Theoretical Linguistics Products

By Dorthe Duncker

This book explores the reflexivity of language both from the perspective of the lay speaker and the linguistic analyst. Linguistic inquiry is conditional upon linguistic reflexivity, but so is language. Without linguistic reflexivity, we would not be able to make sense of everyday linguistic…

Hardback – 2018-11-15
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Routledge Advances in Communication and Linguistic Theory

By Various Authors

Originally published between 1986 and 1994 the books in this set discuss, analyse and examine: Various word formation processes in Japanese and English Thematic roles, reflexive binding and case marking Complex predicate constructions in Japanese the process whereby a modern colloquial style of…

Hardback – 2018-11-14
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Routledge Library Editions: Japanese Linguistics

Edited by Randy LaPolla

The Sino-Tibetan languages form the largest language family in the world in terms of native speakers, of whom there are some 1.4 billion spread across East Asia, Southeast Asia and parts of South Asia. The family consists of two branches: Sinitic, consisting of the Chinese languages (including…

Hardback – 2018-10-22
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Critical Concepts in Linguistics

Edited by Koji Fujita, Cedric A. Boeckx

Biolinguistics is a highly interdisciplinary field that seeks the rapprochement between linguistics and biology. Linking theoretical linguistics, theoretical biology, genetics, neuroscience and cognitive psychology, this book offers a collection of chapters situating the enterprise conceptually,…

Paperback – 2018-09-27
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By Ian Roberts

This book brings together for the first time a series of previously published papers featuring Ian Roberts’ pioneering work on diachronic and comparative syntax over the last thirty years in one comprehensive volume. Divided into two parts, the volume engages in recent key topics in empirical…

Hardback – 2018-08-21
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Routledge Leading Linguists

By Juliette Blevins

This book presents a new reconstruction of Proto-Basque, the mother language of modern Basque varieties, historical Basque, and Aquitanian, grounded in traditional methods of　historical linguistics. Building on a long tradition of Basque scholarship, the comparative method and internal…

Hardback – 2018-08-21
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Routledge Studies in Historical Linguistics

By John M. Anderson

Originally published in 1977, On Case Grammar, represents a synthesis of various lines of research, with special regard to the treatment of grammatical relations. Arguments are assessed for and against case grammar, localism, lexical decomposition and relational grammar. The book surveys the…

Hardback – 2018-07-27
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Routledge Revivals

By Amir Zeldes

This volume explores the opportunities afforded by the construction and evaluation of multilayer corpora, an emerging methodology within corpus linguistics that brings about multiple independent parallel analyses of the same linguistic phenomena, and how the interplay of these concurrent analyses…

Hardback – 2018-07-04
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Routledge Advances in Corpus Linguistics

Edited by Juan Uriagereka

This volume collects some of Juan Uriagereka’s previously published pieces and presentations on biolinguistics in recent years in one comprehensive volume. The book’s introduction lays the foundation for the field of biolinguistics, which looks to integrate concepts from the natural sciences in the…

Hardback – 2018-06-08
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Routledge Leading Linguists

By Jean-Jacques Lecercle

First published in 1990, this book argues that any theory of language constructs its ‘object’ by separating ‘relevant’ from ‘irrelevant’ phenomena — excluding the latter. This leaves a ‘remainder’ which consists of the untidy, creative part of how language is used — the essence of poetry and…

Paperback – 2018-05-31
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Routledge Revivals

Edited by Suzanne Fleischman, LINDA WAUGH

First published in 1990, this collection investigates grammatical categories associated with the verb as they are used by speakers and writers in real discourses and texts. Focusing on tense, aspect, mood, and voice in French, Spanish, and Italian, each chapter underscores the importance of context…

Paperback – 2018-05-17
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RLE: Discourse Analysis

Edited by Bonnie Lynn Webber

First published in 1979, this book starts from the perspective that dealing with anaphoric language can be decomposed into two complementary tasks: 1. identifying what a text potentially makes available for anaphoric reference and 2. constraining the candidate set of a given anaphoric expression…

Paperback – 2018-05-17
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RLE: Discourse Analysis