Historical & Comparative

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783825368449Author Omar KhalafFormat PaperbackPage Count 80Imprint Universitatsverlag WinterPublisher Universitatsverlag WinterWeight(grams) 939g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783832544447Author Lelija SocanacFormat PaperbackPage Count 332Imprint Logos Verlag BerlinPublisher Logos Verlag BerlinWeight(grams) 390g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788376388618Author Michal NemethFormat HardbackPage Count 951Imprint ArcheobooksPublisher ArcheobooksWeight(grams) 254g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783447110556Author Eva Kincses-NagyFormat PaperbackPage Count 292Imprint HarrassowitzPublisher HarrassowitzWeight(grams) 567g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9782406067986Author Aurelie BarreFormat PaperbackPage Count 517Imprint Classiques GarnierPublisher Classiques GarnierWeight(grams) 399g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783895009693Author Ludwig PaulFormat HardbackPage Count 192Imprint Dr Ludwig ReichertPublisher Dr Ludwig ReichertWeight(grams) 558gDimensions(mm) 249mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783963270048Author Sebastian FinkFormat HardbackPage Count 241Imprint ZaphonPublisher ZaphonWeight(grams) 1070g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781846828522Author John ScattergoodFormat HardbackPage Count 420Imprint Four Courts Press LtdPublisher Four Courts Press Ltd

Explores the growth of Englishes in a range of multilingual contexts Cutting edge case studies draw on spoken data from Uganda, Zanzibar, South Africa, Bahrain, China, Bangladesh, Germany, Italy and the UK Focuses on the speakers and the uses of...

Writing: Theory and History of the Technology of Civilization traces the origins of writing tied to speech from ancient Sumer through the Greek alphabet and beyond. Examines the earliest evidence for writing in Mesopotamia in the fourth millennium BC,...

Multilingual China explores the dynamics of multilingualism in one of the most multilingual countries in the world. This edited collection comprises frontline empirical research into a range of important issues that arise from the presence of 55 official...

The most rigorous description ever undertaken of the Scandinavian influence on the vocabulary of a major Middle English text, and a new model for the collection and analysis of Norse loans in any English source. A new survey of the etymological evidence...

Building Meaning in Context: A Dynamic Approach to Bantu Clause Structure uses the tools of the Dynamic Syntax framework to explore morphosyntactic phenomena in a number of Bantu languages. Examines word order alternations, inversion constructions and...

Part historic ethnography, part linguistic case study and part a mother s memoir, Kisisi tells the story of two boys (Colin and Sadiki) who, together invented their own language, and of the friendship they shared in postcolonial Kenya. * Documents and...

This lively account of the making of Canadian English traces the variety's conceptual, social and linguistic developments from the twentieth century to the present. This book is not just another history of Canadian English; it is a history of the...

This book provides a vital student resource - a single-volume critical survey of the complete history of Western theoretical linguistics (grammar and semantics, including logic) from Plato till today. The volume concentrates on those issues that are of...

This book goes beyond the boundaries of a standard text, using controversial and compelling ideas to explore the relationship between fundamental concepts in historical linguistics. An original and engaging introduction to the subject of historical...

In an increasingly multicultural world, the relationship between language and identity remains a complicated and often fraught subject for most societies. The growing political salience of questions relating to language is evident not only in the...

Traditionally, writing-a graphic, multidimensional form of communication-has been approached as a vehicle for representing, and therefore conveying, the spoken word. Moving beyond this manner of analysis, this volume interrogates writing as a medium that...

For years Richard Hoggart has observed the oddity of a common speech habit: the fondness for employing ready-made sayings and phrasings whenever we open our mouths, a disinclination to form our own sentences "from scratch," unless that becomes...

Thirty years ago Robert Kaster's Guardians of Language: The Grammarian and Society in Late Antiquity investigated ancient Greco-Roman grammarians as social agents within their social and cultural context. This collection of twelve essays develops that...

ENGLISH AND KOREAN IN CONTRAST English and Korean in Contrast: A Linguistic Introduction is the first book of its kind to present a comprehensive yet student-friendly comparative review of the grammars of English and Korean. Author Jong-Bok Kim, an...

This volume studies three West Iranian language groups that are either undefined or have been scantly analysed. The first chapter, "The Languages of Taleqan and Alamut," studies nineteen kindred language varieties spoken in the Sahrud basin in...

More than 100 vocabulary-building quizzes make up the core of the book, with shorter sections on: * The fascinating origins of words * Quotes and misquotes* Slang, dialects and secret languages * Unforgettable Adverts, Famous Lines from Novels and...

This textbook approaches the history of English from a theoretical perspective. The book provides a brief chronological overview describing the way in which the English language has changed over time from Old English to Modern English, while subsequent...

This book explores how the eponymous and original Lingua Franca was recognized as a potential linguistic template for future military and colonial pidgins. The author traces the career trajectory of General Louis Faidherbe, a member of the French...

Charting the major developments in the morphology of English, this book introduces students to English inflectional and derivational morphology, presenting them with a long-range perspective of language change. The book is also built around the...

Indonesia has an extreme diversity of linguistic wealth, with 707 languages by one count, or 731 languages and more than 1,100 dialects in another estimate, spoken by more than 600 ethnicities spread across 17,504 islands in the archipelago. Smaller,...

This book examines the relationship between the English language and growth - economic and inclusive - in India. It explores why English continues to be the language of aspiration long after Independence. With the second largest English-speaking...

Originally published in 1964, this book examines where and how the pattern and texture of speech emerged and whether language is logical. It looks at linguistics from both the historical and descriptive points of view, as a physical science and as a...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780593299579Author Jenni NuttallFormat HardbackPage Count 304Imprint VikingPublisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 397gDimensions(mm) 217mm * 145mm * 26mm

How learners and speakers make sense of their language and make their language make sense. Is it dived or dove? Dwarfs or dwarves? If the best students aced the test, did the pretty good students beece it? You've probably often pondered such questions...

This book traces the evolution of the Spanish language from pre-Roman days to the present and stresses the influence of social and political events on its development. After a short discussion of the Indo-European tongues, Spaulding reviews the effects...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781474444446Author Mohamed A H AhmedFormat PaperbackPage Count 200Imprint Edinburgh University PressPublisher Edinburgh University PressWeight(grams) 156g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788121504294Author Jagdish Prasad MishraFormat HardbackPage Count 244Imprint Munshiram Manoharlal PublishersPublisher Munshiram Manoharlal...

This collection of essays in honour of the distinguished linguist Hans Henrich Hock ranges over nearly as many topics as the honorand himself has explored over the many decades of his fruitful career. The contributions include studies on the structure of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781885923080Author H. G. GuterbockFormat HardbackPage Count 403Imprint Oriental Institute of the University of ChicagoPublisher Oriental Institute of the...

The Hittite language is the earliest preserved member of the Indo-European family of languages. It was written on clay tablets in central Asia Minor over a five hundred year span (ca. 1650-1180 B.C.) which witnessed the rise, the floruit, and the decline...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788323349174Author Magdalena SzczyrbakFormat HardbackPage Count 574Imprint Uniwersytet Jagiellonski, WydawnictwoPublisher Uniwersytet Jagiellonski,...

Explores the growth of Englishes in a range of multilingual contexts Cutting edge case studies draw on spoken data from Uganda, Zanzibar, South Africa, Bahrain, China, Bangladesh, Germany, Italy and the UK Focuses on the speakers and the uses of...