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What is English?: And Why Should We Care? by Tim William Machan 9780198736677
$50.57What is English? Can we be as certain as we usually are when we say something is not English? To find some answers Tim Machan explores the language's present and past, and looks ahead to its futures among the one and a half billion people who speak it... -
Grammaticalization and the Rise of Configurationality in Indo-Aryan by Uta Reinohl 9780198736660
$243.62This book examines historical changes in the grammar of the Indo-Aryan languages from the period of their earliest attestations in Vedic Sanskrit (around 1000 bc) to contemporary Hindi. Uta Reinoehl focuses specifically on the rise of configurational... -
Dynamical Grammar by Peter W. Culicover 9780198700258
$94.84Dynamical Grammar explores the consequences for language acquisition, language evolution, and linguistic theory of taking the underlying architecture of the language faculty to be that of a dynamical system. The authors investigate whether it is... -
Boiling, Condensation, and Gas-Liquid Flow by P. B. Whalley 9780198562344
$128.73Heat transfer phenomena involving boiling and condensation are an important aspect of engineering in the power and process industries. This book, aimed at final year undergraduates and graduate students in mechanical or chemical engineering, deals with... -
Sinitic Grammar: Synchronic and Diachronic Perspectives by Hilary Chappell 9780198299776
$173.59This book is an anthology on topics in the grammar of Chinese (Sinitic) languages. The aim of the book is to meld historical and typological approaches in the examination of grammatical phenomena in order to show the extent to which both earlier stages... -
Complete Plays: III. Volpone, Epicoene, The Alchemist, Catiline by Ben Jonson 9780198126027
$150.07A scholarly edition of plays by Ben Jonson. The edition presents an authoritative text, together with an introduction, commentary notes, and scholarly apparatus.Book InformationISBN 9780198126027Author Ben JonsonFormat HardbackPage Count 496Imprint... -
Legal Right and Social Democracy: Essays in Legal and Political Philosophy by Neil MacCormick 9780198255024
RRP: $109.20$108.00A controversial collection of interrelated papers which investigate and argue about issues of concern for contemporary lawyers and politicians. The papers combine a scholarly regard for leading thinkers of the past and present, and a stringently argued... -
English Pronunciation in the Eighteenth Century: Thomas Spence's 'Grand Repository of the English Language' by Joan Beal 9780198237815
$148.49Thomas Spence (1750-1814) was a native of Newcastle upon Tyne who is best known for his political writings, and more particularly for his radical `Plan' for social reform involving common ownership of the land. One hitherto neglected aspect of Spence's... -
A Theory of Linguistic Signs by Rudi Keller 9780198237334
$184.88What does it mean to drive a Cadillac? What does 'cuckoo' suggest about the bird? -- two examples explored in this investigation of the history of language signs and of what philosophers, linguists, and others have had to say about them. Rudi Keller... -
The Journals and Letters of Fanny Burney (Madame d'Arblay): Volume III: Great Bookham, 1793-1797 by Fanny Burney 9780198124191
$97.08with: Boutilier, Patricia;Book InformationISBN 9780198124191Author Fanny BurneyFormat HardbackPage Count 384Imprint Clarendon PressPublisher Oxford University PressWeight(grams) 580g -
Indo-Iranian Languages and Peoples by Nicholas Sims-Williams 9780197262856
$166.34The exciting recent developments in our understanding of the history of the Indo-Iranian languages and their speakers are surveyed and assessed by a group of internationally renowned linguists and archaeologists. In the last few years the materials... -
New Developments in Archaeological Science: A Joint Symposium of the Royal Society and the British Academy, February 1991 by A. M. Pollard 9780197261187
$161.45In order to make the contents of the British Academy's Proceedings more accessible to readers, the following changes have been made: The large annual volumes have been replaced by an irregular series of slimmer volumes, published about three times a... -
Being There Together: Social Interaction in Shared Virtual Environments by Ralph Schroeder 9780195371284
$189.71Virtual environments provide places for 'being there together ', for avatars to interact with each other in computer-generated spaces. They range from immersive systems in which people have life-size tracked avatar bodies to large-scale spaces such as... -
A Theology of Criticism: Balthasar, Postmodernism, and the Catholic Imagination by Michael P. Murphy 9780195333527
