Textbooks in Language and Linguistics...

Textbooks in Languageand Linguistics 2005

• GeneralLinguistics

• Syntax

• Phonetics andPhonology

• Semantics

• Morphology

• LanguageTypology

• Sociolinguistics

• HistoricalLinguistics

• Pragmatics andDiscourse

• CognitiveLinguistics

• Language Acquisition

• Writing Systems

• Modern ForeignLanguages

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2 General Linguistics

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▼ New textbook seriesCambridge Introductionsto Language andLinguisticsThese are accessible introductions to themajor subjects encountered within the study of language and linguistics aimed at undergraduates for use on courses inlanguage and linguistics.

Each book is accompanied by a supporting website, whichoffers additional material.

▼ NewIntroducing Phonology David OddenOhio State University

‘This book is a godsend.’Lee Bickmore, Program in Linguistics and

Cognitive Science, Albany UniversityContents: 1. What is phonology?; 2. Phonetictranscriptions; 3. Allophonic relations; 4. Underlyingrepresentations; 5. Interacting processes; 6. Featuretheory; 7. Doing an analysis; 8. Phonological typologyand naturalness; 9. Abstractness and psychologicalreality; 10. Nonlinear representations.

March 2005 247 x 174 mm 300pp61 exercises0 521 82669 1 Hardback £40.000 521 53404 6 Paperback £17.99

▼ NewIntroducing Speech andLanguage ProcessingJohn ColemanUniversity of OxfordContents: 1. Introduction; 2. Sounds and numbers; 3. Digital filters and resonators; 4. Frequency analysisand linear predictive coding; 5. Finite state machines;6. Introduction to speech recognition techniques; 7. Probabilistic finite-state models; 8. Parsing; 9. Using probabilistic grammars.

March 2005 247 x 174 mm 350pp 25 tables 39 exercises 120 figures0 521 82365 X Hardback c. £50.000 521 53069 5 Paperback c. £22.99

▼ NewIntroducing PhoneticScienceMichael Ashby and John MaidmentUniversity College London

‘An excellentbook’YoshinoriSagisaka, GITI WasedaUniversity,Japan, and Editor-in-Chief, SpeechCommunication

‘… I have not used a better introductorytextbook on the subject.’Dominic Watt, Department of Linguistics,

University of AberdeenContents: 1. Introduction to speech; 2. Voice; 3. Placeof articulation; 4. Manner of articulation; 5. Vowels;6. Voice II; 7. Airstream mechanisms; 8. Speech soundsand speech movements; 9. Basic phonological concepts;10. Suprasegmentals; 11. Speaker and hearer.

March 2005 247 x 174 mm 200pp 82 figures0 521 80882 0 Hardback c. £40.000 521 00496 9 Paperback c. £15.99

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The Study of LanguageSecond editionGeorge YuleLouisiana State UniversityThis new edition of The Study of Languageincorporates many changes that reflectdevelopments in language study over thepast decade. There is an entirely new chapteron pragmatics, with an expansion of thechapter on semantics. There are additionalsections on speech recognition systems, signlanguages, women’s and men’s language,input in language learning, and severalother topics. The presentation retains theclear and lively style which made the firstedition a hugely popular introduction to the study of language.Contents: Preface; 1. The origins of language; 2. The development of writing; 3. The properties of language; 4. Animals and human language; 5. The sounds of language; 6. The sound patterns of language; 7. Words and word-formation processes; 8. Morphology; 9. Phrases and sentences: grammar;10. Syntax; 11. Semantics; 12. Pragmatics; 13. Discourseanalysis; 14. Language and machines; 15. Languageand the brain; 16. First language acquisition; 17. Second language acquisition/learning; 18. Sign language; 19. Language history and change; 20. Language varieties; 21. Language, society andculture; Appendix: suggested answers to study questions; References; Index.

