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Standards and Variation in Urban Speech
Standards and Variation in Urban Speech is an examination and exploration of the aims and methods of sociolinguistic investigation, based on studies of Scottish urban speech. It …
English in Kenya or Kenyan English?
The book aims to recognize or reject English in Kenya as a new, emancipated variety of English developing in a multilingual environment of permanent language contact. It discusses …
Adventures of the Dialectic
We need a philosophy of both history and spirit to deal with the problems we touch upon here. Yet we would be unduly rigorous if we were to wait for perfectly elaborated principles …
New-Dialect Formation
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 …
Language and Linguistic Origins in Bahrain
First published in 1982. The reasons behind the establishment of this Series on Arabic linguistics are manifold. First: Arabic linguistics is developing into an increasingly …
If I Could Turn My Tongue Like That
If I Could Turn My Tongue Like That, by Thomas Klingler, is an in-depth study of the Creole language spoken in Pointe Coupee Parish, Louisiana, a community situated on the west …
Slovene Dialect of Egg and Potschach in the Gailtal, Austria
Slovene is one of the most dialectally diverse languages of Europe, consisting of 37 dialects. This book gives a detailed description of one of the most archaic dialects of …
Sardinian Syntax
Sardinian Syntax presents the first comprehensive synchronic description of Sardinian syntax available in English. Michael Jones combines a detailed coverage of the language with a …
Sehän on murretta!
Räytyvä sydän on monelle tuttu hitti-iskelmästä. Yleiskielen uudet tulokkaat seksi ja sinkku taas tunnetaan vanhastaan monissa murteissa - joskin aivan eri merkityksessä. Murretta …
Old Norse-Icelandic Philology and National Identity in the Long Nineteenth Century
For centuries, the literary heritage preserved in Icelandic medieval manuscripts has played a vital role in the self-image of the Icelandic nation. From the late eighteenth …
A Lexical Study of Raeto-Romance and Contiguous Italian Dialect Areas
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Early Germanic Grammar
Authored by a well-respected authority in German linguistics, this book offers intensive scholarly analysis, recent discoveries, new methodologies, and important reinterpretations …