Cambridge Textbooks in Linguistics Series

62 primary works • 62 total works

The aim of this series is to provide discussions of the main topics in general or theoretical linguistics through books of moderate size covering single topics. The level of treatment is uniform, and suitable for undergraduate students taking linguistics as part of an introductory course and the editors will oversee the entire series to ensure that…

An Introduction to Pidgins and Creoles

by John A. Holm

3.88 · 17 Ratings · published 2000 · 10 editions

This textbook is a clear and concise introduction …

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An Introduction to Word Grammar

by Richard Hudson

4.08 · 13 Ratings · 1 Reviews · published 2010 · 11 editions

Word grammar is a theory of language structure and…

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Analysing English Sentences: A Minimalist Approach

by Andrew Radford

3.83 · 48 Ratings · 4 Reviews · published 2009 · 13 editions

Analysing English Sentences provides a concise and…

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Analyzing Sound Patterns: An Introduction to Phonology

by Long Peng

3.00 · 5 Ratings · published 2013 · 6 editions

Analyzing Sound Patterns is a clear and concise in…

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Case

by Barry J. Blake

3.33 · 12 Ratings · 2 Reviews · published 1994 · 12 editions

This book is a concise and accessible introduction…

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Child Language: Acquisition and Growth

by Barbara C. Lust

3.96 · 23 Ratings · 1 Reviews · published 2005 · 10 editions

Exploring language development from birth, this ac…

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Clitics: An Introduction

by Andrew Spencer

4.00 · 7 Ratings · 2 Reviews · published 2012 · 9 editions

In most languages we find 'little words' which res…

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Cognitive Linguistics

by William Croft

3.87 · 60 Ratings · 3 Reviews · published 2000 · 12 editions

Clearly organized and written, this textbook provi…

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Conversation Analysis

by Rebecca Clift

4.33 · 6 Ratings · 1 Reviews · published 2016 · 3 editions

We live our lives in conversation, building famili…

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Corpus Linguistics: Method, Theory and Practice

by Tony McEnery

3.89 · 28 Ratings · 2 Reviews · published 2011 · 7 editions

Corpus linguistics is the study of language data o…

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Definiteness

by Christopher Lyons

3.80 · 10 Ratings · 3 Reviews · published 1999 · 6 editions

Definiteness is the concept expressed by definite …

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Dialectology

by J.K. Chambers

3.67 · 55 Ratings · 7 Reviews · published 1980 · 17 editions

When first published in 1980, Dialectology broke n…

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Discourse Analysis

by Gillian D. Brown

3.76 · 83 Ratings · 4 Reviews · published 1983 · 9 editions

Discourse analysis is a term that has come to have…

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Endangered Languages: An Introduction

by Sarah G. Thomason

4.50 · 8 Ratings · published 2015 · 3 editions

Most of the 7,000 languages spoken in the world to…

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English Phonology 1ed: An Introduction

by Heinz J. Giegerich

3.62 · 26 Ratings · 3 Reviews · published 1992 · 6 editions

This is an introduction to the phonology of presen…

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English Word-Formation

by Laurie Bauer

4.30 · 40 Ratings · 4 Reviews · published 1983 · 8 editions

Interest in word-formation is probably as old as i…

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Evolutionary Linguistics

by April McMahon

4.25 · 4 Ratings · published 2012 · 8 editions

How did the biological, brain and behavioural stru…

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Features

by Greville G. Corbett

5.00 · 2 Ratings · published 2012 · 8 editions

Features are a central concept in linguistic analy…

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Figurative Language

by Barbara Dancygier

4.07 · 28 Ratings · 2 Reviews · published 2014 · 4 editions

This lively introduction to figurative language ex…

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First and Second Language Acquisition: Parallels and Differences

by Jürgen M. Meisel

3.00 · 11 Ratings · 2 Reviews · published 2011 · 9 editions

Infants and very young children develop almost mir…

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Formal Semantics: An Introduction

by Ronnie Cann

3.82 · 22 Ratings · 2 Reviews · published 1993 · 7 editions

This accessible introduction to formal, and especi…

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Gender

by Greville G. Corbett

4.10 · 20 Ratings · 3 Reviews · published 1991 · 6 editions

Gender is a fascinating category, central and perv…

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Grammatical Roles and Relations

by Frank Robert Palmer

3.91 · 11 Ratings · published 1994 · 5 editions

Frank Palmer's new book is a typological survey of…

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Grammatical Voice

by Fernando Zúñiga

4.00 · 1 Ratings · 5 editions

The grammatical category of voice covers a wide ra…

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Grammaticalization

by Paul J. Hopper

3.95 · 40 Ratings · 5 Reviews · published 1993 · 8 editions

This is the first general introduction to grammati…

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Historical Linguistics

by Theodora Bynon

3.64 · 28 Ratings · 2 Reviews · published 1977 · 15 editions

Historical Linguistics is concerned with the proce…

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Indo-European Linguistics: An Introduction

by James Clackson

3.88 · 41 Ratings · 5 Reviews · published 2007 · 8 editions

The Indo-European language family consists of many…

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Introduction to the Grammar of English

by Rodney Huddleston

3.86 · 14 Ratings · 1 Reviews · published 1984 · 10 editions

This textbook provides a thorough and precise acco…

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Language Change

by Joan L. Bybee

3.94 · 17 Ratings · 1 Reviews · published 2015 · 5 editions

How and why do languages change? This new introduc…

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Language Contact

by Yaron Matras

3.73 · 11 Ratings · published 2009 · 14 editions

Most societies in today's world are multilingual. …

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Lexical Meaning

by M. Lynne Murphy

3.68 · 22 Ratings · 4 Reviews · published 2010 · 10 editions

The ideal introduction for students of semantics, …

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Linguistic Anthropology

by Alessandro Duranti

3.75 · 196 Ratings · 16 Reviews · published 1993 · 20 editions

Alessandro Duranti introduces linguistic anthropol…

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Linguistic Fieldwork: A Student Guide

