With examples drawn from over 200 world languages, this ground-breaking volume presents a state-of-the-art overview of evaluative morphology.
Despite tense relations between the USSR and the West, Soviet readers were voracious consumers... Læs mere
This book explores a comprehensive set of tensions which emerged from the dislocated and deterritorialised position of Russian in the contemporary world from a sociolinguistic perspective.
A single-volume reference companion to the multi-disciplinary field of business discourse.
This volume celebrates the completion of the monumental Dictionary of the Older Scottish Tongue.
A monograph about structural entities originating in the lexicon - that is, about word structure - as well as about the structural characteristics of the lexicon as a module of formal grammar.
Studies representations of white illness in Victorian travel narratives about Africa and the Caribbean.
A first-time focus on the theory of English orthography.
This book traces the background to the Treaty of Union of 1707, explains why it happened and assesses its impact on Scottish society, including the bitter struggle with the Jacobites for acceptance of the union in the two decades that followed its inauguration.
This book is an examination of Derrida's philosophical reconstruction of Saussurean linguistics, of the paradigm shift from structuralism to post-structuralism, and of the consequences that continue to resonate in every field of the humanities today.
Examines the use of Islamic referents and themes in literary writings by European authors.
A definitive account of newspaper and periodical press history across England, Ireland, Scotland and Wales covering 1650 to the present day.