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• Author(s): Barbara Lust | S. R. Anderson | J. Bresnan • Publisher: Cambridge University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cambridge University Press • BISAC: Linguistics - GeneralExploring language development from birth, this accessible textbook intr...

• Author(s): Franz Bopp | H. H. Wilson | Edward B. Eastwick • Publisher: Cambridge University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cambridge University Press • BISAC: Linguistics - GeneralA founding text of comparative philology, Franz Bopp's Vergleichende...

• Author(s): Edith A. Moravcsik • Publisher: Cambridge University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cambridge University Press • BISAC: Grammar & PunctuationLanguage typology identifies similarities and differences among languages of the world. This...

• Author(s): Silvina Montrul • Publisher: Cambridge University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cambridge University Press • BISAC: Linguistics - SociolinguisticsHeritage speakers are native speakers of a minority language they learn at home, but due t...

• Author(s): Jeffrey L. Kallen • Publisher: Cambridge University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cambridge University Press • BISAC: Linguistics - GeneralVisible language is widespread and familiar in everyday life. We find it in shop signs, advertisi...

• 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): Yuen-Ren Chao • Publisher: Cambridge University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cambridge University Press • BISAC: Linguistics - GeneralThis is an introduction to the study of language for the non-specialist or beginner in linguistics. P...

• Author(s): Joan Kelly Hall • Publisher: Taylor & Francis • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • BISAC: Linguistics - GeneralFrom the Back CoverThe concepts of language and culture have been transformed over the past decade, as globalisation and t...

• Author(s): Florian Coulmas • Publisher: Cambridge University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cambridge University Press • BISAC: Linguistics - SociolinguisticsWhy do we speak the way we do? What are the social factors that influence our choices of e...

• Author(s): C. -T James Huang | Y. -H Audrey Li | Yafei Li • Publisher: Cambridge University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cambridge University Press • BISAC: Linguistics - GeneralThe past quarter of a century has seen a surge in Chinese syntactic ...

• Author(s): Janny H. C. Leung • Publisher: Cambridge University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cambridge University Press • BISAC: Linguistics - GeneralAs custodians of global public discourse today, transnational tech platforms govern who may speak...

• 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): 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): Edward B. Eastwick | Franz Bopp • 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 knowled...

• Author(s): Joyce Bruhn de Garavito | John W. Schwieter • Publisher: Cambridge University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cambridge University Press • BISAC: Linguistics - GeneralEverything we do involves language. Assuming no prior knowledge, this b...

• Author(s): Carlo Denina • Publisher: Hutson Street Press • Publisher Imprint: Hutson Street Press • BISAC: Linguistics - GeneralLa Clef Des Langues, Ou Observations Sur L'origine Et La Formation Des Principales Langues Qu'on Parle Et Qu'on �cri...

• Author(s): Michael Carrier • Publisher: Taylor & Francis • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • BISAC: English as a Second LanguageThis carefully balanced set of studies and practitioner research projects carried out in various learning contexts ...

• Author(s): Gijsbert Rutten | Rik Vosters • Publisher: Cambridge University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cambridge University Press • BISAC: Linguistics - SociolinguisticsHistorical Sociolinguistics is the study of the relationship between languag...

• Author(s): Dongdong Chen • Publisher: Taylor & Francis • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • BISAC: ChineseA Hybrid Approach to Teaching Chinese through Digital Humanities, CALL, and Project-Based Learning presents an exposition of current think...

• Author(s): C. J. Armstrong | J. A. Large • Publisher: Routledge • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • BISAC: Library & Information Science - GeneralPublished in 1992, like the first, this second edition is not intended as introductory textbook c...

• Author(s): C-T James Huang • Publisher: Springer • Publisher Imprint: Springer • BISAC: Linguistics - GeneralThe past decade and a half has witnessed a great deal of renewed interest in the study of Chinese linguistics, not only in the traditio...

• Author(s): Sarah G. Thomason • Publisher: Cambridge University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cambridge University Press • BISAC: Linguistics - GeneralMost of the 7,000 languages spoken in the world today will vanish before the end of this century,...

• Author(s): Deumert Et Al • Publisher: Oxford University Press (UK) • Publisher Imprint: Oxford University Press (UK) • BISAC: Linguistics - SociolinguisticsThis wide-ranging volume offers a detailed exploration of coloniality in the discipline ...

• Author(s): Sali A. Tagliamonte • Publisher: Cambridge University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cambridge University Press • BISAC: Linguistics - SociolinguisticsNow in its second edition, this is an invaluable manual for teaching and learning vari...

• Author(s): Johann Kaspar Zeuss • Publisher: Legare Street Press • Publisher Imprint: Legare Street Press • BISAC: Celtic LanguagesThis work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civili...

• Author(s): Anna Morpurgo Davies | Giulio C. Lepschy • Publisher: Routledge • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • BISAC: Linguistics - GeneralThe History of Linguistics, to be published in five volumes, aims to provide the reader with an authoritativ...

• 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): C. Lã1/4cke • Publisher: Hutson Street Press • Publisher Imprint: Hutson Street Press • BISAC: Celtic Languages"Grammaire Des Dialectes Celtiques Dans Ses Rapports Avec La Langue Fran�aise" by C L�1/4cke, originally published in 1876...

• Author(s): Garnet C. Butchart • Publisher: Penn State University Press • Publisher Imprint: Penn State University Press • BISAC: Communication StudiesIn this volume, Garnet C. Butchart shows how human communication can be understood as embodied...

• Author(s): Netta Avineri • Publisher: Springer • Publisher Imprint: Palgrave MacMillan • BISAC: Linguistics - SociolinguisticsFrom the Back Cover"Metalinguistic Communities: Case Studies of Agency, Ideology, and Symbolic Uses of Language offers...

• Author(s): C. C. Long • 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 know ...

• Author(s): C-T James Huang • Publisher: Springer • Publisher Imprint: Springer • BISAC: Linguistics - GeneralThe past decade and a half has witnessed a great deal of renewed interest in the study of Chinese linguistics, not only in the traditio...

• 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): John Lipski | John M. Lipski • Publisher: Cambridge University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cambridge University Press • BISAC: Linguistics - GeneralThe African slave trade brought African languages into contact with Spanish and Portug...

• Author(s): Cherry Short • Publisher: States Academic Press • Publisher Imprint: States Academic Press • BISAC: Linguistics - GeneralLinguistics can be defined as the scientific study of the structure and development of language in general or of...