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• Author(s): Pieter A. M. Seuren • Publisher: OUP Oxford • Publisher Imprint: OUP Oxford • BISAC: Grammar & PunctuationThis book contains a collection of twenty-two papers written by the author between 1972 and 1999, reflecting the developmen...

• Author(s): Larry Bailey | Charles J. Bailey | Charles James Nice Bailey • Publisher: OUP Oxford • Publisher Imprint: OUP Oxford • BISAC: Linguistics - Historical & ComparativeThis volume on developmental linguistics offers method and ration...

• Author(s): Carol Myers-Scotton • Publisher: OUP Oxford • Publisher Imprint: OUP Oxford • BISAC: Linguistics - SociolinguisticsContact Linguistics is a critical investigation of what happens to the grammars of languages when bilingual speakers u...

• Author(s): Alexandra Y. Aikhenvald | Robert M. W. Dixon | R. M. W. Dixon • Publisher: OUP Oxford • Publisher Imprint: OUP Oxford • BISAC: Grammar & PunctuationThis volume of new work explores the forms and functions of serial verbs. The int...

• Author(s): Daniel Dor | Chris Knight | Jerome Lewis • Publisher: OUP Oxford • Publisher Imprint: OUP Oxford • BISAC: Linguistics - GeneralThis book presents a new perspective on the origins of language, and highlights the key role of social and...

• Author(s): Rebecca Posner • Publisher: OUP Oxford • Publisher Imprint: OUP Oxford • BISAC: Romance Languages (Other)Rebecca Posner explores the history of the French language in all its manifestations. Within the framework of modern linguistic ...

• Author(s): Enfield | N. J. Enfield • Publisher: OUP Oxford • Publisher Imprint: OUP Oxford • BISAC: Linguistics - SociolinguisticsMeanings of cultural importance are found not only in words but also in the very grammar of a language. This excit...

• Author(s): Denis Bouchard • Publisher: OUP Oxford • Publisher Imprint: OUP Oxford • BISAC: Linguistics - GeneralThis book looks at how the human brain got the capacity for language and how language then evolved. Its four parts are concerned wit...

• Author(s): N. J. Enfield • Publisher: OUP Oxford • Publisher Imprint: OUP Oxford • BISAC: Linguistics - SociolinguisticsMeanings of cultural importance are found not only in words but also in the very grammar of a language. This exciting collec...

• Author(s): Dirk Geeraerts | D. Geeraerts • Publisher: OUP Oxford • Publisher Imprint: OUP Oxford • BISAC: Linguistics - GeneralPrototype theory makes a crucial distinction between central and peripheral sense of words. Geeraerts explores the im...

• Author(s): Raymond Mougeon | Edouard Beniak | ?Douard Beniak • Publisher: OUP Oxford • Publisher Imprint: OUP Oxford • BISAC: Linguistics - SociolinguisticsThis study of minority languages documents the linguistic consequences of contact and re...

• Author(s): Jean-Louis Dessalles | James Grieve • Publisher: OUP Oxford • Publisher Imprint: OUP Oxford • BISAC: Linguistics - GeneralConstant exchange of information is integral to our societies. Jean-Louis Dessalles explores how this came into...

• Author(s): John C. Gibson • Publisher: OUP Oxford • Publisher Imprint: OUP Oxford • BISAC: ArabicTextbook of Syrian Semitic Inscriptions I. Hebrew and Moabite Inscriptions

• Author(s): Jean-Louis Dessalles | James Grieve • Publisher: OUP Oxford • Publisher Imprint: OUP Oxford • BISAC: Linguistics - GeneralConstant exchange of information is integral to our societies. Jean-Louis Dessalles explores how this came into...

• Author(s): A. P. Cowie • Publisher: OUP Oxford • Publisher Imprint: OUP Oxford • BISAC: Linguistics - GeneralOver the last twenty years, phraseology has become a major field of pure and applied research in Western European and North American li...

• Author(s): Paul Kerswill | P. Kerswill • Publisher: OUP Oxford • Publisher Imprint: OUP Oxford • BISAC: Linguistics - SociolinguisticsHow and why do adults modify their language when they move to a new area? In this detailed study of rural dial...

• Author(s): Anne-Marie Di Sciullo | Anna Maria Di Sciullo | Cedric Boeckx • Publisher: OUP Oxford • Publisher Imprint: OUP Oxford • BISAC: Linguistics - GeneralThis book, by leading scholars, represents some of the main work in progress in bioli...

• Author(s): Andrew Simpson • Publisher: OUP Oxford • Publisher Imprint: OUP Oxford • BISAC: Linguistics - SociolinguisticsThis book focuses on language, culture, and national identity in Africa. Leading specialists examine countries in every par...

• Author(s): Rudolf Botha | Martin Everaert • Publisher: OUP Oxford • Publisher Imprint: OUP Oxford • BISAC: Linguistics - GeneralThe book presents new and stimulating approaches to the study of language evolution and considers their implications...

• Author(s): Ian Roberts | Ian G. Roberts • Publisher: OUP Oxford • Publisher Imprint: OUP Oxford • BISAC: Linguistics - GeneralThis is an introduction to syntactic change from the perspective of generative theory. Generative diachronic syntax ha...

• Author(s): Peter Culicover • Publisher: OUP Oxford • Publisher Imprint: OUP Oxford • BISAC: Linguistics - GeneralThis book combines ideas about the architecture of grammar and language acquisition, processing, and change to explain why language...

• Author(s): E. Phoevos Panagiotidis • Publisher: OUP Oxford • Publisher Imprint: OUP Oxford • BISAC: Linguistics - GeneralThis book draws together nine original investigations by leading linguists and promising young scholars on the syntax of co...

• Author(s): Louis-Jean Calvet | Michel Petheram • Publisher: OUP Oxford • Publisher Imprint: OUP Oxford • BISAC: Communication StudiesNon-linguistic conflicts--economic, religious, territorial--are often projected on to language differences, and...

• Author(s): R. M. W. Dixon | Alexandra Y. Aikhenvald • Publisher: OUP Oxford • Publisher Imprint: OUP Oxford • BISAC: Linguistics - GeneralThe studies in this volume suggest that every language has an adjective class, but these vary in character...

• Author(s): Gideon Goldenberg • Publisher: OUP Oxford • Publisher Imprint: OUP Oxford • BISAC: Linguistics - GeneralThis book offers a thorough, authoritative account of the branches of Semitic. These include some of the world's oldest attested ...

• Author(s): Cliff Goddard • Publisher: OUP Oxford • Publisher Imprint: OUP Oxford • BISAC: Linguistics - GeneralThis book introduces readers to the remarkable linguistic diversity of East and Southeast Asia. It combines serious but accessible tr...

• Author(s): R. M. W. Dixon • Publisher: OUP Oxford • Publisher Imprint: OUP Oxford • BISAC: Linguistics - GeneralIn Basic Linguistic Theory R. M. W. Dixon provides a new and fundamental characterization of the nature of human languages and a com...

• Author(s): C. J. Wells • Publisher: OUP Oxford • Publisher Imprint: OUP Oxford • BISAC: GermanThe first history of the German language to bridge the gap between the introductory handbook level and the more specialized journal articles, this vol...

• Author(s): Rita Copeland | Ineke Sluiter • Publisher: OUP Oxford • Publisher Imprint: OUP Oxford • BISAC: Linguistics - GeneralMedieval Grammar and Rhetoric: Language Arts and Literary Theory, AD 300-1475 contributes to two fields, the history ...