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Duelling Languages: Grammatical Structure in Codeswitching by Carol Myers-Scotton 9780198237129
£57.06The goal of this book is to describe and explain intrasentential codeswitching - the production of two or more languages within the same sentence. Most linquists who do not study codeswitching think of it as belonging strictly in the domain of... -
The Interactional Instinct: The Evolution and Acquisition of Language by Namhee Lee 9780195384239
RRP: £31.49£28.38The Interactional Instinct explores the evolution of language from the theoretical view that language could have emerged without a biologically instantiated Universal Grammar. In the first part of the book, the authors speculate that a hominid group with... -
Always On: Language in an Online and Mobile World by Naomi S. Baron 9780195313055
RRP: £59.00£45.92In Always On, Naomi S. Baron reveals that online and mobile technologies - including instant messaging, cell phones, multitasking, Facebooks, blogs, and wikis - are profoundly influencing how we read and write, speak and listen, but not in the ways we... -
An Introduction to Middle English by Simon Horobin 9780195219500
RRP: £22.49£18.10This authoritative survey offers a concise description of Middle English, the language of Chaucer, during the period from 1100 to 1500. Middle English is discussed in relation to both earlier and later stages in the history of English and in regard to... -
An Introduction to Old English by Richard Hogg 9780195219487
RRP: £19.99£14.28This accessible overview covers all the basic linguistic elements of Old English, including nouns, adjectives, verbs, syntax, word order, and vocabulary. Offering a unique study of Old English in context, it combines a wide variety of short texts with an... -
Sense, Reference, and Philosophy by Jerrold J. Katz 9780195158137
RRP: £92.00£77.00Sense, Reference, and Philosophy develops the far-reaching consequences for philosophy of adopting non-Fregean intensionalism, showing that long-standing problems in the philosophy of language, and indeed other areas, that appeared intractable can now be... -
A Unified Theory of Verbal and Nominal Projections by Yoshiki Ogawa 9780195143874
RRP: £107.50£90.28Syntactically speaking, it has long been known that noun phrases are parallel to clauses in many respects. While most syntactic theories incorporate this principle, nouns have generally been regarded as inferior to verbs in terms of their licensing... -
Subject Inversion in Romance and the Theory of Universal Grammar by Aafke C. J. Hulk 9780195142709
RRP: £59.00£48.26The Romance Languages document remarkable variations in subject word order in different constructions, and have various restrictions in their occurrence. No consensus has emerged on what the paramaters are for such variations. This volume does not... -
On Our Mind: Salience, Context, and Figurative Language by Rachel Giora 9780195136166
RRP: £71.00£58.16How do we learn to produce and comprehend non-literal language? Competing theories have only partially accounted for the variety of language comprehension evoked in metaphor, irony, and jokes. Rachel Giora has developed a novel and comprehensive theory,... -
A Derivational Approach to Syntactic Relations by Samuel David Epstein 9780195111156
RRP: £51.00£37.65This book explores the central concept of "syntactic relation" arguing that certain fundamental relations such as c-command, dominance and checking relations can be explained within a derivational approach to structure-building. The result is a... -
Claiming Power in Doctor-Patient Talk by Nancy Ainsworth-Vaughn 9780195096064
RRP: £127.50£105.38Although there is rising interest in medical discourse, there has not until now been a detailed analysis of doctor-patient interaction in a private practice setting. Nancy Ainsworth-Vaughn has been able to tape both male and female doctors in such a... -
Second Language Attrition in Japanese Contexts by Lynne Hansen 9780195123043
RRP: £95.00£79.92This volume introduces the study of language attrition - the forgetting of language. In this first collection devoted to second language attrition, the contributors focus on contexts of loss where Japanese is either the attriting language, or the... -
Checking Theory and Grammatical Functions in Universal Grammar by Hiroyuki Ura 9780195118391
RRP: £98.00£73.15Ura demonstrates that his theory of multiple feature-checking, an extension of Chomsky's Agr-less checking theory, gives a natural explanation for a wide range of data drawn from a variety of languages in a very consistent way with a limited set of... -
The Inheritance and Innateness of Grammars by Myrna Gopnik 9780195115338
RRP: £88.00£81.03This volume, the sixth in the Vancouver series based on an annual conference at Simon Fraser University, collects papers that discuss the evidence and arguments regarding the inheritability and innateness of grammars. The evidence - which ranges from... -
Codes and Consequences: Choosing Linguistic Varieties by Carol Myers-Scotton 9780195115239
RRP: £87.00£64.30This edited volume examines the implications of the phenomenon known as codeswitching, where, in given situations, different people with access to the smae linguistic repertoire (or one person in different situations) will sometimes make very different... -
Codes and Consequences: Choosing Linguistic Varieties by Carol Myers-Scotton 9780195115222
RRP: £95.00£78.81This edited volume examines the implications of the phenomenon known as codeswitching, where, in given situations, different people with access to the same linguistic repertoire (or one person in different situations) will sometimes make very different... -
The Oxford Handbook of Sociolinguistics by Robert J. Bayley 9780190233747
