Language: history & general works books

First published in 1990, this collection celebrates the life and work of Professor A. C. Gimson, four years after...  Read More >>

First published in 1967, this book was based on new descriptions of English emerging from recent research. It provides...  Read More >>

 Read More >>

 Read More >>

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

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

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

First published in 1986, this book draws together analyses of English and German. It defines the contrasts and similarities...  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 2003, this is a study of the syntactic behaviour of personal pronoun subjects and the indefinite...  Read More >>

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

Routledge Language Workbooks are practical introductions to specific areas of language for absolute beginners. Vocabulary...  Read More >>

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

This book, first published in 1950, is a collection of what the author felt to be the minimum of English grammar...  Read More >>

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

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

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

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

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 is concerned with the definite and indefinite articles in English. It provides...  Read More >>

 Read More >>

This lively and engaging book, set in the historical context of centuries of migration and multilingualism in Berlin,...  Read More >>

The essays in this volume shed light on how, for what purposes and to what extent the Arabic language was taught...  Read More >>