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Critical Concepts in Linguistics


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Routledge Critical Concepts in Linguistics series provides authoritative reprints of the discipline's best and most influential scholarship. This series looks at language from the point of view of the user, at the choices made and the constraints encountered when we use language. Edited by experts in the field, each set puts the development of fundamental concepts and themes into their historical context, as well as providing students and researchers with a snapshot of contemporary debates and current thinking.

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Linguistic Typology

Linguistic Typology

1st Edition

Edited By Irina Nikolaeva
December 24, 2018

This volume presents an overview of the field of linguistic typology, its history, methodology, theoretical foundations and achievements. It focuses on the major directions of typological research and demonstrates how they reflect and inform the study of language as an academic enterprise....

Linguistic Typology

Linguistic Typology

1st Edition

Edited By Irina Nikolaeva
December 24, 2018

Typology lies at the centre of scientific research on language because it directly addresses the question which many consider to be the most important in the field: why and how are all languages similar and why and how do they differ from each other? There is growing body of evidence that the ...

Linguistic Typology

Linguistic Typology

1st Edition

Edited By Irina Nikolaeva
December 24, 2018

This book provides a state-of-the-art overview of work on linguistic typology, its history, its methodology, theoretical foundations and major achievements. It shows how the directions of current research reflect and inform work on linguistic theory....

Linguistic Typology

Linguistic Typology

1st Edition

Edited By Irina Nikolaeva
December 24, 2018

This new four volume collection on Linguistic Typology will be an essential source of reference for linguists of all theoretical convictions. It will provide a state-of-the-art overview of work on linguistic typology, its history, its methodology, theoretical foundations and major achievements...

Linguistic Typology

Linguistic Typology

1st Edition

Edited By Irina Nikolaeva
December 24, 2018

This book provides a state-of-the-art overview of work on linguistic typology, its history, its methodology, theoretical foundations and major achievements. It examines the directions of current research and shows how these reflect and inform work on linguistic theory....

Language and Globalization Critical Concepts in Linguistics

Language and Globalization: Critical Concepts in Linguistics

1st Edition

Edited By Ingrid Piller, Alexandra Grey
October 29, 2018

A relatively new yet flourishing field, Language and Globalization can be confusing and difficult to navigate for students and scholars. To help make sense of the diverse and voluminous scholarship, this new four volume collection will include key research from a broad spectrum of disciplines, but ...

Sino-Tibetan Linguistics

Sino-Tibetan Linguistics

1st Edition

Edited By Randy LaPolla
October 22, 2018

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 ...

Language and Globalization v1 Critical Concepts in Linguistics

Language and Globalization v1: Critical Concepts in Linguistics

1st Edition

Edited By Ingrid Piller
October 10, 2018

Language and Globalization v2 Critical Concepts in Linguistics

Language and Globalization v2: Critical Concepts in Linguistics

1st Edition

Edited By Ingrid Piller
October 10, 2018

Language and Globalization v3 Critical Concepts in Linguistics

Language and Globalization v3: Critical Concepts in Linguistics

1st Edition

Edited By Ingrid Piller
October 10, 2018

Language and Globalization v4 Critical Concepts in Linguistics

Language and Globalization v4: Critical Concepts in Linguistics

1st Edition

Edited By Ingrid Piller
October 10, 2018

Biolinguistics

Biolinguistics

1st Edition

Edited By Anna Maria Di Sciullo
December 12, 2017

Biolinguistics, the study of the relation between humans’ biology and the properties of the Language Faculty, is an emergent and lively field, and is central to linguistics. It gives rise to lively debates on the origin of language, and the specificity of human language in the animal kingdom as ...

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