Historical & comparative linguistics
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Historical & comparative linguistics
Paperback. Num Pages: 320 pages, B&W. BIC Classification: 2ADL; CFF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 130 x 198 x 22. Weight in Grams: 222.
- Publisher
- Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Edition
- UK ed.
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781408865552
- ISBN
- 9781408865552
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Condition: New
€ 11.99€ 11.57
€ 11.99
€ 11.57
Hardback. Using thousands of examples, the book identifies the genesis and evolution in African name formation and meaning. Each entry discusses the origins of the name, its meaning, and the wide cultural and social connotations of its use. Num Pages: 416 pages, bibliography. BIC Classification: 1H; CFF; HBTG. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 221 x 143 x 28. Weight in Grams: 581.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1999
- Publisher
- Scarecrow Press United States
- Number of pages
- 416
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780810836433
- ISBN
- 9780810836433
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Condition: New
€ 178.12
€ 178.12
Paperback. .
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 144
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780198729532
- ISBN
- 9780198729532
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Condition: New
€ 11.99€ 10.50
€ 11.99
€ 10.50
Paperback. This book is the first to present a comprehensive linguistic study of Jersey Norman French. Drawing on a corpus of original data, it offers historical and dialectological sketches, an assessment of language planning on Jersey, and an account of language change in progress. Series: Publications of the Philological Society. Num Pages: 256 pages, 75. BIC Classification: 2ADF; CFFD. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 230 x 155 x 14. Weight in Grams: 352.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 256
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780631231691
- ISBN
- 9780631231691
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Condition: New
€ 30.99€ 30.98
€ 30.99
€ 30.98
Paperback. Anecdotal, eclectic, and always enthusiastic, The Origins of English Words is a diverting expedition beyond linguistics into literature, history, folklore, anthropology, philosophy, and science. Num Pages: 672 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 2AB; CFF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 226 x 154 x 41. Weight in Grams: 918.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2001
- Publisher
- Johns Hopkins University Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780801867842
- ISBN
- 9780801867842
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Condition: New
€ 39.00€ 36.61
€ 39.00
€ 36.61
Hardback. The Handbook of Historical Sociolinguistics features 35 newly-written essays that explore how sociolinguistic theoretical models, methods, findings, and expertise can be applied to the process of reconstruction of a language's past in order to account for diachronic linguistic changes and developments. Editor(s): Hernandez Campoy, Juan Manuel; Conde Silvestre, Juan Camilo. Series: Blackwell Handbooks in Linguistics. Num Pages: 704 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: CFB; CFF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 175 x 255 x 39. Weight in Grams: 1228.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 704
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781405190688
- ISBN
- 9781405190688
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Condition: New
€ 201.62
€ 201.62
Hardback. This text investigates the system of English predicate complementation over three centuries from 1700. It highlights the central parts of the system, the nouns, adjectives and verbs that select complement clauses, with a look at the use of the "-ing" over the years. Num Pages: 176 pages, bibliography, index. BIC Classification: CFF; CFK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 231 x 164 x 15. Weight in Grams: 358.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2000
- Publisher
- University Press of America United States
- Number of pages
- 176
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780761817949
- ISBN
- 9780761817949
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Condition: New
€ 105.93
€ 105.93
Paperback. This innovative introduction outlines the structure and distribution of the world s languages, charting their evolution over the past 200,000 years. Num Pages: 400 pages. BIC Classification: CFB; CFF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 250 x 150. .
- Publisher
- John Wiley & Sons Inc United States
- Number of pages
- 400
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781118531280
- ISBN
- 9781118531280
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Condition: New
€ 53.99€ 32.21
€ 53.99
€ 32.21
Hardcover. This innovative introduction outlines the structure and distribution of the world s languages, charting their evolution over the past 200,000 years. Num Pages: 400 pages. BIC Classification: CFB; CFF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 250 x 150. .
- Publisher
- John Wiley & Sons Inc United States
- Number of pages
- 400
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781118531259
- ISBN
- 9781118531259
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 109.47
€ 109.47
Paperback. The mother tongue of the Roman Empire and the lingua franca of the West for centuries afterward, Latin survives today primarily in classrooms and texts. Yet this "dead language" is unique in the influence it has exerted across centuries and continents. Jurgen Leonhardt offers the story of the first "world language", from antiquity to the present. Num Pages: 352 pages. BIC Classification: CFA; CFF; HB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 235 x 156. .
