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The Cambridge Handbooks in Language and Linguistics is a series of comprehensive overviews of major areas in language research. Written by leading scholars in the field, each handbook provides a complete survey of a major sub-discipline, with chapters that encompass the most important issues and topics. Embracing both established and emerging subject areas, they combine to offer a coherent picture of the latest theories and findings within the discipline. They are essential reference tools for researchers and students alike. Available in a variety of formats, including ebook and print, The Cambridge Handbooks in Language and Linguistics are also accessible online for institutional purchase via the Cambridge Books Online platform.
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The Cambridge Handbook of English Corpus Linguistics
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Edited by Douglas Biber, Randi Reppen *Available from April 2015*
This handbook surveys the breadth of corpus-based linguistic research on English, including chapters on collocations, phraseology, grammatical variation, historical change, and the description of registers and dialects. Each chapter includes a critical discussion of the corpusbased methods employed for research in this area, and an explicit summary of new findings and discoveries. • Includes empirical case studies in each chapter, illustrating methods and research findings.
• A detailed description and analysis of the most important corpus-based studies in each sub-area.
• Explores up-to-date, state-of the-art research, analysis and findings.
2015
247 x 174mm
500 pages 66 b/w illus. 4 maps 66 tables
Hardback 978-1-107-03738-0 £95.00 / $150.00
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The Cambridge Handbook of Learner Corpus Research Edited by Sylviane Granger, Gaëtanelle Gilquin and Fanny Meunier *Available from October 2015*
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The Cambridge Handbook of
Learner Corpus Research edited by Sylviane Granger, Gaëtanelle Gilquin and Fanny Meunier
A wide-ranging survey of a fast-growing field, The Cambridge Handbook of Learner Corpus Research provides a state-of-the-art review of all the key aspects of learner corpus research, from collection and annotation to methodology, theory, analysis and applications. • Presents an introduction to all the facets of the fast expanding field of learner corpus research.
• Acts as an accessible how-to guide for researchers who are new to the field.
• The strongly interdisciplinary nature of the handbook opens up new perspectives for seasoned researchers.
2015
247 x 174mm
Hardback
500 pages 17 b/w illus. 24 tables
978-1-107-04119-6 c.£95.00 / c.$160.00
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The Cambridge Handbook of English Historical Linguistics Edited by Merja Kytö, Paivi Pahta *Available from January 2016
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The Cambridge Handbook of
English Historical Linguistics edited by Merja Kytö
The study of how English has developed and Päivi Pahta and changed over time is central to research across the subfields of linguistics. This Handbook provides a state-of-the art survey of theories, trends, and methods used in the study of the history of English, and the important conclusions we can draw from them. • Provides the reader with a comprehensive and up-to-date picture of English Historical linguistics as a field of research.
• Focuses on how the language's history is studied and analysed, and what conclusions we can draw from those analyses.
• Chapters are written by leading researchers in the field.
2015
247 x 174mm
700 pages
Hardback 978-1-107-03935-3 c.£95.00 / c.$160.00
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The Cambridge Handbook of Bilingual Processing
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The Cambridge Handbook of Formal Semantics
Edited by John W. Schwieter
Edited by Maria Aloni, Paul Dekker
*Available from August 2015*
*Available from December 2015
Bringing together some of the world’s leading experts in bilingualism, cognitive psychology and language acquisition, The Cambridge Handbook of Bilingual Processing presents a clear overview of current theories and findings in bilingual processing. • First book to provide a comprehensive overview of the field of bilingual processing.
• Contains contributions from leading experts in the field. • Includes a section dedicated to bilingual language control, an emerging research area within bilingual processing.
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The Cambridge Handbook of
Formal Semantics
edited by Maria Aloni Formal semantics – the scientific study and Paul Dekker of meaning in natural language – is one of the most fundamental and longestestablished areas of linguistics. This Handbook brings together a team of leading scholars to survey the broad spectrum of endeavours in this field, including lexical semantics, formal logic, truth-conditional semantics and predicate theory. • Provides the reader with a comprehensive and up-to-date picture of formal semantics as a field of research.
• Designed to appeal to philosophers, psychologists and computer scientists as well as linguists.
• Chapters are written by leading researchers in the field.
2015
247 x 174mm
Hardback
700 pages 31 b/w illus.
978-1-107-06058-6 £95.00 / $150.00
2015
228 x 152mm
600 pages
Hardback 978-1-107-02839-5 c.£95.00 / c.$160.00
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The Cambridge Handbook of Child Language Edited by Edith L. Bavin, Letitia Naigles *Available from September 2015*
With new chapters on bilingualism and autism, additional chapters on the acquisition of words, specific language impairment, and Williams syndrome, plus a new section on reading development, the revised and updated Cambridge Handbook of Child Language offers a uniquely wide-ranging perspective on the theories and methods of child language research. • Completely updated and extended, with eight additional chapters, including a new section on reading and two chapters with new authors.
