Language and Linguistics

Product Description The relationship between memory and language and the topic of bilingualism are important areas of research in both psychology and linguistics and are grounded in cognitive and linguistic paradigms, theories and experimentation. This volume provides an integrated theoretical/real-world...

Preview pages_1_16 Download $ 10.00 Description Product Description The volume is a collection of original articles that present new research on first and second language acquisition from the perspective of current generative linguistics, using a detailed case study of Portuguese as a first, second and...

Description Product Description This popular introductory textbook offers a lively and comprehensive introduction to current morphological theory and analysis, enabling beginners to approach current literature in the subject with confidence. Part I develops students understanding of traditional and structuralist...

Description Product Description Covers derivational and compound word formation in English morphology in depth, using a cognitive linguistics semantic framework. Review Hamawand's textbook represents a novel model of linguistic analysis. It introduces the core areas of morphology in a refreshing and...

Book Description By looking at the effect of language difference, rather than at theories of language, John Edwards examines the interaction of language with nationalism, politics, history, identity and education. He illustrates his arguments with a rangew of examples, from recent attempts to revive...

Description The origins and development of Pidgin in Nigeria are exhaustively examined. The study's perspectives are historical, theoretical, ontological and sociological. Nigerian Pidgin is identified as a language in its own right, with all the characteristics and potentialities of a natural language,...

On Language Change The Invisible Hand in Language English By Rudi Keller Copyright Year 1994 Product Description In the twentieth century paradigms of linguistics have largely left language change to one side. Rudi Keller's book is an exciting contribution to linguistic philosophy becuase it puts language...

Book Description Volume 10 of the Routledge History of Philosophy presents a historical survey of the central topics in twentieth century Anglo-American philosophy. It chronicles what has been termed the 'linguistic turn' in analytic philosophy and traces the influence the study of language has had on...

Human language is a remarkable phenomenon. Its study continues to be a source of fascination and delight. Dr. Donald Burquest, professor of linguistics at the University of Texas at Arlington, developed this foundational textbook during years of helping students overcome the feelings of dismay that new...

Book Description The focus of this study is upon those pidgins and creoles which are English based and which have arisen since the fifteenth century. The book examines the widespread nature of the pidgin/creole phenomenon and evaluates the current definitions of the terms and the theories which have...

Publisher Name: Springer, Dordrecht Print ISBN 978-1-4020-1150-4 Online ISBN 978-0-306-48223-6 This book is very nice for students of languages and linguistics

Table of Contents Acknowledgements xxiii List of abbreviations xxv xxvii General introduction 1 11 PART I. GENERAL ASPECTS 1. Pidgins 15 41 2. Creoles 43 67 3. Mixed languages 69 97 4. Sociohistorical contexts of pidgins and creoles 99 131 5. Theories on the formation processes of pidgins 133 169 6....