Panel Studies of Variation and Change
This edited volume brings together the major researchers in the field of panel research,...
EAN: 9780367366278
Formal Grammar
The book begins by outlining the development of formal grammar in the last fifty years, with a...
EAN: 9780367365882
Rarely Used Structures and Lesser-Studied Languages
This book investigates a set of marginal syntactic structures which have been singularly...
EAN: 9780367236304
Difference and Repetition in Language Shift to a Creole
This volume is the first to explore the influence of the formal properties of language on the...
EAN: 9781138601352
Key Concepts in Traditional Chinese Medicine
This book offers a comprehensive overview of Chinese medicine terminology translation, defining...
EAN: 9789811391354
Variation in English Worldwide
A comprehensive overview of variation in World Englishes, analysing a wide spectrum of English...
EAN: 9781108485456
Phonological History of Chinese
A comprehensive account of the phonological history of Chinese, exploring the development of its...
EAN: 9781107135840
Dynamics of the Linguistic System
This book offers a model of language that can be characterized as functionalist, usage-based,...
EAN: 9780198814771
Systemic Functional Language Description
This book showcases research on theoretical, descriptive, and methodological innovations for...
EAN: 9780815395089
Black Athena
What is classical about Classical civilization? In one of the most audacious works of scholarship...
EAN: 9781978807204
Formalism and Functionalism in Linguistics
This volume is a concise introduction to the lively ongoing debate between formalist and...
EAN: 9781138316119
Discourse of Desperation
This book discusses how the poor and desperate in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth...
EAN: 9780367000264
Language Contact and the Making of an Afro-Hispanic Vernacular
Using a cohesive approach that combines linguistics, legal history and colonial studies, this...
EAN: 9781108485814
Bad Words
Snowflake, elite, expert . . . What are today's 'bad words' and what do they say about us, both...
EAN: 9781472141576
Languages of West Africa
This volume, originally published in 1970, presents a survey of the languages spoken in an area...
EAN: 9781138096684
Folklinguistics and Social Meaning in Australian English
Penry Williams' book presents an original study of Australian English and, via this, insights...
EAN: 9780367029333
Speaking in Soviet Tongues
This work explores how early Soviet language culture gave rise to unparalleled verbal creativity...
EAN: 9780875803135
Metaphor in Homer
Employs conceptual metaphor theory to investigate the use of metaphors of time, speech, and...
EAN: 9781108491884
Linguistic Survey of the Northern Bantu Borderland
EAN: 9781138094291
Language Politics and Policies
Explores the nature and effects of language politics on language minority communities in Canada...
EAN: 9781108429139
Language variation and change in social networks
This monograph takes up recent advances in social network methods in sociology, together with...
EAN: 9781138188891
