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Consonant Strength: Phonological Patterns and Phonetic Manifestations

Consonant Strength: Phonological Patterns and Phonetic...
Author: Lisa M. Lavoie ISBN: 9780815340447 Format: Hardback	$315.00
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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: 9780262541268 Format: Paperback	$132.00
The originality of this volume is in its comparison of various sorts of language growth from a number of linguistic-theoretic... Read More >>

Word On The Street: Debunking The Myth Of A Pure Standard English

Word On The Street: Debunking The Myth Of A Pure Standard...
Author: John McWhorter ISBN: 9780738204468 Format: Paperback	$31.99
A barbed rebuttal to the conservative view that popular culture is destroying the English language. Read More >>

Australian Aboriginal Words in English

Australian Aboriginal Words in English
Author: Robert M. W. Dixon , W.S. Ramson ISBN: 9780195533941 Format: Paperback	$20.50
"This reference work contains over 400 words of Aboriginal origin as recorded in the ""Australian National Dictionary"".... Read More >>

Principles of Linguistic Change, Volume 2: Social Factors

Principles of Linguistic Change, Volume 2: Social Factors...
Author: William Labov (University of Pennsylvania, USA) ISBN: 9780631179160 Format: Paperback	$80.95
* written by one of the founders of modern sociolinguistics * presents the results of several decades of inquiry... Read More >>

Principles of Linguistic Change, Volume 2: Social Factors

Principles of Linguistic Change, Volume 2: Social Factors...
Author: William Labov (University of Pennsylvania, USA) ISBN: 9780631179153 Format: Hardback	$267.95
* written by one of the founders of modern sociolinguistics * presents the results of several decades of inquiry... Read More >>

Speaking of Slavery: Color, Ethnicity, and Human Bondage in Italy

Speaking of Slavery: Color, Ethnicity, and Human Bondage...
Author: Steven A. Epstein ISBN: 9780801438486 Format: Hardback	$132.00
Epstein shows that the ways Italians employ words and think about race and labor are profoundly affected by the... Read More >>

The Word Museum: The Most Remarkable English Words Ever Forgotten

The Word Museum: The Most Remarkable English Words Ever...
Author: Jeffrey Kacirk ISBN: 9780684857619 Format: Paperback	$44.75
Synopsis coming soon....... Read More >>

Harveys English Grammar Key 7+

Harveys English Grammar Key 7+
Author: Eric E Wiggin , Mott Media ISBN: 9780880621540 Format: Paperback	$15.81
Contains answers to the exercises from Harvey's English Grammar. Read More >>

The Significance of Word Lists: Statistical Tests for Investigating Historical Connections Between Languages

The Significance of Word Lists: Statistical Tests for...
Author: Brett Kessler ISBN: 9781575863009 Format: Paperback	$66.00
This text analyzes word lists and computerized statistical techniques used to determine whether or not words in... Read More >>

Critical Applied Linguistics: A Critical Introduction

Critical Applied Linguistics: A Critical Introduction...
Author: Alastair Pennycook (University of Technology, Sydney, Australia) ISBN: 9780805837926 Format: Paperback	$84.35
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Kölner Papyri (P. Köln)

Kölner Papyri (P. Köln)
Author: M. Gronewald , G. Azzarello ISBN: 9783531099507 Format: Paperback	$184.77
Der Band IX der Kölner Papyri gibt einen vortrefflichen Eindruck von der Vielfalt der Stücke, die sich in der Kölner... Read More >>

Traumtexte

Traumtexte
Author: Reinhold Merkelbach , Maria Totti ISBN: 9783531099491 Format: Paperback	$158.37
Dieser Hymnus ist in drei Fassungen (A B C) erhalten. Auch er ist wahr- scheinlich bei Inkubationszeremonien in... Read More >>

Critical Applied Linguistics: A Critical Introduction

Critical Applied Linguistics: A Critical Introduction...
Author: Alastair Pennycook (University of Technology, Sydney, Australia) ISBN: 9780805837919 Format: Hardback	$237.60
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Problems and Perspectives: Studies in the Modern French Language

Problems and Perspectives: Studies in the Modern French...
Author: Wendy Ayres-Bennett , Janice Carruthers ISBN: 9780582293465 Format: Paperback	$122.00
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A History of English: A Sociolinguistic Approach

A History of English: A Sociolinguistic Approach
Author: Barbara Fennell (University of Aberdeen) ISBN: 9780631200734 Format: Paperback	$72.95
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Spanish Literature: A Collection of Essays: Current Debates on Hispanism (Volume One)

Spanish Literature: A Collection of Essays: Current...
Author: David Foster , Daniel Altamiranda ISBN: 9780815335634 Format: Hardback	$378.00
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Grammar of Septuagint Greek: With Selected Readings, Vocabularies, and Updated Indexes

Grammar of Septuagint Greek: With Selected Readings,...
Author: F. C. Conybeare , George Stock ISBN: 9780801045929 Format: Paperback	$58.08
An ideal reader for anyone wishing to study the Septuagint in the original language and an indispensable reference... Read More >>

An Acoustic Analysis of Vowel Variation in New World English

An Acoustic Analysis of Vowel Variation in New World...
Author: Erik R. Thomas ISBN: 9780822364948 Format: Hardback	$52.80
An examination of acoustical variations in vowel configurations in a wide variety of dialects of English in the... Read More >>

The Significance of Word Lists: Statistical Tests for Investigating Historical Connections Between Languages

The Significance of Word Lists: Statistical Tests for...
Author: Brett Kessler ISBN: 9781575862996 Format: Hardback	$171.60
This text analyzes word lists and computerized statistical techniques used to determine whether or not words in... Read More >>

The Lexical Basis of Grammatical Borrowing: A Prince Edward Island French case study

The Lexical Basis of Grammatical Borrowing: A Prince...
Author: Ruth King (York University, Toronto) ISBN: 9789027237163 Format: Hardback	$238.05
This title focuses on the Acadian French - a dialect of French which developed from French colonists of Atlantic... Read More >>

Debating Dialect: Essays on the Philosophy of Dialect Study

Debating Dialect: Essays on the Philosophy of Dialect...
Author: Robert Penhallurick ISBN: 9780708316696 Format: Hardback	$19.99
These essays offer critiques of orthodox views on dialect and dialectology, and as such are designed both to complement... Read More >>

History of the Language Sciences / Geschichte der Sprachwissenschaften / Histoire des sciences du langage. 1. Teilband

History of the Language Sciences / Geschichte der Sprachwissenschaften...
Author: Sylvain Auroux , E.F.K. Koerner ISBN: 9783110111033 Format: Hardback	$1832.16
This undertaking represents the first dedicated attempt at a complete coverage, both geographically and chronologically,... Read More >>

Merkmale und Relationen: Diachrone Studien zur Nominalphrase des Deutschen

Merkmale und Relationen: Diachrone Studien zur Nominalphrase...
Author: Ulrike Demske ISBN: 9783110166620 Format: Hardback	$274.47
A study of the historical development of the German noun phrase from Old High German onwards. The historical developments... Read More >>

Sprachgeschichte. 2. Teilband

Sprachgeschichte. 2. Teilband
Author: Werner Besch , Anne Betten ISBN: 9783110158823 Format: Hardback	$2613.60
The series Handbooks of Linguistics and Communication Science is designed to illuminate a field which not only includes... Read More >>

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