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• Author(s): Deborah Hill • Publisher: Springer • Publisher Imprint: Palgrave MacMillan • BISAC: Linguistics - PragmaticsFrom the Back Cover"This thoughtful and original volume provides a powerful argument that development projects will not succe...

• 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): Martin J. Ball | Nicole Muller • Publisher: Routledge • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • BISAC: Celtic LanguagesThe Celtic Languages describes in depth all the Celtic languages from historical, structural and sociolinguistic perspectiv...

• Author(s): Luc Bouquiaux • Publisher: Sil International, Global Publishing • Publisher Imprint: Sil International, Global Publishing • BISAC: Study & TeachingThis work was the authors' response to a need they saw for methodology in field re...

• 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): Taro Kageyama | Peter E. Hook | Prashant Pardeshi • Publisher: Oxford University Press • Publisher Imprint: Oxford University Press • BISAC: Linguistics - SyntaxThis volume is the first to present a detailed survey of the systems of ...

• Author(s): William Croft • Publisher: Cambridge University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cambridge University Press • BISAC: Linguistics - SyntaxBringing together the results of sixty years of research in typology and universals, this textbook pre...

• Author(s): Yan Huang • Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA • Publisher Imprint: Oxford University Press, USA • BISAC: Linguistics - PragmaticsThis volume brings together distinguished scholars from all over the world to present an authorita...

• Author(s): Fernando Zuniga | Denis Creissels • Publisher: de Gruyter Mouton • Publisher Imprint: de Gruyter Mouton • BISAC: Linguistics - SemanticsThis book presents a state-of-the-art cross-linguistic survey of applicative constructions in the...

• Author(s): Gabriela Pérez Báez | Chris Rogers | Jorge Emilio Rosés Labrada • Publisher: de Gruyter Mouton • Publisher Imprint: de Gruyter Mouton • BISAC: Linguistics - GeneralUp to now, the focus in the field of language documentation has been ...

• Author(s): A. P. Martinich | David Sosa • Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA • Publisher Imprint: Oxford University Press, USA • BISAC: Linguistics - GeneralWhat is meaning? How is linguistic communication possible? What is the nature of l...

• Author(s): Stela Manova | Laura Grestenberger | Katharina Korecky-Kröll • Publisher: de Gruyter Mouton • Publisher Imprint: de Gruyter Mouton • BISAC: Linguistics - Phonetics & PhonologyThis volume addresses a number of issues in current mo...

• Author(s): Paul Carley | Inger M. Mees | Beverley Collins • Publisher: Routledge • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • Subject: Education & Psychology • BISAC: Language Arts And DisciplinesRoutledge English Language Introductions cover core area...

• Author(s): Alice Vittrant • Publisher: Walter de Gruyter • Publisher Imprint: Walter de Gruyter • BISAC: Linguistics - General This book lies at the crossroads of areal typology, language contact and genetic affiliation. Concerned with mainland...

• Author(s): Miroslaw Pawlak • Publisher: Springer • Publisher Imprint: Springer • BISAC: Grammar & PunctuationFrom the Back CoverThe current volume is a collection of papers representing the most recent developments in linguistics, specifica...

• Author(s): Jane Freeland • Publisher: Taylor & Francis • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • BISAC: Linguistics - SociolinguisticsThis book makes an important contribution to the growing debate on linguistic human rights. By bringing together re...

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

• Author(s): Chris Shei • Publisher: Taylor & Francis • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • BISAC: JournalismUnderstanding the Chinese Language provides a vibrant and comprehensive introduction to contemporary Chinese linguistics. Combining an acc...

• Author(s): Lenore A. Grenoble | Lindsay J. Whaley • Publisher: Cambridge University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cambridge University Press • BISAC: Linguistics - GeneralThe issue of language loss is currently the focus of much linguistic researc...

