Product Description: The Understanding Language series provides approachable, yet authoritative, introductions to all the major topics in linguistics. Ideal for students with little or no prior knowledge of linguistics, each book carefully explains the basics, emphasising understanding of the essential notions rather than arguing for a particular theoretical position...read more

Product Description: This book offers a concise introduction to synchronic English linguistics. Following an introduction to language and linguistics as such, it provides detailed descriptions of the different language levels: phonetics and phonology, morphology, syntax, and meaning in language (comprising semantics and pragmatics)...read more

Product Description: The author analyzes, from a historical sociolinguistic point of view, selected domains of morphosyntactic variation in a 250,000 word collection of the Middle English Paston Letters (1421-1503). In three case studies, two nominal and one verbal variable are described and discussed in detail: the replacement of Old English pronouns by borrowed pronouns, the introduction and spread of >wh-relativizers, and the spread and routinization of light verb constructions (take, make, give, have, do plus deverbal noun)...read more

Product Description: Was ist das Ganze, was die Teile? Wie figurieren Holismus und Individualismus in den Einzelwissenschaften, ihren Methodologien, ihrem Selbstverständnis? Welchen Stellenwert haben diese Kategorien in der interdisziplinären, wissenschaftsübergreifenden Arbeit? Diesen und ähnlichen Fragen widmet sich dieser Sammelband...read more