Cambridge Library Collection - Linguistics

This 1895 book, designed for classical students, brought to Britain the ideas of the German Neogrammarians on Indo-European comparative philology.

This 1875 teaching grammar/reader, aimed at helping students to grasp Assyrian cuneiform, includes texts, transliterations and translations.

Published in 1887, this was the first resource to provide Cornish translations for English words and phrases.

Henry Sweet's work on the sounds of English was first published in 1874, and in this revised version in 1888.

First published in 1857, this two-volume work covers obsolete, rare and dialectal English words, providing definitions, etymologies and illustrative examples.

The respected phonetician and philologist Henry Sweet (1845–1912) has had a lasting influence on the study and teaching of linguistics, particularly phonetics and Old English. Sweet is also known for being, in part, the inspiration for Henry Higgins in Shaw's Pygmalion. This two-volume work, first published in 1892–8, marks the start of a new tradition in the study of English, although it received little attention in Britain upon its publication. Building on developments in European linguistics, this was the first grammar of English to adopt a scientific approach to the description of language, in particular of phonology. This work is a thorough description of English grammar in comparison with that of Old English, and covers the parts of speech, phonology, accidence and syntax. Sweet's work is notable for its focus on the spoken language as well as the written, and for its use of casual speech as examples.

Peter Mark Roget (1779-1869), physician and author, published this first edition of his most famous work in 1852.

This 1808 work on the connections between Sanskrit and Indo-European languages is an important early contribution to comparative grammar.

A seminal 1921 work by the linguist Edward Sapir, outlining his influential ideas and hypotheses on language and its speakers.

Priestley integrates classical rhetorical principles with contemporary theories of mind in this lecture series, reissued here in its 1781 printing.

Priestley's 1762 outline for nineteen lectures on linguistic topics ranging from articulation and the alphabet to syntax and metre.

This pioneering 1908 work on northern Himalayan dialects is a compilation of separately printed studies.

This seminal work on phonetics by Henry Sweet (1845-1912), published in 1877, inspired a Europe-wide study of the subject.

Published 1911-22, this pioneering work entrenched scientific principles for the study of North America's indigenous peoples and languages.

Published 1911-22, this pioneering work entrenched scientific principles for the study of North America's indigenous peoples and languages.

Published 1911-22, this pioneering work entrenched scientific principles for the study of North America's indigenous peoples and languages.

First published in the 1870s, this three-volume comparative grammar covers sounds, nominals and verbs in the Indo-Aryan languages.

The successful collection of data is a key challenge to obtaining reliable and valid results in applied linguistics research. Data Collection Research Methods in Applied Linguistics investigates how r

This book is a collection of linguistic and philosophical papers dealing with the semantic problems of determiners. The language under investigation is mostly English, although a few papers deal with

Since its initiation some twenty years ago Longman Linguistics Library has established itself as a series aimed primarily at an undergraduate and postgraduate student readership. Some of its books ser