Covers the major aspects of linguistics. This guide begins at the 'arts' end of the subject and finishes at the 'science' end, with the discoveries regarding language in the brain. It looks at the prehistory of languages and their common origins, language and evolution, language in time and space, grammar and dictionaries and phonetics.

A history of linguistic theory in America, focusing on Chomsky and Bloomfield

This is a textbook of a fundamental kind, designed to introduce students to the basic concepts of syntax. The approach is thematic, dealing with the nature of syntactic relations and all the main types of construction, including prediction, attribution and co-ordination.

A concise historical survey of structural lingustics, charting its development from the 1870s to the 1990s.

An updated and substantially revised edition of Peter Matthews's well-known Morphology, first published in 1974.

An updated and substantially revised edition of Peter Matthews's well-known Morphology, first published in 1974.