RRP: $199.50$174.80A number of critics and scholars argue for the notion of a distinctly Catholic variety of imagination, not as a matter of doctrine or even of belief, but rather as an artistic sensibility. They figure the blend of intellectual, emotional, spiritual and... -
Frequency of Use and the Organization of Language by Joan Bybee 9780195301571
RRP: $151.20$150.32This volume collects three decades of articles by distinguish linguist Joan Bybee. Her articles essentially argue for the importance of frequency of use as a factor in the analysis and explanation of language structure. Her work has been very influential... -
The Struggle for a Multilingual Future: Youth and Education in Sri Lanka by Christina P. Davis 9780190947477
RRP: $83.98$62.16In The Struggle for a Multilingual Future, Christina Davis examines the tension between ethnic conflict and multilingual education policy in the linguistic and social practices of Sri Lankan minority youth. Facing a legacy of post-independence language... -
Reimagining Rapport by Zane Goebel 9780190917074
RRP: $231.00$191.08Ethnography and ethnographic methods have increasingly become a feature of social inquiry. This new focus has prompted the adoption and regular use of "rapport" to evaluate the quality and robustness of research. Unlike its close kin,... -
Promises to Keep: African Americans and the Constitutional Order, 1776 to the Present by Donald G. Nieman 9780190071639
RRP: $236.25$167.83Widely considered the first history of US Constitutionalism that places African Americans at the center, Promises to Keep is a compelling overview of how conflict over African Americans' place in American society has shaped the Constitution, law, and our... -
La Traduction spécialisée: Une approche professionnelle à l'enseignement de la traduction by Federica Scarpa 9782760306981
RRP: $94.40$73.92Cet ouvrage présente les fondements théoriques et les principes méthodologiques de la traduction spécialisée en général, et plus particulièrement de la traduction spécialisée de l'anglais vers le français.Book InformationISBN 9782760306981Author Federica... -
Korean-English Bilingualism in Early Childhood: A Longitudinal Investigation of Development by Sunny K. Park-Johnson 9781800410374
RRP: $62.90$52.10This book gives an overview of the linguistic development of Korean-English bilingual children living in the US. It provides a detailed longitudinal account of English and Korean acquisition in early childhood, offering a close examination of... -
Conversation Analysis and Discourse Analysis: A Comparative and Critical Introduction by Robin Wooffitt 9780761974253
RRP: $306.60$248.35`This is one of those books that, researchers, students and teachers want to have on their desks, because it answers questions, clarifies confusing areas, and provides accessible overviews of sometimes technical work - and all in prose that is... -
Iambic Ideas: Essays on a Poetic Tradition from Archaic Greece to the Late Roman Empire by Alberto Cavarzere 9780742508170
RRP: $96.60$84.74Iambic Ideas, explores the concept of the 'iambic' as a genre. In a set of detailed studies, the contributors examine, across time, the idea of iambic through a wide variety of cultural settings-Greek, Hellenistic, Roman, and late antiquity. What emerges... -
Dissolving Binding Theory by Johan Rooryck 9780199691326
$197.23This book examines the distribution and interpretation of anaphors and pronouns. Through a detailed analysis of simplex and complex anaphors in Dutch and English, as well as other Romance and Germanic languages, the authors show that the relationship... -
Cross-Linguistic Variation and Efficiency by John A. Hawkins 9780199665006
$109.26In this book John A. Hawkins argues that major patterns of variation across languages are structured by general principles of efficiency in language use and communication. Evidence for these comes from languages permitting structural options from which... -
Systematic Lexicography by Juri Derenick Apresjan 9780199554256
RRP: $142.80$142.13This book unites lexicography with theoretical linguistics. The two fields tend to ignore each other; lexicographers produce dictionaries, linguists grammars. As a result grammars and dictionaries are often discordant and sometimes glaringly incompatible... -
Nonverbal Predication: Copular Sentences at the Syntax-Semantics Interface by Isabelle Roy 9780199543557
$115.82This book considers the syntax and semantics of non-verbal predicates (i.e., nominal, adjectival and prepositional predicates) in copular sentences. Isabelle Roy explores how a single structure for predication can account for the different... -
Linguistic Variation in the Minimalist Framework by M. Carme Picallo 9780198783572
