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• Author(s): D. Yenni • Publisher: Salzwasser-Verlag Gmbh • Publisher Imprint: Salzwasser-Verlag Gmbh • BISAC: General

• Author(s): Graham Thurgood | Randy J. Lapolla • Publisher: Routledge • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • BISAC: MiscellaneousThere are more native speakers of Sino-Tibetan languages than of any other language family in the world. Our records of th...

• Author(s): George Cardona | Dhanesh K. Jain • Publisher: Routledge • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • BISAC: Indic LanguagesThe Indo-Aryan languages are spoken by at least 700 million people throughout India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Nepal, Sri Lank...

• 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): Isabelle T. Kreindler • Publisher: de Gruyter Mouton • Publisher Imprint: de Gruyter Mouton • BISAC: Linguistics - GeneralNo detailed description available for "Sociolinguistic Perspectives on Soviet National Languages".

• Author(s): Andrew Goatly • Publisher: Taylor & Francis • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • BISAC: Linguistics - GeneralIn this ambitious and wide-ranging book, Andrew Goatly looks at how we use metaphor to communicate meaning. Combining insigh...

• Author(s): Chris Collins • Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA • Publisher Imprint: Oxford University Press, USA • BISAC: Linguistics - SyntaxThe linker introduces ("links") a variety of expressions into the verb phrase, including locatives...

• Author(s): Zhaohong Han | Teresa Cadierno • Publisher: Multilingual Matters Limited • Publisher Imprint: Multilingual Matters Limited • BISAC: Study & TeachingCrosslinguistic influence is an established area of second language research, and...

• Author(s): Anselm Bayly • Publisher: Gale Ecco, Print Editions • Publisher Imprint: Gale Ecco, Print Editions • BISAC: Linguistics - GeneralThe 18th century was a wealth of knowledge, exploration and rapidly growing technology and expanding rec...

• Author(s): Thomas Stratton • Publisher: Legare Street Press • Publisher Imprint: Legare Street Press • BISAC: GeneralThis work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we ...

• Author(s): Danesh Jain | George Cardona • Publisher: Routledge • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • BISAC: Indic LanguagesThe Indo-Aryan languages, spoken by at least 700 million people in the Republic of India, in Pakistan, Bangladesh, Nepal, Sri ...

• Author(s): Frederic Louis Otto Roehrig • Publisher: Lulu.com • Publisher Imprint: Lulu.com • BISAC: GeneralThis primer discusses the linguistics of the Dakota and Sioux native American tribes, noting how the fascinating characteristics of these...

• Author(s): Kirk Hazen • Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell • Publisher Imprint: Wiley-Blackwell • BISAC: Linguistics - GeneralAn Introduction to Language offers an engaging guide to the nature of language, focusing on how language works – its sounds, w...

• Author(s): William McCutchan Morrison | Presbyterian Church in the U S Ameri • Publisher: Legare Street Press • Publisher Imprint: Legare Street Press • BISAC: African Languages (see also Swahili)This work has been selected by scholars as being...

• Author(s): Andreas Willi • Publisher: OUP Oxford • Publisher Imprint: OUP Oxford • BISAC: Linguistics - GeneralBy examining linguistic variation in Aristophanic comedy, Andreas Willi opens up a new perspective on intra-dialectal diversity in Cl...

• Author(s): Bryan Westra • Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform • Publisher Imprint: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform • BISAC: GeneralI don't know when I started obsessing over learning a lan-guage. It just happened....

• Author(s): Roger Fowler • Publisher: Taylor & Francis • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • BISAC: Linguistics - GeneralIt is widely recognized that language is humanity's most distinctive and valuable faculty. In this work, originally published...

• Author(s): B. Richard Page • Publisher: Brill • Publisher Imprint: Brill • BISAC: Linguistics - GeneralThe contributions in this volume explore the grammars of moribund varieties of heritage Germanic languages and contribute to theoretical inve...

• Author(s): Bridget Drinka • Publisher: Cambridge University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cambridge University Press • BISAC: Grammar & PunctuationThis comprehensive new work provides extensive evidence for the essential role of language conta...

• Author(s): Alexander Murray | David Scot • Publisher: Legare Street Press • Publisher Imprint: Legare Street Press • BISAC: Linguistics - GeneralThis work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge...

• 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): Ewa Czaykowska-Higgins | M. Dale Kinkade • Publisher: de Gruyter Mouton • Publisher Imprint: de Gruyter Mouton • BISAC: Native American LanguagesNo detailed description available for "Salish Languages and Linguistics".

• Author(s): André Basset • Publisher: Taylor & Francis • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • BISAC: Linguistics - SyntaxOriginally published in 1952, this volume shows the structural characteristics of the Berber language and its interrelations a...

• Author(s): Bernard Comrie • Publisher: Taylor & Francis • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • Subject: English Literature • BISAC: Linguistics - SemanticsThis volume features over 50 of the world's languages and language families. The featured l...

• 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): 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): Nala H. Lee • Publisher: Routledge • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • BISAC: Linguistics - SociolinguisticsLanguage in Society introduces the study of the relationship between language and society, also known as sociolinguistics, witho...

• Author(s): Niko Besnier • Publisher: Routledge • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • BISAC: Oceanic & Australian LanguagesTuvaluan is a Polynesian language spoken by the 9,000 inhabitants of the nine atolls of Tuvalu in the Central Pacific, as w...

• Author(s): R. L. Trask • Publisher: Routledge • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • BISAC: Linguistics - GeneralLanguage: The Basics provides a concise introduction to the study of language. Written in an engaging and entertaining style, it encourag...

• Author(s): Kyoko Masuda • Publisher: Taylor & Francis • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • BISAC: Linguistics - GeneralThis volume showcases how concept-based language instruction (C-BLI) can be effectively integrated into foreign language inst...

• Author(s): Salikoko S. Mufwene • Publisher: Continnuum-3pl • Publisher Imprint: Continnuum-3pl • BISAC: Linguistics - GeneralLanguages are constantly changing. New words are added to the English language every year, either borrowed or coined, a...

• Author(s): Hyesun Cho • Publisher: Taylor & Francis • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • BISAC: Linguistics - GeneralThis collection critically reflects on the state-of-the-art research on Korean-as-a-heritage-language (KHL) teaching and learni...

• Author(s): Martin Hattala • Publisher: Legare Street Press • Publisher Imprint: Legare Street Press • BISAC: GeneralThis work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we k...

• Author(s): Walter John Clark • Publisher: Palala Press • Publisher Imprint: Palala Press • BISAC: GeneralThis work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. Thi...

• Author(s): Bernard Comrie | Comrie | S. R. Anderson • Publisher: Cambridge University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cambridge University Press • BISAC: Alphabets & Writing SystemsA general account of the languages of the Soviet Union, one of t...

• Author(s): Barbara Lewandowska-Tomaszczyk • Publisher: Springer • Publisher Imprint: Springer • BISAC: Linguistics - Historical & ComparativeFrom the Back CoverThis book comprises 20 chapters that have been divided into two distinct parts: ...