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This unique and informative dictionary explores the history, meanings, and origin of place names around the world. In over 11,000 entries it covers an enormous geographical range, including continents, countries, islands, cities, mountains, rivers, and much more. Key...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2019-09-19
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This book presents a thorough investigation of the main diachronic changes that have taken place in the palatal sounds of the Romance languages, as well as their current patterns of synchronic variation. André Zampaulo draws on extensive data not only from diachronic...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2019-09-19
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This volume explores the multiple aspects of cyclical syntactic change from a wide range of empirical perspectives. The notion of 'linguistic cycle' has long been recognized as being relevant to the description of many processes of language change. In...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2019-09-18
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This volume presents new conceptual and experimental studies which investigate the connection between vagueness and rationality from various systematic directions, such as philosophy, linguistics, cognitive psychology, computing science, and economics. Vagueness in...
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Springer
Parution :
2019-09-17
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This is the first volume specifically dedicated to competition in inflection and word-formation, a topic that has increasingly attracted attention. Semantic categories, such as concepts, classes, and feature bundles, can be expressed by more than one form or formal...
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Springer
Parution :
2019-09-17
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Studies in Morphology
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This book explores multilingualism as a resource and goal at school in contexts of student diversity and institutional monolingualism. Combining translanguaging theory and sociocultural theory, the author proposes a framework for the learning and use of both foreign and...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2019-09-16
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This edited book represents the first cohesive attempt to describe the literary genres of late-twentieth-century fiction in terms of lexico-grammatical patterns. Drawing on the PhraseoRom international project on the phraseology of contemporary novels, the...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2019-09-09
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Was derzeit als Klimakatastrophe diskutiert wird, scheint nicht die einzige Bedrohung, der wir gegenüberstehen. Wissenschaften berichten ergänzend über den fatalen Umgang mit natürlichen Ressourcen und weitere Gefahren sozialer und politischer Art. Einiges spricht...
Editeur :
Springer Spektrum
Parution :
2019-09-05
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This book focuses on linguistic synaesthesia in a hitherto less-studied language – Mandarin Chinese – and adopts a corpus-driven approach to support the analysis and argumentation. The study identifies directional tendencies and underlying mechanisms for Mandarin...
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Springer
Parution :
2019-08-31
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This volume is a selection of papers presented at the 10th International Conference on Middle English held at the University of Stavanger, Norway from 31 May to 2 June 2017. The collection bridges the gap between traditional ‘linguistic’ and ‘literary’ topics and...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2019-08-30
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The first book to bring together researchers and practitioners from a range of professions and institutions in exploring how people develop and may lose Trust through the ways in which they speak, write and act. Includes practical examples of how to conduct...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2019-08-29
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This book introduces multimodality and technology as key concepts for understanding learning in the 21st century. The author investigates how a nationwide socio-educational policy in Uruguay becomes recontextualised across time/space scales, impacting interaction and...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2019-08-29
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This book posits a universal syntactic constraint (FPC) for code switching, using as its basis a study of different types of code-switching between French, Moroccan Arabic and Standard Arabic in a language contact situation. After presenting the theoretical background...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2019-08-28
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This book offers a comprehensive overview of the syntactic variation of the dialects of Spanish. More precisely, it covers Spanish theoretical syntax that takes as its data source non-standard grammatical phenomena.
Approaching the syntactic variation of Spanish...
Editeur :
Oxford University Press
Parution :
2019-08-28
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***'Wonderful. You finish the book more alive than ever to the enduring mystery and miracle of that thing that makes us most human' STEPHEN FRY'Most popular books on language dumb down; Shariatmadari's smartens things up, and is all the more entertaining for it' THE...
Editeur :
Weidenfeld & Nicolson
Parution :
2019-08-22
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This volume offers a comprehensive account of the typology of noun classification across the world's languages. Every language has some means of categorizing objects into humans, or animates, or by their shape, form, size, and function. The most widespread are...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2019-08-22
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This book investigates the importance of humour and play in the establishment of individual and group identities among adult language learners on an intensive business English course. The enclosed setting allows the emergent nature of community building and identity...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2019-08-16
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This book explores the semantics and pragmatics of honorifics, expressions that indicate the degree of formality that a speaker feels is required in interacting with another person. Although these expressions are found in many languages worldwide, this volume is the...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2019-08-15
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This book is the first to offer a conceptual framework of English-medium education that can be used across different international higher education (HE) contexts. It provides readers with an understanding of the complexities, possibilities and challenges that this...
Editeur :
Palgrave Pivot
Parution :
2019-08-12
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This book is a comparative corpus-based study of discourse markers based on verbs of saying in English and French. Based on a wide comparable web corpus, the book investigates how discourse markers work in discourse, and compares their differences of position,...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2019-08-08
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