- Publisher
- Belknap Press
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Edition
- Reprint
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780674659964
- ISBN
- 9780674659964
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Condition: New
€ 25.99€ 23.10
€ 25.99
€ 23.10
Paperback. The Handbook of World Englishes is a collection of newly commissioned articles focusing on selected critical dimensions and case studies of the theoretical, ideological, applied and pedagogical issues related to English as it is spoken around the world. Editor(s): Kachru, Braj B.; Kachru, Yamuna; Nelson, Cecil L. Series: Blackwell Handbooks in Linguistics. Num Pages: 832 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 2AB; CFF. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 240 x 170 x 46. Weight in Grams: 1342.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 832
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781405188319
- ISBN
- 9781405188319
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Condition: New
€ 58.70
€ 58.70
Paperback. Num Pages: 432 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: CFF; HRCG. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). .
- Publisher
- Baker Publishing Group United States
- Number of pages
- 432
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Edition
- 2nd Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780801036491
- ISBN
- 9780801036491
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Condition: New
€ 38.99€ 26.89
€ 38.99
€ 26.89
Paperback. Noam Chomskya s work has had a decisive influence on the development of linguistics and more broadly on the study of mind and language. This book, which contains two new papers by Chomsky, assesses that a Chomskyan Turna in linguistics and the cognitive sciences. Editor(s): Kasher, Asa. Num Pages: 416 pages, 10 figures, indexes. BIC Classification: CFA; CFF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 233 x 158 x 26. Weight in Grams: 672.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1992
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
- Edition
- New Ed
- Number of pages
- 416
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780631187349
- ISBN
- 9780631187349
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Condition: New
€ 50.25
€ 50.25
Paperback. This book offers an accessible overview of the structural and cognitive approaches to English historical semantics. Focusing primarily on Lexical Semantics, the study of word meaning, the book looks at how these approaches help to answer two key questions in Historical Linguistics: how and why languages change. Series: Edinburgh Textbooks on the English Language - Advanced. Num Pages: 224 pages, 8 black and white illustrations. BIC Classification: 2AB; CFF; CFG. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 218 x 138 x 18. Weight in Grams: 282.
- Publisher
- EDINBURGH UNIVERSITY PRESS
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780748644773
- ISBN
- 9780748644773
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Condition: New
€ 32.99€ 27.71
€ 32.99
€ 27.71
Hardback. Topics in this volume include: interlingual contact in the Pacific to the mid-19th century; the Sandalwood period; the Tok Pisin language; oceanic Austronesian languages; structures and sources of pidgin syntax; the pidgin pronominal system; and calquing - pidgin and Solomons languages. Num Pages: 280 pages, index. BIC Classification: 1MKL; 2AB; CFFD. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 237 x 159 x 23. .
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1988
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 280
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780804714501
- ISBN
- 9780804714501
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Condition: New
€ 95.36
€ 95.36
Paperback. Num Pages: 312 pages, ill. BIC Classification: 2AHA; 2CSJ; CFF; HRCG; HRQC1; VXQ; VXWM. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 209 x 139 x 17. Weight in Grams: 352.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1999
- Publisher
- Red Wheel/Weiser United States
- Edition
- Illustrated
- Number of pages
- 312
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781578631100
- ISBN
- 9781578631100
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Condition: New
€ 26.99€ 23.34
€ 26.99
€ 23.34
Paperback. Num Pages: 154 pages. BIC Classification: CFFD. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 217 x 150 x 11. Weight in Grams: 258.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1985
- Publisher
- Aarhus University Press Denmark
- Number of pages
- 154
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9788772880013
- ISBN
- 9788772880013
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 12.69
€ 12.69
Hardcover. Editor(s): Ryholt, Kim. Series: Carsten Niebuhr Institute Publications. Num Pages: 420 pages, 16 b/w plates. BIC Classification: 1QDAG; CFF; HBJD; HBLA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 303 x 216 x 33. Weight in Grams: 1606.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Publisher
- Museum Tusculanum Press Denmark
- Number of pages
- 420
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9788772896489
- ISBN
- 9788772896489
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 115.07€ 86.01
€ 115.07
€ 86.01
Paperback. Series: Acta Jutlandica Series. Num Pages: 240 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; CFF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 238 x 171 x 14. Weight in Grams: 450.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1988
- Publisher
- Aarhus University Press Denmark
- Number of pages
- 240
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9788772881683
- ISBN
- 9788772881683
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 24.74
€ 24.74
Hardcover. The comparatively recent origins of pidgins and creoles provide them with a special place in linguistic theory. Debates about the origin and character of these languages have informed broader discussions within grammatical theory, historical linguistics, and sociolinguistics. Editor(s): Kouwenberg, Silvia; Singler, John Victor. Series: Blackwell Handbooks in Linguistics. Num Pages: 704 pages, 20ill. BIC Classification: 2ZP; CFFD. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 251 x 184 x 42. Weight in Grams: 1366.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 704
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780631229025
- ISBN
- 9780631229025
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 58.70
€ 58.70