Little Book of Profanities
A cornucopia of classic and contemporary curse words.
EAN: 9781911610489
On the Genesis of Thought and Language
Explores fundamental questions of how human concepts arise in a child, why concepts appear in a...
EAN: 9781644693148
Anthology of Kokugaku Scholars
Kokugaku "national study" is an academic field of study that spans a number of disciplines,...
EAN: 9781939161840
Cambridge Handbook of English Historical Linguistics
English historical linguistics is a subfield of linguistics which has developed theories and...
EAN: 9781108744348
Numeral Classifiers and Classifier Languages
Focussing mainly on classifiers, Numeral Classifier and Classifier Languages offers a deep...
EAN: 9781138054974
Death and Tenses
Death and Tenses explores the question of what tense we should use to refer to the dead. Focusing...
EAN: 9780198831150
Language and a Sense of Place
This book provides a comprehensive overview of the study of language and place, focusing on how...
EAN: 9781107491663
Changing English Language
This volume is a systematic, interdisciplinary approach to processes underlying language change....
EAN: 9781107451728
Language, Mind and Body
This book explores various attempts throughout the history of linguistics to explain language in...
EAN: 9781316603956
Binomials in the History of English
This book is aimed at linguists and students interested in the history of English, especially...
EAN: 9781107544260
Bad English
Bad English examines the impact of increasing language diversity in transforming contemporary...
EAN: 9781526108845
(Un)Translatability of Qur’anic Idiomatic Phrasal Verbs
Qur’anic idiomaticity, in particular Qur'anic idiomatic phrasal verbs, pose a great deal of...
EAN: 9780367132958
Southern Min
This book adopts a phylogenetic perspective in explaining the linguistic diversity within the...
EAN: 9780367874575
Militarism and the Indo-Europeanizing of Europe
This book contends that Indo-European languages came to Greece, central Europe, southern...
EAN: 9780367886004
Language Prescription
This book is a detailed examination of social connections to language evaluation with a specific...
EAN: 9781788928373
Studies in Historical Linguistics in Honor of George Sherman Lane
This 1967 volume honouring Professor George S. Lane features eight of his articles on aspects of...
EAN: 9781469657028
To Gaul, to Greece and into Noah's Ark
This collection of fifteen essays on biblical and ancient Near Eastern texts, language, and...
EAN: 9780198852674
Hesiod's Verbal Craft
This ground-breaking study aims to define Hesiod's place in Greek intellectual history by...
EAN: 9780198807711
Millennia of Language Change
This latest collection of Peter Trudgill's most seminal articles brings together his writing on...
EAN: 9781108708647
Millennia of Language Change
This latest collection of Peter Trudgill's most seminal articles brings together his writing on...
EAN: 9781108477390
Politeness in the History of English
Based on detailed case studies of literary texts, this book traces the development of politeness...
EAN: 9781108499620
Language, Literature, and the Negotiation of Identity
Examines the way in which the identity of foreign workers and foreign writers in Germany is...
EAN: 9781469656519
