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“tore janson”

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  • A Natural History of Latin

    by Tore Janson ...
    Beginning in Rome around 600 BC, Latin became the language of the civilized world and remained so for more than two millennia. French, Spanish, Italian, and Romanian are among its progeny and it provides the international vocabulary of law and life science. No known language, including English - itself enriched by Latin words and phrases - has achieved such success and longevity. Tore Janson tells ... Read more

    $13.29 USD

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    Linguistics falls in the gap between arts and science, on the edges of which the most fascinating discoveries and the most important problems are found. Rather than following the conventional organization of many contemporary introductions to the subject, the author of this stimulating guide begins his discussion with the oldest, 'arts' end of the subject and moves chronologically through to the ... Read more

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  • Words of the World

    A Global History of the Oxford English Dictionary

    by Sarah Ogilvie ...
    Most people think of the Oxford English Dictionary (OED) as a distinctly British product. Begun in England 150 years ago, it took more than 60 years to complete and, when it was finally finished in 1928, the British prime minister heralded it as a 'national treasure'. It maintained this image throughout the twentieth century, and in 2006 the English public voted it an 'Icon of England', alongside ... Read more

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  • A Brief History of English Syntax

    by Olga Fischer, Hendrik De Smet, Wim van der Wurff ...
    In its 1500-year history, the English language has seen dramatic grammatical changes. This book offers a comprehensive and reader-friendly account of the major developments, including changes in word order, the noun phrase and verb phrase, changing relations between clausal constituents and the development of new subordinate constructions. The book puts forward possible explanations for change, ... Read more

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  • Family Language Policy

    Maintaining an Endangered Language in the Home

    by C. Smith-Christmas ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    Based on an eight-year study of a family on the Isle of Skye, Scotland, this book explores why the children in the family do not often speak Gaelic, despite the adults' best efforts to use the language with them, as well as the children's attendance at a Gaelic immersion school. ... Read more

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  • The Comment Clause in English

    Syntactic Origins and Pragmatic Development

    by Laurel J. Brinton ...
    Series series Studies in English Language
    Although English comment clauses such as I think and you know have been widely studied, this book constitutes the first full-length diachronic treatment, focusing on comment clauses formed with common verbs of perception and cognition in a variety of syntactic forms. It understands comment clauses as causal pragmatic markers that undergo grammaticalisation, and acquire pragmatic and politeness ... Read more

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  • The Mirror of Information in Early Modern England

    John Wilkins and the Universal Character

    by James Dougal Fleming ...
    Series series History (R0)
    This book examines the seventeenth-century project for a "real" or "universal" character: a scientific and objective code. Focusing on the Essay towards a real character, and a philosophical language (1668) of the polymath John Wilkins, Fleming provides a detailed explanation of how a real character actually was supposed to work. He argues that the period movement should not be understood as a ... Read more

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  • Transcending Mission

    The Eclipse of a Modern Tradition

    by Michael W. Stroope ...
    IVP Readers' Choice AwardMission, missions, missional, and all its linguistic variations are part of the expanding vocabulary and rhetoric of the contemporary Christian missionary enterprise. Its language and assumptions are deeply ingrained in the thought and speech of the church today. Christianity is a missionary religion and faithful churches are mission-minded. What's more, in telling the ... Read more

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  • From Conversation to Oral Tradition

    A Simplest Systematics for Oral Traditions

    by Raymond F Person ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Rhetoric and Stylistics
    This book argues that many of the most prominent features of oral epic poetry in a number of traditions can best be understood as adaptations or stylizations of conversational language use, and advances the claim that if we can understand how conversation is structured, it will aid our understanding of oral traditions. In this study that carefully compares the "special grammar" of oral traditions ... Read more

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  • The Function and Use of TO and OF in Multi-Word Units

    by Michael Pace-Sigge ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    The highly frequent word items TO and OF are often conceived merely as prepositions, carrying little meaning in themselves. This book disputes that notion by analysing the usage patterns found for OF and TO in different sets of text corpora. ... Read more

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  • The Story of Be

    A Verb's-Eye View of the English Language

    by David Crystal ...
    It's the most simple, unassuming, innocent-looking verb: 'to be'. Yet it is jam-packed with more different meanings, forms, and uses than any other English word. As he reveals be's multiple incarnations, David Crystal takes us to the heart of our flexible and changing language. He tells the intriguing story in 26 chapters, each linked to a particular usage. We meet circumstantial be ('how are you? ... Read more

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  • George Sword's Warrior Narratives

    Compositional Processes in Lakota Oral Tradition

    by Delphine Red Shirt ...
    Published through the Recovering Languages and Literacies of the Americas initiative, supported by the Andrew W. Mellon FoundationThe general focus in Lakota oral literary research has been on content rather than process within oral traditions. In this groundbreaking study of the characteristics of Lakota oral style, Delphine Red Shirt shows how its composition and structure are reflected in the ... Read more

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