Constructional Change in English
Is construction grammar a useful framework for the study of language change? Hilpert combines the...
EAN: 9781107552074
Perspectives on Philippine Languages
The first comprehensive history of European studies on Philippine languages, this book gives a...
EAN: 9789715506496
Languages in Contact
Introducing new insights from popular culture, the globalised new economy and computer-mediated...
EAN: 9780521149259
American English
The new edition of this classic text chronicles recent breakthrough developments in the field of...
EAN: 9781118390221
Language and Nature
This book includes thirty contributions - twenty-nine papers and one artistic contribution - by...
EAN: 9781885923912
Early Modern English Dialogues
Using the Corpus of English Dialogues 1560–1760, in this book Culpeper and Kytö offer a unique...
EAN: 9781107421158
Roxburghshire Word-Book
Originally published in 1923, this book forms an in-depth record of the vernacular speech of...
EAN: 9781107658882
Psycholinguistic Perspective on Finnish and Japanese Prosody
EAN: 9781461346814
Global English Slang
This book provides a series of snapshots of current English slang usage around the world, both in...
EAN: 9780415842686
Grammaticalization and the Rise of Configurationality in Indo-Aryan
This book examines historical changes in the grammar of the Indo-Aryan languages from the period...
EAN: 9780198736660
Yearbook of Morphology 1995
A revival of interest in morphology has occurred during recent years. The Yearbook of...
EAN: 9789048146871
Arabic into Latin in the Middle Ages
A collection of articles on the transmission of Arabic learning to Europe that focuses on the...
EAN: 9780754659433
Slang
What words qualify as slang? Should slang be acknowledged as a language in itself? And what does...
EAN: 9780198729532
Hittite Dictionary of the Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago Volume L-N, fascicle 3 (miyahuwant- to nai-)
The Hittite Dictionary of the Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago (CHD) is a...
EAN: 9780918986481
Hittite Dictionary of the Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago Volume L-N, fascicle 2 (-ma to miyahuwant-)
The Hittite Dictionary of the Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago (CHD) is a...
EAN: 9780918986382
Emergent Lingua Francas and World Orders
This book presents an alternative paradigm in understanding and appreciating World Englishes in...
EAN: 9780415872270
Papuan Languages of New Guinea
The Papuan languages number over 700 (or 20 per cent of the world's total) in more than 60...
EAN: 9780521286213
Research on Old French: The State of the Art
The present volume presents scholarly study into Old French as it is practiced today, in all of...
EAN: 9789400747678
One Language, Two Grammars?
This volume focuses on British–American differences in the structure of words and sentences. The...
EAN: 9780521872195
Death and Tenses
Death and Tenses explores the question of what tense we should use to refer to the dead. Focusing...
EAN: 9780198754039
Linguistic Landscape of the Mediterranean
This book explores the Linguistic Landscapes of ten French and Italian Mediterranean coastal...
EAN: 9780230290983
Political History of Spanish
This book analyzes metalinguistic constructions of Spanish in specific historical and political...
EAN: 9781107533653
