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Sociolinguistic Approaches to Sibilant Variation in Spanish
Social processes and the nature of language variation have driven sibilant variation across the Spanish-speaking world. This book explores the current state of Spanish sibilants …
Blowing on Yogurt and Other Egyptian Arabic Expressions
A lively and informative collection of fifty common Egyptian colloquial expressions and proverbs, this book is must for learners of Arabic, language enthusiasts, and lovers of the …
Dialect, Culture, and Society in Eastern Arabia, Volume 1 Glossary
Dialect, Culture, and Society in Eastern Arabia is a three-volume study of the Arabic dialects spoken in Bahrain by its older generation in the mid-1970s, and the socio-cultural …
Words and Expressions of Emotion in Medieval English
This monograph is a study of words and expressions of emotion found in Old and Middle English texts. Lexical variety, rivalry among synonyms, both native and non-native, and their …
A Smack in the Pus
This follow-up to the hugely successful Shut Yer Pus shows that there s nothing more pithy than Scots slang Every year millions of tourists visit Scotland to sample its renowned …
Aspectual Prefixes in Early English
This book primarily examines verbal prefixes expressing aspectuality in the Old and Middle English periods, but it also takes a look at the post-verbal particles in the subsequent …
Adverbial Clauses in Scots
The future of English linguistics as envisaged by the editors of Topics in English Linguistics lies in empirical studies, which integrate work in English linguistics into general …
White Hip Hoppers, Language and Identity in Post-Modern America
This book examines language and identity among White American middle and upper-middle class youth who affiliate with Hip Hop culture. Hip Hop youth engage in practices that range …
Language Contact in the History of English
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Language, Education, and Development
Papua New Guinea's struggle for development is intimately bound up with the history of Tok Pisin, an English-based pidgin which is the product of nineteenth-century colonialism in …
Modals, Pronouns and Complement Clauses
This is the second volume of the multi-volume set A Contemporary Grammar of British English Dialects. The book again offers qualitative as well as corpus-based quantitative studies …