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The Dictionary of Posh serves as an essential guide to the (ab)use of many English words by the decidedly up-market and the resultant - and endangered - language they speak: Posh. …

Complexity of grammatical structure has become a center of interest in recent typological and dialectological research. The contributions of the present volume discuss structural …

Written by the world-renowned pioneer in the field of modern sociolinguistics, this volume examines the cognitive and cultural factors responsible for linguistic change, tracing …

The scholar-editors and eight accomplished colleagues together offer views of phonological research on American Spanish.

A classical viewpoint claims that reality consists of both things and stuff, and that we need a way to discuss these aspects of reality. This is achieved by using +count terms to …

Extensively revised and updated, this second edition provides, in an A-Z format, an analysis of the most important generalizations that have been made on the unidirectional change …

How to sound like you're from here, no matter where you are in America "Simultaneously full of witty asides and linguistic erudition, Wicked Good Words is one of those rare books …

Jason and Travis Kelce—brothers, Super Bowl champions, and New Heights podcast hosts—tackle their first book, No Dumb Questions, where the 92%ers get in on the fun to ask questions …

Richard Kayne’s introduction to this volume stresses that comparative work on the syntax of very closely related languages and dialects is a research tool promising to provide both …

In Praise of Spoken Soul: The Story of Black English "e;Spoken Soul brilliantly fills a huge gap. . . . a delightfully readable introduction to the elegant interweave between …

In variational linguistics, the concept of space has always been a central issue. However, different research traditions considering space coexisted for a long time separately. …