This book provides a critical review of the development of generative grammar, both transformational and non-transformational, from the early 1960s to the present, and presents contemporary results in the context of an overall evaluation of recent research in the field.

A detailed account of the many uses and functions of these verbs. The nature of modality, and some controversial issues, are also discussed.

The contributors to this volume cover the international range of scholarship in the field of Historical Linguistics, as well as some of its major themes. The work and ideas they discuss are relevant not only to other aspects of Historical Linguistics but also to more general developments in linguistic theory. Along with Professor Jones' Introduction, their comments provide a major overview of Historical Linguistics that will be the reference point for its development for many years to come and form an important contribution to general theories of linguistic behaviour.

This complete revision and updating of Professor Robins' classic text offers a comprehensive account of the history of linguistic thought from its European origins some 2500 years ago to the present day. It examines the independent development of linguistic science in China and Medieval Islam, and especially in India, which was to have a profound effect on European and American linguistics from the end of the eighteenth century.

The fourth edition of A Short History of Linguistics gives a greater prominence to the work of Wilhelm von Humboldt, because of the lasting importance of...

How do we learn to produce and comprehend speech? How does language relate to thought?
This second edition of the successful text Psycholinguistics- Language, Mind and World considers the psychology of language as it relates to learning, mind and brain as well as various aspects of society and culture. Current issues and research topics are presented in an in-depth manner, although little or no specific knowledge of any topic is presupposed.
The book is divided into four main parts:

• First Language Learning
• Second Language Learning
• Language,...

This is a study of the grammatical variations to be found in English dialects. It looks at aspects as diverse as the personal dative in Appalachian speech, and transitivity and intransitivity in the dialects of the south-west of England.

An examination of a variety of linguistic theories, this book analyzes the work of such theorists as Ferdinand de Saussure, Edward Sapir, Noam Chomsky, and Kenneth Pike. The text concludes with a comparison of linguistics and language.

This text examines the structural similarities of causatives between languages and the pragmatic foundations of causatives. A wide range of languages are considered, taken from a database of over 600 languages, offering an international approach to causative construction.

This fourth edition seeks to cover recent developments in linguistic theory while continuing to provide an introductory survey of the whole range of general linguistic studies. It is aimed at both students and the interested general reader.