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“ruth sander”

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  • German

    Biography of a Language

    by Ruth Sanders ...
    Thousands of years ago, seafront clans in Denmark began speaking the earliest form of Germanic language--the first of six "signal events" that Ruth Sanders highlights in this marvelous history of the German language. Blending linguistic, anthropological, and historical research, Sanders presents a brilliant biography of the language as it evolved across the millennia. She sheds light on the ... Read more

    $28.79 USD

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  • How Language Works

    by David Crystal ...
    In this fascinating survey of everything from how sounds become speech to how names work, David Crystal answers every question you might ever have had about the nuts and bolts of language in his usual highly illuminating way. Along the way we find out about eyebrow flashes, whistling languages, how parents teach their children to speak, how politeness travels across languages and how the way we ... Read more

    $12.79 USD

  • The Naming of the Shrew

    A Curious History of Latin Names

    by John Wright ...
    Latin names – frequently unpronounceable, all too often wrong and always a tiny puzzle to unravel – have been annoying the layman since they first became formalised as scientific terms in the eighteenth century.Why on earth has the entirely land-loving Eastern Mole been named Scalopus aquaticus, or the Oxford Ragwort been called Senecio squalidus – 'dirty old man'? What were naturalists thinking ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • Introducing Linguistics

    A Graphic Guide

    by R. L. Trask ...
    Series Book 0 - Graphic Guides
    Covering thinkers from Aristotle to Saussure and Chomsky, "Introducing Linguistics" reveals the rules and beauty that underlie language, our most human skill. ... Read more

    $6.79 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Linguistic modality in Shakespeare Troilus and Cressida: A casa study

    by Iolanda Plescia ...
    Questo saggio è una originale applicazione di nozioni linguistiche e storico-linguistiche allo shakespeariano Troilus and Cressida. La ricognizione che troviamo nel case study prescelto conduce ad una approfondita interpretazione dei personaggi e del loro rapporto, coniugando nella lettura le istanze e le modalità della linguistica applicata e della critica letteraria. ... Read more

    $1.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Foundations of Language

    Brain, Meaning, Grammar, Evolution

    by Ray Jackendoff ...
    How does human language work? How do we put ideas into words that others can understand? Can linguistics shed light on the way the brain operates? Foundations of Language puts linguistics back at the centre of the search to understand human consciousness. Ray Jackendoff begins by surveying the developments in linguistics over the years since Noam Chomsky's Aspects of the Theory of Syntax. He goes ... Read more

    $37.79 USD

  • Southern Gaul and the Mediterranean

    Multilingualism and Multiple Identities in the Iron Age and Roman Periods

    by Alex Mullen ...
    Series series Cambridge Classical Studies
    The interactions of the Celtic-speaking communities of Southern Gaul with the Mediterranean world have intrigued commentators since antiquity. This book combines sociolinguistics and archaeology to bring to life the multilingualism and multiple identities of the region from the foundation of the Greek colony of Massalia in 600 BC to the final phases of Roman Imperial power. It builds on the ... Read more

    $47.59 USD

  • The Italian Language Today

    by Anna Laura Lepschy, Guilio Lepschy ...
    'a truly authoritative short Italian grammar ... possibly the best concise account now available in any language' - The Times Literary Supplement 'a stimulating and scholarly introduction to Italian for the serious student. It contains a great deal of original material and the authors' unequivocal attitudes to the linguistic reality of modern Italy...make it important that it should be read and ... Read more

    $61.99 USD

  • Prescription and Tradition in Language

    Establishing Standards across Time and Space

    Edited by Prof. Carol Percy, Ingrid Tieken-Boon van Ostade ...
    Series Book 165 - Multilingual Matters
    This book contextualises case studies across a wide variety of languages and cultures, crystallising key interrelationships between linguistic standardisation and prescriptivism, and between ideas and practices. It focuses on different traditions of standardisation and prescription throughout the world and addresses questions such as how nationalistic idealisations of ‘traditional’ language ... Read more

    $23.79 USD

  • Oscan in the Greek Alphabet

    by Nicholas Zair ...
    Series series Cambridge Classical Studies
    Oscan was spoken in Southern Italy in the second half of the first millennium BC. Here, for the first time, all the evidence for the spelling of Oscan in the Greek alphabet is collected and examined. Understanding the orthography of these inscriptions has far-reaching implications for the historical phonology and morphology of Oscan and the Italic languages (for example providing unique evidence ... Read more

    $109.09 USD

  • The Non-Surviving Preterite-Present Verbs in English

    The Demise of *dugan, munan, *-nugan, *þurfan, and unnan

    by Anna Wojtyś ...
    Series Book 51 - Studies in English Medieval Language and Literature
    Based on four historical corpora, the book is a comprehensive study of the demise of five preterite-present verbs in English. It offers a detailed description of their distribution in Old and Middle English. The subsequent comparison of the forms and uses of the preterite-presents in the two periods allows the author to suggest the reasons for their elimination from the language. The discussion ... Read more

    $68.29 USD

  • Researching Chinese English: the State of the Art

    Edited by Zhichang Xu, Deyuan He, David Deterding ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    This volume offers a timely collection of original research papers on the various features and issues surrounding Chinese English, one of the varieties in World Englishes with a large and increasing number of learners and users. The five sections entitled ‘Researching Chinese English Pronunciation’, ‘Researching Chinese English Lexis, Grammar and Pragmatics’, ‘Researching Perceptions, Attitudes ... Read more

    $89.09 USD