Products In Lexicography (Total Products 25, Showing: 1 -> 20)
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Using extensive data from the Corpus of Contemporary American English (Davies, 2008), this groundbreaking book shows that the syntactic patterns in wh...
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...
A comprehensive account of the neurobiological basis of language, arguing that species-specific brain differences may be at the root of the human capa...
This book looks at how language has evolved around the globe from ancestral proto-languages to our recognisable modern tongues. It demonstrates how la...
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 ...
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...
This book provides a state-of-the-art survey of intonation and prosodic structure. Taking a phonological perspective, it shows how morpho-syntactic co...
'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...
The study of bilingualism and all of its aspects - from theory and models to social approaches and their practical applications - forms the cornerston...
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...
A new edition of a foundational work of cognitive science that outlines a theory of the development of specifically human higher mental functions.Sinc...
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...
The Second Language Learning Processes of Students with Specific Learning Difficulties is the only recent book available to offer a detailed and in-de...
Theoretically significant work on the grammar of codeswitching by the leading researchers in the field.Codeswitching is the alternate use of two or mo...
Berwick and Chomsky draw on recent developments in linguistic theory to offer an evolutionary account of language and humans' remarkable, species-spec...
In Hayes' book, The Happiness Passport, she joins the dots between these differing beliefs to help us cultivate a richer shared vocabulary of happine...
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...
Linguistic typology identifies both how languages vary and what they all have in common. This Handbook provides a state-of-the art survey of the aims ...
An integrative approach to human cognition that encompasses the domains of language, consciousness, action, social cognition, and theory of mind that ...
Prominent scholars consider the cognitive and neural similarities between birdsong and human speech and language.Scholars have long been captivated by...