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• Author(s): Wei-Tien Dylan Tsai • Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA • Publisher Imprint: Oxford University Press, USA • BISAC: ChineseThis edited volume provides new insights into the architecture of Chinese grammar from a comparative pers...

• Author(s): Marcel Danesi • Publisher: de Gruyter Mouton • Publisher Imprint: de Gruyter Mouton • BISAC: Linguistics - SociolinguisticsThe book provides an introduction to an interdisciplinary field of inquiry that can be called "global linguist...

• Author(s): J. E. Miller | Regina Weinert | Jim Miller • Publisher: OUP Oxford • Publisher Imprint: OUP Oxford • BISAC: Linguistics - GeneralThe authors examine the types of clauses used by people when they are speaking off the cuff. They also a...

• Author(s): Anju Saxena • Publisher: de Gruyter Mouton • Publisher Imprint: de Gruyter Mouton • BISAC: Southeast Asian Languages (see also Vietnamese)With its many and diverse languages, including some with very long documented histories, its cu...

• Author(s): Anthony McEnery | Richard Xiao | Yukio Tono • Publisher: Routledge • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • BISAC: Linguistics - GeneralThe only textbook to adopt a 'how to' approach with exercises and cases, it covers all the major theoreti...

• Author(s): Norbert Schmitt • Publisher: Taylor & Francis • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • BISAC: Linguistics - GeneralAn Introduction to Applied Linguistics provides a complete, authoritative and up-to-date overview of the state of the fiel...

• Author(s): Ying Wang • Publisher: de Gruyter Mouton • Publisher Imprint: de Gruyter Mouton • BISAC: Linguistics - GeneralThis book explores language ideologies in China, which encounters the unprecedented global spread of English as a lingua fr...

• Author(s): Daniel Nettle | D. H. Nettleton • Publisher: OUP Oxford • Publisher Imprint: OUP Oxford • BISAC: Linguistics - SemanticsThere are some 6,500 different languages in the world. This book investigates why diversity arose, how it relates...

• Author(s): Corinne A. Seals • Publisher: Taylor & Francis • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • BISAC: Linguistics - SociolinguisticsHeritage language policies define the context in which heritage languages are maintained or abandoned by communi...

• Author(s): Falco Pfalzgraf • Publisher: de Gruyter Mouton • Publisher Imprint: de Gruyter Mouton • BISAC: Linguistics - SociolinguisticsThis book provides a comprehensive and comparative overview of current research and desiderata related to th...

• Author(s): Keith Allan • Publisher: Springer • Publisher Imprint: Springer • BISAC: Linguistics - Historical & ComparativePart 1: Language Changes: Looking Within a Language.- Chapter 1. Language and Revolution: Disruptions and Ruptures in ...

• Author(s): Bill Palmer • Publisher: Walter de Gruyter • Publisher Imprint: Walter de Gruyter • BISAC: Linguistics - General

• Author(s): Enoch Olade Aboh | Maria Teresa Guasti | Ian Roberts • Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA • Publisher Imprint: Oxford University Press, USA • BISAC: Grammar & PunctuationLocality is a key concept not only in linguistic theor...

• Author(s): Jeroen Van Craenenbroeck | Tanja Temmerman • Publisher: Oxford University Press • Publisher Imprint: Oxford University Press • BISAC: Grammar & PunctuationThis handbook is the first volume to provide a comprehensive, in-depth, an...

• Author(s): Stephen Barbour | Cathie Carmichael • Publisher: OUP Oxford • Publisher Imprint: OUP Oxford • BISAC: Linguistics - SociolinguisticsThis volume examines the role of language in the present and past creation of social, cultural, and na...

• Author(s): Hans Henrich Hock | Elena Bashir • Publisher: Walter de Gruyter • Publisher Imprint: Walter de Gruyter • BISAC: Linguistics - General

• Author(s): Will Oxford • Publisher: Oxford University Press • Publisher Imprint: Oxford University Press • BISAC: Linguistics - SyntaxThis book serves as a definitive reference for the inverse morphology of the Algonquian languages, which has a...

