Products In Lexicography (Total Products 23, Showing: 1 -> 16)
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The making of the Oxford English Dictionary was a monumental 50 year task requiring thousands of volunteers. One of the keenest volunteers was a W C M...
This volume offers new insights into the assessment of the language of Young Learners (YLs). YLs are defined here as being from 5 to 17 years, and are...
We think of English as a fortress to be defended, but a better analogy is to think of English as a child. We love and nurture it into being, and once...
This book looks at how language has evolved around the globe from ancestral proto-languages to our recognisable modern tongues. It demonstrates how la...
Theoretically significant work on the grammar of codeswitching by the leading researchers in the field.Codeswitching is the alternate use of two or mo...
'Some part of me believed I would become a more complete person if I spoke Irish, more in tune with my roots, my identity, my very being.'
'I was o...
Implicit learning is a fundamental feature of human cognition. Many essential skills, including language comprehension and production, intuitive decis...
Being a successful speaker of a given language involves control of the meaning and use of vocabulary items, taking in their lexical content (what phen...
An illustrated analytical study, Words and the First World War considers the situation at home, at war, and under categories such as race, gender and...
A comprehensive account of the neurobiological basis of language, arguing that species-specific brain differences may be at the root of the human capa...
Lexical Priming proposes a radical new theory of the lexicon, which amounts to a completely new theory of language based on how words are used in the ...
In Hayes' book, The Happiness Passport, she joins the dots between these differing beliefs to help us cultivate a richer shared vocabulary of happine...
A journey through linguistic time and space, from Aristotle through the twentieth century's era of syntax, in search of a dangerous verb and its sig...
Berwick and Chomsky draw on recent developments in linguistic theory to offer an evolutionary account of language and humans' remarkable, species-spec...
Using extensive data from the Corpus of Contemporary American English (Davies, 2008), this groundbreaking book shows that the syntactic patterns in wh...
This book provides a state-of-the-art survey of intonation and prosodic structure. Taking a phonological perspective, it shows how morpho-syntactic co...
