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Mit Uns schiggd der Himml erscheint nach neun Jahren endlich wieder ein Gedichtband von Helmut Haberkamm. Der vielfach ausgezeichnete Dialektkünstler hat die fränkische Region und …

Der zweite Band des Sammelwerks zum 100-jahrigen Jubilaum der Niederdeutschen Philologie in Rostock nimmt aktuelle Forschungsfelder dieser Disziplin in den Blick. Neben Beitragen …

This book presents a new and controversial theory about dialect contact and the formation of new colonial dialects. It examines the genesis of Latin American Spanish, Canadian …

Included in the TLS Books of the Year 2023 Written by an author brought up in working-class Liverpool in the 1960s and 1970s, Liverpool: A Memoir of Words is a work of creative …

Who else but the Irish can perform minor miracles with a prayer to St Anthony? Or truly appreciate the medicinal purposes of flat 7Up? Not to mention the front room, chipper chips …

Indian English, or rather, the forms of English used in India, have long been a topic of interest for laymen and scholars. For generations, the ‘exotic’ nature of the transplanted …

First published in 1980, this book questions many of the assumptions that have accumulated around the subject of intonation as it occurs in spontaneous speech, as well as texts …

Das Bayerische Worterbuch fuhrt - nach den Grundsatzen moderner Lexigraphie und auf ungleich grosserer Materialbasis - das "Bayerische Worterbuch" von Johann Andreas Schmeller …

This volume brings together a number of studies on the early stages of creolization which are entirely based on historical data. The recent (re)discovery of early documents written …

With over three million copies sold, this collection of cowboy wisdom and words to live by is "e;worthy of a book rustler"e; (South Bend Tribune). In the tradition of …

This volume provides an overview of all aspects of Hong Kong English in a style designed for undergraduates and general readers. As a former British colony, Hong Kong used English …