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The Handbook of Dialectology provides an authoritative, up-to-date and unusually broad account of the study of dialect, in one volume. Each chapter reviews essential research, and …

Spanish is one of the most widely-spoken languages in the world, and there is extensive lexical variation between its numerous dialects. This book, the first of its kind, focuses …

The two manuscripts of the early Middle English chronicle La?amon’s Brut, British Library MS Cotton Caligula A ix and British Library MS Cotton Otho C xiii, display marked …

This book describes many different and useful ways of understanding personal relationships from a dialectical perspective. It is written for scholars in higher education, both …

Im vorliegenden Band werden die Voraussetzungen, Mechanismen und Ergebnisse sprachlicher Variation und Vielfalt vorgestellt und diskutiert. Dies beginnt bei sprachlichen und …

Here is a feast of words that will whet the appetite of food and word lovers everywhere. William Grimes, former restaurant critic for The New York Times, covers everything from …

By grouping words into distinct themes - such as put downs and insults, the vocab of fashionistas and the lingo of dodgy dealings - BalderdashPiffle looks at the English language …

This work is based on an investigation of language acquisition process, particularly in regard to syntax, among Mauritian children learning to speak Mauritian Creole as their first …

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 …

London Jamaican provides the reader with a new perspective on African descent in London. Based on research carried out in the early 1980s, the author examines the linguistic …

The Edinburgh Companion to Scots is a comprehensive introduction to the study of older and present-day Scots language. The aim of the volume is to explain and illustrate methods of …