Showing all 36 titles.
Z 231
The Art and Architecture of Academic Writing
Patricia Prinz and Birna Arnbjörnsdóttir
This book is a bridge to confident academic writing for advanced non-native English users. It emphasizes depth over breadth through mastery of core writing competencies and strategies which apply to most academic disciplines and genres. Tailored to students in EMI programs, the content was piloted and revised during a...
full descriptionSeptember 2021. x, 299 pp.
VEAW G64
Bermudian English
A sociohistorical and linguistic profile
Nicole Eberle
Bermudian English. A sociohistorical and linguistic profile focuses on a hitherto severely under-researched variety of English. The book traces the origins and development of Bermudian English, so as to situate the variety within the canon of other lesser-known varieties of English, and provides a first in-depth...
full descriptionMay 2021. xv, 231 pp.
SCL 96
Corpora and the Changing Society
Studies in the evolution of English
Edited by Paula Rautionaho, Arja Nurmi and Juhani Klemola
This book showcases eleven studies dealing with corpora and the changing society. The theme of the volume reflects the fact that changes in society lead to changes in language and vice versa. Focusing on the English language, be it from Old English to the present, or a shorter time span in the immediate past, the...
full descriptionApril 2020. xii, 305 pp.
SCL 91
Corpus-based Research on Variation in English Legal Discourse
Edited by Teresa Fanego and Paula Rodríguez-Puente
This volume provides a comprehensive overview of the research carried out over the past thirty years in the vast field of legal discourse. The focus is on how such research has been influenced and shaped by developments in corpus linguistics and register analysis, and by the emergence from the mid 1990s of historical...
full descriptionFebruary 2019. vii, 294 pp.
CILT 346
Developments in English Historical Morpho-Syntax
Edited by Claudia Claridge and Birte Bös
Spanning the time from Old English to modern American English, this volume provides fresh perspectives on core issues and theories in the morphosyntactic history of English nominal, verbal and adverbial constructions. The contributions discuss the loss, rise and restructuring of morphonological marking, periphrastic...
full descriptionMay 2019. vi, 312 pp.
VEAW G65
The Dynamics of English in Namibia
Perspectives on an emerging variety
Edited by Anne Schröder
The English language as spoken in Namibia has virtually been overlooked in most textbooks, handbooks, and surveys of varieties of English around the world, or else has only been mentioned in passing. However, this variety of English has recently attracted the attention of several researchers and the present volume...
full descriptionSeptember 2021. ix, 305 pp.
VEAW G66
Earlier North American Englishes
Edited by Merja Kytö and Lucia Siebers
Varieties of English in the U.S. and Canada display fascinating developments from colonial times up until the twenty-first century. To throw light on the linguistics of North American Englishes and their socio-historical contexts, this volume brings together research from various traditions, including corpus...
full descriptionJuly 2022. viii, 261 pp.
Z 242
English Complex Words
Exercises in construction and translation
Piotr Twardzisz
English Complex Words is a lively, essential companion for multilingual explorations of word-formation processes, both in English and across 40 other languages. It offers today’s broadest available coverage of English prefixation, suffixation and compounding. Comprising a treasury of real language items, this book...
full descriptionJune 2023. xi, 392 pp.
CILT 359
English Historical Linguistics
Historical English in contact
Edited by Bettelou Los, Chris Cummins, Lisa Gotthard, Alpo Honkapohja and Benjamin Molineaux
This volume drawn from the 20th International Conference on English Historical Linguistics (ICEHL, Edinburgh 2018) focuses on the role of language contact in the history of English. It showcases a wide variety of historical linguistic approaches, including ‘big data’ analyses of large corpora, dialectological methods,...
full descriptionFebruary 2022. vi, 185 pp.
CILT 358
English Historical Linguistics
Change in structure and meaning
Edited by Bettelou Los, Claire Cowie, Patrick Honeybone and Graeme Trousdale
This volume contains a set of articles based on papers selected from those delivered at the 20th International Conference on English Historical Linguistics (ICEHL, Edinburgh 2018). It focuses on cutting-edge research in the history of English, while reflecting the diversity that exists in the current landscape of...
full descriptionFebruary 2022. viii, 349 pp.
