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This comprehensive examination of tense and grammatical aspect provides fascinating insight into how languages indicate distinctions of time. Providing an in-depth survey of the scholarship from the ancient Greeks through the 1980s, Time and the Verb explains and...
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Oxford University Press
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1991-06-20
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South Asia presents the linguist with a bewildering variety of regional dialects, social dialects, formal and informal registers, literary standards, languages, writing systems, and language families. Written over a period of more than twenty years, these essays by a...
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Oxford University Press
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1990-10-04
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Lexical Roots of Old Cree: An Etymological Dictionary is the result of over two decades of research on historical and contemporary Cree dialects. Built from extensive linguistic fieldwork with nearly a hundred fluent speakers and supported by lexical databases and...
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Mercury-Mercure
Parution :
2025-11-18
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A celebration of cultural inheritance and the evolution of language
Mapping the language, literature, and history of Icelandic immigrants and their descendants, this collection, translated and expanded for English-speaking audiences, delivers a comprehensive overview of...
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University of Manitoba Press
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2023-04-14
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« In a world where the word ‘gender’ has undergone an explosion of meaning originating in a proliferation of new pronouns, Lori Morris’ study of grammatical gender in English constitutes a much-needed reminder to linguists of the necessity of distinguishing between...
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Presses de l'Université Laval
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2021-10-27
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Cahiers de psychomécanique du langage
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In The Decolonizing Poetics of Indigenous Literatures, Mareike Neuhaus uncovers residues of ancestral languages found in Indigenous uses of English. She shows how these remainders ground a reading strategy that enables us to approach Indigenous texts as literature, with...
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U of R Press
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2015-11-01
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North American Icelandic evolved mainly in Icelandic settlements in Manitoba andNorth Dakota and is the only version of Icelandic that is not spoken in Iceland. ButNorth American Icelandic is a dying language with few left who speak it.
North American Icelandic is the...
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University of Manitoba Press
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2006-12-15
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Integrating Differences: Philosopical Aspects in Sociology and Vice Versa
Commemorative Volume in honor of Gerhard Preyer
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BoD - Books on Demand
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2025-07-07
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Most scholars concentrate on translation quality assessment in the target language. The quality of source texts in the translation process is only exceptionally considered.
This publication explains some emerging problems linguistic experts are facing when source texts...
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BoD - Books on Demand
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2025-05-09
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The book deals with the problem of the origins of the terminus shaman, discussed since the word has find its way into the "western" language in the 17th / 18th centuries.
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Books on Demand
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2023-11-20
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THE BOOK
Usually, American Linguistics is linked to the name of Noam Chomsky, ever since the publication of his book Syntactic Structures (1957). In fact, one can trace the evolution of this rich discipline from its birth, with Whitney's Sanskrit Grammar (1879). Besides...
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Books on Demand
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2022-06-15
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The contributions to the "Thirty Years Volume" represented in this volume reflect the historical focus of the ProtoSociology project. Colleagues are represented who contributed to the focus. This is also true thematically, as contributions on language theory, the...
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Books on Demand
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2022-05-04
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"Kafka - a Freudo-Structuralist Analysis" deals with the stylistic effects of Kafka's Novels and Short Stories and concentrates mainly on understanding what contributed to the famous Kafka effect - the "Kafkaesque". The author - Kaj Bernh. Genell, born in Sweden, who is...
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BoD - Books on Demand
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2022-04-29
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This book is an attempt to cover the history,
language and culture of two most famous
superpowers of the 20th and 21st centuries and
evaluate their impact, glory and tribulations. Like a
man's life, it has its ups and downs which can
balance his human value, shared...
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Books on Demand
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2022-01-05
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THIS BOOK
Swiss Ferdinand de Saussure is known as 'the father of modern Linguistics.' For others, the 'champion of Linguistics' came later on in the person of American Noam Chomsky. As a matter of fact, the infatuation for language goes much earlier in history. It was...
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Books on Demand
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2021-12-21
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A book of Haikus to rest and relax...
Haiku captures the present moment, evokes without describing, is humble and watchful.
Take a haiku, let it melt in your mind and enjoy it in all serenity... Smile!... The spring sun is here...
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Books on Demand
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2021-05-28
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As a vital issue not only of linguistics, but also of cognitive sciences, psychology, neurosciences, philosophy etc., engaging in the study of the relation between language, thought and reality, the doctrine of linguistic relativity (LR) went through...
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Books on Demand
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2020-12-03
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THE BOOK
This book has the optimistic goal of presenting an overview of some 2500 years of language (& culture) studies, stretching from ancient India to present day America, passing by Hebrew, Arabic, and European traditions. This is side by side with a prior...
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Books on Demand
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2020-10-12
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In his early plastic age, the child presents an asymmetrical growth in what concerns his motor system, when compared with his cognitive system. The latter seems to be far ahead of the former. It consists of many sub-systems; the most outstanding of which being language....
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Books on Demand
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2020-07-24
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THIS BOOK
From time immemorial, language was seen as a fascinating "enigma" by many. It included philosophers, religious men, psychologists, politicians and sometimes even the layman. To answer the big question "what is language?" this book opens the door to the most...
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Books on Demand
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2019-08-14
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