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Historical & comparative linguistics

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Historical & comparative linguistics

Hardcover. This book provides the first comprehensive synchronic and diachronic overview of the syntax of old Romanian written in English and targeted at a non-Romanian readership. It draws on an extensive new corpus analysis of the period between the beginning of the sixteenth century and the end of the eighteenth century. Editor(s): Dindelegan, Gabriela Pana. Series: Oxford Studies in Diachronic and Historical Linguistics. Num Pages: 528 pages. BIC Classification: 2ADR; CFF; CFK. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 234 x 156. .
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
Oxford University Press United Kingdom
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
528
Condition
New
SKU
V9780198712350
ISBN
9780198712350
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 200.26

Hardcover.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2000
Publisher
D.S.Brewer
Condition
New
SKU
V9780859915632
ISBN
9780859915632
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 135.41

Hardcover. This book gathers ground-breaking, explicitly inter-disciplinary essays examining the Andean past, including history, languages, anthropology, and ethnohistory. Editor(s): Heggarty, Paul; Pearce, Adrian J. Series: Studies of the Americas. Num Pages: 266 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1KLSX; CFF; HBJK; HBTB; JFSL; JHM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 222 x 138 x 22. Weight in Grams: 460.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
288
Condition
New
SKU
V9780230100145
ISBN
9780230100145
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 67.81

Hardcover. A collection of studies offering an up-to-date analysis of official policies to promote Catalan in a democratic framework in each of the main Spanish regions where it is spoken: Catalonia, Valencia and the Balearic Islands. Editor(s): Strubell, Miquel; Boix-Fuster, Emili. Series: Palgrave Studies in Minority Languages and Communities. Num Pages: 267 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1DSE; 1DSEB; 2ADC; CFB; CFF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 138 x 208 x 21. Weight in Grams: 444.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Number of pages
272
Condition
New
SKU
V9780230285125
ISBN
9780230285125
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 68.12

Paperback. This volume considers the spread of Spanish today and particularly its role in the processes of globalization. Spanish is frequently dominant in contact with other languages. But how contested is its hegemony and how far does it threaten other languages? How are these other minoritized languages faring in a world of few strong, global languages? Editor(s): Mar-Molinero, Clare; Stewart, Miranda. Series: Language and Globalization. Num Pages: 283 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2ADS; 2ADSL; CFB; CFF; JFFS; JPW. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 216 x 138 x 17. Weight in Grams: 364.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Number of pages
288
Condition
New
SKU
V9780230580091
ISBN
9780230580091
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 128.36

Hardcover. This book analyzes the creation of languages across the Slavophone areas of the world and their deployment for political projects and identity building, mainly after 1989. It offers perspectives from a number of disciplines such as sociolinguistics, socio-political history and language policy. Editor(s): Kamusella, Tomasz; Nomachi, Motoki; Gibson, Catherine. Num Pages: 592 pages, 17 maps, 2 figures, 12 black & white tables. BIC Classification: 2AG; CFB; CFF; HBJD. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 243 x 187 x 40. Weight in Grams: 1030.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
592
Condition
New
SKU
V9781137348388
ISBN
9781137348388
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 320.63

Hardcover. How do translators manage relations with parties in a position of authority and power? The book investigates the intellectual, social and professional identity of translators and interpreters across different time periods and locations when their role involves a negotiation with political powers and cultural authorities. Editor(s): Federici, Federico M.; Tessicini, Dario. Num Pages: 267 pages, biography. BIC Classification: CFB; CFF; CFP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 224 x 145 x 20. Weight in Grams: 448.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Condition
New
SKU
V9781137400031
ISBN
9781137400031
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 67.57

Hardcover. This book explores the dynamics of the linguistic landscape as a site of conflict, exclusion, and dissent. It focuses on socio-historical, economic, political and ideological issues, such as reflected in mass protest demonstrations, to forge links between landscape, identity, social justice and power. Editor(s): Rubdy, Rani; Ben Said, Selim. Series: Language and Globalization. Num Pages: 352 pages, 78 figures, 12 black & white tables. BIC Classification: CFB; CFF; JFFS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 147 x 223 x 24. Weight in Grams: 536.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Condition
New
SKU
V9781137426277
ISBN
9781137426277
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 151.71

Hardcover. This book proposes, examines and unpacks the notion of unequal Englishes as a way to understand English today. Unlike many studies on the pluralization of English, the volume assumes that inequalities and Englishes are inextricably linked and must be understood and theorized together. Editor(s): Tupas, Ruanni. Num Pages: 284 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; CFB; CFFD. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 224 x 147 x 22. Weight in Grams: 462.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Condition
New
SKU
V9781137461216
ISBN
9781137461216
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 117.99

