Cambridge Thesaurus of American English
The Cambridge Thesaurus of American English, first published in 1994, is an original collection...
EAN: 9780521414272
Fifty Years among the New Words
American Speech, the journal of the American Dialect Society has included a regular collection of...
EAN: 9780521413770
German Loanwords in English
This dictionary, first published in 1994, is a vast collection of English words and multiword...
EAN: 9780521402545
Cambridge History of the English Language
Volume 5 of The Cambridge History of the English Language looks at the dialects of England since...
EAN: 9780521264785
Cambridge History of the English Language
Volume 2 of The Cambridge History of the English Language covers the Middle English period,...
EAN: 9780521264754
Everyday English 1500-1700
This collection of text extracts provides an invaluable resource for working directly with...
EAN: 9780748607761
Romance Languages
Available again, this book discusses nine Romance languages in context of their common Latin...
EAN: 9780415164177
Runes and Runic Inscriptions
Of outstanding value to both runologist and Anglo-Saxonist alike. EARLY MEDIEVAL EUROPE...
EAN: 9780851155999
Selected Papers on Indo–European Linguistics – With a Section on Comparative Eskimo Linguistics – two volumes
EAN: 9788772895291
Tai-Kadai Languages
The volume goes a good way towards remedying the lack of available grammatical descriptions for...
EAN: 9780700714575
Exploring Language Change
Presenting new or little-known data, the authors explore the phenomenon of language change,...
EAN: 9780415317740
Ergativity
Although there is only one ergative language in Europe (Basque), perhaps one-quarter of the...
EAN: 9780521448987
Urban Voices
Accents and dialects are undergoing small variations over time. This work presents one of few...
EAN: 9780340706084
Variation and Change in Spanish
This book studies the differences of pronunciation and grammar that exist within the...
EAN: 9780521780452
NTC's Dictionary of Everyday American English Expressions
Containing more than 7,000 phrases, this dictionary covers situations from talking to a doctor to...
EAN: 9780844257792
Words in Time
The word "blurb" derives from a "pulchritudinous young lady" of that fictional name who appeared...
EAN: 9780631173212
Pidgins and Creoles: Volume 2, Reference Survey
Pidgins and Creoles is a major linguistic survey which lays new foundations for research in the...
EAN: 9780521359405
Etymology
A history of etymology in the last two centuries from one the world's most eminent practitioners...
EAN: 9780521311663
Pidgins and Creoles: Volume 1, Theory and Structure
Holm's major survey of pidgins and creales is written for both students and general readers with...
EAN: 9780521271080
Lost For Words
From Today programme presenter and national treasure John Humphrys, the bestselling cry in book...
EAN: 9780340836590
NTC's Dictionary of Latin and Greek Origins
Helping to equip students with vocabulary skills, this reference teaches them Latin and Greek...
EAN: 9780844283210
New-Dialect Formation
This book presents a new and controversial theory about dialect contact and the formation of new...
EAN: 9780748618774
Introduction to Middle English
This book is designed to provide undergraduate students of English historical linguistics with a...
EAN: 9780748614813
Proper English
Covering a three hundred-year period from Locke to the present, this book demonstrates the...
EAN: 9780415046787
