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This unique collection fills a ten-year gap in studies on the nature of Australian English, and it is the first to deal exclusively with varieties of English on the Australian …

In Coastal Dhofari Arabic: A Sketch Grammar, Richard Davey provides a detailed description of a hitherto neglected Arabic dialect found in southern Oman. Previously recorded by …

Obgleich die Auxiliarselektionsforschung eine umfassende Tradition aufweist, sind Studien zu arealer, funktionaler und verarbeitungsbedingter Auxiliarvariation ein nach wie vor …

A compendium of words, phrases, and local meanings has been culled from years of research, using thousands of interviews with representative American communities

Singlish is the colloquial variety of English spoken in Singapore. It has sparked much public debate, but so far the complex question of what Singlish really is and what it means …

Die Beitrage in diesem Buch reflektieren eine ertragreiche linguistische Auseinandersetzung mit dem schillernden Spektrum an Erscheinungsformen und Funktionen der deutschen Sprache …

First Published in 1994. The Survey of English Dialects (SED) is the only detailed nation-wide dialect survey which has ever been conducted in England. The SED is a unique …

Die Sennrin auf der Alm,die kocht sich a Muas,und hat sie koan Löffl,dann rührt s'' mit dem Fuaß.Gstanzln, Kinderreime, Gedichte, Sagen, Lieder, Märchen, Geschichten und Theater: …

Selected papers from the Society for Pidgin and Creole linguistics.

What is odd about the phrase Scots wha hae? Why do you say you've got the cold in Scots? Is there a difference between ane and yin? Do you say youse to one person or two?These …

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 …