RRP: £52.00£48.22From its beginnings in the 1960s, sociolinguistics developed several different subfields with distinct methods and interests: the variationist tradition established by Labov, the anthropological tradition of Hymes, interactional sociolinguistics as... -
Affix Ordering Across Languages and Frameworks by Stela Manova 9780190210434
RRP: £88.00£69.96This volume advances our understanding of how word structure in terms of affix ordering is organized in the languages of the world. A central issue in linguistic theory, affix ordering receives much attention amongst the research community, though most... -
The Grammar of Names in Anglo-Saxon England: The Linguistics and Culture of the Old English Onomasticon by Fran Colman 9780198701675
RRP: £135.00£98.03This book examines personal names, including given and acquired (or nick-) names, and how they were used in Anglo-Saxon England. It discusses their etymologies, semantics, and grammatical behaviour, and considers their evolving place in Anglo-Saxon... -
Poems on Several Occasions. by Elizabeth Ryves by Elizabeth Ryves 9781140872795
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Semiotics and Visual Communication: Concepts and Practices by Evripides Zantides 9781443854689
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Polite Conversation, Consisting of Smart, Witty, Droll, and Whimsical Sayings, Collected for His Amusement, and Made Into a Regular Dialogue. by Dr. Jonathan Swift, by Jonathan Swift 9781140878179
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Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure. from the Original Corrected Edition. with a Set of Elegant Engravings. ... Volume 2 of 2 by John Cleland 9781140964131
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Eliza, a Novel: In Two Volumes. by Mrs. Yeates, ... Volume 2 of 2 by Mrs Yeates 9781140989592
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Grammatical Institutes: Or, an Easy Introduction to Dr. Lowth's English Grammar: Designed for the Use of Schools. with an Appendix, Containing, I. the Declension of Irregular and Defective Verbs. a New Edition, Revised by John Ash 9781171049944
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Dramatic Pieces Calculated to Exemplify the Mode of Conduct Which Will Render Young Ladies Both Amiable and Happy, When Their School Education Is Completed. ... Volume 1 of 3 by I P I 9781170528686
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Poems on Several Occasions. by Mr. John Gay. ... Volume 2 of 2 by John Gay 9781170449738
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Rural Walks: In Dialogues. Intended for the Use of Young Persons. by Charlotte Smith. in Two Volumes. ... the Fourth Edition. Volume 2 of 2 by Charlotte Turner Smith 9781140968917
RRP: £22.75£14.72Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781140968917Author Charlotte Turner SmithFormat PaperbackPage Count 194Imprint Gale Ecco, Print EditionsPublisher Gale Ecco, Print EditionsWeight(grams) 246g -
Winter-Evening Entertainments; In Two Parts. Containing I. Ten Pleasant and Delightful Relations ... II. Fifty Ingenious Riddles ... by Robert Burton. the Sixth Edition. by B R B 9781140942757
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Intellectual Freedom: Or, an Essay on the Source and Nature of Moral Evil. by Richard Hayes Southwell by Richard Hayes Southwell 9781140942504
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The Seasons by Mr. Thomson by James Thomson 9781140833314
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The History of Margaret of Anjou, Queen of England. Translated from the French of the Abb Prvost. in Two Volumes. ... Volume 1 of 2 by Abb Prvost 9781140801498
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Poems on Several Occasions. by a Lady of Quality by Dorothea Du Bois 9781140788515
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Poems, by the Late Rev. Andrew Greenfield, by Andrew Greenfield 9781140766704
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The Oriental Linguist, an Easy and Familiar Introduction to the Popular Language of Hindoostan; ... by the Author of the English and Hindoostanee Dictionary by John Gilchrist 9781140759416
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The Man of Forty Crowns. Translated from the French of M. de Voltaire by Voltaire 9781140697343
RRP: £15.99£14.70Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781140697343Author VoltaireFormat PaperbackPage Count 192Imprint Gale Ecco, Print EditionsPublisher Gale Ecco, Print EditionsWeight(grams) 354g -
Elements of Morality, for the Use of Children; With an Introductory Address to Parents. Translated from the German of the REV. C. G. Salzmann. in Two Volumes. ... Volume 2 of 2 by Christian Gotthilf Salzmann 9781140671725
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A Practical New Grammar, with Exercises of Bad English: Or, an Easy Guide to Speaking and Writing the English Language Properly and Correctly. ... the Seventh Edition Enlarged, and Much Improved. by A. Fisher. by A Fisher 9781170890561
RRP: £15.99£14.28Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781170890561Author A FisherFormat PaperbackPage Count 196Imprint Gale Ecco, Print EditionsPublisher Gale Ecco, Print EditionsWeight(grams) 246g -
Semiotics of Peasants in Transition: Slovene Villagers and Their Ethnic Relatives in America by Irene Portis-Winner 9780822328278
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Communal Dialects in Baghdad by Haim Blanc 9789004689794
RRP: £115.00£104.21Haim Blanc’s Communal Dialects in Baghdad is one of the most influential works ever written on the on the linguistic diachrony of vernacular Arabic. Based on original fieldwork conducted during the years 1957–1962, this book portaits the extensive...