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Das Buch beschaftigt sich mit dem Phanomen der voelligen Neuentstehung von Sprachen unter dem Einfluss extrem restringierten Inputs (Kanogenese). Die Autorin vergleicht achtzehn …

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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 …

Over the last half century many scholars have recorded, analysed and theorised language death. At the same time, many sociolinguists have considered how rapid and dependable …

Discover all the cut-throat facts about Wicked Words with history’s most horrible headlines: Wicked Words edition.  Jump into the origins of lamentable language with …

This book, first published in 1933, examines the dialect of the people of Byers Green in County Durham. Orton explores the possible reasons behind why the dialect has signs of …

All languages encode aspects of culture and every culture has its own specificities to be proud of and to be transmitted. The papers in this book explore aspects of this …

This work is full of things better left unsaid: hackneyed phrases, idioms battered into senselessness, infuriating Gallicisms, once-familiar quotations and tags from the ancient …

This volume brings together researchers whose analysis and insights provide a comprehensive and up-to-date account of Singapore’s rich linguistic diversity. Applying a combination …

Das Ländle, wie es leibt und lebt: Seiner Heimat Vorarlberg, zwischen Arlberg und Rhein gelegen, setzt Markus Linder mit diesem Buch ein ebenso liebevolles wie satirisches Denkmal. …