Since its first publication in 1962 the book has established itself as core reading for students of linguistics. This edition has been thoroughly revised.

Introduces readers to the rich diversity of human languages, familiarizing them with the variety of languages around the world.

This textbook analyses changes from every area of grammar and addresses recent developments in socio-historical linguistics.

This third edition includes a new and specially written introduction by James McGilvray, contextualising the work for the twenty-first century.

The Story of English is the extraordinary tale of a language that came from nowhere to conquer the world.

This unique volume offers an overview of the diversity in research on communication, including perspectives from biology, sociality, economics, norms and human development.

Joan Bybee and her colleagues present a new theory of the evolution of grammar that links structure and meaning in a way that directly challenges most contemporary versions of generative grammar.

This new edition of Wheelock's Latin has all of the features, many of them improved and expanded, that have made it the bestselling single-volume beginning Latin textbook: 40 chapters with grammatical explanations and readings drawn from ...

This expanded second edition provides new content on the results of research, on prosody elicitation, on field experiment design, and on working in complex syntax.

The new edition of this highly popular guide, How to Read World Literature, addresses the unique challenges and joys faced when approaching the literature of other cultures and eras.