1996 228 x 152 mm 308pp 27 line diagrams 4 half-tones 1 map0 521 56053 5 Hardback £50.000 521 56851 X Paperback £14.99

LinguisticsAn IntroductionAndrew Radford, Martin Atkinson, DavidBritain, Harald Clahsen and Andrew SpencerA self-containedintroduction tolanguage andlinguistics, this bookoffers a unifiedapproach tolanguage fromseveral perspectives.A language is acomplex structurerepresented in theminds of its speakers,and this bookprovides the toolsnecessary forunderstanding this structure. The book isdivided into three sections: sounds, words,and sentences. In each section, thefoundational concepts are introduced alongwith their linguistic applications, giving thisbook a clear and unique structure. Eachsection is accompanied by extensive exercisesand guidance on further reading.Contents: List of figures; List of tables; List of maps;List of appendices; A note for course organisers andclass teachers on the use of this book; Contents;Introduction; Part I. Sounds: 1. Introduction; 2. Soundsand suprasegmentals; 3. Sound variation; 4. Soundchange; 5. Phonemes, syllables and phonologicalprocesses; 6. Child phonology; 7. Processing sounds;Part II. Words: 8. Introduction; 9. Word classes; 10. Building words; 11. Morphology across languages;12. Word meaning; 13. Children and words; 14. Lexicalprocessing and the mental lexicon; 15. Lexical disorders; 16. Lexical variation and change; Part III.Sentences: 17. Introduction; 18. Basic terminology;19. Sentence structure; 20. Empty categories; 21. Movement; 22. Syntactic variation; 23. Logicalform; 24. Children’s sentences; 25. Sentence processing; 26. Syntactic disorders; Bibliography.

1999 228 x 152 mm 454pp 33 tables 135 exercises 48 figures 3 maps0 521 47261 X Hardback £50.000 521 47854 5 Paperback £19.99

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4 Syntax … Andrew Radford

Minimalist SyntaxExploring the Structure of EnglishAssuming little or no prior knowledge ofsyntactic theory, Radford takes studentsthrough a diverse range of topics in Englishsyntax. Each chapter contains a workbooksection, in which students are encouraged tomake their own analyses of English phrasesand sentences through exercises, modelanswers, and ‘helpful hints’. There is also anextensive glossary of terms.Contents: 1. Principles, parameters and universalgrammar; 2. Categories and features; 3. Syntacticstructure and merger; 4. Null constituents; 5. Headmovement; 6. Wh-movement; 7. A-movement; 8. Case, agreement and movement; 9. Split projections; 10. Phases.

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2004 247 x 174 mm 500pp 2 line diagrams 3 table 242 figures0 521 83497 X Hardback £55.000 521 54274 X Paperback £19.99

English SyntaxAn IntroductionThis textbook – an abridgedversion ofRadford’sMinimalist Syntax– provides a concise andaccessibleintroduction to current syntactictheory, drawing onthe key concepts ofChomsky’sMinimalistProgramme.Contents: 1. Principles, parameters and universalgrammar; 2. Categories and features; 3. Syntacticstructure and merger; 4. Null constituents; 5. Headmovement; 6. Wh-movement; 7. A-movement; 8. Case, agreement and movement; 9. Split projections; 10. Phases.

2004 247 x 174 mm 300pp 2 line diagrams3 tables 179 figures0 521 83499 6 Hardback £45.000 521 54275 8 Paperback £16.99

Syntactic Theory and theStructure of EnglishA Minimalist ApproachContents: 1. Principles and parameters; 2. Categories and features; 3. Syntactic structure; 4. Emptycategories; 5. Checking; 6. Head movement; 7. Operator movement; 8. A movement; 9. VP shells;10. Agreement projections.


1997 228 x 152 mm 570pp0 521 47125 7 Hardback £52.500 521 47707 7 Paperback £19.99

SyntaxA Minimalist IntroductionContents: 1. Grammar; 2. Categories; 3. Structure; 4. Empty categories; 5. Head movement; 6. Operatormovement; 7. Subjects; 8. A movement; 9. VP shells;10. Agreement projections.


Transformational GrammarContents: Prologue; Ackowledgements; 1. Goals; 2. Structure; 3. Phrase-markers; 4. Noun phrases; 5. Other phrases; 6. Clauses; 7. The Lexicon; 8. Transformations; 9. WH MOVEMENT; 10. ALPHAMOVEMENT; Bibliograhical background; Bibliography;Index


1998 228 x 152 mm 640pp0 521 34750 5 Paperback £26.00


▼ NewBinding TheoryDaniel BüringUniversity of California, Los AngelesThis textbook provides a thorough andcomprehensive introduction to modernbinding theory, introducing a huge variety of nominal and especially pronominalexpressions from the world’s languages. Contents: 1. The ABC of binding theory; 2. Interpreting indexed structures; 3. Domains andorientation; 4. Binding versus co-reference; 5. Othercases of semantic binding; 6. The co-reference rule; 7. Descriptive pronouns and individual concepts; 8. Semantic binding and c-command; 9. Plurals; 10. Reciprocals; 11. Exempt anaphora and reflexivity; 12. Binding and movement.


