Libros de Laurie Bauer

An Introduction To English Lexicology

• Lexicology is about words, their meanings and the relationships between them, their origins and..

Questions About Language

• Questions about Language sets out to answer, in a readily available format, questions which journalists and members of the public ask linguists all the time. Covering frequently asked questions about language, this is essential reading for both students...

Rethinking Morphology

• Different theoretical positions can lead to conflicting restrictions on our understanding of what..

Compounds And Compounding

• 208 páginas
• Are compounds words or phrases - or are they neither or both? How should we classify compounds? How can we deal with the fact that the relationship between the elements of sugar pill ('pill made of sugar') is different from that in sea-sickness...

Compounds And Compounding

• 195 páginas
• Are compounds words or phrases - or are they neither or both? How should we classify compounds? How can we deal with the fact that the relationship between the elements of sugar pill ('pill made of sugar') is different from that in sea-sickness...

Semantics Of Complex Words

• 319 páginas
• This volume offers a valuable overview of recent research into the semantic aspects of complex words through different theoretical frameworks. Contributions by experts in the field, both morphologists and psycholinguists, identify crucial areas of researc...

Beginning Linguistics

• 352 páginas
• In this core textbook, Laurie Bauer's engaging style brings linguistics to life and introduces readers to the fundamentals of the subject. Each essential area of linguistics is dealt with in turn, thereby providing readers with a clear and comprehensive...

Language Matters

English Word-formation

• 328 páginas
• Interest in word-formation is probably as old as interest in language itself. As Dr Bauer points out in his Introduction, many of the questions that scholars are asking now were also being asked in the seventeenth, eighteenth and nineteenth centuries....

Morphological Productivity

Introducing Linguistic Morphology

• 366 páginas
• A newly expanded and updated edition of one of the best-selling introductions to linguistic morphology--the study and description of word formations in languages--that deals with inflection, derivation, and compounding, the system of word-forming elements...

Morphological Productivity

• Morphological productivity has, over the centuries, been a major factor in providing the huge..

Bauer, L: Language Myths

• 208 páginas
• The field of language is one full of misconceptions about the way in which language works, or is used. This collection of essays tackles beliefs, correcting a catalogue of errors such as: aborigines speak a primitive language, French people speak faster...

Vocabulary

• 104 páginas
• Routledge Language Workbooks are practical introductions to specific areas of language for absolute beginners. They provide comprehensive coverage of the area as well as a basis for further study. Language Workbooks can be used for independent study or...