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Historical & comparative linguistics

Paperback. This book considers the role of cross-dialectal data in our understanding of linguistic variability, focusing on the widely discussed dichotomy between past tense forms and relying primarily on spoken language data from different varieties of Spanish. Series: Palgrave Studies in Language Variation. Num Pages: 218 pages, biography. BIC Classification: CFB; CFF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140. .
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
218
Condition
New
SKU
V9781349440238
ISBN
9781349440238
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 65.82

Paperback. Series: Studies in Linguistics and Philosophy. Num Pages: 374 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2ZX; CFF; CFG. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 235 x 155 x 19. Weight in Grams: 575.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Springer Netherlands
Edition
1st ed. Softcover of orig. ed. 2000
Number of pages
374
Condition
New
SKU
V9789048155484
ISBN
9789048155484
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 194.94

Hardcover. The comparatively recent origins of pidgins and creoles provide them with a special place in linguistic theory. Debates about the origin and character of these languages have informed broader discussions within grammatical theory, historical linguistics, and sociolinguistics. Editor(s): Kouwenberg, Silvia; Singler, John Victor. Series: Blackwell Handbooks in Linguistics. Num Pages: 704 pages, 20ill. BIC Classification: 2ZP; CFFD. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 251 x 184 x 42. Weight in Grams: 1366.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
704
Condition
New
SKU
V9780631229025
ISBN
9780631229025
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 61.71

Paperback. Series: Acta Jutlandica Series. Num Pages: 240 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; CFF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 238 x 171 x 14. Weight in Grams: 450.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1988
Publisher
Aarhus University Press Denmark
Number of pages
240
Condition
New
SKU
V9788772881683
ISBN
9788772881683
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 25.66

Hardcover. Editor(s): Ryholt, Kim. Series: Carsten Niebuhr Institute Publications. Num Pages: 420 pages, 16 b/w plates. BIC Classification: 1QDAG; CFF; HBJD; HBLA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 303 x 216 x 33. Weight in Grams: 1606.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2002
Publisher
Museum Tusculanum Press Denmark
Number of pages
420
Condition
New
SKU
V9788772896489
ISBN
9788772896489
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 118.82
€ 90.75

Paperback. Num Pages: 154 pages. BIC Classification: CFFD. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 217 x 150 x 11. Weight in Grams: 258.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1985
Publisher
Aarhus University Press Denmark
Number of pages
154
Condition
New
SKU
V9788772880013
ISBN
9788772880013
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.11

Paperback. Num Pages: 312 pages, ill. BIC Classification: 2AHA; 2CSJ; CFF; HRCG; HRQC1; VXQ; VXWM. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 209 x 139 x 17. Weight in Grams: 352.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1999
Publisher
Red Wheel/Weiser United States
Edition
Illustrated
Number of pages
312
Condition
New
SKU
V9781578631100
ISBN
9781578631100
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 27.99
€ 24.17

Hardback. Topics in this volume include: interlingual contact in the Pacific to the mid-19th century; the Sandalwood period; the Tok Pisin language; oceanic Austronesian languages; structures and sources of pidgin syntax; the pidgin pronominal system; and calquing - pidgin and Solomons languages. Num Pages: 280 pages, index. BIC Classification: 1MKL; 2AB; CFFD. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 237 x 159 x 23. .
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1988
Publisher
Stanford University Press United States
Number of pages
280
Condition
New
SKU
V9780804714501
ISBN
9780804714501
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 92.36

Paperback. This book offers an accessible overview of the structural and cognitive approaches to English historical semantics. Focusing primarily on Lexical Semantics, the study of word meaning, the book looks at how these approaches help to answer two key questions in Historical Linguistics: how and why languages change. Series: Edinburgh Textbooks on the English Language - Advanced. Num Pages: 224 pages, 8 black and white illustrations. BIC Classification: 2AB; CFF; CFG. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 218 x 138 x 18. Weight in Grams: 282.
Publisher
EDINBURGH UNIVERSITY PRESS
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780748644773
ISBN
9780748644773
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 33.99
€ 29.03

Hardback. Presents a series of psycholinguistic investigations on consonantal distinctions in Finnish and Japanese. This work describes differences in adult production, perception, and child acquisition of these distinctions. It is suitable for those interested in developments, in theoretical and psycholinguistics. Num Pages: 172 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2FCF; 2GJ; CFD; CFF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 234 x 156 x 12. Weight in Grams: 980.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2000
Publisher
Kluwer Academic Publishers United States
Number of pages
172
Condition
New
SKU
V9780792372165
ISBN
9780792372165
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 131.22