January 2005 247 x 174 mm 220pp0 521 81280 1 Hardback £40.000 521 01222 8 Paperback £18.99

▼ ForthcomingAnalyzing GrammarAn IntroductionPaul R. KroegerGraduate Institute ofApplied Linguistics, DallasAnalyzing Grammaris a clear introductorytextbook ongrammatical analysis,showing students howto analyse grammaticalpatterns in anylanguage.Contents: 1. Grammaticalform; 2. Analyzing wordstructure; 3. Constituentstructure; 4. Semantic roles and grammatical relations;5. Lexical entries and well-formed clauses; 6. Nounphrases; 7. Case and agreement; 8. Noun classes andpronouns; 9. Tense, aspect and modality; 10. Non-verbal predicates; 11. Special sentences types; 12. Subordinate clauses; 13. Derivationalmorphology; 14. Valence-changing morphology; 15. Allomorphy; 16. Non-linear morphology; 17. Clitics.

May 2005 247 x 174 mm 280pp 28 line diagrams 47 exercises0 521 81622 X Hardback c. £40.000 521 01653 3 Paperback c. £18.99

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▼ NewExploring the Syntax-Semantics InterfaceThis book looks at how syntax, semanticsand pragmatics interact in different waysacross human languages. Written within theframework of Role and Reference Grammarit discusses topics across the full range ofgrammatical phenomena.Contents: 1. Syntactic structure; 2. Lexicalrepresentation and semantic roles; 3. Informationstructure; 4. Syntactic relations and case marking; 5. Linking syntactic and semantic representations in simple sentences; 6. The structure of complexsentences; 7. Linking syntax and semantics incomplex sentences.

April 2005 247 x 174 mm 400pp 29 tables 132 figures0 521 81179 1 Hardback £45.000 521 01056 X Paperback £19.99

An Introduction to SyntaxContents: 1. Syntax, lexical categories and morphology;2. Grammatical relations; 3. Dependency relations; 4. Constituent structure; 5. Grammar and lexicon; 6. Theories of syntax.

2001 247 x 174 mm 256pp 116 line diagrams 17 tables0 521 63199 8 Hardback £45.000 521 63566 7 Paperback £18.99

SyntaxStructure, Meaning, and FunctionRobert D. van Valin, Jr and Randy J. LaPollaContents: 1. The goals of linguistic theory; 2. Syntacticstructure; 3. Semantic representation; 4. Semanticrepresentation; 5. Information structure; 6. Grammatical relations; 7. Linking syntax andsemantics in simple sentences; 8. Syntactic structure;9. Linking syntax and semantics in complexsentences; Epilogue: the goals of linguistic theoryrevisited; Notes; References.


1997 228 x 152 mm 741pp 56 exercises169 figures

0 521 49565 2 Hardback £70.000 521 49915 1 Paperback £26.00

6 Phonetics and Phonology


PhonologyAnalysis and TheoryEdmund GussmannUniversity of GdanskClear and concise, this textbook is an introduction to phonology for students whichassumes no prior knowledge of this area oflinguistics and provides an overall view of thefield which can be covered within one year.Each chapter focuses on a particular set oftheoretical issues including segments,syllables, feet, and phonological processing.Gussmann explores these areas using datadrawn from a variety of languages includingEnglish, Icelandic, Russian, Irish, Finnish,Turkish, and others.Contents: 1. Sounds and segments; 2. The melodyand the skeleton; 3. Domains and phonological regularities; 4. The syllable; 5. More on codas; 6. Some segmental regularities; 7. Syllable structureand phonological effects: quantity in Icelandic; 8. Segmental double agents; 9. Words and feet -stress in Munster Irish; Summary.



ToneMoira YipUniversity College LondonThe sounds oflanguage can bedivided into consonants, vowels, and tones – the useof pitch to conveymeaning. Seventypercent of theworld’s languages use pitch in this way.Assuming little or noprior knowledge of the topic, this text-book provides aclearly organizedintroduction to tone and tonal phonology.Comprehensive in scope, it examines themain types of tonal systems found in Africa,the Americas, and Asia, using examples fromthe widest possible range of tone languages.

