Search results for “[subject: celtic-languages]”

• Author(s): Tony Crowley • Publisher: OUP Oxford • Publisher Imprint: OUP Oxford • BISAC: Europe - IrelandWars of Words is the first comprehensive survey of the politics of language in Ireland during the colonial and post-colonial periods. Chall...

• Author(s): Kenneth Haynes • Publisher: OUP Oxford • Publisher Imprint: OUP Oxford • BISAC: Ancient and ClassicalThis is a study of the presence of Greek and Latin in British literature since the Renaissance. While the influence of Greek and Rom...

• Author(s): Cliff Goddard | Anna Wierzbicka • Publisher: OUP Oxford • Publisher Imprint: OUP Oxford • BISAC: Linguistics - SemanticsIn a series of cross-cultural investigations of word meaning, Cliff Goddard and Anna Wierzbicka examine key expre...

• Author(s): Frederick J. Newmeyer • Publisher: OUP Oxford • Publisher Imprint: OUP Oxford • BISAC: Linguistics - GeneralIn this important and pioneering book Frederick Newmeyer seeks to explain the variety of languages. He combines the leading i...

• Author(s): Carol Myers-Scotton • Publisher: OUP Oxford • Publisher Imprint: OUP Oxford • BISAC: Linguistics - GeneralThe goal of this book, a companion volume to Social Motivations for Codeswitching (Oxford, 1993) is to describe and explain int...

• Author(s): Frederick J. Newmeyer • Publisher: OUP Oxford • Publisher Imprint: OUP Oxford • BISAC: Linguistics - GeneralIn this important and pioneering book Frederick Newmeyer seeks to explain the variety of languages. He combines the leading i...

• 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): 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): 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): Andreas Willi • Publisher: OUP Oxford • Publisher Imprint: OUP Oxford • BISAC: Linguistics - GeneralBy examining linguistic variation in Aristophanic comedy, Andreas Willi opens up a new perspective on intra-dialectal diversity in Cl...

• Author(s): Diane Massam • Publisher: OUP Oxford • Publisher Imprint: OUP Oxford • BISAC: Linguistics - GeneralThis volume explores the expression of the concepts count and mass in human language and probes the complex relation between seemingly...

• Author(s): David Willis | Christopher Lucas | Anne Breitbarth • Publisher: OUP Oxford • Publisher Imprint: OUP Oxford • BISAC: Linguistics - GeneralThis is the first volume of a two-volume comparative history of negation in the languages of Eur...

• Author(s): Andreas Willi • Publisher: OUP Oxford • Publisher Imprint: OUP Oxford • BISAC: Linguistics - GeneralBy examining linguistic variation in Aristophanic comedy, Andreas Willi opens up a new perspective on intra-dialectal diversity in Cl...

• 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 ...