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• Author(s): Marcus Kracht • Publisher: Springer • Publisher Imprint: Springer • BISAC: Linguistics - SemanticsFrom the Back CoverThis book argues that languages are composed of sets of 'signs', rather than 'strings'. This notion, first posited b...

• Author(s): Carmen Silva-Corvalán | Andrés Enrique-Arias | Carmen Silva-Corvalán • Publisher: Georgetown University Press • Publisher Imprint: Georgetown University Press • BISAC: Linguistics - SociolinguisticsThis thoroughly updated second edit...

• Author(s): Mireille Ravassat | Jonathan Culpeper • Publisher: Continuum • Publisher Imprint: Continuum • Subject: English Literature • BISAC: Linguistics - SemanticsAbout the Book This innovative volume testifies to the current revived interest...

• Author(s): Thomas Stolz • Publisher: de Gruyter Mouton • Publisher Imprint: de Gruyter Mouton • BISAC: Linguistics - Historical & ComparativeThis edited volume brings together fourteen original contributions to the on-going debate about wha...

• Author(s): Rebecca Hughes • Publisher: Routledge • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • BISAC: Linguistics - GeneralIn this activity-based text, Rebecca Hughes invites the reader to examine the differences between spoken and written English. Instead ...

• Author(s): August Schleicher | Herbert Bendall • Publisher: Cambridge University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cambridge University Press • BISAC: Grammar & PunctuationAugust Schleicher (1821-68) is often credited with being the first scholar ...

• Author(s): Hildegard Schnell • Publisher: Grin Verlag • Publisher Imprint: Grin Verlag • BISAC: GeneralSeminar paper from the year 2006 in the subject English Language and Literature Studies - Linguistics, grade: 1,7, University of Duisburg-Ess...

• Author(s): Noah Webster • Publisher: Anson Street Press • Publisher Imprint: Anson Street Press • BISAC: Linguistics - GeneralExplore the foundations of American English with Noah Webster, Jr.'s seminal work, "Dissertation on the English Langua...

• Author(s): Solomon Barrett • 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): KLEINEDLER • Publisher: Taylor & Francis • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • Subject: English Literature • BISAC: Linguistics - Historical & ComparativeAbout the Book Is English changing? To what degree is it changing? Is this c...

• Author(s): Mark Van de Velde • Publisher: Taylor & Francis • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • BISAC: African Languages (see also Swahili)Written by an international team of experts, this comprehensive volume presents grammatical analyses of i...

• Author(s): Margarita Hidalgo • Publisher: de Gruyter Mouton • Publisher Imprint: de Gruyter Mouton • BISAC: Linguistics - SociolinguisticsThis book offers a diversification model of transplanted languages that facilitates the exploration of ext...

• Author(s): Mary S. Linn • Publisher: Multilingual Matters Limited • Publisher Imprint: Multilingual Matters Limited • BISAC: Linguistics - SociolinguisticsThis book addresses the question of agency in the revitalisation of minoritised languages...

• Author(s): Anonymous • Publisher: Legare Street Press • Publisher Imprint: Legare Street Press • BISAC: GeneralThis is a technical dictionary in six languages, providing definitions of key terms and concepts in fields such as engineering, scien...

• Author(s): Patience Epps • Publisher: Taylor & Francis • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • BISAC: Linguistics - GeneralThis collection showcases the contributions of the study of endangered and understudied languages to historical linguistic a...

• Author(s): Lutz Marten • Publisher: Brill • Publisher Imprint: Brill • BISAC: Linguistics - GeneralFor the whole of the last half-century, most theoretical syntacticians have assumed that knowledge of language is different from the tasks of spe...

• Author(s): Ricardo Otheguy | Ana Celia Zentella • Publisher: Oxford University Press • Publisher Imprint: Oxford University Press • BISAC: SpanishSpanish in New York is a groundbreaking sociolinguistic analysis of immigrant bilingualism in a U....

• Author(s): Roberto Valdeón • Publisher: Taylor & Francis • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • BISAC: Linguistics - SociolinguisticsDelving into the uneasy relationship between English and Spanish in the United States of America, this book appro...

