Functional Sentence Perspective in Written and Spoken Communication

Jan Firbas

• Hardcover | Engels | Studies in English Language
• The Prague School theory of functional sentence perspective (FSP) is concerned with the distribution of information as determined by all meaningful el... Lees meer

Medical and Scientific Writing in Late Medieval English

• Paperback | Engels | Studies in English Language
• The late Middle Ages in England saw a flowering of scientific writing in the vernacular that moved English discourse in new directions and established... Lees meer

Grammatical Complexity in Academic English

Douglas Biber, Bethany Gray

• Paperback | Engels | Studies in English Language
• Grammatical Complexity in Academic English uses corpus-based analyses to challenge a number of dominant stereotypes and assumptions within linguistics... Lees meer

Signalling Nouns in English

John Flowerdew, Richard W Forest

• Hardcover | Engels | Studies in English Language
• Signalling nouns (SNs) are abstract nouns like 'fact', 'idea', 'problem' and 'result', which are non-specific in their meaning when considered in isol... Lees meer

Preposition Placement in English

Thomas Hoffmann

• Paperback | Engels | Studies in English Language
• Preposition placement, the competition between preposition stranding (What is he talking about?) and pied-piping (About what is he talking?), is one o... Lees meer

Conversation in World Englishes

Theresa Neumaier

• Hardcover | Engels | Studies in English Language
• Turn-taking is a fascinating feature of conversational interaction, due to its systematic and ordered nature. However, research has so far focused mai... Lees meer

Cognitive Space and Linguistic Case

Izchak M Schlesinger

• Hardcover | Engels | Studies in English Language
• This study sheds new light on the complex relationship between cognitive and linguistic categories. Challenging the view of cases as categories in cog... Lees meer

Narrative in English Conversation

Christoph Rühlemann

• Hardcover | Engels | Studies in English Language
• Storytelling is a fundamental mode of everyday interaction. This book is based upon the Narrative Corpus (NC), a specialized corpus of naturally occur... Lees meer

Irish English

Raymond Hickey

• Hardcover | Engels | Studies in English Language
• English has been spoken in Ireland for over 800 years, making Irish English the oldest variety of the language outside Britain. This 2007 book traces ... Lees meer

Parentheticals in Spoken English

Nicole Dehé

• Hardcover | Engels | Studies in English Language
• Taking both an empirical and a theoretical view of the prosodic phrasing of parentheticals in English, this book reviews the syntactic and prosodic li... Lees meer

The Comment Clause in English

Laurel J Brinton

• Paperback | Engels | Studies in English Language
• Although English comment clauses such as I think and you know have been widely studied, this book constitutes the first full-length diachronic treatme... Lees meer

Grammar, Rhetoric and Usage in English

Nuria Yáñez-Bouza

• Paperback | Engels | Studies in English Language
• The preposition is of particular interest to syntacticians, historians and sociolinguists of English, as its placement within a sentence is influenced... Lees meer

Eighteenth-Century English

• Paperback | Engels | Studies in English Language
• The eighteenth century was a key period in the development of the English language, in which the modern standard emerged and many dictionaries and gra... Lees meer

Spontaneous Spoken English

Alexander Haselow

• Hardcover | Engels | Studies in English Language
• A new, thought-provoking book on the theory of grammar and language processing, based on the analysis of authentic speech produced in real time. Drawi... Lees meer

English Comparative Correlatives

Thomas Hoffmann

• Hardcover | Engels | Studies in English Language
• One of the most intriguing features of languages is that speakers can produce novel grammatical utterances that they have never heard before. Conseque... Lees meer

Russian English

• Hardcover | Engels | Studies in English Language
• This fascinating book offers a comprehensive exploration of Russian English as a World English variety. The authors introduce readers to the history o... Lees meer

Speech Acts in English

Lorena Pérez-Hernández

• Paperback | Engels | Studies in English Language
• Speech acts, those actions carried out mainly by means of language, are used in English in a range of complex ways. However, they have rarely been cov... Lees meer

Personal Pronouns in Present-Day English

Katie Wales

• Hardcover | Engels | Studies in English Language
• This is the first comprehensive book-length analysis of personal pronouns in present-day English. Drawing on the Survey of English (SEU) corpus and th... Lees meer

Late Modern English Syntax

• Paperback | Engels | Studies in English Language
• The Late Modern period is the first in the history of English for which an unprecedented wealth of textual material exists. Using increasingly sophist... Lees meer

Adjunct Adverbials in English

Hilde Hasselgård

• Paperback | Engels | Studies in English Language
• In this original study, Hilde Hasselgård discusses the use of adverbials in English, through examining examples found in everyday texts. Adverbials - ... Lees meer

Hyperbole in English

Claudia Claridge

• Hardcover | Engels | Studies in English Language
• Non-literal language is ubiquitous in everyday life, and while hyperbole is a major part of this, it has so far remained relatively unexplored. This v... Lees meer

Signalling Nouns in English

John Flowerdew, Richard W Forest

• Paperback | Engels | Studies in English Language
• Signalling nouns (SNs) are abstract nouns like 'fact', 'idea', 'problem' and 'result', which are non-specific in their meaning when considered in isol... Lees meer

Syntactic Change in Late Modern English

Erik Smitterberg

• Hardcover | Engels | Studies in English Language
• Syntactic Change in Late Modern English presents a stability paradox to linguists; despite the many social changes that took place between 1700 and 19... Lees meer

Personal Pronouns in Present-Day English

Katie Wales

• Paperback | Engels | Studies in English Language
• This is the first comprehensive book-length analysis of personal pronouns in present-day English. Drawing on the Survey of English (SEU) corpus and th... Lees meer