Linguistics

Don't let students' howlers drive you mad, says Ken Smith. Accept their most common mistakes as variant spellings ... and relax

Italian Demystified. Author Marcel Danesi. Edition First. Publisher McGraw-Hill. Pages 432. Price £12.99. ISBN 9780071476591.

Authors Joseph E. Germano and Conrad J. Schmitt. Edition Third. Publisher McGraw-Hill. Pages 330. Price £9.90. ISBN 9780071484695.

Author Paola Nanni-Tate. Edition First. Publisher McGraw-Hill. Pages 372. Price £6.99. ISBN 9780071472326.

Author Daniela Gobetti. Edition First. Publisher McGraw-Hill. Pages 256. Price £6.99. ISBN 9780071482868.

Editors David Denison and Richard Hogg. Edition First. Publisher Cambridge University Press. Pages 520. Price £23.95 (e-book $39.00). ISBN 9780521717991.

The Linguistics Student's Handbook. Author Laurie Bauer. Edition First. Publisher Edinburgh University Press. Pages 400. Price £14.99. ISBN 9780748627592.

Author Carlo Graziano. Edition Second. Publisher McGraw-Hill. Pages 272. Price £7.99. ISBN 9780071498012.

Authors Katrien Maes-Christie, Daniel Franklin and Riccarda Saggese. Edition First. Publisher McGraw-Hill. Pages 684. Price £11.99. ISBN 9780071487627.

The Genesis of Grammar: A Reconstruction. Authors Bernd Heine and Tania Kuteva. Edition First. Publisher Oxford University Press. Pages 418. Price £75.00. ISBN 9780199227761.

Author Andrew Carnie. Edition First. Publisher Oxford University Press. Pages 292. Price £24.99. ISBN 9780199262007.

Author Bas Aarts. Edition First. Publisher Oxford University Press. Pages 280. Price £65.00. ISBN 9780199219261.

Editor David Britain. Edition Second. Publisher Cambridge University Press. Pages 508. Price £50.00. ISBN 9780521791502.

Lancaster and Manchester move to give students more time with tutors, writes Rebecca Attwood

New AHRC deputy is keen to avoid past errors and to engage scholars in planning ahead, says Zoe Corbyn

Simon Blackburn revels in a trawl through our rich and varied tradition of ad hominem attacks

Roy Harris reflects on our attitude to an 'alien' language whose characteristics have so strongly influenced China's intellectual and pedagogic traditions.

Finiteness.

The Articulate Mammal

Chaucer's Language. First Edition

What is this Thing Called Language? First Edition

Northern and Insular Scots. First Edition

Business Discourse. First Edition

An Introduction to Applied Linguistics. Second Edition

Historical Linguistics

Pragmatics. First Edition

Pragmatics. First Edition

Language and the Learning Curve. First Edition

Phonology in Context. First Edition