Cambridge Dictionary of Linguistics

Informationen zum Autor Keith Brown is an affiliated lecturer in the Research Centre for English and Applied Linguistics at the University of Cambridge. He taught linguistics at the University of Edinburgh from 1965 to 1979 and then at the University of Essex. He is a former chair of the LAGB and President of the Philological Society. His major research interest is in English grammar. His previous publications include Syntax: A Linguistic Introduction to Sentence Structure, 2nd edition (with Jim Miller, 1991) and he is Editor-in-Chief of the Encyclopedia of Language and Linguistics, 2nd edition (2005). Jim Miller is Professor Emeritus at the University of Edinburgh. He taught linguistics at the University of Edinburgh from 1967 to 2003 and at the University of Auckland from 2003 to 2007. His major research interests are the grammar and discourse organisation of spontaneous spoken language and how they differ from written language, and grammatical categories, especially case, tense and aspect. He is the author of A Critical Introduction to Syntax (2011) and Spontaneous Spoken Language: Syntax and Discourse (with Regina Weinert, 2009). Klappentext Provides concise and clear definitions of all the terms a student is likely to encounter in the study of linguistics. Zusammenfassung The Cambridge Dictionary of Linguistics provides concise and clear definitions of all of the terms an undergraduate or graduate student is likely to encounter in the study of linguistics and English language. An electronic version of the dictionary is also available! which includes 'clickable' cross-referencing. Inhaltsverzeichnis List of abbreviations; Phonetic symbols for English; Introduction; The dictionary.

Product details

• Authors: Keith Brown, Keith Miller Brown, BROWN KEITH MILLER JIM, Jim Miller
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press Academic
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.03.2013
• EAN: 9780521766753
• ISBN: 978-0-521-76675-3
• Dimensions: 181 mm x 255 mm x 35 mm
• Subjects: Education and learning > Teaching preparation > Vocational needs; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative linguistics; Linguistics, LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / General, Translation & interpretation, Language: history & general works, Grammar, syntax & morphology, Phonetics, phonology, Dictionaries, Semantics, discourse analysis, etc