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• Author(s): Coulmas • Publisher: Academic • Publisher Imprint: Academic • BISAC: Linguistics - SociolinguisticsThis book offers an introduction to the many facets of multilingualism in a changing world. It begins with an overview of the multipli...

• Author(s): Casalicchio Cognola • Publisher: Academic • Publisher Imprint: Academic • BISAC: Grammar & PunctuationThis book considers the null-subject phenomenon, whereby some languages lack an overtly realized referential subject in specifi...

• Author(s): Dixon • Publisher: Academic • Publisher Imprint: Academic • BISAC: MiscellaneousThis book builds on R. M. W. Dixon's most influential work on the indigenous languages of Australia over the past forty years, from his trailblazing gram...

• Author(s): Rusten • Publisher: Academic • Publisher Imprint: Academic • BISAC: Linguistics - Historical & ComparativeThis book offers a large-scale quantitative investigation of referential null subjects as they occur in Old, Middle, and Ea...

• Author(s): Fogal Et Al • Publisher: Academic • Publisher Imprint: Academic • BISAC: LanguageSpeech-act theory is the interdisciplinary study of the wide range of things we do with words. Originally stemming from the influential work of twentiet...

• Author(s): Ehrlich • Publisher: Academic • Publisher Imprint: Academic • BISAC: DisabilityAs a linguistically-grounded, critical examination of consent, this volume views consent not as an individual mental state or act but as a process that is...

• Author(s): Richard • Publisher: Academic • Publisher Imprint: Academic • BISAC: LanguageMark Richard presents an original picture of meaning according to which a word's meaning is analogous to the biological lineages we call species. His primar...

• Author(s): Mugglestone • Publisher: Academic • Publisher Imprint: Academic • BISAC: Europe - Great Britain - GeneralPopular readings of Johnson as a dictionary-maker often see him as a writer who both laments and attempts to control the state o...