• Author(s): Alexandra Grey • Publisher: de Gruyter Mouton • Publisher Imprint: de Gruyter Mouton • BISAC: Linguistics - GeneralChina has had constitutional minority language rights for decades, but what do they mean today? Answering with nuance ...

• Author(s): Henning Klöter • Publisher: Taylor & Francis • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • BISAC: ChineseLanguage Diversity in the Sinophone World offers interdisciplinary insights into social, cultural, and linguistic aspects of multilingual...

• Author(s): Adam Glaz • Publisher: Springer • Publisher Imprint: Palgrave MacMillan • BISAC: Translating & InterpretingFrom the Back Cover"The editor of this trailblazing book brings together in a single volume a broad range of insights into...

• Author(s): Sam Wolfe | Christine Meklenborg • Publisher: Oxford University Press • Publisher Imprint: Oxford University Press • BISAC: Linguistics - Historical & ComparativeThis volume offers a range of synchronic and diachronic case studie...

• Author(s): Carol Myers-Scotton • Publisher: OUP Oxford • Publisher Imprint: OUP Oxford • BISAC: Linguistics - GeneralThe goal of this book, a companion volume to Social Motivations for Codeswitching (Oxford, 1993) is to describe and explain int...

• Author(s): Anna Cermakova • Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic • Publisher Imprint: Bloomsbury Academic • BISAC: Linguistics - PragmaticsMarking 30 years of contrastive corpus linguistics, this volume provides a state-of-the-art of the field, chart...

• Author(s): Geoffrey Haig | Nicole Nau | Stefan Schnell • Publisher: de Gruyter Mouton • Publisher Imprint: de Gruyter Mouton • BISAC: Linguistics - GeneralThe rapid decline in the world's linguistic diversity has prompted the emergence of docum...

• Author(s): Zakeera Docrat | Russell H. Kaschula | Monwabisi K. Ralarala • Publisher: Sun Press • Publisher Imprint: Sun Press • BISAC: Study & TeachingA Handbook on Legal Languages and the Quest for Linguistic Equality in South Africa and B...

• Author(s): Catherine Watts | Clare Forder | Hilary Phillips • Publisher: Routledge • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • BISAC: Linguistics - GeneralLiving Languages is simply bursting with practical and original ideas aimed at teachers and trainee ...

• Author(s): Aikhenvald Alexandra Y.; Dixon R. M. W. • Publisher: Oxford UP • Publisher Imprint: Oxford UP • Subject: English Literature • BISAC: Linguistics - SyntaxThis book focuses on the form and the function of commands--directive speech act...

• Author(s): Raf Van Rooy • Publisher: Oxford University Press • Publisher Imprint: Oxford University Press • BISAC: Linguistics - Historical & ComparativeThis is an open access title available under the terms of a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 Internation...

• Author(s): Marian Klamer • Publisher: Language Science Press • Publisher Imprint: Language Science Press • BISAC: Linguistics - GeneralThe Alor-Pantar family constitutes the westernmost outlier group of Papuan (Non-Austronesian) languages. Its ...

• Author(s): Reza Falahati | Zahra Ghane • Publisher: Springer • Publisher Imprint: Springer • BISAC: Linguistics - Phonetics & Phonology​This handbook brings together current research on the phonetics and phonology of the Modern Iranian lang...

• Author(s): Jennifer Jenkins • Publisher: Taylor & Francis • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • BISAC: Linguistics - GeneralLinguistic Diversity on the EMI Campus presents an in-depth ethnographic case study of the language policies and practice...

• Author(s): Christiane Meierkord | Karlfried Knapp • Publisher: Peter Lang Gmbh, Internationaler Verlag Der W • Publisher Imprint: Peter Lang Gmbh, Internationaler Verlag Der W • BISAC: GeneralLingua francas are languages used for communication ...

• Author(s): Philip Seargeant • Publisher: Routledge • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • BISAC: Linguistics - Historical & ComparativeThis lively and engaging book traces English's remarkable journey from a small, local language to the global re...

• 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 ...