Contents: 1. Introduction; 2. Contrastive tone; 3. Tonal features; 4. The autosegmental nature oftone, and its analysis in Optimality Theory; 5. Tone in morphology and in syntax; 6. African languages; 7. Asian and Pacific languages; 8. The Americas; 9. Tone, stress, accent and intonation; 10. Perceptionand acquisition of tone.


2002 228 x 152 mm 376pp 13 figures 9 maps0 521 77314 8 Hardback £45.000 521 77445 4 Paperback £18.99

The Phonological Structureof WordsAn IntroductionColin J. Ewen and Harry van der HulstThis textbook is designed to provide studentsof phonology with an accessible introductionto the phonological architecture of words. It offers a thorough discussion of the basicbuilding blocks of phonology – in particularfeatures, sounds, syllables and feet – anddeals with a range of different theories about these units. The book provides a moredetailed analysis of this subject than previouslyavailable in introductory textbooks and is an invaluable and indispensable first steptowards understanding the major theoreticalissues in modern phonology at the wordlevel.Contents: 1. Segments; 2. Features; 3. Syllables; 4. Feet and words.


2000 228 x 152 mm 288pp 408 figures0 521 35019 0 Hardback £55.000 521 35914 7 Paperback £20.99

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Handbook of theInternational PhoneticAssociationA Guide to the Use of theInternational Phonetic AlphabetThis is a comprehensive guide to theInternational Phonetic Alphabet, widely used for over a century to transcribe thesounds of languages. Contents: Part I. Introduction to the IPA: 1. What isthe International Phonetic Alphabet? 2. Phoneticdescription and the IPA chart; 3. Guide to IPA notation; 4. The phonemic principle; 5. Broad andnarrow transcriptions; 6. IPA transcriptions for a language; 7. Working with the IPA; 8. Going beyondthe IPA; 9. Some problematic issues; 10. The IPA andphonological theory; Part II. Illustrations of the IPA:Part III. Appendices.

1999 228 x 152 mm 214pp 6 figures0 521 65236 7 Hardback £40.000 521 63751 1 Paperback £14.99

SemanticsA CoursebookJames R. Hurford and Brendan HeasleyThis elementary coursebook has been carefullyplanned to introduce students to all themain elements of semantics in a simple, step-by-step fashion. Contents: Preface; Acknowledgements; 1. Basic ideasin semantics; 2. From reference … ; 3. … to sense; 4. Logic; 5. Word meaning; 6. Interpersonal meaning.

1983 228 x 152mm 299 pp0 521 28949 1 Paperback £17.99

English WordsHistory and StructureRobert Stockwell and Donka MinkovaEnglish Words: History and Structure is concerned primarily with the learned vocabulary of English, the words borrowedfrom the classical languages and French.Contents: An introduction to the textbook; 1. Wordorigins; 2. The background of English; 3. Compositionof the early modern and modern English vocabulary;4. Smaller than words: morphemes and types of morphemes; 5. Allomorphy, phonetics, and affixation;6. Replacement rules; 7. Deletion rules and other kindsof allomorphy; 8. Fossilized allomorphy: false cognates,

and other etymological pitfalls; 9. Semantic changeand semantic guesswork; 10. The pronunciation ofclassical words in English; Appendix I. An introductionto dictionaries; Appendix II. Master root list.

2001 247 x 174 mm 220pp 11 tables 9 figures0 521 79012 3 Hardback £42.500 521 79362 9 Paperback £16.99

Word-Formation in EnglishIngo PlagUniversität-Gesamthochschule Siegen, GermanyThis textbookprovides an accessibleintroduction to the study of word-formation, focusingspecifically onEnglish. Assuming no prior Linguisticknowledge, IngoPlag explains thefundamentals ofword-formation,showing howmorphemes – theelements of a word’sinternal structure – can function both to relate words to otherwords, and to create new words. Studentsare encouraged to undertake their ownmorphological analyses of English words,and are familiarised with the methodologicaltools to obtain and analyse relevant data.Word-Formation in English will be welcomedby all students of English Language andLinguistics.Contents: Introduction; 1. Basic concepts; 2. Studyingcomplex words; 3. Productivity and the mental lexicon;4. Affixation; 5. Derivation without affixation; 6. Compounding; 7. Theoretical issues: modellingword-formation; Answer key to exercises.


