Like its prequel, this book examines the nature/nurture debate in language, while also asking how language came to be part of our human nature in the course of evolution. Considering the multidisciplinary context of these debates, this book is ess...Loe edasi...
Sari: Beihefte zur Zeitschrift fur Romanische Philologie
(Ilmumisaeg: 01-Jun-2026, Hardback, Kirjastus: De Gruyter, ISBN-13: 9783111471556)
The Romance languages are primarily described in terms of their existence in Europe and America. French and Portuguese, in particular, are also widely spoken in Africa, where Spanish and faint traces of Italian can be found as well. This book exp...Loe edasi...
How did the rise of polite society change the language of literature? What was the effect of Romanticism on poetic word order? How does knowing the answers to these questions alter the meaning of a text for us?Reading literature is a quest...Loe edasi...
Pointing is a fundamental gesture that connects individuals to their social and physical worlds, opening our eyes to important questions about language, cognition, and child development. Spanning psychology, anthropology, and animal behavior, this b...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 31-May-2026, Hardback, Kirjastus: Cambridge University Press, ISBN-13: 9781009445733)
Pointing is a fundamental gesture that connects individuals to their social and physical worlds, opening our eyes to important questions about language, cognition, and child development. Spanning psychology, anthropology, and animal behavior, this b...Loe edasi...
This Language, A River is an introduction to the history of English that recognizes multiple varieties of the language in both current and historical contexts. The book aims to enable students to both grasp traditional histories of Englis...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 31-May-2026, Hardback, Kirjastus: Cambridge University Press, ISBN-13: 9781009676052)
Higher education faculty differ in age from their students, and these age differences may relate to social and cultural differences. As an aspect of culture, different social groups adopt different slang vocabularies. This Element explores the natur...Loe edasi...
Higher education faculty differ in age from their students, and these age differences may relate to social and cultural differences. As an aspect of culture, different social groups adopt different slang vocabularies. This Element explores the natur...Loe edasi...
The current book is the first systematic exposition and analysis of the structure and meaning aspects of the Chinese topic-comment structure. While early analyses of the Chinese topic (and topicalization) phenomena abound, in terms of its theoreti...Loe edasi...
This volume introduces Alikyi, an Iranian language spoken on the southern fringe of the Alborz Mountains south of the Caspian Sea. The book offers a fresh perspective on Caspian linguistics. Highlighting the languages most significant featuressuch a...Loe edasi...
This handbook provides a detailed and comprehensive overview of the current state of research in Celtic Language Studies, covering both existing and emerging scholarship and debate in the field, as well as containing new, cutting-edge research and...Loe edasi...
This book guides us from the very beginnings of African oral traditions, through the whole range of theories and contexts, and right up to the modern technological age. With key questions, exercises and further reading to guide readers at the end...Loe edasi...
This book guides us from the very beginnings of African oral traditions, through the whole range of theories and contexts, and right up to the modern technological age. With key questions, exercises and further reading to guide readers at the end...Loe edasi...
This collection provides a broad account of variationist sociolinguistic research on varieties of German, with the goals to encourage greater geolinguistic diversity in the field and to expand our understanding of language variation and change....Loe edasi...
Zhangs book focuses on the analysis of the socio-historical context, linguistic patterns of discursive construction, and media representations of the Chinese Dream in Mainland China, Hong Kong and the United States....Loe edasi...
The archaeologist, philologist, and Linguistics theoretician Nikolai Marr has attracted increasing scholarly attention as a pivotal figure of early Soviet cultural politics and an early anticolonial theorist. This volume offers a representative sele...Loe edasi...
This book delves into Benjamin Franklins English, illustrating the variable nature of 18th-century American English and his stylistic manipulation of the potentiality of English. This book is a fantastic reference for students and scholar...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 15-May-2026, Hardback, Kirjastus: John Benjamins Publishing Co, ISBN-13: 9789027232007)
Understanding how emotions are clustered and labelled across languages offers fascinating insights into cultural differences and universals. This book delves into this very topic, analysing similarities and contrasts between Polish and English groupi...Loe edasi...
This is the first detailed overall account of Neo-Aramaic. The book includes not only diachronic and synchronic linguistic information, but also presents details of the minority communities (Jews, Christians and Mandaeans) who speak (or until recentl...Loe edasi...
During World War I in Urmia, Russian consul Basil Nikitin and Kurdish Mullah Sa’id of Shamdinan collaborated to document Kurdish language and culture. This volume presents 62 texts in English translation, with context, glossary, map, and indices, cap...Loe edasi...
Language is a uniquely human trait, but we rarely stop to examine its workings in everyday life. This lively and readable book introduces readers to the study of language in a scientific, objective way. It demonstrates the nuts and bolts of how hu...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 14-May-2026, Hardback, Kirjastus: Cambridge University Press, ISBN-13: 9781009658294)
Language is a uniquely human trait, but we rarely stop to examine its workings in everyday life. This lively and readable book introduces readers to the study of language in a scientific, objective way. It demonstrates the nuts and bolts of how hu...Loe edasi...
This is the first full-length monograph published on one of the most intriguing and knotty challenges of the Biblical Hebrew verbal system: the so-called prophetic perfect or prophetic use of qal. This study takes a strong linguistic approach, impro...Loe edasi...
This book challenges the long-held theory that the English pronouns they, their, them are loanwords from Old Norse, arguing instead that the pronouns ultimately derive from the Old English demonstratives þa – þara – þ...Loe edasi...
This book proposes a step-by-step process by which the early evolution of human language originated. Starting from an ape-like communication system, pre-human ancestors were “pumped” out of the rainforest by cyclic climate changes between 10 and 6 M...Loe edasi...
Sari: The New Cambridge History of the English Language
(Ilmumisaeg: 07-May-2026, Hardback, Kirjastus: Cambridge University Press, ISBN-13: 9781009206204)
This volume, split into two parts, looks at varieties of English in Africa, Asia, Australasia and the Pacific. Introductory chapters deal with the colonial transportation of English overseas and the generic types of English which resulted: first-lan...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 07-May-2026, Paperback / softback, Kirjastus: William Collins, ISBN-13: 9780008626563)
*A GUARDIAN AND WATERSTONES BOOK OF THE YEAR 2025* The fascinating story of ancient words new revelations await The Guardian A magisterial feat New Scientist...Loe edasi...
With contributions from the leading scholars in the field, this landmark work provides insights into current research and methodology on the history of the English language. It is organised in a user-friendly way to enable both scholars and students...Loe edasi...
Sari: The New Cambridge History of the English Language
(Ilmumisaeg: 07-May-2026, Hardback, Kirjastus: Cambridge University Press, ISBN-13: 9781009748179)
This volume, split into two parts, looks at varieties of English in Africa, Asia, Australasia and the Pacific. Introductory chapters deal with the colonial transportation of English overseas and the generic types of English which resulted: first-lan...Loe edasi...
