Language: history & general works books

First published in 1933, this book explores both contemporary and historical slang, focusing on the characteristics...  Read More >>

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First published in 1940, this book provides a literary dictionary to the New Testament. The treatment of selected...  Read More >>

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First published in 1961, this book explores the form of the comic alphabet. Whether through poems, prose or phonetics,...  Read More >>

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A unique history of the Hebrew language from biblical times to the modern Jewish state This book explores the extraordinary...  Read More >>

Using the experiences of philologists, text critics, text encoders, scientific editors, and media analysts, this...  Read More >>

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First published in 1984, this book was designed to benefit the foreign learner who wishes to grasp the essential...  Read More >>

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Although Cockney can be considered to be one of the most important non-standard forms of English, there had been...  Read More >>

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First published in 1967, this book was based on new descriptions of English emerging from recent research. It provides...  Read More >>

First published in 1991, this book examines the communicative properties of ‘cleft’ and ‘pseudo-cleft’ constructions...  Read More >>

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Subject and Object in Modern English, first published in 1979, deals with subjects in the English language (one...  Read More >>

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This book, first published in 1984, presents a series of analysis of colloquial spoken language, to illustrate some...  Read More >>

First published in 1986, this book focuses on Anaphoric relations in the English and French languages, a phenomenon...  Read More >>

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This work, first published in 1979, was a doctoral dissertation submitted to the Department of Foreign Literatures...  Read More >>

"First published in 1988, this book explores the grammatical loss of gender in English. It demonstrates that from...  Read More >>