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Interactions across Englishes
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English is a language at the centre of research into language contact, because its global...
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The Cambridge Handbook of Pragmatics
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Pragmatics is the study of human communication: the choices speakers make to express their intended...
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Metaphor and Writing
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This volume explains how metaphors, metonymies, and other figures of thought interact cognitively and rhetorically...
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Studies in Yue Dialects 1
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Originally published in 1972, this is the first in a series of dialect studies by...
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Varieties of English
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English is a highly diversified language that appears in a multitude of different varieties across...
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The English Noun Phrase
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English has an interesting variety of noun phrases, which differ greatly in structure. Examples are...
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One Language, Two Grammars?
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It is well known that British and American English differ substantially in their pronunciation and...
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A Linguistic Geography of Africa
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More than forty years ago it was demonstrated that the African continent can be divided...
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Language and Human Relations
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The way in which people address one another is crucial to expressing social relationships and...
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Syntactic Anchors
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One of the major arenas for debate within generative grammar is the nature of paradigmatic...
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The Contrastive Hierarchy in Phonology
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'Contrast' - the opposition between distinctive sounds in a language - is one of the...
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The Syntax of Argument Structure
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Each verb in natural language is associated with a set of arguments, which are not...
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Verb Meaning and the Lexicon
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The relationship between the meaning of words and the structure of sentences is an important...
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Research Methods in Language Variation and Change
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Methodological know-how has become one of the key qualifications in contemporary linguistics, which has a...
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Meaning and Humour
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How are humorous meanings generated and interpreted? Understanding a joke involves knowledge of the language...
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A Reference Grammar of Chinese
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A Reference Grammar of Chinese is a comprehensive and up-to-date guide to the linguistic structure...
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Underlying Representations
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At the heart of generative phonology lies the assumption that the sounds of every language...
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A Grammar of Yoruba
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Yoruba, a major West African language spoken by over twelve million people, has had so...
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Legacies of Colonial English
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As a result of colonization, many varieties of English now exist around the world. Originally...
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Linguistic Speculations
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This 1974 book is a personal survey by an eminent linguist of most branches of...
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Irish English
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English has been spoken in Ireland for over 800 years, making Irish English the oldest...
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English in the Southern United States
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The English of the southern United States is possibly the most studied of any regional...
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English Words and Sentences
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Hands-on, theory-neutral and non-technical, this textbook is a basic introduction to the structure of English...
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Semantics for Counting and Measuring
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The use of numerals in counting differs quite dramatically across languages. Some languages grammaticalise a...
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French Pulpit Oratory, 1598–1650
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This 1980 text was the first full-length study of seventeenth-century pulpit oratory since 1863, and...
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Los sonidos del español
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This accessible textbook provides a clear introduction to the sounds of Spanish. Assuming no prior...
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Transcribing the Sound of English
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Do you have a fear of transcription? Are you daunted by the prospect of learning...
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Kudrun: A Critical Appreciation
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Kudrun is a German epic poem extant in only one manuscript, the Ambraser Handschrift of...
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Pronunciation of Norwegian
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In this volume, first published in 1963, Cambridge lecturer R. G. Popperwell provides a fascinating...
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Complete Word-Indexes to J. Van Den Vondel's Bespiegelingen van Godt en Godtsdienst and Lucifer
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The Literary and Linguistic Computing Centre was established in the University of Cambridge in 1964....
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Reporting Talk
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Reported speech, whereby we quote the words of others, is used in many different types...
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Pragmatic Impairment
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Pragmatics - the way we communicate using more than just language - is particularly problematic...
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Segmental Phonology in Optimality Theory
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Optimality theory has rapidly become the dominant framework in formal phonological theory. OT fundamentally revises...
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The Prosody-Morphology Interface
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In many languages, word-formation is restricted by principles of prosody that organise speech into larger...
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Dongolese Nubian
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Dongolese is one of the dialects spoken by the Nubian peoples of the Sudan. Since...
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Introducing Language Typology
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Language typology identifies similarities and differences among languages of the world. This textbook provides an...
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Mainland Southeast Asian Languages
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This highly accessible introduction explores the core systems and subsystems of the languages of mainland...
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Introducing English Linguistics International Student Edition
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Analysing English Grammar
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A practical step-by-step introduction to the analysis of English grammar, this book leaves the reader...
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Arguments in Syntax and Semantics
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Argument structure - the pattern of underlying relations between a predicate and its dependents -...
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The Emergence of Hybrid Grammars
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Children are extremely gifted in acquiring their native languages, but languages nevertheless change over time....
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The Phonological Mind
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Humans instinctively form words by weaving patterns of meaningless speech elements. Moreover, we do so...
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A Student Grammar of Turkish
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A Student Grammar of Turkish is a concise introduction to Turkish grammar, designed specifically for...
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Operators and Nucleus
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Dr Seuren's study deals with the problem of presenting an adequate model of grammatical description....
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Analyzing Sound Patterns
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Analyzing Sound Patterns is a clear and concise introduction to phonological phenomena, covering a wide...
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