Search results for “[Subject: creole-languages]”

• Author(s): Susanne Michaelis | Philippe Maurer | Martin Haspelmath • Publisher: Oxford University Press • Publisher Imprint: Oxford University Press • BISAC: Linguistics - GeneralThe Atlas presents full colour maps of the distribution among the...

• Author(s): John McWhorter • Publisher: Oxford University Press • Publisher Imprint: Oxford University Press • BISAC: Linguistics - Historical & ComparativeA conventional wisdom among creolists is that creole is a sociohistorical term only: ...

• Author(s): Susanne Michaelis | Philippe Maurer | Martin Haspelmath • Publisher: Oxford University Press • Publisher Imprint: Oxford University Press • BISAC: Linguistics - Historical & ComparativeThese books represent the most systematic an...

• Author(s): Ian Roberts • Publisher: Oxford University Press • Publisher Imprint: Oxford University Press • BISAC: Composition & Creative Writing - GeneralThis second edition of Ian Roberts's highly successful textbook on diachronic syntax h...

• Author(s): Peter Bakker • Publisher: Oxford University Press • Publisher Imprint: Oxford University Press • BISAC: Linguistics - GeneralThe Michif language -- spoken by descendants of French Canadian fur traders and Cree Indians in western Cana...

• Author(s): Diane Massam • Publisher: Oxford University Press • Publisher Imprint: Oxford University Press • BISAC: Linguistics - SyntaxThis volume explores the grammar of Niuean, an endangered Polynesian language spoken on the island of Niue an...

• Author(s): Friederike Lüpke • Publisher: Oxford University Press • Publisher Imprint: Oxford University Press • BISAC: Linguistics - Historical & ComparativeThis volume presents the first book-length overview of the Atlantic languages, a sm...

• Author(s): Andrew Root • Publisher: Oxford University Press • Publisher Imprint: Oxford University Press • BISAC: Linguistics - GeneralContact Linguistics is a critical investigation of what happens to the grammars of languages when bilingual s...

• Author(s): M. E. Kropp Dakubu | Mary Esther Kropp Dakubu | M. E. Kropp Dakubu • Publisher: Oxford University Press • Publisher Imprint: Oxford University Press • BISAC: Linguistics - SociolinguisticsGhana has played a key role in African/Wester...

• Author(s): Katalin E. Kiss • Publisher: Oxford University Press • Publisher Imprint: Oxford University Press • BISAC: Grammar & PunctuationComprising eleven studies on languages with designated structural topic and focus positions, this vol...

• Author(s): Douglas Biber | Edward Finegan • Publisher: Oxford University Press • Publisher Imprint: Oxford University Press • BISAC: Linguistics - SociolinguisticsThis collection brings together several perspectives on language varieties define...

• Author(s): Roberta D'Alessandro | Michael T. Putnam | Silvia Terenghi • Publisher: Oxford University Press • Publisher Imprint: Oxford University Press • BISAC: Linguistics - SyntaxThis is an open access title available under the terms of a CC ...

• Author(s): Alexandra Y. Aikhenvald | R. M. W. Dixon | Nerida Jarkey • Publisher: Oxford University Press • Publisher Imprint: Oxford University Press • BISAC: Linguistics - SociolinguisticsThe volume explores the integration of language and soc...

• Author(s): Ksenia Bogomolets | Harry Van Der Hulst • Publisher: Oxford University Press • Publisher Imprint: Oxford University Press • BISAC: Linguistics - SyntaxThis volume focuses on the theoretical and analytical challenges that languages wi...

• Author(s): Andrew L. Sihler • Publisher: Oxford University Press • Publisher Imprint: Oxford University Press • BISAC: Ancient Languages - GeneralLike Carl Darling Buck's Comparative Grammar of Greek and Latin (1933), this book is an explanatio...

• Author(s): Andrew Carnie | Eithne Guilfoyle • Publisher: Oxford University Press • Publisher Imprint: Oxford University Press • BISAC: Linguistics - GeneralThis volume contains twelve chapters on the derivation of and the correlates to verb ini...

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

• Author(s): Wendy Ayres-Bennett | Mairi McLaughlin • Publisher: Oxford University Press • Publisher Imprint: Oxford University Press • BISAC: Linguistics - SociolinguisticsThis volume provides the first comprehensive reference work in English on...

