Linguistics Books

New and Published Books

1. The Routledge Linguistics Encyclopedia

   3rd Edition

   Edited by Kirsten Malmkjaer

   The Linguistics Encyclopedia is a single-volume Encyclopedia covering all major and subsidiary areas of linguistics and applied linguistics. The seventy nine articles provide in-depth coverage of the topics and sub-topics of the field, extensively cross-referenced so the reader can see...

   Published May 23rd 2013 by Routledge
2. Semantic Prosody

   A Critical Evaluation

   By Dominic Stewart

   Series: Routledge Advances in Corpus Linguistics

   Semantic Prosody is the first full-length treatment of semantic prosody, a concept akin to connotation but which connects crucially with typical lexical environment. For example, it has been claimed that the adverb 'utterly' is characterised by an unfavourable semantic prosody on account of its...

   Published May 22nd 2013 by Routledge
3. Rationality and the Literate Mind

   By Roy Harris

   Series: Routledge Advances in Communication and Linguistic Theory

   This book re-examines the old debate about the relationship between rationality and literacy. Does writing "restructure consciousness?" Do preliterate societies have a different "mind-set" from literate societies? Is reason "built in" to the way we think? How is literacy related to numeracy? Is the...

   Published May 22nd 2013 by Routledge
4. A Modern English Grammar on Historical Principles

   Volume 4. Syntax (third volume)

   By Otto Jespersen

   Series: Otto Jespersen

   This book was first published in 1954....

   Published May 6th 2013 by Routledge
5. A Modern English Grammar on Historical Principles

   Volume 5, Syntax (fourth volume)

   By Otto Jespersen

   Series: Otto Jespersen

   This book was first published in 1954....

   Published May 6th 2013 by Routledge
6. A Modern English Grammar on Historical Principles

   Volume 7. Syntax

   By Otto Jespersen

   Edited by Niels Haislund

   Series: Otto Jespersen

   This book was first published in 1954....

   Published May 6th 2013 by Routledge
7. Progress in Language, with special reference to English

   Series: Otto Jespersen

   Published May 6th 2013 by Routledge
8. A Modern English Grammar on Historical Principles

   Volume 1, Sounds and Spellings

   By Otto Jespersen

   Series: Otto Jespersen

   This book was first published in 1954....

   Published May 6th 2013 by Routledge
9. Typological Studies

   Word Order and Relative Clauses

   By Guglielmo Cinque

   Series: Routledge Leading Linguists

   In this book, Cinque takes a generative perspective on typological questions relating to word order and to the syntax of relative clauses. In particular, Cinque looks at: the position of the Head vis à vis the relative clause in relation to the position of the verb vis à vis his object; a general...

   Published April 30th 2013 by Routledge
10. Handbook of Automated Essay Evaluation

    Current Applications and New Directions

    Edited by Mark D. Shermis, Jill Burstein

    This comprehensive, interdisciplinary handbook reviews the latest methods and technologies used in automated essay evaluation (AEE) methods and technologies. Highlights include the latest in the evaluation of performance-based writing assessments and recent advances in the teaching of writing,...

    Published April 17th 2013 by Routledge