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• 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): Danuta Gabrys-Barker • Publisher: Springer • Publisher Imprint: Springer • BISAC: Linguistics - Historical & ComparativeFrom the Back CoverThis volume depicts the phenomenon of cross-linguistic influences in the specific context ...

• Author(s): Cedric Boeckx • Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA • Publisher Imprint: Oxford University Press, USA • BISAC: Linguistics - GeneralThis Handbook provides a complete assessment of the current achievements and challenges of the Mi...

• Author(s): Giorgio Francesco Arcodia | Bianca Basciano • Publisher: Oxford University Press • Publisher Imprint: Oxford University Press • BISAC: Linguistics - MorphologyThis volume provides a broad introduction to Chinese linguistics, offering...

• Author(s): John Holm | Susanne Michaelis • Publisher: Routledge • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • BISAC: Linguistics - Historical & ComparativeContact has always been a normal part of the development of languages, from those of ancient empir...

• Author(s): Keith Allan • Publisher: OUP Oxford • Publisher Imprint: OUP Oxford • BISAC: Linguistics - GeneralLeading scholars examine the history of linguistics from ancient origins to the present. They consider every aspect of the field from l...

• Author(s): Randy Lapolla • Publisher: Routledge • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • BISAC: Southeast Asian Languages (See Also Vietnamese)The Sino-Tibetan languages form the largest language family in the world in terms of native speakers, of whom...

• Author(s): Ericka A. Albaugh | Kathryn M. de Luna • Publisher: Oxford Univ PR • Publisher Imprint: Oxford Univ PR • BISAC: Linguistics - SociolinguisticsThe great diversity of ethnicities and languages in Africa encourages a vision of Africa as...

• Author(s): Geoffrey Haig | Geoffrey Khan • Publisher: Walter de Gruyter • Publisher Imprint: Walter de Gruyter • BISAC: Linguistics - General

• Author(s): John C. Maher • Publisher: Oxford University Press • Publisher Imprint: Oxford University Press • BISAC: Linguistics - SociolinguisticsThis book offers a comprehensive sociolinguistic overview of the linguistic situation in Japan. Co...

• Author(s): Raffaella Folli | Christiane Ulbrich • Publisher: OUP Oxford • Publisher Imprint: OUP Oxford • BISAC: Linguistics - GeneralThis book explores the interaction of grammatical components in a wide variety of languages, and presents and ...

• Author(s): John McWhorter • Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA • Publisher Imprint: Oxford University Press, USA • BISAC: Linguistics - GeneralForeigners often say that English language is "easy." A language like Spanish is challenging in ...

• Author(s): Mate Kapovic • Publisher: Taylor & Francis • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • Subject: English Literature • BISAC: GeneralAbout the Book The Indo-European Languages presents a comprehensive survey of the individual languages and la...

• Author(s): Miriam Bouzouita | Anne Breitbarth | Lieven Danckaert • Publisher: Oxford Univ PR • Publisher Imprint: Oxford Univ PR • BISAC: Linguistics - Historical & ComparativeThis volume explores the multiple aspects of cyclical syntactic ...

• Author(s): Peter W. Culicover • Publisher: Oxford University Press • Publisher Imprint: Oxford University Press • BISAC: Linguistics - SyntaxThis volume explores how human languages become what they are, why they differ from one another in cert...

• Author(s): Christian Bentz • Publisher: de Gruyter Mouton • Publisher Imprint: de Gruyter Mouton • BISAC: Linguistics - GeneralLanguages carry information. To fulfil this purpose, they employ a multitude of coding strategies. This book explores...

• Author(s): Susan Pintzuk | G. Tsoulas | A. Warner • Publisher: OUP Oxford • Publisher Imprint: OUP Oxford • BISAC: Linguistics - SociolinguisticsLinguistic theory has undergone deep changes since the early 1990's, given the widespread impact of...

• Author(s): Peter L. Auer | Elizabeth Couper-Kuhlen | Frank Muller • Publisher: Oxford University Press • Publisher Imprint: Oxford University Press • BISAC: Communication StudiesThe authors here promote the reintroduction of temporality into th...

• Author(s): Bridget Drinka | Claus Ehrhardt • Publisher: de Gruyter Mouton • Publisher Imprint: de Gruyter Mouton • BISAC: Linguistics - Historical & Comparative

• Author(s): Barry J. Blake • Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA • Publisher Imprint: Oxford University Press, USA • BISAC: Linguistics - GeneralIn clear, congenial style Barry Blake explains how language works. He describes the make-up of w...

• Author(s): Nora C. England | Roberto Zavala Maldonado • Publisher: Taylor & Francis • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • Subject: English Literature • BISAC: JournalismAbout the Book The Mayan Languages presents a comprehensive survey of the la...

• 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): 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): Otto Jespersen • Publisher: Taylor & Francis • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • BISAC: Grammar & PunctuationThis volume, first published in 1933, brings together a collection of Otto Jespersen's papers in English, German, and F...

• Author(s): John W. Oller • Publisher: de Gruyter Mouton • Publisher Imprint: de Gruyter Mouton • BISAC: Linguistics - GeneralNo detailed description available for "Coding information in natural languages".

• Author(s): Hannah S. Sarvasy | Alexandra Y. Aikhenvald • Publisher: Oxford University Press • Publisher Imprint: Oxford University Press • BISAC: Linguistics - SyntaxThe languages of the world make use of a variety of techniques for describing ...

• Author(s): Michaelis Et Al | Philippe Maurer | Martin Haspelmath • Publisher: Oxford UP • Publisher Imprint: Oxford UP • Subject: English Literature • BISAC: Linguistics - GeneralAbout the Book The Atlas presents full colour maps of the distrib...

• Author(s): Rajendra Singh • Publisher: de Gruyter Mouton • Publisher Imprint: de Gruyter Mouton • BISAC: Linguistics - GeneralSouth Asia is home to a large number of languages and dialects. Although linguists working on this region have made si...

• Author(s): Rajendra Singh • Publisher: de Gruyter Mouton • Publisher Imprint: de Gruyter Mouton • BISAC: Linguistics - MorphologySouth Asia is home to a large number of languages and dialects. Although linguists working on this region have made...

• 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): Daniël Olmen | Tanja Mortelmans | Frank Brisard • Publisher: de Gruyter Mouton • Publisher Imprint: de Gruyter Mouton • BISAC: Linguistics - GeneralLinguistic variation is a topic of ongoing interest to the field. Its description and...

• Author(s): Chu-Ren Huang • Publisher: Springer • Publisher Imprint: Springer • BISAC: Linguistics - GeneralFrom the Back CoverBased on the accumulation of research experience and knowledge over the past 30 years, this volume lays out the resear...

• Author(s): Daniel Abondolo • Publisher: Taylor & Francis • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • Subject: Foreign Languages • BISAC: GeneralThe Uralic Languages, second edition, is a reference book which brings together detailed discussions of the...

• Author(s): Luciana C. de Oliveira • Publisher: Taylor & Francis • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • BISAC: English as a Second LanguageA practical and comprehensive resource, Supporting Multilingual Learners' Academic Language Development: A L...

• 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): Sonia N. Das • Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA • Publisher Imprint: Oxford University Press, USA • BISAC: Linguistics - GeneralLinguistic Rivalries weaves together anthropological accounts of diaspora, nation, and empire to e...