2003 228 x 152 mm 258pp 23 tables 37 exercises 30 figures0 521 81959 8 Hardback £45.000 521 52563 2 Paperback £18.99

8 Language Typology


PersonAnna SiewierskaUniversity of Lancaster

This textbook deals with the grammaticalcategory of person, which covers the firstperson (the speaker), the second person (thehearer), and the third person (neither thespeaker nor the hearer). Drawing on datafrom over 500 languages, Anna Siewierskacompares the use of person within andacross different languages, and examines thefactors underlying this variation. She showshow person forms vary in substance (howlarge they are), in the nature of the semanticdistinctions they convey (e.g. gender, number,case), and in their use in sentences and discourse.Contents: 1. Introduction; 2. The typology of personforms; 3. The structure of person paradigms; 4. Personagreement; 5. The function of person forms; 6. Personforms and social deixis; 7. Person forms in a diachronicperspective.



Typology and UniversalsSecond editionWilliam CroftUniversity of Manchester

William Croft presents a comprehensiveintroduction to the method and theory used in studying typology and universals.The second edition of this essential textbookhas been thoroughly rewritten and updatedto reflect advances in typology anduniversals in the past decade, including: new methodologies such as the semanticmap model and questions of syntacticargumentation; discussion of current debates over deeper explanations for specificclasses of universals; and comparison of thetypological and generative approaches tolanguage.Contents: 1. Introduction; 2. Typological classification;3. Implicational universals and competing motivations;4. Grammatical categories: typological markedness; 5. Grammatical hierarchies and the semantic mapmodel; 6. Prototypes and the interaction of typologicalpatterns; 7. Syntactic argumentation and syntacticstructure in typology; 8. Diachronic typology; 9. Typology as an approach to language.


2002 228 x 152 mm 368pp 16 tables 23 figures 1 map0 521 80884 7 Hardback £50.000 521 00499 3 Paperback £19.99

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Language and SexualityDeborah Cameron and Don KulickContents: Preface; 1. Making connection; 2. Talking sex andthinking sex: thelinguistic and discursive constructionof sexuality; 3. Whathas gender got to dowith sex? Language,heterosexuality andheteronormativity; 4. Sexuality as identity:gay and lesbianlanguage; 5. Lookingbeyond identity:language and desire; 6. Language andsexuality: theory,research and politics.


Language and GenderPenelope Eckert and Sally McConnell-GinetContents: 1. Constructing, deconstructing and reconstructing gender; 2. Linking the linguistic to thesocial; 3. Organizing talk; 4. Making social moves; 5. Positioning ideas and subjects; 6. Saying and implying; 7. Mapping the world; 8. Working the market: use of varieties; 9. Fashioning selves.


Language in the USAPerspectives for the Twenty-firstCenturyEdited by Edward Finegan and John R. RickfordContents: Part I. American English; Part II. OtherLanguage Varieties in the USA; Part III. The Socio-linguistic Situation in the USA:

2004 247 x 174 mm 450pp 8 line diagrams21 tables 4 graphs 2 figures 40 maps0 521 77175 7 Hardback £48.000 521 77747 X Paperback £21.99

▼ NewSociolinguisticsThe Study of Speakers’ ChoicesFlorian CoulmasGerhard-Mercator-Universität GesamthochschuleDuisburg, GermanyContents: 1. Introduction: notions of language; Part I. Micro Choices: 2. Standard and dialect: social stratification as a factor of linguistic choice; 3. Gendered speech: sex as a factor of linguisticchoice; 4. Communicating across generations: age as a factor of linguistic choice; 5. Choice and change;6. Politeness: cultural dimensions of linguistic choice;Part II. Macro Choices: 7. Code-switching: linguisticchoices across boundaries; 8. Diglossia and bilingualism:functional restrictions on language choice; 9. Languagespread, shift and maintenance: how groups choosetheir language; 10. Language and identity: individual,social, national; 11. Language planning: communicationdemands, public choice, utility; 12. Select letters: amajor divide; 13. The language of choice.

