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This major 2001 work explores the development of creoles and other new languages, focusing on the conceptual and methodological issues they raise for genetic... Læs mere
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This book brings together a team of leading scholars to explore all aspects of recent dialect change, in particular dialect convergence... Læs mere
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This 2007 book explains the concept of style in speech and examines ways of studying accents and dialects. It explains, theoretically and with copious examples, how... Læs mere
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This book explains how languages come into being, arguing that children are the driving force. David Lightfoot explores how new systems arise, how they are acquired by children,... Læs mere
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English as spoken in the north of England has a rich social and cultural history; however research has often neglected it in favour of 'Standard English'.... Læs mere
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This groundbreaking investigation examines four dialects from parts of northern Britain out of which came the founding populations of many regions in... Læs mere
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Why do we insist on using words that are 'wrong'? In this engaging study, Lieselotte Anderwald argues that dialects, contrary to popular opinion, do have a grammar, and commonly used words that deviate from Standard English have a long pedigree and systematically make more sense.
Bemærk: Kan ikke leveres før jul.
Reprint of the second (1939) edition of the work that is still the standard source-book of the Anglo-Indian language.
Bemærk: Kan ikke leveres før jul.
The sociolinguistic study presented here offers insights on variation and the defining of register in Arabic political discourse. The... Læs mere
Bemærk: Kan ikke leveres før jul.
Part of a series that offers mainly linguistic and anthropological research and teaching/learning material on a region of great cultural and strategic interest and importance in the post-Soviet era.
Bemærk: Kan ikke leveres før jul.
This work provides a synoptic treatment of the Indo-Aryan languages, a language family with a historical documentation of language change over a longer period than any other subgroup of Indo-European.
Bemærk: Kan ikke leveres før jul.
With introductory chapters that present a general overview and a detailed discussion of the linguistic typology of Iranian, this title provides the reader with non-technical... Læs mere