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Complexity Scales and Licensing in Phonology (2010)

Author(s): Eugeniusz Cyran Series: Studies in Generative Grammar 105 Publisher: Mouton de Gruyter, Year: 2010 ISBN: 3110221497,9783110221497,9783110221503 Description: The aim of this book is to demonstrate that, in a representation-based model, the phonological organization of speech sounds within a word is reducible to the licensing properties of nuclei...
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African American English: A Linguistic Introduction (2002)

Author(s): Lisa J. Green Publisher: Cambridge University Press, Year: 2002 ISBN: 9780521891387,0521891388,0521814499,9780521814492,9780511078231 Description: Lisa J. Green’s AFRICAN AMERICAN ENGLISH: A Linguistic Introduction caused something of a sensation when it was first published in 2002. Here we have a rigorous, detailed examination of the grammar, lexicon, and sociolinguistics of...
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The Cambridge Guide to Australian English Usage (2007)

Author(s): Pam Peters Publisher: Cambridge University Press, Year: 2007 ISBN: 0521878217,9780521878210 Description: The Cambridge Guide to Australian English Usage is an up-to-date, evidence-based account of the variable points in Australian usage and style, in alphabetical format. Its description of Australian English uses a wealth of primary sources (linguistic...
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Lexical Functional Grammar, Volume 34 (Syntax and Semantics) (2001)

Author(s): Mary Dalrymple Series: Syntax and Semantics, Volume 34 Syntax and Semantics Syntax and Semantics Publisher: Academic Press, Year: 2001 ISBN: 9780126135343,0126135347 Description: Volume 34 of Syntax and Semantics is a thorough and accessible overview and introduction to Lexical Functional Grammar (LFG), a theory of the content and...
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Ideas and Options in English for Specific Purposes (2006)

Author(s): Helen Basturkmen Series: ESL & Applied Linguistics Professional Series Publisher: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, Year: 2006 ISBN: 080584418X,9780805844184 Description: This volume presents a range of views about language, learning, and teaching in English for Specific Purposes (ESP). Its purpose is to go beyond individual cases and practices to...
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Principles of English Stress (1995)

Author(s): Luigi Burzio Series: Cambridge Studies in Linguistics Publisher: Cambridge University Press, Year: 1995 ISBN: 0521445132,9780521445139,0521023807,9780521023801,9780511519741 Description: In this provocative work, Luigi Burzio argues that many common assumptions within stress theory, and phonological theory more generally, are in fact rather arbitrary. He proposes radical departures from recent tradition....
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