Language

Where did the words bungalow and assassin derive? What did nice mean in the Middle...

This introduction to critical thinking covers the areas of (A) thought and language, (B) systematic...

Containing entries for more than 45,000 English, Scottish, Welsh, Irish, Cornish, and immigrant surnames, The...

The only textbook that completely covers OxfordAQA International AS & A Level English Literature (9675),...

The only textbook that completely covers OxfordAQA International AS & A Level English Language (9670),...

We all know what frak, popularized by television's cult hit Battlestar Galactica, really means. But...

Please note this title is suitable for any student studying: Exam Board: OCR Level: AS/A...

This AQA AS and A Level English Language Student Book prepares students and teachers for...

The Oxford Handbook of Ancient Anatolia is a unique blend of comprehensive overviews on archaeological,...

Urdu is an Indo-Aryan language which has the twentieth largest world population of speakers, with...

This wide-ranging, jargon-free dictionary contains over 2,300 entries on all aspects of statistics, including terms...

A Dictionary of Chemical Engineering is one of the latest additions to the market leading...

Secret Manipulations is the first comprehensive study of African register variation, polylectality, and derived languages....

Grammar Sense is a four-level discourse-based grammar series which focuses on the connection between form,...

Grammar Sense is a four-level discourse-based grammar series which focuses on the connection between form,...

Grammar Sense is a four-level discourse-based grammar series which focuses on the connection between form,...

Grammar Sense is a four-level discourse-based grammar series which focuses on the connection between form,...

Grammar Sense is a four-level discourse-based grammar series which focuses on the connection between form,...

Read and discover all about your body. Read and discover more about the world! This...

This book is an advanced student's grammar of French that integrates traditional grammar with knowledge...

This book examines the cross-linguistic expression of changes of location or state, taking as a...

Words are the building blocks of human communication and provide a strong foundation for the...

This book presents a new cross-linguistic analysis of gender and its effects on morphosyntax. It...

In this book, Aidan Doyle traces the history of the Irish language from the time...

This is the first textbook on Functional Discourse Grammar, a recently developed theory of language...

From its beginnings in the 1960s, sociolinguistics developed several different subfields with distinct methods and...

The book presents new and stimulating approaches to the study of language evolution and considers...

How many languages are there? What differentiates one language from another? Are new languages still...

This book considers the phenomenon of sluicing. Sluicing is the term applied to sentences in...

This book is about the nature of morphology and its place in the structure of...

This book considers the evolution of the grammatical structure of words in the more general...

In this book leading scholars address the issues surrounding the syntax-phonology interface. These principally concern...

All languages change, just as other aspects of human society are constantly changing. This book...