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The typological classification of languages is an important research area, and impacts on many other subfields of linguistics, in explaining why languages are the way they are. This Handbook provides a state-of-the art survey of theories and methods used in linguistic typology, and the conclusions we can draw from them.

Around 7,000 languages are spoken across the world today and at least half may no longer be spoken by the end of this century. This Handbook examines the reasons behind this dramatic loss of linguistic diversity, why it matters, and what can be done to document and support endangered languages.

English historical linguistics is a subfield of linguistics which has developed theories and methods for exploring the history of the English language. This Handbook provides an account of state-of-the-art research on this history, and the important conclusions we can draw from it.

In the fast-developing field of pragmatics, this Handbook fills the gap in the market for a one-stop resource to today's research and the many theoretical debates. It is an authoritative guide with its focus on the areas and theories that will mark progress in pragmatic research in the future.

A wide-ranging survey of a fast-growing field, The Cambridge Handbook of Learner Corpus Research is an essential tool for students, teachers and researchers alike. This unique handbook provides a state-of-the-art review of all the key aspects of learner corpus research, from collection and annotation to methodology, theory, analysis and applications.

Surveys the breadth of corpus-based linguistic research on English, including chapters on collocations, phraseology, grammatical variation, historical change, and the description of registers and dialects. Each chapter includes a critical discussion of the corpus-based methods employed for research in this area, and an explicit summary of new findings and discoveries.

With new chapters on bilingualism and autism; additional chapters on the acquisition of words, specific language impairment, and Williams syndrome, plus a new section on reading development, the revised and updated Cambridge Handbook of Child Language offers a uniquely wide-ranging perspective on the theories and methods of child language research.

This Handbook is an accessible and authoritative guide to the theory and practice of stylistics. Drawing on linguistics and related subject areas such as psychology and literary criticism, it encompasses both traditional textual analysis and the most recent innovations in computational techniques and cognition.

This indispensable resource for advanced students, professional linguists and scholars in related fields of inquiry presents a comprehensive survey of the field of generative syntactic research in all its variety, written by leading experts and providing a proper sense of the range of syntactic theories calling themselves generative.

Phonology - the study of how the sounds of speech are represented in our minds - is one of the core areas of linguistic theory. This handbook brings together the world's leading experts in phonology to present a comprehensive and detailed overview of the field.

This comprehensive handbook is an authoritative survey of second language acquisition (SLA). It covers cutting-edge and emerging areas of enquiry not treated elsewhere in a single handbook, including third language acquisition, electronic communication, incomplete first language acquisition, alphabetic literacy and SLA, affect and the brain, discourse, and identity.

This Handbook offers the most comprehensive state-of-the-field survey of the subject available. A team of prominent scholars working in a variety of disciplines is brought together to examine language development, language evolution and neuroscience, as well as providing overviews of the conceptual landscape of the field.

In the fast-developing field of pragmatics, this Handbook fills the gap in the market for a one-stop resource to today's research and the many theoretical debates. It is an authoritative guide with its focus on the areas and theories that will mark progress in pragmatic research in the future.

This Handbook is an accessible overview, written by the leading experts in the field, of how bilinguals alternate between their languages when they speak ('code-switching'). It provides the most comprehensive guide to this bilingual phenomenon to date and covers more perspectives than any other book on this popular topic.

The most comprehensive overview available, this Handbook is an essential guide to sociolinguistics today. Reflecting the breadth of research in the field, it surveys a range of topics and approaches in the study of language variation and use in society.

This is the first Handbook to deal with language policy as a whole and is a complete 'state-of-the-field' survey, covering language practices, beliefs about language varieties, and methods and agencies for language management. It will be welcomed by students, researchers and language professionals in linguistics, education and politics.

In thirty dedicated chapters, this volume examines the full range of developmental and acquired communication disorders and provides the most up-to-date and comprehensive guide to the epidemiology, aetiology and clinical features of these disorders. It is ideal for academic researchers, graduate students and professionals in speech and language therapy.