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Mandip General English Grammar

Mandip General English Grammar
Author: Subhadip Pandey ISBN: 9789374265642 Format: Paperback	$84.48
Mandip General English Grammar is a comprehensive and student-friendly guide designed to simplify English grammar... Read More >>

Language in the Indian Diaspora: Sociolinguistic Perspectives

Language in the Indian Diaspora: Sociolinguistic Perspectives...
Author: Rajend Mesthrie (Emeritus Professor of Linguistics, University of Cape Town) , Sonal Kulkarni-Joshi (Professor, Deccan College, Pune, India) ISBN: 9781474478366 Format: Paperback	$57.99
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Ecologies of Translation in East and South East Asia, 1600-1900

Ecologies of Translation in East and South East Asia,...
Author: Li Guo , Patricia Sieber ISBN: 9781041178583 Format: Paperback	$111.24
This volume on early modern inter-Asian translation examines how translation from plain Chinese was situated at... Read More >>

Gabelentz and the Science of Language

Gabelentz and the Science of Language
Author: James McElvenny ISBN: 9781041179955 Format: Paperback	$111.24
This volume offers an introduction to the life and work of the German sinologist and general linguist Georg von... Read More >>

Languages in the Lutheran Reformation: Textual Networks and the Spread of Ideas

Languages in the Lutheran Reformation: Textual Networks...
Author: Mikko Kauko , Miika Norro ISBN: 9781041181996 Format: Paperback	$111.24
This multi- and cross-lingual collection of articles charts the influence of the Lutheran Reformation on various... Read More >>

Romania Africana: Romance languages in African multilingual environments

Romania Africana: Romance languages in African multilingual...
Author: Ursula Reutner ISBN: 9783111471556 Format: Hardback	$464.61
Romance and indigenous languages coexist across many parts of Africa, creating intricate dynamics that shape national... Read More >>

Johannes Balle's Tunumiisut (East Greenlandic) Wordlist

Johannes Balle's Tunumiisut (East Greenlandic) Wordlist...
Author: José Andrés Alonso de la Fuente , José Andrés Alonso de la Fuente ISBN: 9788323354833 Format: Paperback	$77.63
This work examines the Tunumiisut (East Greenlandic) wordlist gathered by Johannes Balle (1889-1965) sometime in... Read More >>

Briefe von Georg Huth (1867-1906) an Berthold Laufer, 1895-1898: Korrespondenz Laufers mit verschiedenen Adressaten

Briefe von Georg Huth (1867-1906) an Berthold Laufer,...
Author: Hartmut Walravens ISBN: 9783695119530 Format: Paperback	$62.04
Die Schreiben des Tibetologen und Mongolisten Georg Huth an seinen Schüler Berthold Laufer (1874-1934), der einer... Read More >>

The Life Cycles of Counterfactuals in the History of Greek: Aspect, Modality and Typology

The Life Cycles of Counterfactuals in the History of...
Author: Ezra la Roi ISBN: 9789004749924 Format: Hardback	$398.64
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You Absolute Plonker: The Definitive Guide to British Insults (British

You Absolute Plonker: The Definitive Guide to British...
Author: Michael Baker ISBN: 9781684818716 Format: Hardback	$65.97
Learn the Art of the Perfect British Put-Down Dry, devastating, and delightfully witty-The Ultimate Guide to British... Read More >>

Hebrew: From Sacred Language to Mother Tongue

Hebrew: From Sacred Language to Mother Tongue
Author: Keren Mock (Professor of Psychoanalytic Studies) , Armine Kotin Mortimer ISBN: 9780231217125 Format: Paperback	$49.95
Keren Mock provides a strikingly original multidisciplinary account of the transformation of Hebrew from an ancient... Read More >>

Hebrew: From Sacred Language to Mother Tongue

Hebrew: From Sacred Language to Mother Tongue
Author: Keren Mock (Professor of Psychoanalytic Studies) , Armine Kotin Mortimer ISBN: 9780231217118 Format: Hardback	$198.95
Keren Mock provides a strikingly original multidisciplinary account of the transformation of Hebrew from an ancient... Read More >>