• Author(s): Alexander Adelaar | Antoinette Schapper • Publisher: Oxford University Press • Publisher Imprint: Oxford University Press • BISAC: Linguistics - Phonetics & PhonologyThis volume presents the most wide-ranging treatment available ...

• Author(s): Lyle Campbell • Publisher: Oxford University Press • Publisher Imprint: Oxford University Press • BISAC: Linguistics - Historical & ComparativeThe Indigenous Languages of the Americas takes stock of what is known about the histor...

• Author(s): Joshua A. Fishman • Publisher: Oxford University Press • Publisher Imprint: Oxford University Press • BISAC: Linguistics - SociolinguisticsThis volume presents a comprehensive introduction to the connection between language and ethni...

• Author(s): Sam Wolfe • Publisher: Oxford University Press • Publisher Imprint: Oxford University Press • BISAC: Linguistics - Historical & ComparativeThis book provides the most comprehensive and detailed formal account to date of the evolu...

• Author(s): Ronald K. S. Macaulay • Publisher: Oxford University Press • Publisher Imprint: Oxford University Press • BISAC: Linguistics - SociolinguisticsThe Social Art is an engagingly written, highly accessible tour through the world of langu...

• Author(s): Sonja Lanehart • Publisher: Oxford University Press • Publisher Imprint: Oxford University Press • BISAC: Linguistics - GeneralThe goal of The Oxford Handbook of African American Language is to provide readers with a wide range of an...

• Author(s): James W. Gair | Barbara C. Lust | Barbara C. Lust • Publisher: Oxford University Press • Publisher Imprint: Oxford University Press • BISAC: Indic LanguagesThis volume collects twenty-nine published and unpublished papers by the ling...

• Author(s): Sonja Lanehart • Publisher: Oxford University Press • Publisher Imprint: Oxford University Press • BISAC: Communication StudiesThe goal of The Oxford Handbook of African American Language is to provide readers with a wide range of an...

• Author(s): Cecil H. Brown • Publisher: Oxford University Press • Publisher Imprint: Oxford University Press • BISAC: Linguistics - GeneralLexical acculturation refers to the accommodation of languages to new objects and concepts encountered as ...

• Author(s): Lyle Campbell • Publisher: Oxford University Press • Publisher Imprint: Oxford University Press • BISAC: Linguistics - SociolinguisticsNative American languages are spoken from Siberia to Greenland, and from the Arctic to Tierra del ...

• Author(s): Ronny Meyer | Bedilu Wakjira | Zelealem Leyew • Publisher: Oxford University Press • Publisher Imprint: Oxford University Press • BISAC: Linguistics - Phonetics & PhonologyThis handbook provides a comprehensive account of the lan...

• Author(s): Theodore B. Fernald | Paul R. Platero • Publisher: Oxford University Press • Publisher Imprint: Oxford University Press • BISAC: Linguistics - GeneralThe Native American language family called Athabaskan has received increasing atten...

• Author(s): Tong King Lee • Publisher: Oxford University Press • Publisher Imprint: Oxford University Press • BISAC: Linguistics - SociolinguisticsSingapore boasts a complex mix of languages and is therefore a rich site for the study of multilin...

• Author(s): Namhee Lee | Lisa Mikesell | Anna Dina L. Joaquin • Publisher: Oxford University Press • Publisher Imprint: Oxford University Press • BISAC: Linguistics - GeneralThe Interactional Instinct explores the evolution of language from the ...

• Author(s): Lynnette Arnold | Jennifer R. Guzmán | Emily Avera • Publisher: Oxford University Press • Publisher Imprint: Oxford University Press • BISAC: Linguistics - SociolinguisticsHealth and wellbeing are profoundly shaped by communication p...

• Author(s): Darya Kavitskaya | Alan C. L. Yu • Publisher: Oxford University Press • Publisher Imprint: Oxford University Press • BISAC: Linguistics - Historical & ComparativeThis volume brings together an international group of linguists fro...

• Author(s): William Bright • Publisher: Oxford University Press • Publisher Imprint: Oxford University Press • BISAC: Linguistics - GeneralSouth Asia presents the linguist with a bewildering variety of regional dialects, social dialects, formal ...

• Author(s): Anne Breitbarth | Christopher Lucas | David Willis • Publisher: Oxford University Press • Publisher Imprint: Oxford University Press • BISAC: Linguistics - Historical & ComparativeThis is the second book in a two-volume comparati...