April 2005 247 x 174 mm 264pp0 521 83606 9 Hardback c. £40.000 521 54393 2 Paperback c. £16.99

GrammaticalizationSecond editionPaul J. Hopper and Elizabeth Closs TraugottThis is a general introduction to grammati-calization, the change whereby lexical termsand constructions come in certain linguisticcontexts to serve grammatical functions,and,once grammaticalized, continue to developnew grammatical functions. Contents: Preface to the secondedition and acknowledgements;List of abbreviations; 1. Somepreliminaries; 2. The history of grammaticalization; 3. Reanalysis; 4. Pragmatic factor; 5. The hypothesis ofunidirectionality; 6. Clause-internal morphologicalchanges; 7. Grammati-calization across clauses; 8. Grammaticalization in situations of extreme language contact; 9. Summaryand suggestions for furtherwork; References; Index ofnames; Index of languages;General index.


2003 228 x 152 mm 296pp 4 line diagrams16 tables0 521 00948 0 Hardback £50.000 521 80421 3 Paperback £19.99

Language ChangeProgress or Decay?Third editionJean AitchisonUniversity of OxfordThis lucid and up-to-dateoverview of languagechange discusses whereour evidence about language change comesfrom, how and whychanges happen, and howlanguages begin and end. Contents: Part I. Preliminaries: 1. The ever-whirlingwheel: the inevitability of change; 2. Collecting upclues: piecing together the evidence; 3. Charting the changes: studying changes in progress; Part II. Transition: 4. Spreading the word: from person to person; 5. Conflicting loyalties: opposingsocial pressures; 6. Catching on and taking off:

how sound changes spread through a language; 7. Caught in the web: how syntactic changes workthrough a language; 8. The wheels of language:grammaticalization; 9. Slip slidin’ away: change ofmeaning; Part III: 10. The reason why: sociolinguisticcauses of change; 11. Doing what comes naturally:inherent causes of language change; 12. Repairingthe patterns: therapeutic changes; 13. The MadHatter’s tea-party: chain reaction changes; Part IV: 14. Development and breakdown: child languageand language disorders; 15. Language birth: howlanguages begin; 16. Language death: how languagesend; 17. Progress or decay?: Assessing the situation.

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2001 198 x 129 mm 324pp25 line diagrams 17 tables 7 graphs0 521 79535 4 Paperback £15.99

Discourse AnalysisGillian Brown and George YuleIn this textbook the authors provide anextensive overview of the many and diverseapproaches to the study of discourse.Contents: Preface; Acknowledgements; Transcriptionconventions; 1. Introduction: linguistic forms andfunctions; 2. The role of context in interpretation; 3. Topic and the representation of discourse content;4. ‘Staging’ and the representation of discourse structure; 5. Information structure; 6. The nature ofreference in text and in discourse; 7. Coherence inthe interpretation of discourse; References; Subjectindex; Author index.

1983 228 x 152 mm 304pp 0 521 28475 9 Paperback £16.95

Pragmatics Stephen C. LevinsonMax Plank Institute for PsycholinguisticsIn this textbook Levinson provides a lucidand integrative analysis of the central topics in pragmatics – deixis, implicature, presupposition, speech acts, and conversationalstructure.Contents: Preface: Acknowledgements; Notationconventions; Deixis; Conversational Implicature;Presupposition; Speech Acts; Conversational Structure;Conclusions; Bibliography; Subject Index; Index ofNames.


1983 228 x 152 mm 434pp 0 521 29414 2 Paperback £19.99

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Cognitive LinguisticsWilliam Croft and Alan CruseThis introductory textbook surveys the field of cognitive linguistics, presenting its theoretical foundations and the argumentssupporting it. Contents: 1. Introduction: what is cognitive linguistics?;Part I. A Conceptual Approach to Linguistic Analysis:2. Frames, domains, spaces: the organisation of conceptual structure; 3. Conceptualization and construal operations; 4. Categories, concepts andmeanings; Part II. Cognitive Approaches to LexicalSemantics: 5. Polysemy: the construal of sense boundaries; 6. A dynamic construal approach tosense relations I: hyponymy and metonymy; 7. A dynamic construal approach to sense relations II: antonymy and complementarity; 8. Metaphor; Part III. Cognitive Approaches to Grammatical Form: 9. From Idioms to Construction Grammar; 10. Anoverview of construction grammars; 11. The usage-based model; 12. Conclusion: cognitive linguistics andbeyond.