• The most comprehensive and multidisciplinary survey of the subject available.
• Written by the world’s leading experts in the field, and incorporating the most recent developments in the study of child language. For more information and purchasing options, contact:
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2015
247 x 174mm
Hardback
700 pages 29 b/w illus. 11 tables
978-1-107-08732-3
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The Cambridge Handbook of Linguistic Code-Switching
The Cambridge Handbook of Phonology
Edited by Barbara E. Bullock, Almeida Jacqueline Toribio
This handbook brings together the world's leading experts in phonology to present the most comprehensive and detailed overview of the field. Focusing on research and the most influential theories, the authors discuss each of the central issues in phonological theory, explore a variety of empirical phenomena, and show how phonology interacts with other aspects of language such as syntax, morphology, phonetics, and language acquisition. • The most up-to-date, comprehensive and detailed overview of phonology. • Authors are the highest ranked scholars and researchers in the field. • Focuses on cutting-edge research and theories.
This handbook is an accessible overview of how bilinguals alternate between their languages when they speak (‘code-switching'). It provides the most comprehensive guide to this bilingual phenomenon to date and covers more perspectives than any other book on this popular topic. • Wide-ranging, addresses code-switching from a diversity of perspectives through a broad range of language pairings.
Edited by Paul de Lacy
Now in Paperback
• Written by leading experts and accessible to a broad audience, including advanced undergraduates and graduate students.
• Innovative chapters on digital code-switching, sign-language and the
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neurological mechanism responsible for switching.
2012
247 x 174mm
Paperback
440 pages 9 b/w illus.
978-1-107-60541-1 £29.99 / $54.99
Also available in hardback
2012
247 x 174mm
708 pages
Hardback 978-0-521-84879-4 £114.99 / $234.99 Paperback 978-1-107-40489-2 £34.99 / $59.99
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The Cambridge Handbook of Linguistic Anthropology Edited by N. J. Enfield, Paul Kockelman, Jack Sidnell The field of linguistic anthropology looks at human uniqueness and diversity through the lens of language, our species' special combination of art and instinct. This state-of-the-field survey covers a wide range of topics, approaches and theories and promotes a broad vision of the subject, spanning a range of disciplines. • Clearly written and accessible, main and part introductions provide readers with an overview of the contents.
The Cambridge Handbook of Stylistics Edited by Peter Stockwell, Sara Whiteley This Handbook is an accessible and authoritative guide to the theory and practice of stylistics. Drawing on linguistics and related subject areas such as psychology and literary criticism, it encompasses both traditional textual analysis and the most recent innovations in computational techniques and cognition.
• Each chapter presents a comprehensive survey of a key topic within language and literature studies.
• Provides an in-depth presentation of key concepts, claims and controversies.
• Includes sample stylistic analyses that can be used to guide hands-on
• Brings together leading scholars from anthropology, linguistics and other disciplines, and presents a broad interdisciplinary vision of linguistic anthropology.
• A dedicated section addresses the stylistic concerns of literary scholars.
2014
2013
247 x 174mm
Hardback
776 pages 45 b/w illus. 12 tables
978-1-107-03007-7 £95.00 / $160.00
stylistic practice.
247 x 174mm
650 pages 53 b/w illus. 14 tables
Hardback 978-1-107-02887-6 £95.00 / $160.00
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The Cambridge Handbook of Communication Disorders
The Cambridge Handbook of Generative Syntax
Edited by Louise Cummings
This indispensable resource for advanced students, professional linguists and scholars in related fields of inquiry presents a comprehensive survey of the field of generative syntactic research in all its variety, written by leading experts and providing a proper sense of the range of syntactic theories calling themselves generative.
In thirty dedicated chapters, this volume examines the full range of developmental and acquired communication disorders and provides the most up-to-date and comprehensive guide to the epidemiology, aetiology and clinical features of these disorders. It is ideal for academic researchers, graduate students and professionals in speech and language therapy.
• Examines the full range of developmental and acquired communication disorders, providing a complete overview of the subject.
• Examines the epidemiology, aetiology, clinical features, assessment and treatment of communication disorders so all aspects of the clinical presentation and management of these disorders are covered.
Edited by Marcel den Dikken
• Provides the reader with a comprehensive and thoroughly up-to-date picture of the complex field of generative syntax today.
• Discusses the relative strengths of mainstream as well as non-mainstream approaches to generative syntax.
• Includes 23 chapters written by leading researchers in the field.
• Explores recent theoretical developments in communication disorders. • Each chapter provides an account of the most recent thinking and research in a key area of the subject.