• 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): Piotr Romanowski | Martin Guardado • Publisher: de Gruyter Mouton • Publisher Imprint: de Gruyter Mouton • BISAC: Sign LanguageMultilingualism has become an increasingly common global phenomenon especially in the last two decades. Th...

• Author(s): Sin-Wai Chan • Publisher: Taylor & Francis • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • Subject: Encyclopaedias and References • BISAC: ChineseAbout the Book The Routledge Encyclopedia of the Chinese Language will truly meet the academic, li...

• Author(s): Grace Zhang • Publisher: Cambridge University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cambridge University Press • BISAC: Linguistics - SemanticsElastic language carries non-specific and stretchable meaning, as in 'He loves her, kind of'. It is u...

• Author(s): Dixon R. M. W. Aikhenvald Alexandra Y. • Publisher: Oxford UP • Publisher Imprint: Oxford UP • Subject: English Literature • BISAC: Linguistics - GeneralAbout the Book This book is a cross-linguistic examination of the different gra...

• Author(s): M. A. K. Halliday • Publisher: Continuum • Publisher Imprint: Continuum • BISAC: Linguistics - GeneralThe third volume in the collected works of Professor M.A.K. Halliday, On Language and Linguistics, includes eighteen chapters explo...

• Author(s): Denis Bouchard • Publisher: OUP Oxford • Publisher Imprint: OUP Oxford • BISAC: Linguistics - GeneralThis book looks at how the human brain got the capacity for language and how language then evolved. Its four parts are concerned wit...

• Author(s): Carlos Gussenhoven | Aoju Chen • Publisher: Oxford University Press • Publisher Imprint: Oxford University Press • BISAC: Linguistics - Phonetics & PhonologyThis handbook presents detailed accounts of current research in all aspe...

• Author(s): Crispin Thurlow | Kristine Mroczek • Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA • Publisher Imprint: Oxford University Press, USA • BISAC: Linguistics - GeneralDigital Discourse offers a distinctly sociolinguistic perspective on the nat...

• Author(s): Rachel Showstack • Publisher: Taylor & Francis • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • BISAC: Linguistics - SociolinguisticsLanguage Ideologies and Linguistic Identity in Heritage Language Learning addresses the ways in which discourses...

• Author(s): Jürgen M. Meisel • Publisher: de Gruyter Mouton • Publisher Imprint: de Gruyter Mouton • BISAC: Linguistics - GeneralNo detailed description available for "Two First Languages".

• 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): Chiara Gianollo | Agnes Jäger | Doris Penka • Publisher: de Gruyter Mouton • Publisher Imprint: de Gruyter Mouton • BISAC: Linguistics - Historical & ComparativeBringing together diachronic research from a variety of perspectives...

• Author(s): Rajendra Singh | Ghanshyam Sharma • Publisher: de Gruyter Mouton • Publisher Imprint: de Gruyter Mouton • BISAC: Linguistics - SociolinguisticsSouth Asia is home to a large number of languages and dialects. Although linguists working...

• Author(s): Patrick Heinrich • Publisher: Walter de Gruyter • Publisher Imprint: Walter de Gruyter • BISAC: JapaneseThe UNESCO atlas on endangered languages recognizes the Ryukyuan languages as constituting languages in their own right. This rep...

• Author(s): Alexandra Jaffe • Publisher: Oxford University Press • Publisher Imprint: Oxford University Press • BISAC: Linguistics - SociolinguisticsAll communication involves acts of stance, in which speakers take up positions vis-à-vis the exp...

• 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): Charles G. Häberl • Publisher: de Gruyter Mouton • Publisher Imprint: de Gruyter Mouton • BISAC: Linguistics - GeneralThe current companion will offer a survey of the Afroasiatic, Dravidian, Indo-Aryan, and Turkic languages in contac...

• Author(s): Simon Kirby | Morten Christiansen | Morten H. Christiansen • Publisher: OUP Oxford • Publisher Imprint: OUP Oxford • BISAC: Linguistics - Historical & ComparativeThe leading scholars in the rapidly growing field of language evolu...