Questa serie approfondisce aspetti essenziali dello studio della lingua inglese a livello avanzato. Ogni volume esplora meticolosamente aree specifiche della linguistica inglese, fornendo spiegazioni dettagliate. Progettati per studenti che possiedono già una conoscenza di base, questi libri mirano ad approfondire la loro competenza. Presentano esercizi pratici e indicazioni per ulteriori esplorazioni.
Construction Grammar explains how knowledge of language is organized in speakers' minds. The central and radical claim of Construction Grammar is that linguistic knowledge can be fully described as knowledge of constructions, which are defined as symbolic units that connect a linguistic form with meaning.
This book offers an accessible overview of the structural and cognitive approaches to English historical semantics. Focusing primarily on Lexical Semantics, the study of word meaning, the book looks at how these approaches help to answer two key questions in Historical Linguistics: how and why languages change.
A guide to historical pragmatics in English studies. It gives students a grounding in historical pragmatics and teaches the methodology needed to analyse language in social, cultural and historical contexts. It provides insights into the analysis of discourse markers, interjections, terms of address and speech acts.
An introduction to corpus linguistics for students of English language.
A textbook introduction to morphological theory in the context of English. It offers graduate students and advanced undergraduate students in linguistics an accessible entry point to the primary literature in the field of morphology. It specifically focuses on generative theories of morphology.
Allows students to develop a deeper understanding of both sociolinguistics and historical linguistics. This textbook discusses both the central variationist tendencies present in language change and the macrosociolinguistic forces which act upon all speakers and their language.
Tackling the role of syntactic constructions, this companion brings out the connections between syntactic structures and semantics/pragmatics and the function of clausal structures in written and spoken texts. This is a practical yet flexible reference that you can return to again and again, whether it be for learning, research or teaching.
Delivers a firm grounding in the tools of syntactic analysis using a Minimalist framework
Aimed at advanced students, this book discusses a number of approaches to charting the major developments in the syntax of English. It discusses internal factors such as the loss of morphology and pressure from analogy. It also covers external factors such as the sociolinguistic impact of language and dialect contact.
Contemporary Stylistics introduces the theoretical principles and practical frameworks of stylistics and cognitive poetics, supplying the practical skills to analyse your own responses to literary texts.
This textbook overview of Modern Scots provides a description and analysis of the language covering lexical, phonological and structural patterns. It presents evidence for the diversity of the language through illustrations from newly collected fieldwork material.
The first truly multidisciplinary text of its kind, this book offers an original analysis of the current state of linguistic pragmatics.