Language

When did English become American? What distinctive qualities made it American? What role have America's...

Language ideology is a concept developed in linguistic anthropology to explain the ways in which...

In Where Metaphors Come From, Zoltán Kövecses proposes a metaphorical grounding that augments and refines...

Karen Tracy examines the identity-work of judges and attorneys in state supreme courts as they...

We all use language in different ways, depending on the situations we find ourselves in....

This book draws on recent developments in research on Ferdinand de Saussure's general linguistics to...

Though we all think we know what good writing is when we see it, it's...

This volume discusses methodological issues in conducting elicitation on semantic topics in a fieldwork situation....

This book examines requests for action in everyday contexts by analyzing natural video-recorded data of...

This edited volume provides new insights into the architecture of Chinese grammar from a comparative...

The current "obesity epidemic" has been at the top of the national and, increasingly, global...

Within the study of language and social interaction, the concept of 'accountability'-including related concepts, such...

This volume advances our understanding of how word structure in terms of affix ordering is...

Built on twenty years of fieldwork in rural Jiangyong of Hunan Province in south China,...

The essays in this volume address a core question regarding the structure of linguistic systems:...

This book investigates the phenomenon of morphological length manipulation: changes in segmental length that cannot...

Unique in scope, An Introduction to the Languages of the World introduces linguistics students to...

This book offers detailed empirical coverage of the syntax and semantics of Plains Cree, an...

Sir Thomas Elyot's Latin-English dictionary, published in 1538, became the leading work of its kind...

Technologically mediated talk is organized around familiar styles-styles of person, relationship and genre. But media...

This book argues (a) that there is no principled way to distinguish inflection and derivation...

This book considers how people talk about their environment, find their way in new surroundings,...

This book brings together leading international scholars to consider whether in some languages there are...

The Atlas presents full colour maps of the distribution among the pidgins and creoles of...

What is grammar? Why does it exist? What difference, if any, does it make to...

This book is an up-to-date, comprehensive, and theoretically coherent account of the phonology of modern...

Given the prevalence of war around the world, it is vital to understand the way...

The rich variety of the English vocabulary reflects the vast number of words it has...

The Atlas presents full colour maps of the distribution among the pidgins and creoles of...

Remade in France: Anglicisms in the Lexicon and Morphology of French chronicles the current status...

The Language of Sexual Misconduct Cases analyzes the many ways in which language plays a...

The book makes available the earliest surviving text in English of the sixteenth-century Latin grammar...

Spreading Patterns examines how new constructions emerge and spread through the grammar of a language,...

This book narrates the history of English spelling from the Anglo-Saxons to the present-day, charting...

This book is the first comprehensive grammar in English of present-day standard Romanian. Its descriptive...

This book considers how language users express and understand literal and metaphorical spatial meaning not...

Unlike any other species, humans can learn and use language. This book explains how the...

The Early English Impersonal Construction aims to demonstrate that an understanding of the functional and...

These books represent the most systematic and comprehensive guide ever published to the world's pidgins,...

The Atlas presents full colour maps of the distribution among the pidgins and creoles of...

Lynda Mugglestone's hugely popular The Oxford History of English is now updated and entirely reset...

This book examines the grammatical changes that took place in the transition from Latin to...

This dictionary provides a full and authoritative guide to the meanings of the terms, concepts,...

Periphrasis straddles the border between two major linguistic components, morphology and syntax. It describes a...

Information Structure and Syntactic Change in the History of English is the first book to...