Geoffrey Sampson

Geoffrey Sampson: Books

Here is a list of books I have written, co-authored, or co-edited:

• God Proofs (2022)
• Voices from Early China: the Odes Demystified (2020)
• The Linguistics Delusion (2017)
• Law for Computing Students (2nd edition, 2017)
• Writing Systems (2nd edition, 2015)
• Grammar without Grammaticality (2014)
• Perl for Beginners (2010)
• Language Complexity as an Evolving Variable (2009)
• Electronic Business (2nd edition, 2008)
• Love Songs of Early China (2006)
• The ‘Language Instinct’ Debate (2005)
• Corpus Linguistics: Readings in a Widening Discipline (2004)
• Brissac and its Mediaeval Seigneurs (2002)
• Empirical Linguistics (2001)
• Evolutionary Language Understanding (1996)
• English for the Computer (1995)
• The Computational Analysis of English (1987)
• An End To Allegiance (1984)
• Schools of Linguistics (1980)
• Making Sense (1980)
• Liberty and Language (1979)

This list is not quite complete; but the chapter which has lasting value in The Form of Language (1975) has since been reprinted in the much more accessible Empirical Linguistics, while any interest that Stratificational Grammar (1970) may once have contained dissipated a long time ago. So I have not created separate pages for those titles.

Geoffrey Sampson

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