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• Author(s): Bernd Heine | Tania Kuteva • Publisher: OUP UK • Publisher Imprint: OUP UK • BISAC: Alphabets & Writing SystemsThis book shows that the languages and dialects of Europe are becoming increasingly alike and furthermore that this un...

• Author(s): Víctor Acedo-Matellán • Publisher: OUP UK • Publisher Imprint: OUP UK • BISAC: Linguistics - GeneralThis book examines the cross-linguistic expression of changes of location or state, taking as a starting point Talmy's typological ge...

• Author(s): Everaert • Publisher: OUP UK • Publisher Imprint: OUP UK • BISAC: Linguistics - GeneralBefore she died in 2007, Tanya Reinhart had gone a long way towards developing the Theta System, a theory in which formal features defining the th...

• Author(s): de Cat • Publisher: OUP UK • Publisher Imprint: OUP UK • BISAC: Linguistics - GeneralThe pervasive use of dislocations (as in Le chocolat, c'est bon) is a key characteristic of spoken French. This book offers various new and well-mot...

• Author(s): Terry Crowley | T. Crowley • Publisher: OUP UK • Publisher Imprint: OUP UK • BISAC: Linguistics - GeneralCrowley's voice of experience brings us the best practical fieldwork guide to date. Sensible, frank, and comprehensive, this boo...

• Author(s): Ray Jackendoff • Publisher: OUP UK • Publisher Imprint: OUP UK • BISAC: Linguistics - GeneralAlready hailed as a masterpiece, Foundations of Language offers a brilliant overhaul of the last thirty-five years of research in generative...

• Author(s): R. M. W. Dixon • Publisher: OUP UK • Publisher Imprint: OUP UK • BISAC: Linguistics - GeneralBasic Linguistic Theory provides a fundamental characterization of the nature of human languages and a comprehensive guide to their descript...

• Author(s): Herman Cappelen | Ernie Lepore • Publisher: OUP UK • Publisher Imprint: OUP UK • BISAC: Linguistics - SemanticsLanguage Turned on Itself examines what happens when language becomes self-reflexive; when language is used to talk about ...

• Author(s): Alexandra Y. Aikhenvald | R. M. W. Dixon • Publisher: OUP UK • Publisher Imprint: OUP UK • BISAC: Grammar & PunctuationThis volume of new work explores the forms and functions of serial verbs. The introduction sets out the cross-...

• Author(s): Kasia M. Jaszczolt | Louis De Saussure • Publisher: OUP UK • Publisher Imprint: OUP UK • BISAC: Linguistics - GeneralThis book considers linguistic and mental representations of time. Prominent linguists and philosophers from all ove...

• Author(s): Geert Booij • Publisher: OUP UK • Publisher Imprint: OUP UK • BISAC: Linguistics - GeneralGeert Booij's popular textbook on the structure of words has been revised and updated in a third edition. The book covers every aspect of morph...