SLCS 221
English Noun Phrases from a Functional-Cognitive Perspective
Current issues
Edited by Lotte Sommerer and Evelien Keizer
Despite a significant increase in interest over the last two decades in the English Noun Phrase, there are still many open questions and unexplored issues. The papers collected in this volume contribute to this ongoing research by addressing a range of topics concerning the internal structure, use and development of...
full descriptionJanuary 2022. vii, 433 pp.
Z 240
English Sentence Constructions
Marjolijn H. Verspoor, Tim Kassenberg, Merel Keijzer and Gregory J. Poarch
English Sentence Constructions departs from a usage-based theoretical perspective in which all language units -- which we refer to as constructions -- have both a meaning and form, and context is all-important in determining the function and form of these constructions. As a...
full descriptionAugust 2022. 261 pp.
VEAW G67
Genre in World Englishes
Case studies from the Caribbean
Susanne Mühleisen
World Englishes and English in postcolonial contexts have been curiously neglected in an otherwise abundant research literature on text types and genres in English. This volume looks at the adaptation, transformation and emergence of genres in the particular cultural context of the Anglophone Caribbean. A...
full descriptionJuly 2022. viii, 229 pp.
Z 232
Grammar of Spoken and Written English
Douglas Biber, Stig Johansson, Geoffrey N. Leech, Susan Conrad and Edward Finegan
The completely redesigned Grammar of Spoken and Written English is a comprehensive corpus-based reference grammar. GSWE describes the structural characteristics of grammatical constructions in English, as do other reference grammars. But GSWE is unique in that it gives equal attention to describing the patterns of...
full descriptionNovember 2021. xxxv, 1220 pp.
Z 183
A History of the English Language
Revised edition
Elly van Gelderen
The English language in its complex shapes and forms changes fast. This thoroughly revised edition has been refreshed with current examples of change and has been updated regarding archeological research. Most suggestions brought up by users and reviewers have been incorporated, for instance, a family tree for...
full descriptionApril 2014. xx, 338 pp.
Z 195
How to do Linguistics with R
Data exploration and statistical analysis
Natalia Levshina
This book provides a linguist with a statistical toolkit for exploration and analysis of linguistic data. It employs R, a free software environment for statistical computing, which is increasingly popular among linguists. How to do Linguistics with R: Data exploration and statistical analysis is unique in its scope,...
full descriptionNovember 2015. xi, 443 pp.
SLCS 214
Late Modern English
Novel encounters
Edited by Merja Kytö and Erik Smitterberg
The past few decades have witnessed an unprecedented surge of interest in the language of the Late Modern English period. Late Modern English: Novel Encounters covers a broad range of topics addressed by international experts in fields such as phonology, morphology, syntax, lexis, spelling and pragmatics; this makes...
full descriptionMarch 2020. vii, 359 pp.
Z 221
Late Modern English Medical Texts
Writing medicine in the eighteenth century
Edited by Irma Taavitsainen and Turo Hiltunen
The eighteenth century in medicine is a fallow period lying between the innovations of the Royal Society (1662–) with its new ways of doing science and the nineteenth-century achievements of clinical and laboratory medicine. The period deserves more attention, as the seeds of some modern approaches, like statistics...
full descriptionDecember 2019. xix, 432 pp., incl. CD-RoM
VEAW G68
New Englishes, New Methods
Edited by Guyanne Wilson and Michael Westphal
There is an ever-growing body of work on New Englishes, and the time has come to take stock of how research on varieties of English is carried out. The contributions in this volume critically explore the gamut of familiar and unfamiliar methods applied in data collection and analysis in order to improve upon old...
full descriptionApril 2023. viii, 276 pp.
TAR 3
Nominal and Pronominal Address in Jamaica and Trinidad
Variation and patterns
Matthias Klumm
This book examines the various patterns of nominal and pronominal address used in Jamaica and Trinidad, the two most populous islands of the English-speaking Caribbean. Given that the Anglo-Caribbean context has so far been largely neglected in address research, this study aims to provide an in-depth analysis of the...
full descriptionSeptember 2021. xiv, 246 pp.
