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Dialect, Culture, and Society in Eastern Arabia, Volume III: Phonology, Morphology, Syntax, Style

Dialect, Culture, and Society in Eastern Arabia, Volume...
Author: Clive Holes
ISBN: 9789004302631
Format: Hardback 		$615.12

The aim of Dialect, Culture and Society in Eastern Arabia is to give a detailed description of the Arabic dialects...  Read More >>

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The First English Dictionary of Slang 1699

The First English Dictionary of Slang 1699
Author: 'B.E. Gent' ,  John Simpson
ISBN: 9781851243877
Format: Paperback 		$23.26

The first work dedicated solely to the subject of slang words and their meanings, this book is a lost gem originally...  Read More >>

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Iconicity and Analogy in Language Change: The Development of Double Object Clitic Clusters from Medieval Florentine to Modern Italian

Iconicity and Analogy in Language Change: The Development...
Author: Janice Aski ,  Cinzia Russi
ISBN: 9781614517528
Format: Hardback 		$205.83

Examines the alternation between accusative-dative and dative-accusative order in Old Florentine clitic clusters...  Read More >>

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Pittsburgh Speech and Pittsburghese

Pittsburgh Speech and Pittsburghese
Author: Barbara Johnstone ,  Daniel Baumgardt
ISBN: 9781614512325
Format: Hardback 		$205.83

Linguists have sporadically noted peculiarities of pronunciation, lexis and morphosyntax in the speech of European...  Read More >>

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Leicestershire Dialect

Leicestershire Dialect
Author: Diane Davies
ISBN: 9781910551103
Format: Paperback 		$12.91

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Arabic in the City: Issues in Dialect Contact and Language Variation

Arabic in the City: Issues in Dialect Contact and Language...
Author: Catherine Miller (French Council of Research (CNRS), IREMAM, Aix en Provence, France) ,  Enam Al-Wer (University of Essex, UK)
ISBN: 9780415762175
Format: Paperback 		$118.00

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Colloquial German 2: The Next Step in Language Learning

Colloquial German 2: The Next Step in Language Learning...
Author: Annette Duensing (Open University, UK) ,  Carolyn Batstone (The Open University, UK)
ISBN: 9781138958326
Format: Paperback 		$64.99

First Published in 2009. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.  Read More >>

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Vice Slang

Vice Slang
Author: Tom Dalzell ,  Terry Victor
ISBN: 9781138834996
Format: Hardback 		$305.00

Vice Slang gently eases you into the language of gambling, drugs and alcohol, providing you with 3,000 words to...  Read More >>

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Unequal Englishes: The Politics of Englishes Today

Unequal Englishes: The Politics of Englishes Today
Author: R. Tupas
ISBN: 9781137461216
Format: Hardback 		$263.97

This book proposes, examines and unpacks the notion of unequal Englishes as a way to understand English today. Unlike...  Read More >>

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The Phonology of a South Durham Dialect: Descriptive, Historical, and Comparative

The Phonology of a South Durham Dialect: Descriptive,...
Author: Harold Orton
ISBN: 9781138917934
Format: Hardback 		$315.00

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Questions of Intonation

Questions of Intonation
Author: Gillian Brown ,  Karen Currie
ISBN: 9781138917972
Format: Hardback 		$189.00

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A Structural Atlas of the English Dialects

A Structural Atlas of the English Dialects
Author: Peter Anderson (Peter has passed away as advised by wife Lynne probate email sent SF case 01976178)
ISBN: 9781138890671
Format: Hardback 		$305.00

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Studies in the Phonology of Colloquial English

Studies in the Phonology of Colloquial English
Author: K. R. Lodge
ISBN: 9781138909663
Format: Hardback 		$147.00

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Listeners' Guide to Medieval English: A Discography

Listeners' Guide to Medieval English: A Discography...
Author: Betsy Bowden
ISBN: 9781138918689
Format: Hardback 		$242.00

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Cockney Past and Present: A Short History of the Dialect of London

Cockney Past and Present: A Short History of the Dialect...
Author: William Matthews
ISBN: 9781138915930
Format: Hardback 		$305.00

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Word Maps: A Dialect Atlas of English

Word Maps: A Dialect Atlas of English
Author: Clive Upton ,  John Widdowson
ISBN: 9781138918221
Format: Hardback 		$305.00

The maps presented in this volume, first published in 1987, are based on the material of the Survey of English Dialects...  Read More >>

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Converging Grammars: Constructions in Singapore English

Converging Grammars: Constructions in Singapore English...
Author: Debra Ziegeler
ISBN: 9781614515715
Format: Hardback 		$171.51

This volume provides a much-needed, critical overview of the field of constructions and construction grammar in...  Read More >>

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Slang: To-Day and Yesterday

Slang: To-Day and Yesterday
Author: Eric Partridge
ISBN: 9781138912106
Format: Hardback 		$399.00

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A Dictionary of Abbreviations: With Especial Attention to War-Time Abbreviations

A Dictionary of Abbreviations: With Especial Attention...
Author: Eric Partridge
ISBN: 9781138912120
Format: Hardback 		$273.00

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A Dictionary of the Underworld: British and American

A Dictionary of the Underworld: British and American...
Author: Eric Partridge
ISBN: 9781138904460
Format: Hardback 		$777.00

First published in 1949 (this edition in 1968), this book is a dictionary of the past, exploring the language of...  Read More >>

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The Essential Lingo Dictionary: of Australian words and phrases

The Essential Lingo Dictionary: of Australian words...
Author: John Miller
ISBN: 9781775592266
Format: Undefined 		$4.99

The Essential Lingo Dictionary is a warts-and-all look at the notoriously hilarious (and occasionally a little bit...  Read More >>

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The Selected Works of Eric Partridge

The Selected Works of Eric Partridge
Author: Eric Partridge
ISBN: 9781138912373
Format: Mixed media product 		$1680.00

This set reissues important selected works by Eric Partridge, covering the period from 1933 to 1968. Together, the...  Read More >>

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New York City English

New York City English
Author: Michael Newman
ISBN: 9781501508899
Format: Paperback 		$129.33

Shows how the linguistic similarities and differences among New Yorkers are rooted in social, cultural, and historical...  Read More >>

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Speaking American: A History of English in the United States

Speaking American: A History of English in the United...
Author: Richard W. Bailey (Professor Emeritus of English Language and Literature, Professor Emeritus of English Language and Literature, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI)
ISBN: 9780190232603
Format: Paperback 		$38.95

Speaking American shows what the English language looked like from various points on the American continent at crucial...  Read More >>

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The New Cockney: New Ethnicities and Adolescent Speech in the Traditional East End of London

The New Cockney: New Ethnicities and Adolescent Speech...
Author: S. Fox ,  Fox, Charles
ISBN: 9780230203556
Format: Hardback 		$211.20

The New Cockney provides a sociolinguistic account of speech variation among adolescents in the 'traditional' East...  Read More >>

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