Hardcover.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Edition
First Edition
Number of pages
260
Condition
New
SKU
V9781403943675
ISBN
9781403943675
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 129.03

Hardcover. Editor(s): Stein, Dieter; Tieken-Boon van Ostade, Ingrid. Series: Topics in English Linguistics [TIEL]. Num Pages: 331 pages, 14 black & white illustrations, 32 black & white tables. BIC Classification: 2AB; 3JF; 3JH; CFF; CFK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 235 x 164 x 23. Weight in Grams: 624.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1993
Publisher
De Gruyter
Condition
New
SKU
V9783110136975
ISBN
9783110136975
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 301.63

paperback. An investigation of academic vocabulary in the International Corpus of Learner English. Series: Corpus and Discourse. Num Pages: 256 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: CFF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 234 x 156 x 15. Weight in Grams: 408.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Continuum Publishing Corporation United States
Number of pages
256
Condition
New
SKU
V9781441114501
ISBN
9781441114501
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 56.81

Hardcover. An interdisciplinary synthesis that offers a new understanding of childhood in the Middle Ages as a form of master-servant relation embedded in an ancient sense of time as a correspondence between earthly change and eternal order. Num Pages: 138 pages, biography. BIC Classification: CFF; HBLC1; JFSP1; JHBA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 223 x 142 x 15. Weight in Grams: 322.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Palgrave Pivot
Number of pages
140
Condition
New
SKU
V9781137364784
ISBN
9781137364784
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 66.69

Paperback. * First comprehensive study for 50 years of the stones from western Britain and Brittany, inscribed in the Roman and Irish Ogam alphabets. * Provides a linguistic analysis of the 370 Brittonic and Irish inscriptions. * Presents new phonological evidence for the dating of the inscriptions. . Series: Publications of the Philological Society. Num Pages: 364 pages, 0. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 2AF; CFF; CFH; HDD. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 155 x 25. Weight in Grams: 662.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2002
Publisher
John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
364
Condition
New
SKU
V9781405109031
ISBN
9781405109031
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 31.94

Hardcover. Series: Language and Globalization. Num Pages: 202 pages, 7 black & white illustrations, 25 colour illustrations, 25 colour tables, biography. BIC Classification: 2AC; CBX; CFB; CFDM; CFF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 156 x 217 x 18. Weight in Grams: 422.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2017
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Edition
1st ed. 2017
Condition
New
SKU
V9783319406053
ISBN
9783319406053
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 129.29

Hardcover. This book presents a radically different view of language from that found in most modern Western philosophy. Human language is seen as having an innate capacity to reflect the light of consciousness, the primary element of the universe, and evidence is provided to show the extraordinary reflective capacity of the Sanskrit language. Num Pages: 124 pages. BIC Classification: 2BBA; CFA; CFF. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 155 x 219 x 15. Weight in Grams: 306.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Shepheard-Walwyn (Publishers) Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
124
Condition
New
SKU
V9780856832710
ISBN
9780856832710
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 32.81

Paperback. Num Pages: 189 pages. BIC Classification: 2GDC; CFFD; GBCR. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Weight in Grams: 1361.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1981
Publisher
The Chinese University Press
Edition
Bilingual
Condition
New
SKU
V9789622012110
ISBN
9789622012110
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 23.23

Paperback. This book explains how a change in writing-the introduction of word separation-led to the development of silent reading during the period from late antiquity to the 15th century. It also explains why word separation was so long in coming. Series: Figurae: Reading Medieval Culture. Num Pages: 504 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 1D; CFF; CFG. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 231 x 169 x 30. Weight in Grams: 702.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2000
Publisher
Stanford University Press United States
Edition
Illustrated
Number of pages
504
Condition
New
SKU
V9780804740166
ISBN
9780804740166
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 50.99
€ 45.89

Paperback. This handy dictionary is for students who need quick and easy reference to American words and phrases. Series: Longman Handy Learners Dictionary. Num Pages: 528 pages. BIC Classification: 2ABM; CFFD; EBD. Category: (L) ELT / TEFL. Dimension: 145 x 109 x 23. Weight in Grams: 286.
Format
Paperback
Publisher
Pearson Education Limited United Kingdom
Number of pages
528
Publication date
2000
Edition
2nd
Condition
New
SKU
V9780582364721
ISBN
9780582364721
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 22.70

Hardback. This study argues that changes in English society and the English language are woven together, often in surprising ways, and investigates this claim by following 11 words from Chaucer's time to Shakespeare's. Num Pages: 231 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1DBKE; 2AB; CFFD; DSA; DSBB; DSBD; HBTB; JFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 13. Weight in Grams: 450.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2000
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
231
Condition
New
SKU
V9780333753798
ISBN
9780333753798
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 194.72

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