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Major Works: Language & Linguistics

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Titles published by Routledge Major Works cover an abundance of literature on leading and influential figures, key concepts, topics and sub-disciplines across the social sciences, humanities, behavioural sciences and law.

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  1. Language and Linguistics

    Key Nineteenth-Century Journal Sources in Linguistics

    Series: The Wellesley Series

    Topics included in this set of particular importance are those on the origin of speech, the validity of the Biblical account of language, the identity and nature of the language Adam spoke, and the relation between language and thought....

    Published September 27th 1995 by Routledge

  2. C.K. Ogden and Linguistics

    With a new critical edition of The Meaning of Meaning

    Series: History of Linguistics

    Ogden spent over forty years attempting "to deal ... with the whole of the linguistic problem." This study gives his work an enduring quality which is of particular relevance to late twentieth century linguistics....

    Published May 25th 1994 by Routledge

  3. Noam Chomsky

    Critical Assessments

    Edited by Carlos Otero

    Series: Critical Assessments of Leading Linguists

    The publication in 1957 of Noam Chomsky's Syntactic Structures ushered in the era of what can properly be termed, Modern Linguistics: the science of language. This critical assessment brings together over 100 papers on every area of Chomsky's work revealing how pervasive his influence has been on...

    Published December 15th 1993 by Routledge

  4. Noam Chomsky

    Critical Assessments: Cognitive Science and Language Acquisition

    Edited by Carlos Otero

    Series: Critical Assessments of Leading Linguists

    These volumes are concerned with Chomsky's contribution to cognitive science and intellectual history, and his impact on contemporary thought....

    Published December 15th 1993 by Routledge

  5. Noam Chomsky

    Critical Assessments Complete Set

    Edited by Carlos Otero

    Series: Critical Assessments of Leading Linguists

    Published December 15th 1993 by Routledge

  6. British Linguistics in the Eighteenth Century

    Series: History of Linguistics

    One of the most interesting periods in the history of British linguistic thought, the 18th century is also one of the most neglected. Richer in diversity than the corresponding period in France, there is still a reflection of continental influences. The inheritance of linguistic ideas from...

    Published January 27th 1993 by Routledge

  7. The Linguistic Atlas of England

    Edited by Harold Orton, Stewart Sanderson, John Widdowson

    Series: Routledge Library Editions

    This fascinating record of how English is spoken in England is now being reprinted. Over 400 maps detail differences in phonology, lexicon, morphology and syntax. The Atlas provides a unique survey of the linguistic geography of England.This volume was inspired by the English Dialect Survey which...

    Published December 31st 1977 by Routledge