This volume provides a comprehensive view of the current issues in contemporary syntactic theory. Written by an international assembly of leading specialists in the field, these 2 original articles serve as a useful reference for various areas of grammar.

• Contains 23 articles written by an international assembly of specialists in the field.
  
• The lucidly written articles grant accessibility to crucial areas of syntactic theory.
  
• Contrasting theories are represented.
  
• Contains an informative introduction and extensive...

This Handbook brings together major aspects of Japanese linguistics, presenting overviews, current concerns and future directions of each topic. The areas included are phonology, syntax, semantics, morphology, language acquisition, sentence processing, pragmatics, and sociolinguistics. This Handbook is for those who are familiar with the topic at the basic level and wish to investigate it in more detail, but it also can be used as a language-specific and typological reference.

• Written by leading scholars in the field
  
• Provides a unique...

The Handbook of the History of English is a collection of articles written by leading specialists in the field that focus on the theoretical issues behind the facts of the changing English language.

• organizes the theoretical issues behind the facts of the changing English language innovatively and applies recent insights to old problems
  
• surveys the history of English from the perspective of structural developments in areas such as phonology, prosody, morphology, syntax, semantics, language variation, and dialectology
  
• offers...

The Handbook of Language and Globalization brings together important new studies of language and discourse in the global era, consolidating a vibrant new field of sociolinguistic research.

• The first volume to assemble leading scholarship in this rapidly developing field
• Features new contributions from 36 internationally-known scholars, bringing together key research in the field and establishing a benchmark for future research
• Comprehensive coverage is divided into four sections: global multilingualism, world languages and language systems; global...

The Handbook of Clinical Linguistics brings together an international team of contributors to create an original, in-depth survey of the field for students and practitioners of speech-language pathology, linguistics, psychology, and education.

• Explores the field of clinical linguistics: the application of the principles and methods of linguistics to the study of language disability in all its forms
  
• Fills a gap in the existing literature, creating the first non-encyclopedic volume to explore this ever-expanding area of linguistic concern and research
  The Handbook of Clinical Linguistics brings together an international team of contributors to create an original, in-depth survey of the field ...

The Handbook of Chinese Linguistics presents critical overviews of a wide range of major topics in Chinese linguistics, and is the first book to introduce Chinese linguistics from the perspective of modern theoretical and formal linguistics.

• Offers readers a balanced and accessible introduction to some of the most important results of research into Chinese linguistics carried out by theoretical linguists during the last thirty years
• Topics covered include, among others, syntax, morphology, phonetics, phonology, language acquisition, historical linguistics, and...

Reflecting the growth and increasing global importance of the Spanish language, The Handbook of Hispanic Linguistics brings together a team of renowned Spanish linguistics scholars to explore both applied and theoretical work in this field.

• Features 41 newly-written essays contributed by leading language scholars that shed new light on the growth and significance of the Spanish language
• Combines current applied and theoretical research results in the field of Spanish linguistics
• Explores all facets relating to the origins, evolution, and geographical...

Documenting how in the course of acquiring language children become speakers and members of communities, The Handbook of Language Socialization is a unique reference work for an emerging and fast-moving field.

• Spans the fields of anthropology, education, applied linguistics, and human development
• Includes the latest developments in second and heritage language socialization, and literary and media socialization
• Discusses socialization across the entire life span and across institutional settings, including families, schools, work places, and...

The Handbook of Phonological Theory, second edition offers an innovative and detailed examination of recent developments in phonology, and the implications of these within linguistic theory and related disciplines.

• Revised from the ground-up for the second edition, the book is comprised almost entirely of newly-written and previously unpublished chapters
• Addresses the important questions in the field including learnability, phonological interfaces, tone, and variation, and assesses the findings and accomplishments in these domains
• Brings together a...

Significantly expanded and updated, the second edition of The Handbook of Language, Gender and Sexuality brings together a team of the leading specialists in the field to create a comprehensive overview of key historical themes and issues, along with methodologies and cutting-edge research topics.

• Examines the dynamic ways that women and men develop and manage gendered identities through their talk, presenting data and case studies from interactions in a range of social contexts and different communities
• Substantially updated for the second edition, including a...