$51.51In this book, leading scholars consider the ways in which syntactic variation can be accounted for in a minimalist framework. They explore the theoretical significance, content, and role of parameters; whether or not variation should be strongly or... -
Language, Sexuality, and Power: Studies in Intersectional Sociolinguistics by Erez Levon 9780190210373
RRP: $113.40$85.22Language, Sexuality, and Power: Studies in Intersectional Sociolinguistics examines the diversity of sexuality as a social and linguistic phenomenon. Bringing together work on Africa, Asia, Europe, Latin America, North America and the Middle East, the... -
On Reference by Andrea Bianchi 9780198714088
$208.82Most of the times we open our mouth to communicate, we talk about things. This can happen because (some of) the linguistic expressions we use have semantic properties that connect them to extra-linguistic entities. Thanks to these properties, they may be... -
Coordination by Janne Bondi Johannessen 9780198237099
$216.41This volume is a study of coordination, i.e. structures with conjunctions such as and, but, and or. These are important words in their constructions, rather than being unimportant and superfluous, because they have many properties in common with... -
Finite Elements: An Introduction to the Method and Error Estimation by Ivo Babuska 9780198506706
$114.47Most of the many books on finite elements are devoted either to mathematical theory or to engineering applications, but not to both. This book seeks to bridge the gap by presenting the main theoretical ideas of the finite element method and the analysis... -
Linguistic Rivalries: Tamil Migrants and Anglo-Franco Conflicts by Sonia N. Das 9780190461782
RRP: $111.30$85.22Linguistic Rivalries weaves together anthropological accounts of diaspora, nation, and empire to explore and analyze the multi-faceted processes of globalization characterizing the migration and social integration experiences of Tamil-speaking immigrants... -
'Along the Routes to Power': Explorations of Empowerment through Language by Martin Putz 9783110185997
RRP: $247.80$222.39The present volume grew out of the 30th International LAUD Symposium, held on April 19-22, 2004 at the University of Koblenz-Landau in Landau, Germany. The conference, "Empowerment through Language", was centrally concerned with the concept of... -
Koine Formation and Society: A Sociolinguistic Study of Migration, Dialects, and Norms in Norwegian Industrial Towns by Randi Neteland 9781498583022
RRP: $168.00$147.42Massive in-migration to a new town leads to socio-cultural and linguistic contact and-inevitably--change. Which linguistic features are preferred in the new dialect? Why do these features prevail? And how does language use in the wider society influence... -
Tesol Teacher Education: A Reflective Approach by Thomas Farrell 9781474474429
$234.05Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781474474429Author Thomas FarrellFormat HardbackPage Count 240Imprint Edinburgh University PressPublisher Edinburgh University PressWeight(grams) 156g -
The Third Gender: Studies in the Origin and History of Germanic Grammatical Gender by Frederick W Schwink 9783825314156
$74.95Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783825314156Author Frederick W SchwinkFormat PaperbackPage Count 118Imprint Universitatsverlag WinterPublisher Universitatsverlag WinterWeight(grams) 1619g -
God and Sheikh Adi Are Perfect: Sacred Poems and Religious Narratives from the Yezidi Tradition by Philip G Kreyenbroek 9783447053006
RRP: $172.20$169.93Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783447053006Author Philip G KreyenbroekFormat PaperbackPage Count 435Imprint HarrassowitzPublisher HarrassowitzWeight(grams) 885gDimensions(mm) 244mm *... -
Ur III Incantations from the Frau Professor Hilprecht-Collection, Jena by Johannes J Van Dijk 9783447047074
RRP: $182.70$177.81Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783447047074Author Johannes J Van DijkFormat HardbackPage Count 157Imprint HarrassowitzPublisher HarrassowitzWeight(grams) 703gDimensions(mm) 300mm * 213mm... -
Generative Approaches to Finnic and Saami Linguistics by Diane Nelson 9781575864129
RRP: $58.80$58.36With unusual structural characteristics, Finnish and Saami offer interesting challenges to linguistic theories formulated around more popular languages. Grammatically, for instance, languages in the Finnic and Saami group utilize extensive systems of... -
Multilingualism and the Periphery by Sari Pietikainen 9780199945191
RRP: $109.20$108.00Multilingualism and the Periphery is an edited volume that explores the ways in which core-periphery dynamics shape multilingualism. The research focuses on peripheral sites, which are defined by a relationship-be it geographic, political, economic etc...