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Wherever you go in the English-speaking world, there are linguistic riches from times past awaiting rediscovery. All you have to do is choose a location, find some old documents, …

Dialectología hispánica / The Routledge Handbook of Spanish Dialectology es una obra coral que presenta las últimas investigaciones sobre las variedades actuales de la lengua …

The 'story' of English is continually re-told and re-written, as more and more people use the language and have a part in shaping the way it develops. Varieties of Modern English …

This volume is a selection of papers read at the fourth international conference of the Society of Historical English Language and Linguistics (SHELL) held at Keio University, …

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 …

This study examines the way in which the identity of foreign workers and foreign writers in Germany is negotiated on the basis of language use and literary activity. The book …

This volume contains a selection of papers presented at the Medieval English Studies Symposium held in Poznan, Poland, in November 2008. The papers cover a wide range of topics in …

Die Studie behandelt das bislang noch recht unerforschte Gebiet der Entstehung und Bewahrung einer der gegenwartig wichtigsten englischen Tochtersprachen. Bei der Untersuchung des …

New languages are constantly emerging, as existing languages diverge into different forms. To explain this fascinating process, we need to understand how languages change and how …

In addition to borrowing from various foreign sources, the main origins of slang terms are the activation and revitalization of existing morphological and lexical material. …

Style refers to ways of speaking - how speakers use the resource of language variation to make meaning in social encounters. This 2007 book develops a coherent theoretical approach …