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Xavier Bach, Louise Esher, Sascha Gaglia
Comparative and Dialectal Approaches to Analogy

This volume brings together specialists in inflectional morphology, historical linguistics, and dialectology to explore the processes, directionality, models, and targets of morphological analogy. The cha…

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Simon Franklin
Troublesome Words

An accessible journey through the changing shape of the Russian language.Across 350 years, the Russian language has been shaped by competing visions of what it should be, from early grammarians defining a…

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The New Cambridge History of the English Language: Volume 3

How language change manifests itself in the history of English is the primary focus of this volume. It considers the transmission of English though dictionaries and grammars down to the digital means foun…

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The New Cambridge History of the English Language: Volume 6, Part 1

This volume offers in-depth coverage of varieties of English across the world, outside of the British and North American arenas. It is split into two parts, with Part one dedicated to varieties of English…

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The New Cambridge History of the English Language: Volume 6, Part 2

This volume offers in-depth coverage of varieties of English across the world, outside of the British and North American arenas. It is split into two parts, with Part 1 dedicated to varieties of English a…

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The New Cambridge History of the English Language: Volume 2

This volume considers the various kinds of text which document the history of the English language. It looks closely at vernacular speech in writing and the broader context of orality along with issues of…

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The New Cambridge History of the English Language: Volume 1

This volume investigates the Indo-European and Germanic background to the English language, looking at how inherited elements of phonology and morphology survived into the Old English period. It then cons…

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Nicholas Evans, Sebastian Fedden
The Oxford Guide to the Papuan Languages

This volume presents a wide-ranging survey of the Papuan languages, spoken on the island of New Guinea and its surroundings. They make up around 12% of the world's languages, with a level of linguistic di…

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Claudia Fabrizio
Alignment and Subjecthood in Latin

This book provides a detailed, empirically supported, and theoretically informed examination of alignment and subject assignment in Latin. The author challenges the myth of Latin as a language defined sol…

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Wei Li,
Metonymy in Li Bai's Poetry

This book explores metonymic patterns in Li Bai's poetry from a cognitive poetic perspective and offers new insights into the use of metonymies in poetry more widely. Focusing more specifically on Annotat…

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Caleb Everett
A Myriad of Tongues

Exploring breakthroughs in language and cognition research, Caleb Everett finds that fundamentals of human perception are culturally encoded by the words and sentences we use. The experience of time, spac…

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Samuel Brazys
The Invisible Hand(out)

The Invisible Hand(out): Aid, Trade, and Unequal Globalization examines the relationship between foreign aid, market access, and economic growth in developing countries during the era of globalization. De…

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Eberhard Werner
Rivers and Mountains

Little competent anthropological research has been done so far on the Zaza people, one of the larger ethnic groups settling mostly in Eastern Anatolia. This study of their language and culture is an excep…

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Martin E Huld
Naming the Horse

In Naming the Horse, author Martin E. Huld explains the basis of linguistic palaeontology, the reconstruction and analysis of past cultures through the words such cultures used to describe and define the …

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The Oxford Guide to the Bantu Languages

This volume brings together leading scholars from Africa, Europe, the Americas and beyond to provide a detailed account of the languages of the Bantu family, which cover an area from Cameroon and Kenya in…

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Simon Horobin
Chaucer's Language

Introduces students to Chaucer's language and the importance of reading Chaucer in the original, rather than in a modern translation.

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Gaston Dorren
The World Atlas of Language

A fascinating visual exploration of all things linguistic, tracing how words, sounds, scripts, norms, and borders are in constant fluxDid you know that more than 7,000 languages are spoken today, but that…

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Ben Yagoda
Isn't It Ironic.

From the ancient Greeks to the "irony-poisoned" Generation Z, an enlightening, entertaining, and surprising history of an essential idea and rhetorical tool that people love, hate, and love to d…

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Ben Yagoda
Gobsmacked!

A spot-on guide to how and why Americans have become so bloody keen on Britishisms---for good or illThe British love to complain that words and phrases imported from America---from French fries to Awesome…

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Manchán Magan
Thirty-Two Words for Field

NATIONAL INDIE BESTSELLER"What a joyful, profound, passionate revelry of a book this is--an illumination of how words make worlds; a reminder of what is lost when a language is lost; an act of salvag…

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