data, from twenty-eight language ... Read more

    $43.49 USD

  • English Words

    History and Structure

    by Professor Donka Minkova, Robert Stockwell ...
    This new edition is concerned primarily with the learned vocabulary of English - the words borrowed from the classical languages. It surveys the historical events that define the layers of vocabulary in English, introduces some of the basic principles of linguistic analysis, and is a helpful manual for vocabulary discernment and enrichment. The new edition has been updated with a discussion of the ... Read more

    $57.39 USD

  • The Semantics of Compounding

    Edited by Pius ten Hacken ...
    The question of how to determine the meaning of compounds was prominent in early generative morphology, but lost importance after the late 1970s. In the past decade, it has been revived by the emergence of a number of frameworks that are better suited to studying this question than earlier ones. In this book, three frameworks for studying the semantics of compounding are presented by their ... Read more

    $118.89 USD

  • The Disappearing Dictionary

    A Treasury of Lost English Dialect Words

    by David Crystal ...
    Wherever you go in the English-speaking world, there are linguistic riches from times past awaiting rediscovery. All you have to do is choose a location, find some old documents, and dig a little.In The Disappearing Dictionary, linguistics expert Professor David Crystal collects together delightful dialect words that either provide an insight into an older way of life, or simply have an ... Read more

    $10.59 USD

  • Clitics

    An Introduction

    by Andrew Spencer, Ana R. Luis ...
    Series series Cambridge Textbooks in Linguistics
    In most languages we find 'little words' which resemble a full word, but which cannot stand on their own. Instead they have to 'lean on' a neighbouring word, like the 'd, 've and unstressed 'em of Kim'd've helped'em ('Kim would have helped them'). These are clitics, and they are found in most of the world's languages. In English the clitic forms appear in the same place in the sentence that the ... Read more

    $38.59 USD

  • From Fairy Tale to Film Screenplay

    Working with Plot Genotypes

    by Terence Patrick Murphy ...
    Series series Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
    In Screenplay: The Foundations of Screenwriting (1979), Syd Field first popularized the Three-Act Paradigm of Setup, Confrontation and Resolution for conceptualizing and creating the Hollywood screenplay. For Field, the budding screenwriter needs a clear screenplay structure, one which includes two well-crafted plot points, the first at the end of Act I, the second at the end of Act II. By ... Read more

    $49.49 USD

  • Standardization, Ideology and Linguistics

    by N. Armstrong, I. Mackenzie ...
    Series series Education (R0)
    The authors explore some of the ways in which standardization, ideology and linguistics are interrelated. Through a number of case studies they show how concepts such as grammaticality and structural change covertly rely on a false conceptualization of language, one that derives ultimately from standardization. ... Read more

    $89.09 USD

  • Morphosyntactic Change

    A Comparative Study of Particles and Prefixes

    by Bettelou Los, Corrien Blom, Geert Booij, Marion Elenbaas, Ans van Kemenade ...
    Series Book 134 - Cambridge Studies in Linguistics
    Particle verbs (combinations of two words but lexical units) are a notorious problem in linguistics. Is a particle verb like look up one word or two? It has its own entry in dictionaries, as if it is one word, but look and up can be split up in a sentence: we can say He looked the information up and He looked up the information. But why can't we say He looked up it? In English look and up can only ... Read more

    $38.59 USD

  • The Function and Use of TO and OF in Multi-Word Units

    by Michael Pace-Sigge ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    The highly frequent word items TO and OF are often conceived merely as prepositions, carrying little meaning in themselves. This book disputes that notion by analysing the usage patterns found for OF and TO in different sets of text corpora. ... Read more

    $49.49 USD