2004 228 x 152 mm 360pp 3 tables 16 figures0 521 66114 5 Hardback £50.000 521 66770 4 Paperback £18.99

Second LanguageAcquisition and UniversalGrammarLydia WhiteMcGill University, MontréalThis authoritative textbook provides anoverview and analysis of current second language acquisition research conductedwithin the generative linguistic framework. Contents: 1. Universal grammar and language acquisition; 2. Principles of Universal Grammar in L2acquisition; 3. The initial state; 4. Grammars beyondthe initial state: parameters and functional categories;5. The transition problem, triggering and input; 6. Morphological variability and the morphology/syntax interface; 7. Argument structure; 8. Ultimateattainment: the nature of the steady state.


2003 228 x 152 mm 332pp 10 line diagrams51 tables0 521 79205 3 Hardback £50.000 521 79647 4 Paperback £18.99

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Camino al españolA Comprehensive Course inSpanishConsuelo de Andrés MartinezUniversity of PlymouthEugenia Ariza BruceChristine CookUniversity of SheffieldIsabel Díez-BonetUniversity of Sheffieldand Antony TrippettUniversity of SheffieldThis intensive course is designed to lead theadult beginner to a comprehensive knowledgeof Spanish. The course gives balanced attentionto the four key skills: listening comprehensionand speaking skills are supported by qualityaudio materials, while answer keys supportwritten work and grammar-acquisition exercises. Contents: Part I. Course Materials: Introduction;Learner guide; Units 1–20. Part II. Teachers’ guidelines:Sample unit; Solutions to exercises; Transcripts. Part III.Reference Tools and Study Aids: Student guide togrammar terms; Spanish verb tables; Vocabulary listSpanish - English; Vocabulary list English – Spanish;Grammar function index.

2004 246 x 189 mm 500pp264 line diagrams 34 half-tones 5 maps0 521 82403 6 Hardback £45.000 521 53075 X Paperback £19.990 521 53074 1 Audio Cassette £14.99

12 Modern Foreign Languages


▼ ForthcomingThe Sounds of SpanishJosé Ignacio HualdeUniversity of Illinois, Urbana-ChampaignThis accessibletextbook provides a clear introductionto the sounds andpronunciation ofSpanish.Contents: 1. Introduction;2. Variation in Spanishpronunciation; 3. Consonants andvowels; 4. Acousticcharacterization of themain classes of Spanishspeech sounds; 5. Thesyllable; 6. Mainphonological processes; 7. Vowels; 8. Plosives; 9. Fricatives and affricates; 10. Nasals; 11. Liquids(laterals and rhotics); 12. Main morphophonologicalalternations; 13. Stress; 14. Intonation; Appendixes;Glossary.

July 2005 247 x 174 mm 250pp 87 tables 59 exercises 60 figures 2 maps0 521 54538 2 Paperback c. £16.990 521 54611 7 Audio CD c. £14.99

▼ NewPortugueseA Linguistic IntroductionMilton M. AzevedoThis accessible new book provides acomprehensive introduction to the linguisticstructure of Portuguese, designed to helpintermediate and advanced students ofPortuguese understand how the languagefunctions at all levels. Assuming little priorknowledge of linguistic terminology, itprovides a useful global overview ofPortuguese and its surrounding issues.Contents: 1. Portuguese in the world; 2. The soundsof Portuguese; 3. Words; 4. Sentences; 5. Portuguesein time; 6. The expansion of European Portuguese; 7. Brazilian Portuguese; 8. Sociolinguistic issues.

January 2005 228 x 152 mm 360pp 1 line diagram 48 tables 3 maps0 521 80126 5 Hardback £50.000 521 80515 5 Paperback £22.99

Using PortugueseA Guide to Contemporary UsageAna Sofia GanhoEmory University, Atlantaand Timothy McGovernUniversity of California, SantaBarbaraFor students who haveacquired the basics of the language, wishing to expandtheir knowledge.2004 238 x 169 mm 200pp0 521 79663 6 Paperback £18.99

Using German VocabularySarah M. B. FaganUniversity of IowaA comprehensive and thematically structuredvocabulary for students of German.2004 238 x 169 mm 490pp 45 line diagrams646 exercises0 521 79700 4 Paperback £26.00

▼ ForthcomingUsing RussianA Guide to Contemporary UsageSecond editionDerek OffordUniversity of BristolExpanded and updated edition of the popularguide to Russian usage, for students seekingto improve their fluency and competence.June 2005 238 x 169 mm 504pp 2 figures0 521 54761 X Paperback c. £22.99

