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This book examines the grammatical changes that took place in the transition from Latin to the Romance languages. The emerging languages underwent changes in three fundamental areas involving the noun phrase, verb phrase, and the sentence. The impact of the changes can...
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OUP Oxford
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2012-05-18
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This is the first guide and introduction to the extraordinary range of languages in Amazonia, which include some of the most the most fascinating in the world and many of which are now teetering on the edge of extinction. Alexandra Aikhenvald, one of the world's leading...
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OUP Oxford
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2012-05-18
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The Handbook of Language Contact offers systematic coverage of the major issues in this field – ranging from the value of contact explanations in linguistics, to the impact of immigration, to dialectology – combining new research from a team of globally renowned...
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Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2012-05-14
Collection :
Blackwell Handbooks in Linguistics
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Through contributions from leading experts in the fields of communication science, The Handbook of Speech and Language Disorders presents a comprehensive survey detailing the state of the art in speech, language, and cognitive/intellectual disorders. Provides the first...
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Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2012-05-14
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The Handbook of Speech and Language Disorders presents a comprehensive survey of the latest research in communication disorders. Contributions from leading experts explore current issues, landmark studies, and the main topics in the field, and include relevant...
Editeur :
Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2012-05-14
Collection :
Blackwell Handbooks in Linguistics
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This book examines the operation of laws, rules, and principles in Indo-European, the language family which includes the Celtic, Germanic, Italic/Romance, and Baltic/Slavic subfamilies as well as the predominant languages of Greece, Iran, parts of Southern Asia, and...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2012-05-10
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Miscommunication has always intrigued researchers in and outside linguistics. This book takes a different perspective from what has been proposed so far and postulates a case for intercultural miscommunication as a linguistically-based phenomenon in various...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2012-05-09
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The essay film – ‘a form that thinks’ – serves to create a self-reflexive space for contemporary society by challenging expectations and demanding the creative involvement of the spectator. Using film to provoke thought has never been more important than now, when...
Editeur :
Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2012-05-08
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Focusing on British, French and Russian television news coverage of Islam as a security threat, this book provides the first comparative account of how television broadcasting in different geo- and socio-political environments integrates discourses on Islam into...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2012-05-08
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Topical Themes in Argumentation Theory brings together twenty exploratory studies on important subjects of research in contemporary argumentation theory. The essays are based on papers that were presented at the 7th Conference of the International Society for the Study...
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Springer
Parution :
2012-05-05
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Essential Irish Grammar will help you get more out of your study of Irish.Essential Irish Grammar is an up-to-date introduction to Irish grammar. You don't need to know a lot about grammar before you start. Everything is explained simply and there are lots of examples...
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Teach Yourself
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2012-05-04
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This book presents a radical reconceptualization of the nature of linguistic knowledge. John Taylor challenges the conventional notion that a language can be understood in terms of the interaction of syntax with a lexicon, the second listing the words and the first the...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2012-05-04
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This book considers the phenomenon of sluicing. Sluicing is the term applied to sentences in which the ellipsis of a sequence of words following an embedded wh question word appears to occur, and hearers must somehow recover the content of missing material (as in...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2012-05-03
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Der Verfasser beschreibt und analysiert Elemente und Aspekte von Theatralität in der politischen Kultur Deutschlands zwischen 1990 und 2011. In diesem Sinne versteht sich das Buch als angewandte Theaterwissenschaft mit interdisziplinärem Bezug zur Politik- und...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2012-04-30
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This product is most effective when used in conjunction with the corresponding audio support.- You can purchase the book and audio support as a pack (ISBN: 9781444106916)- The audio support is also sold separately (ISBN: 9781444107012)(copy and paste the ISBN number...
Editeur :
Teach Yourself
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2012-04-27
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Predicting Prosody from Text for Text-to-Speech Synthesis covers the specific aspects of prosody, mainly focusing on how to predict the prosodic information from linguistic text, and then how to exploit the predicted prosodic knowledge for various speech applications....
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Springer
Parution :
2012-04-27
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This book provides undergraduate students in media programmes with the essential background knowledge to start developing critical analytical skills. It instructs media professionals to realise the key role of the media in the social construction of reality and to...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2012-04-26
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This book provides a clear and comprehensive description of the Ocotepec/Tapalapa variant of Chiapas Zoque. Zoque is one of the two major branches of the Mixe-Zoquean language family, spoken in the southern part of Mexico. Until the Spanish conquest in the sixteenth...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2012-04-19
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In der oberschlesischen Stadt Teschen (heute: Cieszyn/Ceský Tešín) hat sich eine linguistisch äusserst wertvolle Quellensammlung erhalten: Rund 500 Hefte mit Klausuren aus dem 18. Jahrhundert, geschrieben von Schülern der lutherischen Jesusschule. Besonders interessant...
Editeur :
Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2012-04-16
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Language of Migration: Self- and Other-Representation of Korean Migrants in Germany analyzes a variety of genres that depict Korean migration in Germany – namely, newspaper articles, autobiographical narratives, and documentaries – and deconstructs the language of these...
Editeur :
Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
Parution :
2012-04-13
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