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Paperback. Part of a series that promotes knowledge about language technology and its potential, this white paper addresses educators, journalists, politicians, language communities and others. Editor(s): Rehm, Georg; Uszkoreit, Hans. Series: White Paper Series. Num Pages: 79 pages, 23 black & white illustrations, 2 colour illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: 2ACSW; CFX; UYQL. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 279 x 210 x 5. Weight in Grams: 237.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. KG Germany
- Number of pages
- 79
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9783642308314
- ISBN
- 9783642308314
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Condition: New
€ 65.74
€ 65.74
Paperback. "As an introduction to how the history of an African society can be reconstructed from largely nonliterate sources, and to the Swahili in particular, .. a model work."-International Journal of African Historical Studies Series: Ethnohistory S. Num Pages: 160 pages, 17 illus. BIC Classification: 1HFG; 1HFJ; CFF; HBJH. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 8. Weight in Grams: 227.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1985
- Publisher
- University of Pennsylvania Press United States
- Number of pages
- 160
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780812212075
- ISBN
- 9780812212075
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Condition: New
€ 32.99€ 29.90
€ 32.99
€ 29.90
Paperback. The making of the "Oxford English Dictionary" was a monumental 50 year task requiring thousands of volunteers. One of the keenest volunteers was a W C Minor who astonished everyone by refusing to come to Oxford to receive his congratulations. In the end, James Murray, the "OED's" editor, went to Crowthorne in Berkshire to meet him. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; BGH; CFM. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 128 x 15. Weight in Grams: 156.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1999
- Publisher
- Penguin Books Ltd
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9780140271287
- ISBN
- 9780140271287
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 12.99€ 10.38
€ 12.99
€ 10.38
Hardcover. This monograph focuses on the description, use and development of the inflectional subjunctive in English and German in the eighteenth century. A close comparison between meta-linguistic comments (eighteenth-century grammars) and actual language usage (corpus study) allows the evaluation of the influence of prescriptivism on language change. Editor(s): Jones, Charles. Series: Palgrave Studies in Language History and Language Change. Num Pages: 235 pages, 2 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; 2ACG; 3JF; CFF. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 19. Weight in Grams: 426.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230574410
- ISBN
- 9780230574410
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.76
€ 66.76
Paperback. Num Pages: 250 pages, biography. BIC Classification: CBX; CFA; CFH; JMR. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 15. Weight in Grams: 345.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1992
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 250
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349123704
- ISBN
- 9781349123704
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 127.01
€ 127.01
Hardback. The author provides a critique of the cognitivist philosophy which underpins information-processing models of human speech perception, and a proposal of an alternative approach to speech perception research which focuses on the nature of the perceiver, rather than of the acoustic signal. Num Pages: 264 pages, biography. BIC Classification: CFA; CFH; JMR. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 27. Weight in Grams: 490.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1992
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 264
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780333551714
- ISBN
- 9780333551714
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Condition: New
€ 127.97
€ 127.97
Hardcover. The book introduces the reader into the world of mental perception of literary contents. Based on the research in modern semantics, functional stylistics and cognitive phonetics, it explores the way linguistic elements of a literary work cause readers to form a single perception shape identified as a cultural, literary or social stereotype. Num Pages: 224 pages, 2 black & white tables, 3 figures. BIC Classification: 2AB; CFC; DSA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 245 x 145 x 18. Weight in Grams: 392.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137519474
- ISBN
- 9781137519474
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.61
€ 66.61
Paperback. Series: Foundations of Language Supplementary Series. Num Pages: 264 pages, biography. BIC Classification: CBG; CF; WM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 234 x 156 x 14. Weight in Grams: 409.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Springer Netherlands
- Edition
- Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 1972
- Number of pages
- 264
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9789401028929
- ISBN
- 9789401028929
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 66.65
€ 66.65
Paperback. This accessible text is split into 2 halves. Initially, Janet Townend takes the reader through the early development and the structure and usage of spoken English. In the second half Jean Walker explains the history and structure of written English, including word formation and grammar. Num Pages: 360 pages, Illustrations, maps. BIC Classification: 2AB; CFF; CFK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 227 x 154 x 18. Weight in Grams: 574.
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 360
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781861564290
- ISBN
- 9781861564290
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 61.71
€ 61.71
paperback. The Structure of Scientific Examination Questions Series: SpringerBriefs in Education. Num Pages: 93 pages, 13 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: CFB; JNKD; JNU. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 156 x 233 x 3. Weight in Grams: 176.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Springer Netherlands
- Edition
- 2014th Edition
- Number of pages
- 93
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9789400774872
- ISBN
- 9789400774872
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 75.27
€ 75.27
Paperback. Finding a particular scientific document amid thousands of other documents can often seem like an insurmountable task. This book shows how linguistic theory can provide a solution by analyzing rhetorical structures to make information retrieval easier and faster. It applies empirical discourse studies to pressing issues of document management. Series: CSLI - Studies in Computational Linguistics. Num Pages: 300 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: CFX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 230 x 154 x 37. Weight in Grams: 706.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Center for the Study of Language and Inf
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781575865560
- ISBN
- 9781575865560
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Condition: New
€ 34.99€ 28.00
€ 34.99
€ 28.00
Paperback. Analyzes the structure of coordination based on the symmetrical properties the construction imposes on its conjuncts, and how conjuncts interact with other categories outside coordination with respect to agreement and other grammatical phenomena. Focusing on data from Spanish, this work offers a theory of coordination within syntactic frameworks. Series: Studies in Natural Language and Linguistic Theory. Num Pages: 187 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2ADS; CFK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 235 x 155 x 10. Weight in Grams: 650.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2003
- Publisher
- Kluwer Academic Publishers United States
- Edition
- Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 2003
- Number of pages
- 187
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781402015113
- ISBN
- 9781402015113
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Condition: New
€ 129.08
€ 129.08
Hardback. Analyzes the structure of coordination from two perspectives: the symmetrical properties the construction imposes on its conjuncts, and how conjuncts interact with other categories outside coordination with respect to agreement and other grammatical phenomena. This book offers a theory of coordination within the syntactic frameworks. Series: Studies in Natural Language and Linguistic Theory. Num Pages: 187 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2ADS; CFK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 235 x 155 x 12. Weight in Grams: 466.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2003
- Publisher
- Kluwer Academic Publishers United States
- Number of pages
- 187
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781402015106
- ISBN
- 9781402015106
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 127.88
€ 127.88
Paperback. .