2013 247 x 174mm 730 pages 54 b/w illus. 18 tables
2013
Hardback
Hardback 978-0-521-76986-0 £95.00 / $150.00
978-1-107-02123-5 £95.00 / $150.00
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247 x 174mm
1163 pages 1 b/w illus. 5 tables
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The Cambridge Handbook of Biolinguistics
The Cambridge Handbook of Second Language Acquisition
Edited by Cedric Boeckx, Kleanthes K. Grohmann
Edited by Julia Herschensohn, Martha Young-Scholten
This Handbook offers the most comprehensive survey of the subject available. A team of prominent scholars working in a variety of disciplines is brought together to examine language development, language evolution and neuroscience, as well as providing overviews of the subject’s conceptual landscape. • The most comprehensive state-of-the-field survey of biolinguistics available.
An authoritative survey of second language acquisition (SLA), this handbook covers cutting edge and emerging areas of enquiry not treated elsewhere in a single handbook. This includes third language acquisition, electronic communication, incomplete first language acquisition, alphabetic literacy and SLA, affect and the brain, discourse and identity. • One-stop guide providing up-to-date coverage of the central aspects of second language acquisition.
• Presents a wide variety of theoretical perspectives so will appeal to readers
• Extensive coverage of new psycholinguistics- and neurolinguistics-based
• Includes contributions by prominent scholars from a variety of disciplines.
• Substantial glossary of 400 items and editor-written transitions between
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with different approaches.
247 x 174mm
Hardback
704 pages 42 b/w illus. 3 tables
978-0-521-76153-6 £99.99 / $159.99
research in second language processing. the six sections of the handbook.
247 x 174mm
848 pages 13 b/w illus. 17 tables
Hardback 978-1-107-00771-0 £99.99 / $159.99
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The Cambridge Handbook of Language Policy
The Cambridge Handbook of Pragmatics
Edited by Bernard Spolsky
Edited by Keith Allan, Kasia M. Jaszczolt
This is the first Handbook to deal with language policy as a whole covering language practices, beliefs about language varieties, and methods and agencies for language management. It will be welcomed by students, researchers and language professionals in linguistics, education and politics. • First Handbook in the field of language policy – a complete ‘state-of-the-field’ survey.
• Comprehensive coverage of a range of subjects, including language practices and methods, and agencies for language management.
In the fast-developing field of pragmatics, this Handbook fills the gap in the market for a one-stop resource to today's research and the many theoretical debates. It is an authoritative guide with its focus on the areas and theories that will mark progress in pragmatic research in the future. • Fills the unquestionable need for a comprehensive and up-to-date handbook on the fast-developing field of pragmatics.
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• Includes contributions from many of the principal figures in a wide
variety of fields of pragmatic research as well as some up-and-coming pragmatists.
• A useful future resource for researchers with its focus on those areas and theories that will mark progress in pragmatic research in the future.
2013
247 x 174mm
Hardback
760 pages 8 b/w illus. 24 tables
978-0-521-19565-2 £109.99 / $189.99
2013
247 x 174mm
792 pages 14 b/w illus.
Hardback 978-0-521-19207-1 £109.99 / $174.99 Paperback 978-1-107-55867-0 £29.99 / $44.99
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The Cambridge Handbook of Sociolinguistics Edited by Rajend Mesthrie The most comprehensive overview available, this handbook is an essential guide to sociolinguistics today. Reflecting the breadth of research in the field, it surveys a range of topics and approaches in the study of language variation and use in society. • The most comprehensive overview of sociolinguistics available.
• Offers sophisticated and sparkling accounts of different aspects of
sociolinguistics, such as style, region and ‘place’, gender, the anthropology of language and globalisation.
• Takes a broad view of the field, covering sociological topics, discourse and conversation and social psychology.
The Cambridge Handbook of Endangered Languages Edited by Peter K. Austin, Julia Sallabank Around 7,000 languages are spoken across the world today and at least half may no longer be spoken by the end of this century. This Handbook examines the reasons behind this dramatic loss of linguistic diversity, why it matters, and what can be done to document and support endangered languages. • The first single, comprehensive handbook available on this topic, which combines the essentials of both language endangerment and language documentation.
• Includes hands-on chapters on capacity development, researcher training,
new roles for endangered languages, orthography development, dictionary making, and advocacy and support for endangered languages.
• All contributions are by acknowledged experts in the field. 2013
247 x 174mm
Hardback
544 pages 9 b/w illus. 13 tables
978-0-521-89707-5 £109.99 / $169.99
2013
247 x 174mm
560 pages 16 b/w illus. 10 tables
Hardback 978-0-521-88215-6 £109.99 / $174.99
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The Cambridge Dictionary of
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The most up-to-date A-Z resource available for English grammar, this dictionary provides concise, practical definitions and explanations of hundreds of terms. It includes all currently accepted terms of grammar and each term offers the reader examples and cross references to related concepts.
in the study of linguistics ‘isNothing more challenging than the mastery of its complex terminology. That’s why every serious student of the subject should have a copy of this dictionary.
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