Frans van Coetsem & G. Geerts 
Dutch Studies [PDF ebook] 
Volume 4 Studies in Dutch Phonology

Today there is a reawakening interest in how language affects our lives. It comes with every threat to our safety and every promise of better times. It is a burning issue among minorities and a runni …

Over the past few decades, research on metaphor has focused almost exclusively on its verbal and cognitive dimensions. In Pictorial Metaphor in Advertising, Charles Forceville argues that metaphor ca …

This is the first book-length examination of the work of an important contemporary thinker in the continental tradition, William Desmond. His thought is a new, post-modern way of articulating what he …

Each child is spoken to by genetic heritage and by the rich current set of interactional environments — familial, local community, and broader cultural voices. Using past structures and paradigms of …

Murders, cover-ups, infidelities, financial and political skulduggery: Dr. John Olsson has seen it all in his decades as one of the world”s top forensic linguists specialising in authorship. Working …

What can developments in contemporary linguistics and language theory reveal about Shakespeare”s language in the plays? Shakespeare”s Common Language demonstrates how methods borrowed from language …

This is the first textbook on the linguistic relativity hypothesis, presenting it in user-friendly language, yet analyzing all its premises in systematic ways. The hypothesis claims that there is an …

This book reconsiders the use of food metaphors and the relationship between law and food in an interdisciplinary perspective to examine how food related topics can be used to describe or identify ru …

This series, Children’s Language, reflects the conviction that extensive work on entirely new fronts along with a great deal of reinterpretation of old-front data will be necessary before any persuas …

Analysing Sentences is an accessible and student-friendly introduction to the practical analysis of English sentence structure. The book covers key concepts such as constituency, category and functio …