Language: history & general works books

George Henry Borrow was an English author who wrote novels and travelogues based on his own experiences around Europe....  Read More >>

Language expert Max Cryer’s new book is an up-to-date guide to some of the most interesting words and phrases in...  Read More >>

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It's not just the accent that's different, the whole language is not the same. In fact, there are several different...  Read More >>

How many languages are there? What differentiates one language from another? Are new languages still being discovered?...  Read More >>

The only way that I have found it possible to let this book go to press is to reread the Preface to Events in the...  Read More >>

Presents a novel analysis of Nominal Construction from the syntax-semantics interface. This book is based on the...  Read More >>

Analyses three phenomena of Romance Morphology. The first is event nominalization in modern European Spanish and...  Read More >>

While French reflexive clitics have been widely studied, other forms of expressing co-reference within the clause...  Read More >>

Colours of Enlightenment, is ten years of knowledge studied at three profound academic institutes and life analysis...  Read More >>

Beginning with a discussion of real-life challenges relating to world Englishes that are faced by language professionals...  Read More >>

Beginning with a discussion of real-life challenges relating to world Englishes that are faced by language professionals...  Read More >>

"""Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication."" - Leonardo da Vinci. Bad English, as George Orwell argued so eloquently...  Read More >>

A Bill Bryson-esque journey across the landscape of American language and culture, including everything from Navajo...  Read More >>

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In August 2009 the fourteenth International Congress for Neo-Latin Studies was held in Uppsala, Sweden. The proceedings...  Read More >>

Do you know Why 'The dog followed Harry and I' Is Wrong? How to avoid the construction 'The reason why ... was because'?...  Read More >>

Brings together research carried out in a variety of geographic and linguistic contexts including Africa, Asia,...  Read More >>

This extensive collection of proverbs, all coined after 1900, reflects the experiences and perplexities of the modern...  Read More >>

This volume contains the majority of the papers presented at the Fifth Annual Meeting of the Semiotic Society of...  Read More >>

Das heutige Profil der Historischen Sprachwissenschaft ist von einer ausgeprägten Grundlageninstabilität gekennzeichnet....  Read More >>

There are very few psychologists living today who have contributed more to the advancement of psychology, in general,...  Read More >>

A collection of papers from the 2009 British Society for Middle Eastern Studies conference, ranging across Middle...  Read More >>

Topical Themes in Argumentation Theory brings together twenty exploratory studies on important subjects of research...  Read More >>