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A detailed and comprehensive documentation of the linguistic presence of Portuguese loanwords in African languages.... Read More >>
"""A history and celebration of the many far-flung volunteers who helped define the English language, word by word.""--Provided... Read More >>
This book traces the origin and evolvement of two Chinese characters “wenxue”(literature) by using the methods of... Read More >>
This book provides a thorough yet approachable history of the Scots language, a close relative of Standard English.... Read More >>
Based on a rich range of contemporary sources, this insightful and practical book provides a comprehensive description... Read More >>
This volume brings together several contributions from linguistics, literary studies, rhetoric, psychology and theology,... Read More >>
"Why do we love to swear so much? Why do we get so offended when others do it? In this lively and amusing exploration... Read More >>
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The book addresses some raging questions in linguistics today: What kind of variation do typologically related languages... Read More >>
"Ever wondered how the phrase ""pull a Houdini"" found its way into our lexicon and what it reveals about the art... Read More >>
As the first volume of a two-volume set that reexamines nouns and verbs in Chinese, this book proposes the verbs-as-nouns... Read More >>
A new overview of Roman declamation, one of the least studied but most important genres of ancient literature. Letano... Read More >>
Every effort is made to make the book easily understandable. Rigi Etymology bears no resemblance to any other English... Read More >>
Basics of Biblical Aramaic provides students familiar with Hebrew a complete introduction to biblical Aramaic. Miles... Read More >>
Exploring not only what Utah English is but also what it isn’t. Read More >>
The volume explores clause-linkage strategies from a cross-linguistic perspective with an emphasis on asyndetic... Read More >>
Public debate was overshadowed by the slavery controversy during the period of the US Civil War. Slavery was attacked,... Read More >>
This book provides a new account of the rise of Balto-Slavic acuteness from an Indo-European perspective. It is... Read More >>
In this volume, cases of metaphorical language use in Ancient Greek from the domains of temperature, weight and... Read More >>
This volume studies the ways in which modernity has been conceived, practiced, and performed in Indian literatures... Read More >>
Translation for the theatre is often considered to hold a marginal status between literary translation and adaptation... Read More >>
Focusing on /str/-retraction, this pioneering book uses a combination of phonological and sociolinguistic theories... Read More >>