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• 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): 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): 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): R. M. W. Dixon | Alexandra Aikhenvald | S. R. Anderson • Publisher: Cambridge University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cambridge University Press • BISAC: GeneralThe Amazon Basin is the least known and the most complex linguistic region...

• 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): 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): 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): John Holm • Publisher: Cambridge University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cambridge University Press • BISAC: Linguistics - SociolinguisticsAccounting for the structural differences between "non-creole" language varieties (such as Afric...

• 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): Richard P. Meier | Kearsy Cormier | David Quinto-Pozos • Publisher: Cambridge University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cambridge University Press • BISAC: Linguistics - GeneralSigned languages are the naturally-evolved visual-gestural l...

• 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): Janny H. C. Leung | Alan Durant • Publisher: Cambridge University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cambridge University Press • BISAC: Linguistics - GeneralLegal practitioners, linguists, anthropologists, philosophers and others have all e...

• Author(s): Ralph D. Grillo | R. D. Grillo • Publisher: Cambridge University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cambridge University Press • BISAC: Linguistics - GeneralThis book takes an interdisciplinary approach to the relations between power and lan...

• Author(s): Roger D. Woodard • Publisher: Cambridge University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cambridge University Press • BISAC: Ancient Languages (see also Latin)This book, derived from the acclaimed Cambridge Encyclopedia of the World's Ancient L...

• Author(s): August Schleicher | Herbert Bendall • Publisher: Cambridge University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cambridge University Press • BISAC: Grammar & PunctuationAugust Schleicher (1821-68) is often credited with being the first scholar ...

• 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): Silvina Montrul | Maria Polinsky • Publisher: Cambridge University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cambridge University Press • BISAC: Linguistics - GeneralHeritage languages are minority languages learned in a bilingual environment. Thes...

• 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): W. K. Matthews • Publisher: Cambridge University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cambridge University Press • BISAC: GeneralOriginally published in 1951, this book by W. C. Matthews analyzes the phonology and morphology of the six major l...

• 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): Harry Van Der Hulst • Publisher: Cambridge University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cambridge University Press • BISAC: Linguistics - GeneralHow does human language arise in the mind? To what extent is it innate, or something that is le...

• 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): Alison J. Elliot • Publisher: Cambridge University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cambridge University Press • BISAC: Linguistics - GeneralThe way children learn their native language has been the subject of intense and widespread invest...

• Author(s): Bhadriraju Krishnamurti | S. R. Anderson | J. Bresnan • Publisher: Cambridge University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cambridge University Press • BISAC: Linguistics - GeneralThe Dravidian languages are spoken by nearly 200 million peop...

• Author(s): Manny Rayner | David Carter | Pierrette Bouillon • Publisher: Cambridge University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cambridge University Press • BISAC: Linguistics - GeneralThis original volume describes the Spoken Language Translator (SLT...

• 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): 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): 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): Romaine | Suzanne Romaine | Romaine Suzanne • Publisher: Cambridge University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cambridge University Press • BISAC: Alphabets & Writing SystemsLanguage in Australia provides a wide-ranging account of the ...

• Author(s): William O'Grady • Publisher: Cambridge University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cambridge University Press • BISAC: Linguistics - GeneralDemonstrating how children learn to produce and distinguish between sounds, and their acquisition o...

• Author(s): Bernd Heine | Derek Nurse • Publisher: Cambridge University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cambridge University Press • BISAC: African Languages (see also Swahili)This book is the first general introduction to African languages and lingu...

• Author(s): Foley | Jr. Valin | Jr. Van Valin Robert D. • Publisher: Cambridge University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cambridge University Press • BISAC: Grammar & PunctuationThe key argument of this book, originally published in 1984, is tha...

• 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): Christine Jourdan | Kevin Tuite • Publisher: Cambridge University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cambridge University Press • BISAC: Linguistics - SociolinguisticsLanguage, our primary tool of thought and perception, is at the heart of w...

• Author(s): James J. Fox | Peter Burke | Ruth H. Finnegan • Publisher: Cambridge University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cambridge University Press • BISAC: Linguistics - GeneralThese original essays study ritual language and parallelism (the stri...