This set reissues 29 books on the English language, originally published between 1932 and 2003. Together, the volumes cover key topics within the larger subject of the English Language, including grammar, dialect and the history of English. Written and edited by an international set of scholars, particular volumes employ comparisons with other languages such as French and German, whilst other volumes are devoted to specific English dialects such as Cockney and Canadian English, or English in general. This collection provides insight and perspective on various elements of the English language over a period of 70 years and demonstrates its enduring importance as a field of research.
1. A Structural Atlas of the English Dialects
2. Pronouns and Word Order in Old English: With Particular Reference to the Indefinite Pronoun Man
3. Listeners' Guide to Medieval English: A Discography
4. The Elements of English: An Introduction to the Principles of the Study of Language
5. Questions of Intonation
6. Cleft and Pseudo-Cleft Constructions in English
7. Anaphoric Relations in English and French: A Discourse Perspective
8. On the Semantics of Syntax: Mood and Condition in English
9. Tense in English: Its Structure and Use in Discourse
10. A Comparative Typology of English and German: Unifying the Contrasts
11. Definiteness and Indefiniteness: A Study in Reference and Grammaticality Prediction
12. The Grammar of English Reflexives
13. The Pseudo-Cleft Construction in English
14. Grammatical Gender in English: 950 to 1250
15. Syllable-Based Generalizations in English Phonology
16. Studies in the Phonology of Colloquial English
17. Cockney Past and Present: A Short History of the Dialect of London
18. Patterns in English: A Fresh Approach to Grammar
19. An Historic Tongue: Studies in English Linguistics in Memory of Barbara Strang
20. An Advanced English Syntax: Based on the Principles and Requirements of the Grammatical Society
21. Speaking Canadian English: An Informal Account of the English Language in Canada
22. The Phonology of a South Durham Dialect: Descriptive, Historical and Comparative
23. Subject and Object in Modern English
24. Studies in the Pronunciation of English: A Commemorative Volume in Honour of A.C. Gimson
25. The Phrase Phonology of English and French
26. A History of English
27. Word Maps: A Dialect Atlas of England
28. Towards a Contextual Grammar of English: The Clause and its Place in the Definition of Sentence
29. The Structure of English Clauses
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