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Can language change be modelled as an evolutionary process? Can notions like variation, selection and competition be fruitfully applied to facts of language development? The …

Historical Linguistics provides a comprehensive and clearly written introduction to historical linguistic theory and methods. Since its first publication in 1962 the book has …

This collection of text extracts provides an invaluable resource for working directly with non-literary informal English of the Early Modern period. The book is organised into …

This volume brings together research on panel studies with the aim of providing a coherent empirical and theoretical knowledge-base for examining the impact of maturation and …

Das Romanesco, der Dialekt Roms, zeichnet sich im Vergleich mit anderen italienischen Stadten durch eine fruhe Annaherung an die "Literatursprache," das Toskanische, aus. Diese …

Singaporean English is an indigenized variety of the language which has developed chiefly through English-medium education. The authors of this book investigate the various factors …

This insightful study proposes a unified theory of speech through which conflicting ideas about language might be understood. It is founded on a number of key points, such as the …

Lawrence steht innerhalb einer Reihe von Schriftstellern, die in ihren Werken einen regionalen Dialekt in verschiedener Form und Funktion verwandten. Lawrences Dialekt hat jedoch …

Diese Arbeit wurde 2016 mit dem Christian-Wolff-Preis der Martin-Luther-Universitat Halle-Wittenberg und 2017 mit dem Theodor-Frings-Preis der Sachsischen Akademie der …

This book was first published in 1925 and was intended to be a dictionary of first world war slang. In the 1920s, “the war to end all wars” was still fresh in everyone’s minds and …

Årets bok frå Tor Erik Jenstad er historias første trønderske ordbok med slanguttrykk. Slang ("slæng") er bevisste stilistiske avvik frå normalspråket i ord og uttrykk, og som …