Using Russian SynonymsTerence WadeUniversity of Strathclydeand Nijole WhiteUniversity of StrathclydeA new compilation of Russian synonyms –essential reference for undergraduates,teachers and language professionals.2004 238 x 169 mm 616pp0 521 79405 6 Paperback £28.00

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▼ NewUsing ArabicA Guide to Contemporary UsageMahdi AloshOhio State UniversityA clear and readableguide to contemporaryArabic usage forintermediate-levelstudents and above.March 2005 238 x 169 mm 336pp0 521 64832 7Paperback c. £18.99

▼ ForthcomingUsing SpanishA Guide to Contemporary UsageSecond editionR. E. Batchelor and C. J. PountainNew and expanded edition of Using Spanish,a guide to the usage of this major worldlanguage.July 2005 238 x 169 mm 450pp0 521 00481 0 Paperback c. £19.99

Using ItalianA Guide to Contemporary UsageJ. J. Kinder and V. M. SaviniA guide to Italian usage for students wishingto extend their knowledge of the language.April 2004 238 x 169 mm 386pp 1 map0 521 48556 8 Paperback £22.99

▼ David Crystal … worldauthority on the EnglishLanguageThe CambridgeEncyclopedia of theEnglish LanguageSecond edition

A Second Edition presenting an overhaul ofits subject for a new generation of language-lovers.Contents: Prefaces; 1. Modelling English; Part I. TheHistory of English: 2. The origins of English; 3. OldEnglish; 4. Middle English; 5. Early Modern English; 6. Modern English; 7. World English; Part II. EnglishVocabulary: 8. The nature of the lexicon; 9. Thesources of the lexicon; 10. Etymology; 11. The structureof the lexicon; 12. Lexical dimensions; Part III. EnglishGrammar: 13. Grammatical mythology; 14. The structure of words; 15. Word classes; 16. The structureof sentences; Part IV. Spoken and Written English: 17. The sound system; 18. The writing system; Part V.Using English: 19. Varieties of discourse; 20. Regionalvariation; 21. Social variation; 22. Personal variation;23. Electronic variation; Part VI. Learning about English:24. Learning English as a mother tongue; 25. Newways of studying English; Appendices; Indexes.

2003 276 x 219 mm 506pp 85 line diagrams 104 half-tones 27 tables 7 graphs 430 colour figures 53 maps0 521 82348 X Hardback £55.000 521 53033 4 Paperback £25.00

English as a GlobalLanguageSecond editionDavid Crystal presents a lively and factualaccount of the rise of English as a globallanguage and explores the whys andwherefores of the history, current status andfuture potential of English as theinternational language of communication. Contents: Preface; 1. Why a global language?; 2. Why English? The historical context; 3. WhyEnglish? The cultural foundation; 4. Why English?The cultural legacy; 5. The future of global English;References; Index; List of tables.

2003 216 x 138 mm 228pp 5 tables 1 figure 11 maps0 521 82347 1 Hardback £32.500 521 53032 6 Paperback £10.99

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The Cambridge Guide toEnglish UsagePam PetersMacquarie University, SydneyThis book providesan indispensablenew A-Z referenceto English usagefor the twenty-firstcentury. It coversmore than 3000points of wordmeaning, spelling,punctuation,grammar and styleon which students,teachers, writersand editorsregularly requireguidance. 2004 247 x 174 mm 800pp0 521 62181 X Hardback £25.00

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▼ Titles by Kate BurridgeBlooming EnglishKate BurridgeMonash University, Victoria

‘ Blooming English is easy to read,informative and entertaining … Anyoneinterested in the English language shouldget it. Enjoy!’ Herald Sun2004 216 x 138 mm 272pp0 521 83948 3 Hardback £35.000 521 54832 2 Paperback £12.99

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▼ NewWeeds in the Garden ofWordsFurther Observations on theTangled History of the EnglishLanguageKate BurridgeKate Burridge provides an entertaining look at unacceptable words, phrases andpronunciations in English.April 2005 216 x 138 mm 248pp0 521 85313 3 Hardback c. £35.000 521 61823 1 Paperback c.£12.99

▼ ForthcomingForbidden WordsTaboo and the Censoring ofLanguageKeith Allan, Monash University and Kate BurridgeA look at the way taboos cause language tochange, and how figurative language andlinguistic playfulness are displayed. October 2005 228 x 152 mm 250pp0 521 819601 Hardback c. £35.000 521 52564 0 Paperback c. £12.99

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