Formal perspectives on Romance linguistics: selected papers from the 28th Linguistic Symposiu…
by Reed, Lisa A., Linguistic Symposium on Romance Languages, Pennsylvania State University), Authier, J.-Marc, Bullock, Barbara E.
fromAmsterdam studies in theory and history of linguistic scien…
In this survey of everything from how sounds become speech to how names work, David Crystal answers every question asked about the nuts and bolts of language. Originally published: 2005.
Chiefly updated versions of papers presented at a conference on Romance linguistics held at the Manoir de Brion in Dragey, Manche, May 1989.
"Since the publication of the still very valuable Biblioteca histâorica de la filologâia by Cipriano Muänoz y Manzano, conde de la Viänaza, (Madrid, 1893), our knowledge of the history of the study of the Spanish language has grown considerably, and most manuscript and secondary…
Spatial language, that is, the way languages structure the spatial domain, is an important area of current research. In this collection, leading scholars review the spatial domain across a wide variety of languages. They show that there is great variation in the way space is str…
In this pioneering collection, a team of leading linguists and psychologists look at how the spatial domain is structured in language. Drawing on data from a wide range of languages, they uncover considerable cross-linguistic variation across this central domain, adding to debat…