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• 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): David E. Blatner | Manfred Gorlach | Manfred Gvrlach • Publisher: OUP Oxford • Publisher Imprint: OUP Oxford • BISAC: Bibliographies & IndexesThis is a bibliography of all significant work charting the importation of English into...

• 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): 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): 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): 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): Heiko Narrog • Publisher: OUP Oxford • Publisher Imprint: OUP Oxford • BISAC: Grammar & PunctuationThis text is a cross-linguistic exploration of semantic and functional change in modal markers. With a focus on Japanese and - to ...

• 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): Marcia Cavell • Publisher: OUP Oxford • Publisher Imprint: OUP Oxford • BISAC: Mind & BodyMarcia Cavell draws on philosophy, psychoanalysis, and the sciences of the mind in a fascinating and original investigation of human subjec...

• Author(s): Jeff Good • Publisher: OUP Oxford • Publisher Imprint: OUP Oxford • BISAC: Linguistics - GeneralThis book looks at the relationship between linguistic universals and language change. Reflecting the resurgence of work in both fields o...

• Author(s): Maggie Tallerman • Publisher: OUP Oxford • Publisher Imprint: OUP Oxford • BISAC: Linguistics - GeneralThis book addresses central questions in the evolution of language: where it came from; how and why it evolved; how it came to be ...

• Author(s): Barry J. Blake • Publisher: OUP Oxford • Publisher Imprint: OUP Oxford • BISAC: Linguistics - Historical & ComparativeThis title is about language designed to mean what it does not seem to mean. It explores the history and uses o...

• Author(s): Charles D. Yang • Publisher: OUP Oxford • Publisher Imprint: OUP Oxford • BISAC: Linguistics - GeneralIt is a simple observation that children make mistakes when they learn a language. Yet, to the trained eye, these mistakes are far ...

• Author(s): Elizabeth Lanza • Publisher: OUP Oxford • Publisher Imprint: OUP Oxford • BISAC: Linguistics - SociolinguisticsThis book examines the simultaneous acquisition of Norwegian and English by two first-born children each with one American...

• Author(s): Katalin Farkas • Publisher: OUP Oxford • Publisher Imprint: OUP Oxford • BISAC: History & Surveys - GeneralDescartes's philosophy has had a considerable influence on the modern conception of the mind, but many think that this inf...

• Author(s): Carmen Silva-Corvalan • Publisher: OUP Oxford • Publisher Imprint: OUP Oxford • BISAC: Anthropology - Cultural & SocialLanguages in contact are characterized by constant and rapid change; thus, they provide a testing ground for h...

• 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): Charles D. Yang • Publisher: OUP Oxford • Publisher Imprint: OUP Oxford • BISAC: Linguistics - GeneralIt is a simple observation that children make mistakes when they learn a language. Yet, to the trained eye, these mistakes are far ...

• Author(s): Jon Slack | Emile Zee | Emile Van Der Zee • Publisher: OUP Oxford • Publisher Imprint: OUP Oxford • BISAC: Linguistics - GeneralThe fast growing interdisciplinary research area of 'language and space' investigates how language and re...

• 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): 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): 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...