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• Author(s): Asya Pereltsvaig • Publisher: Cambridge University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cambridge University Press • BISAC: Linguistics - Historical & ComparativeAre you curious to know what all languages have in common and how they differ...

• Author(s): Silvina Montrul • Publisher: Cambridge University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cambridge University Press • BISAC: Linguistics - SociolinguisticsHeritage speakers are native speakers of a minority language they learn at home, but due t...

• Author(s): Edith A. Moravcsik • Publisher: Cambridge University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cambridge University Press • BISAC: Grammar & PunctuationLanguage typology identifies similarities and differences among languages of the world. This...

• Author(s): Edith A. Moravcsik • Publisher: Cambridge University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cambridge University Press • BISAC: Grammar & PunctuationLanguage typology identifies similarities and differences among languages of the world. This...

• Author(s): Joyce Bruhn de Garavito | John W. Schwieter • Publisher: Cambridge University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cambridge University Press • BISAC: Linguistics - GeneralEverything we do involves language. Assuming no prior knowledge, this b...

• Author(s): Carol Genetti • Publisher: Cambridge University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cambridge University Press • BISAC: Linguistics - SemanticsLanguage is a sophisticated tool which we use to communicate in a multitude of ways. Updated and ex...

• Author(s): Lisa Lim | Umberto Ansaldo • Publisher: Cambridge University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cambridge University Press • BISAC: Linguistics - SociolinguisticsIntroducing new findings from popular culture, the globalised new economy and c...

• Author(s): Asya Pereltsvaig • Publisher: Cambridge University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cambridge University Press • BISAC: Linguistics - Historical & ComparativeAre you curious to know what all languages have in common and how they differ...

• Author(s): Susan Fox • Publisher: Cambridge University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cambridge University Press • BISAC: Linguistics - GeneralNow in its third edition, this book provides an up-to-date overview of all the major spoken and signed va...

• Author(s): Maria Polinsky • Publisher: Cambridge University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cambridge University Press • BISAC: Linguistics - GeneralThis book provides a pioneering introduction to heritage languages and their speakers, written by on...

• Author(s): John Holm • Publisher: Cambridge University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cambridge University Press • BISAC: GeneralAccounting for the structural differences between "non-creole" language varieties (such as African-American English, Af...

• Author(s): R. M. Dixon | Alexandra V. Aikhenvald | S. R. Anderson • Publisher: Cambridge University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cambridge University Press • BISAC: Native American LanguagesThe Amazon Basin is the least known and the most complex...

• Author(s): Maria Polinsky • Publisher: Cambridge University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cambridge University Press • BISAC: Linguistics - GeneralThis book provides a pioneering introduction to heritage languages and their speakers, written by on...

• Author(s): Michael Clyne | Clyne Michael | Salikoko S. Mufwene • Publisher: Cambridge University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cambridge University Press • BISAC: Linguistics - SociolinguisticsWritten by an expert in the field, this study examines...

• Author(s): Wayne Harbert • Publisher: Cambridge University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cambridge University Press • BISAC: GeneralGermanic - one of the largest sub-groups of the Indo-European language family - comprises 37 languages with an esti...

• Author(s): Kārumūri V Subbārāo • Publisher: Cambridge University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cambridge University Press • BISAC: GeneralSouth Asian languages are rich in linguistic diversity and number. This book explores the similarities and di...

• Author(s): Yuen-Ren Chao • Publisher: Cambridge University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cambridge University Press • BISAC: Linguistics - GeneralThis is an introduction to the study of language for the non-specialist or beginner in linguistics. P...

• Author(s): Grace Zhang • Publisher: Cambridge University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cambridge University Press • BISAC: Linguistics - SemanticsElastic language carries non-specific and stretchable meaning, as in 'He loves her, kind of'. It is u...

• Author(s): Dániel Z. Kádár • Publisher: Cambridge University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cambridge University Press • BISAC: Linguistics - SociolinguisticsWhile ritual is often associated with phenomena such as ceremonies, cursing and etiquette,...

• Author(s): Ana Teresa Pérez-LeRoux | Mihaela Pirvulescu | Yves Roberge • Publisher: Cambridge University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cambridge University Press • BISAC: Linguistics - GeneralDirect object omission is a general occurrence, observe...

• Author(s): Bernard Comrie | Comrie | S. R. Anderson • Publisher: Cambridge University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cambridge University Press • BISAC: Alphabets & Writing SystemsA general account of the languages of the Soviet Union, one of t...

• Author(s): Zane Goebel • Publisher: Cambridge University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cambridge University Press • BISAC: Linguistics - GeneralWhile much scholarship has been devoted to the interplay between language, identity and social relation...

• Author(s): Laura Colantoni | Jeffrey Steele | Paola Escudero • Publisher: Cambridge University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cambridge University Press • BISAC: Linguistics - GeneralSecond language acquisition has rapidly grown as a field over the...

• Author(s): Grace Zhang • Publisher: Cambridge University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cambridge University Press • BISAC: Linguistics - SemanticsElastic language carries non-specific and stretchable meaning, as in 'He loves her, kind of'. It is u...

• Author(s): J. César Félix-Brasdefer • Publisher: Cambridge University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cambridge University Press • BISAC: Linguistics - GeneralService encounters are ubiquitous in social interaction. We buy food and everyday items in...

• Author(s): Franz Bopp | H. H. Wilson | Edward B. Eastwick • Publisher: Cambridge University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cambridge University Press • BISAC: Linguistics - GeneralA founding text of comparative philology, Franz Bopp's Vergleichende...

• Author(s): James J. Fox • Publisher: Cambridge University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cambridge University Press • BISAC: Linguistics - GeneralThese original essays study ritual language and parallelism (the strict ordering of words and phrases ...

• Author(s): J. César Félix-Brasdefer • Publisher: Cambridge University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cambridge University Press • BISAC: Linguistics - GeneralService encounters are ubiquitous in social interaction. We buy food and everyday items in...

• Author(s): Tim McNamara • Publisher: Cambridge University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cambridge University Press • BISAC: GeneralUnderstanding the role of language within the formation of a sense of self has been revolutionised by developments i...

• Author(s): Tim McNamara • Publisher: Cambridge University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cambridge University Press • BISAC: GeneralUnderstanding the role of language within the formation of a sense of self has been revolutionised by developments i...

• Author(s): Donald Macaulay • Publisher: Cambridge University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cambridge University Press • BISAC: Celtic LanguagesSix modern Celtic languages are described in this volume. Four of these, Modern Irish, Scottish Gaelic, ...

• Author(s): Annick de Houwer | Annick De Houwer | Houwer Annick de • Publisher: Cambridge University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cambridge University Press • BISAC: Linguistics - GeneralThis book deals with the question of how children exposed to...

• Author(s): Stephen Everson | Stephen Everson • Publisher: Cambridge University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cambridge University Press • BISAC: Linguistics - GeneralIn recent years philosophers have radically reappraised the importance and sophis...

• Author(s): Umberto Ansaldo • Publisher: Cambridge University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cambridge University Press • BISAC: Linguistics - Historical & ComparativeWhy do groups of speakers in certain times and places come up with new varieti...

• Author(s): Silvina Montrul • Publisher: Cambridge University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cambridge University Press • BISAC: Linguistics - SociolinguisticsHeritage speakers are native speakers of a minority language they learn at home, but due t...

• Author(s): Zane Goebel • Publisher: Cambridge University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cambridge University Press • BISAC: Linguistics - GeneralWhile much scholarship has been devoted to the interplay between language, identity and social relation...