- Publisher
- Texas A & M University Press
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Edition
- New edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781585446025
- ISBN
- 9781585446025
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 34.72
€ 34.72
Hardback. .
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780198791096
- ISBN
- 9780198791096
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 19.99€ 16.02
€ 19.99
€ 16.02
Hardback. Richly illustrated with often antic images from alphabet books and primers, The Story of A relates the history of the alphabet as a genre of text for children and of alphabetization as a social practice in America, from early modern reading primers to the literature of the American Renaissance. Num Pages: 336 pages, 19 line diagrams 52 half-tones. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2ABM; CF; DSB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 4852 x 3887 x 26. Weight in Grams: 509.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2000
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 336
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780804731744
- ISBN
- 9780804731744
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 178.98
€ 178.98
Paperback. This superbly well-informed - and also wonderfully entertaining - history of the English language answers all these questions, showing how the many strands of English (Standard English, dialect and slang among them) developed to create the richly-varied language of today. Num Pages: 592 pages, Illustrations, maps. BIC Classification: 2AB; CFF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 129 x 27. Weight in Grams: 408.
- Publisher
- Penguin
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2005
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780141015934
- ISBN
- 9780141015934
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Condition: New
€ 19.99€ 16.06
€ 19.99
€ 16.06
Hardcover. Series: The Anthem-European Union Series. Num Pages: 190 pages, 1, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: CFP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 25. Weight in Grams: 454.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Anthem Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780857281265
- ISBN
- 9780857281265
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 139.18
€ 139.18
Paperback. This analysis of language policy on Corsica provides the first study of the three levels of language policy existing on the Mediterranean island of Corsica. It focuses on the key participants - the State, the language activists and the islanders. Series: Language Policy. Num Pages: 164 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1DDFC; CFB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 234 x 156 x 9. Weight in Grams: 256.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Springer Netherlands
- Edition
- 1st ed. Softcover of orig. ed. 2008
- Number of pages
- 164
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9789048178636
- ISBN
- 9789048178636
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 127.78
€ 127.78
Hardback. This analysis of language policy on Corsica provides the first study of the three levels of language policy existing on the Mediterranean island of Corsica. It focuses on the key participants - the State, the language activists and the islanders. Series: Language Policy. Num Pages: 164 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1DDFC; CFB. Category: (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 234 x 156 x 11. Weight in Grams: 426.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- Springer-Verlag New York Inc. United States
- Number of pages
- 164
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781402083846
- ISBN
- 9781402083846
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 130.94
€ 130.94
Hardback. Focuses on Rome's practitioner and theorist of public speech, Cicero. This book shows how Cicero's treatment of the Greek rhetorical tradition's central questions is shaped by his ideal of the republic and the citizen. It is a contribution to the debate over the role of public speech in Roman politics. Num Pages: 328 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1QDAG; CFG. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 19. Weight in Grams: 599.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 322
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780691123646
- ISBN
- 9780691123646
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 83.08€ 64.47
€ 83.08
€ 64.47
Paperback. Fiction has always been in a state of transformation and circulation: how does this history of mobility inform the emergence of the novel? This title explores the active movements of English and French fiction in the eighteenth century and argues that the new literary form of the novel was the result of a shift in translation. Series: Translation/Transnation. Num Pages: 272 pages, 4 halftones. BIC Classification: 2AB; 2ADF; 3JF; CFP; DSBD. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 20. Weight in Grams: 371.
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 272
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780691141534
- ISBN
- 9780691141534
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 46.99€ 33.81
€ 46.99
€ 33.81
Paperback. Editor(s): Alexander, R. Series: Research Group for European Migration Problems. Num Pages: 132 pages, biography. BIC Classification: CFG. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 234 x 156 x 7. Weight in Grams: 460.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1972
- Publisher
- Springer Netherlands
- Number of pages
- 132
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9789024711970
- ISBN
- 9789024711970
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 66.97
€ 66.97
paperback. Series: Springer Texts in Education. Num Pages: 517 pages, biography. BIC Classification: CB; CFF; DSB; GTE. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 235 x 155. Weight in Grams: 831.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Publisher
- Springer/Sci-Tech/Trade Switzerland
- Edition
- 2nd Edition
- Number of pages
- 517
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9783319516813
- ISBN
- 9783319516813
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 152.33
€ 152.33