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• 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): Ana Teresa Pérez-LeRoux | Mihaela Pirvulescu | Yves Roberge • Publisher: Cambridge University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cambridge University Press • BISAC: Linguistics - GeneralDirect object omission is a general occurrence, observe...

• Author(s): Henry John Roby • Publisher: Cambridge University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cambridge University Press • BISAC: Ancient Languages - GeneralHenry John Roby (1830-1915) was a Cambridge-educated classicist whose influential career incl...

• Author(s): Williams F. H. Adelaar | Pieter C. Muysken | Willem F. H. Adelaar • Publisher: Cambridge University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cambridge University Press • BISAC: GeneralThe Andean and Pacific regions of South America are home to a r...

• 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): Lise Fontaine | Katy Jones | David Schönthal • Publisher: Cambridge University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cambridge University Press • BISAC: GeneralThe first of its kind, this book provides a full account of 'referential expressions...

• Author(s): Bernadette Vine • Publisher: Cambridge University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cambridge University Press • BISAC: Linguistics - GeneralAssuming no prior linguistics background, this introductory textbook summarises key topics and issu...

• Author(s): Andrew Nevins • Publisher: Cambridge University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cambridge University Press • BISAC: Linguistics - GeneralFor decades, a small set of major world languages have formed the basis of the vast majority of lingu...

• Author(s): John Holm • Publisher: Cambridge University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cambridge University Press • BISAC: GeneralAccounting for the structural differences between "non-creole" language varieties (such as African-American English, Af...

• 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): Ho-Min Sohn | Sohn Ho-Min | S. R. Anderson • Publisher: Cambridge University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cambridge University Press • BISAC: KoreanThis book offers a comprehensive introduction to the linguistics of Korean. It presents...

• Author(s): Charles F. Meyer • Publisher: Cambridge University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cambridge University Press • BISAC: Linguistics - GeneralAre you looking for a genuine introduction to the linguistics of English that provides a broad ove...

• Author(s): Joyce Bruhn de Garavito | John W. Schwieter • Publisher: Cambridge University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cambridge University Press • BISAC: Linguistics - GeneralEverything we do involves language. Assuming no prior knowledge, this b...

• 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): Larry Trask • Publisher: Cambridge University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cambridge University Press • BISAC: Linguistics - GeneralThe first recorded English name for the make-up we now call blusher was paint, in 1660. In the 1700s a ...

• 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): Franz Boas | Franz Boas • Publisher: Cambridge University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cambridge University Press • BISAC: Native American LanguagesEdited by the eminent anthropologist and linguist Franz Boas (1858-1942), this work was...

• Author(s): Joyce Bruhn de Garavito | John W. Schwieter • Publisher: Cambridge University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cambridge University Press • BISAC: Linguistics - GeneralEverything we do involves language. Assuming no prior knowledge, this b...

• 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): Kim Potowski • Publisher: Cambridge University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cambridge University Press • BISAC: Linguistics - GeneralWhat are the most widely spoken non-English languages in the USA? How did they reach the USA? Who spea...

• Author(s): Dany Adone • Publisher: Cambridge University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cambridge University Press • BISAC: Linguistics - Historical & ComparativeHow do children acquire a Creole as their first language? This relatively underexpl...

• 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): Philippa M. Steele • Publisher: Cambridge University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cambridge University Press • BISAC: Ancient Languages - GeneralThis pioneering volume approaches the languages and scripts of ancient Cyprus from an inte...

• Author(s): S. Brice Heath | Shirley Brice Heath | Charles Albert Ferguson • Publisher: Cambridge University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cambridge University Press • BISAC: Alphabets & Writing SystemsLanguage in the USA is a volume of special...

• Author(s): Lydia White • Publisher: Cambridge University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cambridge University Press • BISAC: Linguistics - GeneralThis authoritative textbook is an overview and analysis of current second language acquisition research...

• Author(s): James Clackson • Publisher: Cambridge University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cambridge University Press • BISAC: Linguistics - Historical & ComparativeTexts written in Latin, Greek and other languages provide ancient historians wi...

• Author(s): Franz Boas | Franz Boas • Publisher: Cambridge University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cambridge University Press • BISAC: Indigenous Languages in the AmericasEdited by the eminent anthropologist and linguist Franz Boas (1858-1942), th...

• Author(s): Thomas Olander • Publisher: Cambridge University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cambridge University Press • BISAC: Ancient Languages - GeneralModern languages like English, Spanish, Russian and Hindi as well as ancient languages like Gr...

• Author(s): Masayoshi Shibatani • Publisher: Cambridge University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cambridge University Press • BISAC: JapaneseThis book surveys the two main indigenous languages of Japan, Japanese and Ainu. No genetic relationship has...

• Author(s): Robert Wardy | Wardy Robert • Publisher: Cambridge University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cambridge University Press • BISAC: Linguistics - GeneralThis book considers the relation between language and thought. Robert Wardy explores th...

• Author(s): N. J. Enfield • Publisher: Cambridge University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cambridge University Press • BISAC: GeneralMainland Southeast Asia is one of the most fascinating and complex cultural and linguistic areas in the world. This...

• Author(s): George Yule • Publisher: Cambridge University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cambridge University Press • BISAC: Linguistics - GeneralThis bestselling textbook provides an engaging and user-friendly introduction to the study of language....

• 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): Naomi Nagy • Publisher: Cambridge University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cambridge University Press • BISAC: Linguistics - GeneralHeritage language speakers often feel discouraged from using their heritage language because they are to...

• Author(s): Muriel Saville-Troike | Karen Barto • Publisher: Cambridge University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cambridge University Press • BISAC: Linguistics - GeneralProviding a solid foundation in second language acquisition, this book has beco...

• Author(s): Victor A. Friedman | Brian D. Joseph • Publisher: Cambridge University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cambridge University Press • BISAC: Alphabets & Writing SystemsCovering the full extent of the languages in the Balkan convergence ...