Dialect, slang & jargon books

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Syntactic Change in Medieval French: Verb-Second and Null Subjects

Syntactic Change in Medieval French: Verb-Second and...
Author: Barbara S. Vance ISBN: 9780792346692 Format: Hardback	$551.76
V2 AND NULL SUBJECTS IN THE HIS TORY OF FRENCH The prototypical Romance null subject language has certain well... Read More >>

Aspects of Language Variation in Arabic Political Speech-Making

Aspects of Language Variation in Arabic Political Speech-Making...
Author: Nathalie Mazraani ISBN: 9780700706730 Format: Hardback	$305.00
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Archaeology and Language I: Theoretical and Methodological Orientations

Archaeology and Language I: Theoretical and Methodological...
Author: Roger Blench , Matthew Spriggs ISBN: 9780415117609 Format: Hardback	$305.00
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A Language of Our Own: The Genesis of Michif, the Mixed Cree-French Language of the Canadian Métis

A Language of Our Own: The Genesis of Michif, the Mixed...
Author: Peter Bakker (Researcher, Researcher, University of Aarhus, Denmark) ISBN: 9780195097115 Format: Hardback	$234.95
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The Phonological System of a Hungarian Dialect

The Phonological System of a Hungarian Dialect
Author: A. Laszlo Arany ISBN: 9780700708857 Format: Hardback	$252.00
Part of a series that offers mainly linguistic and anthropological research and teaching/learning material on a... Read More >>

Standards and Variation in Urban Speech: Examples from Lowland Scots

Standards and Variation in Urban Speech: Examples from...
Author: Ronald K.S. Macaulay (Pitzer College, Claremont, California) ISBN: 9789027248787 Format: Hardback	$227.70
Exploring variations in spoken English around the world, this volume looks particularly at variation in urban speech... Read More >>

How to Talk American

How to Talk American
Author: Jim Crotty ISBN: 9780395780329 Format: Paperback	$65.87
Jim Crotty has been travelling across America and in the process has discovered how Americans really speak. Crotty's... Read More >>

An Introduction to Historical Linguistics

An Introduction to Historical Linguistics
Author: Terry Crowley ISBN: 9780195583786 Format: Paperback	$49.95
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Studies in Middle English Linguistics

Studies in Middle English Linguistics
Author: Jacek Fisiak ISBN: 9783110152425 Format: Hardback	$546.48
This text presents a collection of papers on various aspects of Middle English. Besides theoretical and abstract... Read More >>

Samatimerisch Phonetik Grammatik Lexikographie: Geschichte der Mundart der Deutschen Gemeinde Sanktmartin am Noerdlichen Rand des Rumaenischen Banats

Samatimerisch Phonetik Grammatik Lexikographie: Geschichte...
Author: Joseph Mileck ISBN: 9780820436555 Format: Hardback	$203.15
Die von der wissenschaftlichen Erforschung in Rumaenien vernachlaessigten und im Ausland fast unbeachtet gebliebenen... Read More >>

Contact Languages: Pidgins and Creoles

Contact Languages: Pidgins and Creoles
Author: Mark Sebba (Lancaster University, Lancaster) ISBN: 9780333630242 Format: Paperback	$79.99
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Contact Languages: Pidgins and Creoles

Contact Languages: Pidgins and Creoles
Author: Mark Sebba (Lancaster University, Lancaster) ISBN: 9780333630235 Format: Hardback	$260.00
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An Introduction to the Description of the Varieties of French in Africa

An Introduction to the Description of the Varieties...
Author: Emmanuel N. Kwofie ISBN: 9789780171803 Format: Paperback	$36.10
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Hoi Toide on the Outer Banks: The Story of the Ocracoke Brogue

Hoi Toide on the Outer Banks: The Story of the Ocracoke...
Author: Natalie Schilling-Estes , Natalie Schilling-Estes ISBN: 9780807846261 Format: Paperback	$55.31
Presents an account of the Ocracoke brogue - the vibrant dialect... Read More >>

Street French: The Best of Naughty French

Street French: The Best of Naughty French
Author: David Burke ISBN: 9780471139003 Format: Paperback	$52.67
A crash course in the earthy side of the ""language of love"" Now that youa ve mastered the subtleties of French... Read More >>

Language Change and Functional Explanations

Language Change and Functional Explanations
Author: Jadranka Gvozdanovic ISBN: 9783110149135 Format: Hardback	$480.48
This collection of articles offers insights into language change as a function of communicative use. The multiple... Read More >>

Language Variety in the South Revisited

Language Variety in the South Revisited
Author: Cynthia Bernstein , Robin Sabino ISBN: 9780817308827 Format: Hardback	$158.40
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Diachronic Prototype Semantics: A Contribution to Historical Lexicology

Diachronic Prototype Semantics: A Contribution to Historical...
Author: Dirk Geeraerts (Professor of General Linguistics, Professor of General Linguistics, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium) ISBN: 9780198236528 Format: Hardback	$248.95
Diachronic Prototype Semantics is concerned with the theory of explanation of changes in word meaning. The author... Read More >>

Contact Languages: A wider perspective

Contact Languages: A wider perspective
Author: Sarah G. Thomason (University of Pittsburgh) ISBN: 9789027252395 Format: Hardback	$429.53
Presenting linguistic and historical sketches of lesser-known contact languages, this work aims to contribute to... Read More >>

The University of Michigan Examination for the Certificate of Proficiency in English: Answer Book (with Teaching Notes)

The University of Michigan Examination for the Certificate...
Author: Sarah Briggs , Barbara Dobson ISBN: 9780194533614 Format: Paperback	$25.95
The ECPE is an examination roughly at the level of the Cambridge Proficiency Examination, conducted by the English... Read More >>

The Dialects of Italy

The Dialects of Italy
Author: Martin Maiden , Martin Maiden ISBN: 9780415111041 Format: Hardback	$462.00
A guide to the structural features of the dialects of Italy which emphasises the importance of a detailed understanding... Read More >>

Mobilian Jargon: Linguistic and Sociohistorical Aspects of a Native American Pidgin

Mobilian Jargon: Linguistic and Sociohistorical Aspects...
Author: Emanuel J. Drechsel (Associate Professor, Liberal Studies Program, Associate Professor, Liberal Studies Program, University of Hawai'i at Manoa) ISBN: 9780198240334 Format: Hardback	$377.95
Drechsel demonstrates the significance of language contact in America in this grammatical and sociohistorical study... Read More >>

American Dialects: A Manual for Actors, Directors, and Writers

American Dialects: A Manual for Actors, Directors, and...
Author: Lewis Herman , Marguerite Shalett Herman ISBN: 9780878300495 Format: Paperback	$77.99
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Open Sesame: Understanding American English and Culture through Folktales and Stories

Open Sesame: Understanding American English and Culture...
Author: Planaria J. Price ISBN: 9780472083886 Format: Paperback	$60.59
We humans learn our language and culture through the stories and rhymes of tales we learned as children. The text... Read More >>

Dictionary of American English Pronunciation

Dictionary of American English Pronunciation
Author: Harold V. Cordry ISBN: 9781572920545 Format: Paperback	$99.00
Here is an American pronunciation dictionary that is inclusive and multicultural. Read More >>

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