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

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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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Recent developments in contact linguistics suggest considerable overlap of branches such as historical linguistics, variationist sociolinguistics, ... More

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The four plays of Shakespeare's Henriad and the slightly later Hamlet brilliantly explore interconnections between political power and interior ... More

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The volume contains 13 specially written specialist articles on a wide range of subjects within the ambit of the history of the English language and ... More

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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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Examines the early linguistic development of children bilingual in English and Cantonese.

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A cogent, freshly written synthesis of new and classic work on crosslinguistic influence, or language transfer, this book is an authoritative account ... More

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More than forty years ago it was demonstrated that the African continent can be divided into four distinct language families. Research on African ... More

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Language Evolution examines this processes by which languages change, from the macroecological perspective of competition and natural selection.

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This book considers the processes involved in language change and how they can be modelled and studied.

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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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This book presents linguistic evidence for many aspects of pre-Christian and early medieval European culture.

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A comprehensive and diverse examination of the effects of globalization on languages in Africa, aimed at students and researchers interested in ... More

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As our millennium draws to a close, we find ourselves in the midst of great and rapid global changes with nations and political systems dissolving ... More

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This volume brings together a multiplicity of voices, both theoretical and practical, on the complex politics, challenges, and strategies of ... More

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Sociolinguists have been pursuing connections between language and identity for several decades. But how are language and identity related in ... More

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This volume attempts to address an issue that deserves further attention on the part of language acquisition researchers: that of intercultural ... More

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