Language: history & general works books

First published in 1988, this book is concerned with the definite and indefinite articles in English. It provides...  Read More >>

First published in 1987, this atlas identifies structural patterns which exist in the sound systems of the dialects...  Read More >>

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This book, first published in 1984, presents a series of analysis of colloquial spoken language, to illustrate some...  Read More >>

This book, first published in 1933, examines the dialect of the people of Byers Green in County Durham. Orton explores...  Read More >>

First published in 1986, this book focuses on Anaphoric relations in the English and French languages, a phenomenon...  Read More >>

This study, first published in 1982, attempts to show that the foundations of a contextual grammar of English must...  Read More >>

This work, first published in 1979, was a doctoral dissertation submitted to the Department of Foreign Literatures...  Read More >>

This work, first published in 1980, was a doctoral dissertation submitted to the Department of Foreign Literatures...  Read More >>

First published in 1979, this book develops a grammatically orientated semantics (as opposed to a semantically orientated...  Read More >>

A History of English, first published in 1970, is a book for beginners in linguistic history. This title examines...  Read More >>

First published in 1980, this book provides a clear and practical introduction to a wide variety of English structures....  Read More >>

First published in 1991, this book looks at tense in English, one of the most controversial areas of grammar. Here,...  Read More >>

"This work, first published in 1979, was a doctoral dissertation submitted to the Department of Foreign Literatures...  Read More >>

First published in 1980, this book questions many of the assumptions that have accumulated around the subject of...  Read More >>

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The maps presented in this volume, first published in 1987, are based on the material of the Survey of English Dialects...  Read More >>

First published in 1988, this book explores the grammatical loss of gender in English. It demonstrates that from...  Read More >>

First published in 1986, this book draws together analyses of English and German. It defines the contrasts and similarities...  Read More >>

Although Cockney can be considered to be one of the most important non-standard forms of English, there had been...  Read More >>

First published in 2003, this is a study of the syntactic behaviour of personal pronoun subjects and the indefinite...  Read More >>

What do English-speaking Canadians sound like and why? Can you tell the difference between a Canadian and an American?...  Read More >>

This volume, first published in 1988, represents in its papers the wide-ranging yet coherent linguistic interests...  Read More >>