Bücher der Reihe Language Workbooks

Child Language outlines the major areas of linguistic analysis involved in the study of children's language. It builds on the established strengths of the first edition and has been fully updated and expanded throughout.

This work is an introduction to the study of expression in relation to meaning, encouraging an interest in and sensitivity to words and structures. It examines a variety of text types in addition to numerous exercises, and provides suggestions for project work.

In Pragmatics, the study of meaning derived from context, Jean Stilwell Peccei offers a practical introduction to this core area of linguistics.

Introduces the evidence for sentence structure and reveals its purpose. This book is based on a problem-solving approach to language, and teaches the reader how to identify word classes, such as noun, preposition and demonstrative. It uses tree structures to analyse sentences, and contains many exercises to encourage skills of sentence analysis.

This introduction to the techniques of lexical semantic analysis is based on a problem-solving approach to language. It tackles the techncial terminology and basic principles associated with the analysis of word meaning, and shows students how to apply these terms and principles to English.

These workbooks aim to be practical introductions to specific areas of language for absolute beginners. "Vocabulary" provides an introduction t o the study of words, focusing in particular on English words. It covers issues such as the power of words to influence our perceptions.

Word structure, provides a complete introduction to morphology, the study of the structure of words.

Semantics is an accessible and practical introduction to formal semantics, the study of linguistic meaning, for students studying language and linguistics.

English Spelling explores the rules and conventions on which present-day English spelling is based.