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Concise English-Scots Dictionary

Concise English-Scots Dictionary
Author: Scottish Language Scottish Language Dictionaries ISBN: 9781902930046 Format: Paperback	$39.99
This comprehensive dictionary of words and phrases is for all who want to use the Scots language. Read More >>

Pocket Scots Dictionary

Pocket Scots Dictionary
Author: Scottish Language Scottish Language Dictionaries ISBN: 9781902930022 Format: Paperback	$27.99
Provides information on Scots language for the general public and for schools in a compact and user-friendly form.... Read More >>

Scots Thesaurus

Scots Thesaurus
Author: Scottish Language Scottish Language Dictionaries ISBN: 9781902930039 Format: Paperback	$49.99
Unique subject guide to over 20,000 Scots words. Read More >>

Scots School Dictionary Support Materials

Scots School Dictionary Support Materials
Author: John Hodgart ISBN: 9781902930060 Format: Slide bound	$80.00
A block of 40 photocopiable sheets complimentary to the Scots School Dictionary. Sections include two main stages... Read More >>

African American Vernacular English: Features, Evolution, Educational Implications

African American Vernacular English: Features, Evolution,...
Author: John Russell Rickford (Stanford University, Palo Alto, California) ISBN: 9780631212454 Format: Paperback	$97.95
In response to the flood of interest in African American Vernacular English (AAVE) following the recent controversy... Read More >>

Language Creation and Language Change: Creolization, Diachrony, and Development

Language Creation and Language Change: Creolization,...
Author: Michel DeGraff (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) , Jeffrey S. Rosenschein ISBN: 9780262041683 Format: Hardback	$316.80
The originality of this volume is in its comparison of various sorts of language development from a number of linguistic-theoretic... Read More >>

Street Spanish Slang Dictionary & Thesaurus

Street Spanish Slang Dictionary & Thesaurus
Author: David Burke ISBN: 9780471168348 Format: Paperback	$47.39
For travelers and students, an entertaining guide to the real Spanish they don't teach you in school. You'll rarely... Read More >>

The Origins of Modern Literary Yiddish

The Origins of Modern Literary Yiddish
Author: Dov-Ber Kerler (Sir Leslie and Lady Porter Fellow in Yiddish Studies, Sir Leslie and Lady Porter Fellow in Yiddish Studies, Oxford Centre for Postgraduate Hebrew Studies and Lincoln College) ISBN: 9780198151661 Format: Hardback	$361.95
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Linguistic Diversity

Linguistic Diversity
Author: Daniel Nettle (Research Fellow in Anthropology, Research Fellow in Anthropology, Merton College, Oxford, and a member of the Human Biodiversity Project at the University of Cambridge) ISBN: 9780198238584 Format: Hardback	$231.95
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Making of Middle English, 1765-1910

Making of Middle English, 1765-1910
Author: David Matthews ISBN: 9780816631858 Format: Hardback	$76.00
Before the 1760s -- with the major exception of Chaucer -- nearly all of Middle English literature lay undiscovered... Read More >>

Linguistic Diversity

Linguistic Diversity
Author: Daniel Nettle (Research Fellow in Anthropology, Research Fellow in Anthropology, Merton College, Oxford, and a member of the Human Biodiversity Project at the University of Cambridge) ISBN: 9780198238577 Format: Paperback	$69.95
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Archaeology and Language III: Artefacts, Languages and Texts

Archaeology and Language III: Artefacts, Languages and...
Author: Roger Blench , Matthew Spriggs ISBN: 9780415100540 Format: Hardback	$305.00
An examination of the potential for archaeology and linguistics to complement one another in the interpretation... Read More >>

A Dictionary of Australian Colloquialisms

A Dictionary of Australian Colloquialisms
Author: G. A. Wilkes ISBN: 9780195537987 Format: Paperback	$34.95
This fourth edition of a classic Australian dictionary features 300 new colloquialisms and a historical introduction.... Read More >>

A Dictionary of Modern New Zealand Slang

A Dictionary of Modern New Zealand Slang
Author: H. W. Orsman ISBN: 9780195584080 Format: Paperback	$18.95
A look at the language New Zealanders use informally. It provides a insight into New Zealand life and culture.... Read More >>

Out of the Mouths of Slaves: African American Language and Educational Malpractice

Out of the Mouths of Slaves: African American Language...
Author: John Baugh , William Labov ISBN: 9780292708730 Format: Paperback	$32.95
An analysis of the use of the African American language which was originally used by slaves in the 19th century,... Read More >>

Oxford Dictionary of Slang

Oxford Dictionary of Slang
Author: John Ayto ISBN: 9780198631576 Format: Hardback	$59.95
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Dialects in Schools and Communities

Dialects in Schools and Communities
Author: Walt Wolfram , Carolyn Temple Adger ISBN: 9780805828634 Format: Paperback	$113.39
In this work, the authors address the interest and educational concern about the dialects of American students,... Read More >>

Grammar of the Dialect of the Bolton Area

Grammar of the Dialect of the Bolton Area
Author: Graham Shorrocks ISBN: 9783631346617 Format: Paperback	$152.99
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Gateway to the West: Dutch Language in the Dutch East Indies 1600-1950 - A History of Colonial Language Policy

Gateway to the West: Dutch Language in the Dutch East...
Author: Kees Groeneboer ISBN: 9789053563236 Format: Paperback	$128.04
What role did the Dutch language play in society in the Dutch Indies in 1600-1950? Read More >>

Adverbial Clauses in Scots: A Semantic-Syntactic Study

Adverbial Clauses in Scots: A Semantic-Syntactic Study...
Author: Martina Häcker ISBN: 9783110156430 Format: Hardback	$517.44
Presents a syntactic and semantic analysis of a corpus of written and spoken texts in contemporary Scots. The book... Read More >>

Elementary Coptic Grammar of the Sahidic Dialect

Elementary Coptic Grammar of the Sahidic Dialect
Author: Colin Walters ISBN: 9780856687181 Format: Paperback	$73.92
Coptic is the language of the Ancient Egyptians written in Greek letters (with some additions) and though it is... Read More >>

The Emergence of German Polite Sie: Cognitive and Sociolinguistic Parameters

The Emergence of German Polite Sie: Cognitive and Sociolinguistic...
Author: Paul Listen ISBN: 9780820438535 Format: Hardback	$211.07
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The Development of Language: Acquisition, Change, and Evolution

The Development of Language: Acquisition, Change, and...
Author: David Lightfoot (National Science Foundation, Arlington, VA) ISBN: 9780631210603 Format: Paperback	$103.95
How and why do languages change over time? Could the way an individual child develops affect aggregate language... Read More >>

Negation in the History of English

Negation in the History of English
Author: Ingrid Tieken-Boon van Ostade , Gunnel Tottie ISBN: 9783110161984 Format: Hardback	$591.36
Contains 12 papers on negation in the history of English, most of them dealing with multiple negation or the mobility... Read More >>

Spanish Proverbs, Idioms and Slang

Spanish Proverbs, Idioms and Slang
Author: Juan Serrano , Susan Serrano ISBN: 9780781806756 Format: Paperback	$39.47
"This text explores the background and history of proverbs in Spain through examples and analysis of modern slang... Read More >>

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