This introduction to Applied Linguistics focuses on second language acquisition. It discusses different theoretical approaches from an interdisciplinary perspective, and deals with the main areas of research, such as ...

Morphology is the branch of linguistics that studies the internal structure of words, word-formation mechanisms that give rise to new words, and mechanisms that produce wordforms of existing words. Intended as a companion ...

This book is written for students of English who are interested in the history of the language and would like to read an accessible but also comprehensive and reasonably detailed introduction. Apart from basic information ...