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The Handbook of Language Contact

The second edition of the definitive reference on contact studies and linguistic change--provides extensive new research and original case studiesLanguage contact is a dynamic area of contemporary linguis…

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Simon Horobin
Chaucer's Language

Introduces students to Chaucer's language and the importance of reading Chaucer in the original, rather than in a modern translation.

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Lorna Gibb
Rare Tongues

An enthralling tour of the world's rarest and most endangered languagesLanguages and cultures are becoming increasingly homogenous, with the resulting loss of a rich linguistic tapestry reflecting unique …

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Simon Horobin
Chaucer's Language

Introduces students to Chaucer's language and the importance of reading Chaucer in the original, rather than in a modern translation.

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Jess Zafarris
Words from Hell

'A fiendishly good read!' Mignon Fogarty, Grammar GirlThe English language is where words go to be tortured and mutilated into unrecognizable shadows of their former selves. It's where Latin, Greek, and G…

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Samuel Brazys
The Invisible Hand(out)

The Invisible Hand(out): Aid, Trade, and Unequal Globalization examines the relationship between foreign aid, market access, and economic growth in developing countries during the era of globalization.

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Harry Van Der Hulst
Genes, Brains, Evolution and Language

Half a century ago, Noam Chomsky posited that humans have specific innate mental abilities to learn and use language, distinct from other animals. This book, a follow-up to the author's previous textbook,…

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Data-Intensive Investigations of English

In this collection of innovative and original articles, an international team of scholars demonstrate the newest technological trends and data-intensive technologies in the empirical study of English ling…

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Harry Van Der Hulst
Genes, Brains, Evolution and Language

Half a century ago, Noam Chomsky posited that humans have specific innate mental abilities to learn and use language, distinct from other animals. This book, a follow-up to the author's previous textbook,…

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Conversations on Dictionaries

"Bringing together a collection of conversations with leading lexicographers from around the world, this innovative book explores the role dictionaries have played in history. Covering twenty differe…

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Robert McColl Millar
Linguistic Contact and Language Change

"Speakers of different languages come into contact; their languages influence each other. This textbook investigates this reality in modern and historical contexts. Each central theme introduces an i…

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Amalia E Gnanadesikan
The Writing Revolution

An exploration of the original Information Technology - the writing systems of historyThe Writing Revolution: Cuneiform to the Internet explores the origins, historical development, adaptations, linguisti…

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Robert McColl Millar
Linguistic Contact and Language Change

Linguistic contact is a reality of everyday life, as speakers of different languages come into contact with one another, often causing language change. This undergraduate textbook provides a means by whic…

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Claudia Fabrizio
Alignment and Subjecthood in Latin

This book provides a detailed, empirically supported, and theoretically informed examination of alignment and subject assignment in Latin. The author challenges the myth of Latin as a language defined sol…

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Xavier Bach, Louise Esher, Sascha Gaglia
Comparative and Dialectal Approaches to Analogy

This book brings together work in inflectional morphology, historical linguistics, and dialectology to explore the processes, directionality, models, and targets of morphological analogy. The chapters dra…

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Conversations on Dictionaries

"Bringing together a collection of conversations with leading lexicographers from around the world, this innovative book explores the role dictionaries have played in history. Covering twenty differe…

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The New Cambridge History of the English Language: Volume 4

"Various kinds of text which document the history of English form the focus of the current volume. Vernacular speech in writing and orality along with issues of literacy and manuscripts are highlight…

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David Crystal
Bookish Words & Their Surprising Stories

This book tells the fascinating stories behind 100 everyday words that have been influenced by writing, reading and publishing books.

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Cyclic Change in Grammar and Discourse

This volume explores the idea that language change may proceed in a cyclical fashion. The chapters assume that cyclic change is pragmatically driven, and explore forms of this change in morphosyntax, the …

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Genre in English Medical Writing, 1500-1820

"Written by an interdisciplinary team of scholars, this book offers novel perspectives on the history of medical writing and scientific thought-styles by examining patterns of change and reception in…

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