Paperback. Num Pages: 172 pages, biography. BIC Classification: CFD; CFF; CFH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 235 x 155 x 10. Weight in Grams: 296.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Springer-Verlag New York Inc. United States
Edition
Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 2001
Number of pages
172
Condition
New
SKU
V9781461346814
ISBN
9781461346814
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 126.68

Paperback. Noam Chomskya s work has had a decisive influence on the development of linguistics and more broadly on the study of mind and language. This book, which contains two new papers by Chomsky, assesses that a Chomskyan Turna in linguistics and the cognitive sciences. Editor(s): Kasher, Asa. Num Pages: 416 pages, 10 figures, indexes. BIC Classification: CFA; CFF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 233 x 158 x 26. Weight in Grams: 672.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1992
Publisher
John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
Edition
New Ed
Number of pages
416
Condition
New
SKU
V9780631187349
ISBN
9780631187349
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 52.78

Paperback. Num Pages: 432 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: CFF; HRCG. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). .
Publisher
Baker Publishing Group United States
Number of pages
432
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Edition
2nd Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780801036491
ISBN
9780801036491
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 44.99
€ 31.53

Paperback. With researchers around the world are under increasing pressure to publish in high-profile international journals, this book explores some of the issues affecting authors on the semiperiphery, who often find themselves torn between conflicting academic cultures and discourses. Editor(s): Bennett, Karen. Num Pages: 310 pages, biography. BIC Classification: CB; CFB; CFF; CFGR; CJ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 16. Weight in Grams: 384.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
310
Condition
New
SKU
V9781349468706
ISBN
9781349468706
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 127.04

Hardback. Examines and reviews the ecological context of language planning in 14 countries in the Pacific basin such as: Japan, the two Koreas, Taiwan, the Philippines, Indonesia, Malaysia, Brunei Darussalam, Singapore, Australia, New Zealand, Papua New Guinea, the Solomon Islands and Vanuatu. Series: Language Policy. Num Pages: 277 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1M; CFB; CFF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 235 x 155 x 17. Weight in Grams: 586.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2003
Publisher
Kluwer Academic Publishers United States
Number of pages
277
Condition
New
SKU
V9781402010620
ISBN
9781402010620
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 129.20

Paperback. The Handbook of World Englishes is a collection of newly commissioned articles focusing on selected critical dimensions and case studies of the theoretical, ideological, applied and pedagogical issues related to English as it is spoken around the world. Editor(s): Kachru, Braj B.; Kachru, Yamuna; Nelson, Cecil L. Series: Blackwell Handbooks in Linguistics. Num Pages: 832 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 2AB; CFF. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 240 x 170 x 46. Weight in Grams: 1342.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
832
Condition
New
SKU
V9781405188319
ISBN
9781405188319
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 61.71

Paperback / so. Series: Nordrhein-Westfalische Akademie Der Wissenschaften. Num Pages: black & white illustrations, colour illustrations, bibliography. BIC Classification: CFF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 244 x 170 x 3. Weight in Grams: 91.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Vs Verlag Fur Sozialwissenschaften United States
Condition
New
SKU
V9783663017790
ISBN
9783663017790
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 59.16

Paperback. The mother tongue of the Roman Empire and the lingua franca of the West for centuries afterward, Latin survives today primarily in classrooms and texts. Yet this "dead language" is unique in the influence it has exerted across centuries and continents. Jurgen Leonhardt offers the story of the first "world language", from antiquity to the present. Num Pages: 352 pages. BIC Classification: CFA; CFF; HB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 235 x 156. .
Publisher
Belknap Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Edition
Reprint
Condition
New
SKU
V9780674659964
ISBN
9780674659964
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 26.99
€ 23.82

Paperback. In this coherent historical development of the passive voice in English, the main argument deals not only with the passive per se, but also with its related constructions, which can play vital parts in identifying both functional and structural motivations for creating the passive. Series: Palgrave Studies in Language History and Language Change. Num Pages: 286 pages, biography. BIC Classification: CFB; CFF; CFK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140. .
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Edition
1st ed. 2008
Number of pages
286
Condition
New
SKU
V9781349363193
ISBN
9781349363193
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 66.95

Hardcover. This innovative introduction outlines the structure and distribution of the world s languages, charting their evolution over the past 200,000 years. Num Pages: 400 pages. BIC Classification: CFB; CFF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 250 x 150. .
Publisher
John Wiley & Sons Inc United States
Number of pages
400
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9781118531259
ISBN
9781118531259
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 117.76

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