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Construction Grammar and its Application to English
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 …
Contemporary Stylistics
Provides a clear introduction to the key terms and frameworks in cognitive poetics and stylisticsHow do texts create meaning? How do we arrive at our textual interpretations? Why …
The Pragmatics of Fiction
Drawing on a wide range of fictional texts from Shakespeare and Austen to Game of Thrones and the lyrics of 'We Shall Overcome', this textbook shows how pragmatic analyses can …
English Syntax
Delivers a firm grounding in the tools of syntactic analysis using a Minimalist framework
Corpus Linguistics and the Description of English
An introduction to corpus linguistics for students of English language.
Pragmatics
The first truly multidisciplinary text of its kind, this book offers an original analysis of the current state of linguistic pragmatics.
A Historical Phonology of English
This title charts the historical development of the English phonological system. Phonological evolution is a major component of the overall history of the language; the subject …
A Historical Morphology of English
Charting the major developments in the morphology of English, this book introduces students to English inflectional and derivational morphology, presenting them with a long-range …
World Englishes
Examines the external history, social processes and consequences for language variation and change in English Covers varieties of English spoken in North America, Australasia, …
Modern Scots
A textbook overview of the structure, use and diversity of Modern Scots This textbook overview of Modern Scots provides a description and analysis of the language covering lexical, …
Morphological Theory and the Morphology of English
This is a textbook introduction to morphological theory in the context of English. This introduction to morphology offers graduate students and advanced undergraduate students in …
A Historical Syntax of English
This book discusses a number of approaches to charting the major developments in the syntax of English. It does not assume any knowledge of Old or Middle English or of formal …