by Jeanette Sakel

3.90 · 10 Ratings · published 2012 · 8 editions

A handy beginner's guide, this textbook introduces…

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Logic in Linguistics

by Jens Allwood

3.76 · 37 Ratings · 2 Reviews · published 1972 · 8 editions

An elementary introduction to formal logic, partic…

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Minimalist Syntax: Exploring the Structure of English

by Andrew Radford

3.96 · 105 Ratings · 11 Reviews · published 1997 · 16 editions

Andrew Radford's latest textbook provides a concis…

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Morphology

by Peter Hugoe Matthews

3.62 · 40 Ratings · 2 Reviews · published 1974 · 11 editions

This is an updated and substantially revised editi…

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Neurolinguistics: An Introduction to Spoken Language Processing and its Disorders

by John C.L. Ingram

4.38 · 37 Ratings · 2 Reviews · published 2007 · 10 editions

What biological factors make human communication p…

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Number

by Greville G. Corbett

3.33 · 3 Ratings · 1 Reviews · published 1996 · 11 editions

Number is the most underestimated of the grammatic…

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Person (Cambridge Textbooks in Linguistics)

by Anna Siewierska

4.25 · 4 Ratings · published 2004 · 10 editions

Drawing on data from over five hundred languages, …

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Philosophy of Language

by Zoltan Gendler Szabo

4.00 · 1 Ratings · 1 Reviews · 1 edition

This unique textbook introduces linguists to key i…

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Phonology: Analysis and Theory

by Edmund Gussmann

3.00 · 3 Ratings · 2 Reviews · published 2002 · 9 editions

This textbook is a clear and concise introduction …

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Pragmatics

by Stephen C. Levinson

3.92 · 179 Ratings · 6 Reviews · published 1983 · 21 editions

Those aspects of language use that are crucial to …

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Pragmatics and Grammar

by Mira Ariel

4.50 · 6 Ratings · published 2008 · 10 editions

When using language, many aspects of our messages …

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Principles of Phonetics

by John Laver

4.11 · 27 Ratings · 3 Reviews · published 1994 · 5 editions

This major new textbook is designed for readers wh…

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Psycholinguistics

by Michael Garman

3.38 · 13 Ratings · 2 Reviews · published 1990 · 4 editions

This book is an introduction to psycholinguistics,…

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by Douglas Biber

3.80 · 46 Ratings · 5 Reviews · published 2009 · 15 editions

This book describes the most important kinds of te…

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Relevance Theory

by Billy Clark

3.50 · 2 Ratings · published 2013 · 7 editions

Over the past twenty years, relevance theory has b…

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Second Language Acquisition

by Wolfgang Klein

3.00 · 8 Ratings · published 1986 · 4 editions

This 1986 textbook presents an account of the main…

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Second Language Acquisition and Universal Grammar

by Lydia White

4.35 · 17 Ratings · published 2003 · 11 editions

This authoritative textbook is an overview and ana…

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Sociolinguistics

by R.A. Hudson

3.92 · 111 Ratings · 7 Reviews · published 1980 · 6 editions

This new edition of R. A. Hudson's Sociolinguistic…

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Statistics in Language Studies

by Anthony Woods

4.14 · 7 Ratings · published 1986 · 8 editions

This book demonstrates the contribution that stati…

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Stylistics

by Lesley Jeffries

3.31 · 62 Ratings · 8 Reviews · published 2010 · 12 editions

Stylistics is the linguistic study of style in lan…

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Syntactic Analysis: An HPSG-based Approach

by Robert D. Levine

4.00 · 1 Ratings · 5 editions

In syntactic analysis, as in linguistics generally…

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Tense

by Bernard Comrie

3.83 · 46 Ratings · 4 Reviews · published 1985 · 8 editions

Bernard Comrie defines tense as the grammaticalisa…

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The Lexicon

by James Pustejovsky

2.50 · 4 Ratings · 1 Reviews · 4 editions

What is the lexicon, what does it contain, and how…

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The Physics of Speech

by Dennis B. Fry

4.50 · 10 Ratings · 1 Reviews · published 1979 · 8 editions

A clear account of the physical process of speech …

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Tone

by Moira Yip

3.82 · 17 Ratings · 2 Reviews · published 2002 · 10 editions

The sounds of language can be divided into consona…

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Transformational Grammar: A First Course

by Andrew Radford

3.64 · 78 Ratings · 7 Reviews · published 1982 · 9 editions

Radford's new textbook is primarily for students w…

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Typology and Universals

by William Croft

3.89 · 28 Ratings · 2 Reviews · published 1990 · 11 editions

The second edition of this essential textbook has …

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Understanding Minimalism

by Norbert Hornstein

3.88 · 51 Ratings · 6 Reviews · published 2005 · 8 editions

Minimalist models of grammar are developed logical…

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Word-Formation in English

by Ingo Plag

4.10 · 42 Ratings · 1 Reviews · published 2003 · 14 editions

Providing an accessible introduction to the study …

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Writing Systems: An Introduction to Their Linguistic Analysis

by Florian Coulmas

3.92 · 24 Ratings · 1 Reviews · published 2002 · 14 editions

The problem of reducing language to writing and co…

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