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Functional Categories in Three Atlantic Creoles
This book is about the functional categories of three Caribbean creoles: Saramaccan, Haitian Creole and Papiamentu with two specific goals. The first one is to evaluate the …
Dialect, Voice, and Identity in Chinese Translation
Dialect, Voice, and Identity in Chinese Translation is the first book-length attempt to undertake a descriptive investigation of how dialect in British and American novels and …
Das Pre-Present in Kollokation Mit Temporalangaben Im Britischen Und Amerikanischen Englisch Der Gegenwart
Britisches und amerikanisches Englisch wurden bisher meist auf den Gebieten von Lexik und Phonetik miteinander verglichen. Hier nun liegt der Schwerpunkt auf der bisher …
Dialectology
When first published in 1980, Dialectology broke new ground by integrating urban dialectology (sociolinguistics), dialect geography and spatial variation into a cohesive …
Chaucer’s Choices
The monograph discusses the relation between language and visual culture, focusing on two Chaucerian narratives, «Knight’s Tale» and «Troilus and Criseyde». The study highlights …
Agreement, Gender, Relative Clauses
This volume offers qualitative as well as corpus-based quantitative studies on three domains of grammatical variation in the British Isles. All studies draw heavily on the …
Imprisonment in England and Wales
Originally published in 1985, Imprisonment in England and Wales is an account of the changing functions and conditions of imprisonment in England and Wales from the Medieval period …
Variation in Interlanguage Morphology
This major contribution to second language acquisition theory examines the question of the systematicity of learners' language. Richard Young proposes a new descriptive model for …
Chinese Language(s)
The major aim of the book is to trace the current structuring of the Chinese language(s) on the ground of Chinese linguistics. The research presented is based on the newest and …
Through the Language Glass
Does language reflect the culture of a society? Is our mother-tongue a lens through which we perceive the world? Can different languages lead their speakers to different thoughts? …
Algospeak
“A linguist explores how the internet is redefining our vocabulary. No cap—this bruh slaps and slays.” - Adam Grant, author of Think Again"Incisive and funny, this is a page turner …
101 Things to Do With a Banana
A bunch of truly ap-peeling things to do with this fruit basket staple. If you’ve ever had a surplus of bananas and way too much time on your …