Embodiment in Cross-Linguistic Studies: The ‘Foot/Leg’

Embodiment in Cross-Linguistic Studies: The ‘Foot/Leg’...
Author: Mateus Cruz Maciel de Carvalho , Iwona Kraska-Szlenk ISBN: 9789004732094 Format: Hardback	$398.64
This volume seeks to broaden our understanding of cross-domain mappings by examining foot and leg body parts across... Read More >>

Data-Intensive Investigations of English

Data-Intensive Investigations of English
Author: Mikko Laitinen (University of Eastern Finland) , Paula Rautionaho (University of Eastern Finland) ISBN: 9781009415712 Format: Hardback	$271.69
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Uniformitarianism in Language Speciation: From Creolistics to Genetic Linguistics

Uniformitarianism in Language Speciation: From Creolistics...
Author: Salikoko S. Mufwene (University of Chicago) , Enoch O. Aboh (University of Amsterdam) ISBN: 9781009628969 Format: Hardback	$336.38
With contributions from a global team, this book sheds light on Uniformitarianism in the evolution of modern languages,... Read More >>

Translation Studies before ‘Translation Studies’: Nothing Happened?

Translation Studies before ‘Translation Studies’: Nothing...
Author: Kathryn Batchelor , Iryna Odrekhivska ISBN: 9781800089860 Format: Paperback	$90.56
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Conversations on Dictionaries: The Universe in a Book

Conversations on Dictionaries: The Universe in a Book...
Author: Ilan Stavans (Amherst College, Massachusetts) ISBN: 9781009392396 Format: Paperback	$64.69
Bringing together a collection of conversations with leading lexicographers from around the world, this innovative... Read More >>

Translation Studies before ‘Translation Studies’: Nothing Happened?

Translation Studies before ‘Translation Studies’: Nothing...
Author: Kathryn Batchelor , Iryna Odrekhivska ISBN: 9781800089853 Format: Hardback	$142.31
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Conversations on Dictionaries: The Universe in a Book

Conversations on Dictionaries: The Universe in a Book...
Author: Ilan Stavans (Amherst College, Massachusetts) ISBN: 9781009392419 Format: Hardback	$207.00
Bringing together a collection of conversations with leading lexicographers from around the world, this innovative... Read More >>

Aramaic Jesus: Tradition, Identity, and Christianity's Mother Tongue

Aramaic Jesus: Tradition, Identity, and Christianity's...
Author: Bruce D. Chilton ISBN: 9781481322232 Format: Hardback	$123.00
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The World in a Phrase: A Brief History of the Aphorism, Second Edition

The World in a Phrase: A Brief History of the Aphorism,...
Author: James Geary ISBN: 9780226838601 Format: Paperback	$36.95
For lovers of words and seekers of wisdom, here is a lively history of aphorisms--the oldest written art form--and... Read More >>

Deutsch ALS Minderheitensprache in Der Welt: Strukturen - Kontakt - Identitäten

Deutsch ALS Minderheitensprache in Der Welt: Strukturen...
Author: Renata Szczepaniak , Siegwalt Lindenfelser ISBN: 9783111709208 Format: Hardback	$290.37
Der Sammelband widmet sich dem Deutschen als Minderheitensprache in der Welt. In insgesamt 13 empirisch basierten... Read More >>

The Roots We Share: 100 Words That Bring Us Together

The Roots We Share: 100 Words That Bring Us Together...
Author: Susie Dent , Harriet Hobday ISBN: 9780241717820 Format: Hardback	$39.99
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Syria, Mesopotamia, and the Comparative Study of Semitic Languages: Proceedings of the 7th and 8th Meetings of the International Association for Comparative Semitics

Syria, Mesopotamia, and the Comparative Study of Semitic...
Author: Tawny L. Holm , Juan Pedro Monferrer-Sala ISBN: 9781646023233 Format: Hardback	$270.00
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Dialects in Contact in Egypt

Dialects in Contact in Egypt
Author: Saudi Sadiq ISBN: 9783110722451 Format: Hardback	$483.09
Volumes in the Trends in Linguistics. Documentation series focus on the presentation of linguistic data. The series... Read More >>

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