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Designed primarily as a textbook for linguistics and philology students, this book will also be of interest to those studying English language, ... More

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The Handbook of Language Contact offers systematic coverage of the major issues in this field - ranging from the value of contact explanations in ... More

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Containing tales of historical-sociolinguistic detection, this book provides a unique insight into how language contact shapes varieties of English.

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The contributors to this collection address issues of definition and theory of linguistic areas, analyze the process of convergence, and introduce ... More

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The present volume examines the ways in which linguistic traits may change in a contact situation. It contains an encyclopaedic introduction, which ... More

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The papers in this collection throw fresh light on the relation between language contact and contrastive linguistics. The book focuses equally on the ... More

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The papers in this collection throw fresh light on the relation between language contact and contrastive linguistics. The book focuses equally on the ... More

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Foreigners often say that English language is "easy." A language like Spanish is challenging in its variety of verb endings (the verb speak is ... More

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This major new work explores the development of creoles and other new languages.

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The Pacific is historically an area of enormous linguistic diversity, where talk figures as a central component of social life. Pacific communities ... More

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This remains the fundamental base for studies of multilingual communities and language shift. Weinreich laid out the concepts, principles and issues ... More

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In this book, contributors have been brought together to discuss the role of two major factors shaping the grammars of different varieties of English ... More

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Post nineteen eighties, what made English translation from Indian languages a culturally desirable activity? This question leads Kothari to examine ... More

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The two text volumes cover a large geographical area, including Australia, New Zealand, Melanesia, South -East Asia (Insular and Continental), ... More

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Language complexity has recently attracted considerable attention from linguists of many different persuasions. This volume a thematic selection of ... More

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Hoza uses variables in how English speakers and native ASL signers express politeness as a comparison of the two language communities' styles.

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The papers in this collection present a view of language as an evolving system within which flexibility is systemic and subject to progressive change ... More

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