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“robert mccoll millar”

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  • Linguistic Contact and Language Change

    An Introduction

    by Robert McColl Millar ...
    Linguistic contact is a reality of everyday life, as speakers of different languages come into contact with one another, often causing language change. This undergraduate textbook provides a means by which these processes, both modern and historical, can be analysed, based on cutting-edge theoretical and methodological practices. Chapters cover language death, the development of pidgins and ... Read more

    $27.09 USD

  • Trask's Historical Linguistics

    by Robert McColl Millar, R L Trask ...
    Trask’s Historical Linguistics provides an accessible introduction to historical linguistics – the study of language change over time. This engaging book is illustrated with language examples from all six continents, and covers the fundamental concepts of language change, methods for historical linguistics, linguistic reconstruction, sociolinguistic aspects of language change, language contact, ... Read more

    $51.99 USD

  • A History of the Scots Language

    by Robert McColl Millar ...
    This book provides a thorough yet approachable history of the Scots language, a close relative of Standard English with around 1.5 million speakers in Scotland and several thousand in Ireland, according to the 2011 census. Despite the long history of Scots as a language of high literature, it has been somewhat neglected and has often been treated as a dialect of Standard English. In this book, ... Read more

    $34.19 USD

  • Sociolinguistic History of Scotland

    by Robert McColl Millar ...

    $25.99 USD

  • English Historical Sociolinguistics

    by Robert McColl Millar ...
    Series series Edinburgh Textbooks on the English Language - Advanced

    $30.69 USD

  • Modern Scots

    An Analytical Survey

    by Robert McColl Millar ...
    Series series Edinburgh Textbooks on the English Language - Advanced

    $30.69 USD

  • Contact

    The Interaction of Closely Related Linguistic Varieties and the History of English

    by Robert McColl Millar ...

    $27.99 USD

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  • The Concise Oxford Companion to the English Language

    Edited by Tom McArthur, Roshan McArthur ...
    Series series Oxford Quick Reference
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    The Oxford Companion to the English Language provides an authoritative single-volume source of information about the English language. It is intended both for reference and for browsing. The first edition of this landmark Companion, published in 1998, adopted a strong international perspective, covering topics from Cockney to Creole, Aboriginal English to Caribbean English and a historical range ... Read more

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  • The Oxford Handbook of Names and Naming

    Edited by Carole Hough ...
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    In this handbook, scholars from around the world offer an up-to-date account of the state of the art in different areas of onomastics, in a format that is both useful to specialists in related fields and accessible to the general reader. Since Ancient Greece, names have been regarded as central to the study of language, and this has continued to be a major theme of both philosophical and ... Read more

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  • Linguistics: A Complete Introduction: Teach Yourself

    by David Hornsby ...
    Written by David Hornsby, who is a current Linguistics lecturer and researcher at theUniversity of Kent, Linguistics - The Essentials is designed to give you everything you need to succeed, all in one place. It covers the key areas that students are expected to be confident in, outlining the basics in clear jargon-free English, and then providing added value features like summaries of key books, ... Read more

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