Although scientific studies of the language behaviour of polyglots began to appear in the nineteenth century, it is only in the last fifty years or…

Translation Studies has emerged as a thriving interdisciplinary and international area of scholarship. Its rapid growth has been accompanied by diverse forms of translation research…

Serious work using computers to support language teaching and learning began in the 1960s, but it was not until the beginning of the 1980s when…

This title is a new collection in the Routledge Critical Concepts in Linguistics series. In six volumes, it provides a critical synthesis of the key…

This new Routledge Major Work is a six-volume collection of nearly one hundred papers, articles, and extracts covering every aspect of lexicology. It ranges over…

The study of comparative grammar has long been a concern of linguistic theory. To the extent that, by studying the aspects of grammar which vary,…

This collection covers the fundamental concepts and analytic tools of generative transformational syntax of the last half century, from Chomsky's Morphophonemics of Modern Hebrew (1951)…

Traditionally, linguistic research has focused on the Indo-European language family - particularly English - and languages like Japanese and Chinese have not been pursued in…