• Author(s): Jenny Cheshire | Dieter Stein • Publisher: Routledge • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • BISAC: Linguistics - GeneralTaming the Vernacular: From Dialect to Written Standard Language examines the differences between 'standard' and 'nonst...

• Author(s): Elizabeth Peterson • Publisher: Taylor & Francis • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • BISAC: Linguistics - SociolinguisticsWhy is it that some ways of using English are considered "good" and others are considered "bad"? Why are certa...

• Author(s): Javier Muñoz-Basols | Nina Moreno | Taboada Inma • Publisher: Routledge • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • BISAC: SpanishIntroducción a la lingüística hispánica actual: teoría y práctica has been specially designed for students of Span...

• Author(s): Adrian Battye | Ian Roberts • Publisher: Oxford University Press • Publisher Imprint: Oxford University Press • BISAC: Linguistics - GeneralThe Principles-and-Parameters approach to linguistic theory has triggered an enormous amount ...

• Author(s): Nicola McLelland | Hui Zhao • Publisher: Multilingual Matters Limited • Publisher Imprint: Multilingual Matters Limited • BISAC: Linguistics - SociolinguisticsThis book breaks new ground in the study of language standards and standar...

• Author(s): Alexandra Y. Aikhenvald • Publisher: Oxford Univ PR • Publisher Imprint: Oxford Univ PR • BISAC: Grammar & PunctuationThis book provides an in-depth typological account of the forms, functions, and histories of serial verb constr...

• Author(s): JIANG • Publisher: Taylor & Francis • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • Subject: English Literature • BISAC: Linguistics - Psycholinguistics - GeneralAbout the Book Second Language Processing: An Introduction is the first textbook t...

• Author(s): Richard Donato • Publisher: Multilingual Matters Limited • Publisher Imprint: Multilingual Matters Limited • BISAC: Study & TeachingThis volume documents a sixteen-year longitudinal study of two elementary schools in which Spanis...

• Author(s): Vladimir Ivir • Publisher: de Gruyter Mouton • Publisher Imprint: de Gruyter Mouton • BISAC: Linguistics - Historical & ComparativeThe papers in this collection throw fresh light on the relation between language contact and contr...

• Author(s): Angela Goddard • Publisher: Taylor & Francis • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • BISAC: Communication StudiesDoing English Language provides a concise, lively and accessible introduction to the field of English Language studies for ...

• Author(s): Bertus Van Rooy • Publisher: Edinburgh University Press • Publisher Imprint: Edinburgh University Press • BISAC: Linguistics - SociolinguisticsWorld Englishes traces the recent history of English, the social forces that contribute to...

• Author(s): Lance Pearce • Publisher: Willford Press • Publisher Imprint: Willford Press • BISAC: Linguistics - Phonetics & PhonologySouth America has a diverse linguistic heritage. Thousands of dialects and languages have been catalogued in...

• Author(s): Coleman • Publisher: Oxford UP • Publisher Imprint: Oxford UP • Subject: English Literature • BISAC: Linguistics - GeneralAbout the Book Bloody was once a shocking word. It was used largely by the working classes and caused their bet...

• Author(s): MILLAR | ROBERT MCCOLL | • Publisher: Taylor & Francis • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • Subject: History • BISAC: Linguistics - Historical & ComparativeTrask's Historical Linguistics provides an accessible introduction to his...

• Author(s): Daniel Petit • Publisher: Brill • Publisher Imprint: Brill • BISAC: Linguistics - EtymologyThis book provides an introduction to the historical syntax of the Indo-European languages. It aims to provide an overview of the main issues ...

• Author(s): Weifeng Han • Publisher: Taylor & Francis • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • BISAC: Linguistics - SociolinguisticsTypical and Atypical Language Development in Cultural and Linguistic Diversity brings together state-of-the-art studi...

• Author(s): Robert J. Blake | Eve C. Zyzik | Lourdes Ortega • Publisher: Georgetown University Press • Publisher Imprint: Georgetown University Press • BISAC: Linguistics - GeneralInformed by the latest research in the fields of second language ...

• Author(s): Nydia Flores • Publisher: Taylor & Francis • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • BISAC: Linguistics - GeneralThis volume offers a comprehensive examination of mitigation in speech in English and Spanish, exploring how it is defined an...