CILT 347
Norms and Conventions in the History of English
Edited by Birte Bös and Claudia Claridge
This volume explores changing norms and conventions in the English language, as displayed in a broad range of historical data from more than five centuries. The contributions discuss the interplay of sociocultural conditions, specific discourse traditions and structural aspects of language, paying special attention to...
full descriptionMay 2019. v, 215 pp.
SLCS 225
Paradigms in Word Formation
Theory and applications
Edited by Alba E. Ruz, Cristina Fernández-Alcaina and Cristina Lara-Clares
The focus of Paradigms in Word Formation: Theory and applications is on the relevance of paradigms for linguistic description. Paradigmatic organization has traditionally been considered an inherent feature of inflectional morphology, but research in the last decades clearly shows the existence of paradigms in word...
full descriptionSeptember 2022. vii, 382 pp.
SLCS 222
Pejorative Suffixes and Combining Forms in English
José A. Sánchez Fajardo
The book is a research monograph that reviews and revises the concept of linguistic pejoration, and explores the role of 15 suffixes and combining forms, such as -ie, -o, -ard, -holic, -rrhea, -itis, -porn, -ish, in the formation of English pejoratives. The examination of the inner structure of the resulting...
full descriptionFebruary 2022. xvi, 229 pp.
AHS 11
Records of Real People
Linguistic variation in Middle English local documents
Edited by Merja Stenroos and Kjetil V. Thengs
English local documents – leases, wills, accounts, letters and the like – provide a unique resource for historical sociolinguistics. Abundant from the early fifteenth century, they represent the language and concerns of people from a wide range of social, institutional and geographical backgrounds. However, as...
full descriptionDecember 2020. ix, 310 pp.
VEAW G69
Saipanese English
Local and global sociolinguistic trends
Dominique B. Hess
In this volume, the emergence of English in Saipan is examined in the complex context of its colonial past. The focus lies on the influence of the American era on the linguistic outcomes in Saipan. Sociolinguistic interviews with indigenous Chamorros and Saipan Carolinians were analyzed using qualitative and...
full descriptionJuly 2023. xx, 249 pp.
AHS 13
Sociolinguistic Variation in Old English
Records of communities and people
Olga Timofeeva
This is the first extensive study of Old English to utilise the insights and methodologies of sociolinguistics. Building on previous philological and historical work, it takes into account the sociology and social dialectology of Old English and offers a description of its speech communities informed by the theory of...
full descriptionJuly 2022. xv, 204 pp.
CoLL 59
Variation Rolls the Dice
A worldwide collage in honour of Salikoko S. Mufwene
Edited by Enoch O. Aboh and Cécile B. Vigouroux
Variation Rolls the Dice: A worldwide collage in honour of Salikoko S. Mufwene aims to celebrate Mufwene’s ground-breaking contribution to linguistics in the past four decades. The title also encapsulates his approach to language as both systemic and socio-cultural practices, and the role of variation in determining...
full descriptionOctober 2021. xiv, 330 pp.
Z 225
Writing History in Late Modern English
Explorations of the Coruña Corpus
Edited by Isabel Moskowich, Begoña Crespo, Luis Puente-Castelo and Leida Maria Monaco
This volume focuses on the relationship and interaction of language and science between 1700 and 1900. It pays particular attention to English History writing in late Modern English as compiled in the Corpus of History English Texts (CHET), a newly released sub-corpus of the Coruña Corpus of English Scientific Writing.
full descriptionOctober 2019. vii, 278 pp.
Z 237
“All families and genera”
Exploring the Corpus of English Life Sciences Texts
Edited by Isabel Moskowich, Inés Lareo and Gonzalo Camiña
“All families and genera”: Exploring the Corpus of English Life Sciences Texts aims at exploring scientific writing in late Modern English. This volume is the fourth of its kind devoted to the analysis of the relations between language and different scientific disciplines from 1700 to 1900. Here, forty texts on...
full descriptionSeptember 2021. xv, 310 pp.