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1	Our Magnificent Bastard Tongue: The Untold Story of English more books like this by John McWhorter add to wishlist A survey of the quirks and quandaries of the English language, this work focuses on its strange and wonderful grammar. Delving into provocative topics and more, "Our Magnificent Bastard Language" distills hundreds of years of fascinating lore into one lively history. see all copies from $2.88! new only from $3.97! \| first editions \| SVS
2	Consequences of Contact: Language Ideologies and Sociocultural Transformations in Pacific Societies more books like this by Bambi B Schieffelin (Editor), Miki Makihara (Editor) add to wishlist The Pacific is historically an area of enormous linguistic diversity, where talk figures as a central component of social life. Pacific communities also represent diverse contact zones, where between indigenous and introduced institutions and ideas; between local actors and outsiders; and involving different lingua franca, colonial, and local ... see all copies from $3.40! new only from $4.98! \| first editions \| SVS
3	Historical Linguistics more books like this by Theodora Bynon add to wishlist Historical Linguistics is concerned with the process of language change through time. It investigates how and why the language of individuals, a social group or a whole 'speech community' develops in respect of its pronunciation, vocabulary and grammar. Dr Bynon regards language as essentially a dynamic phenomenon, whose character can be at best ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $39.59! \| first editions \| SVS
4	The Ecology of Language Evolution more books like this by Salikoko S Mufwene (Editor), Robert Chaudenson (Editor), Braj B Kachru (Editor) add to wishlist This major new work explores the development of creoles and other new languages, focusing on the conceptual and methodological issues they raise for genetic linguistics. Written by an internationally renowned linguist, the book discusses the nature and significance of internal and external factors or 'ecologies' that bear on the evolution of a ... see all copies from $32.46! new only from $32.46! \| SVS
5	Language Creation and Language Change: Creolization, Diachrony, and Development more books like this by Michel De Graff (Editor) add to wishlist This text is organized into five parts: creolization and acquisition; acquisition under exceptional circumstances; language processing and syntactic change; parameter setting in acquisition and through creolization and language change; and a concluding part integrating the contributors' observations and proposals into a series of commentaries on ... see all copies from $6.69! new only from $6.69! \| first editions
6	Language Contact and Grammatical Change more books like this by Bernd Heine, Tania Kuteva, Salikoko S Mufwene (Editor) add to wishlist The phenomenon of language contact, and how it affects the structure of languages, has been of great interest to linguists. This study looks at how grammatical forms and structures evolve when speakers of two languages come into contact, and offers an interesting insight into the mechanism that induces people to transfer grammatical structures ... see all copies from $37.07! new only from $37.07! \| first editions \| SVS
7	The Bilingual Child: Early Development and Language Contact more books like this by Virginia Yip, Stephen Matthews add to wishlist From the authors' dual perspectives as parent-researchers, case studies are presented of how six children became bilingual in Cantonese and English given exposure to both languages from birth. The book gives a detailed account of how childhood bilingualism develops naturally in response to languages in their environment. see all copies from $16.20! new only from $16.20!
8	Dynamics of Language Contact: English and Immigrant Languages more books like this by Michael Clyne, Salikoko S Mufwene (Editor), Robert Chaudenson (Editor) add to wishlist The past decade has seen an unprecedented growth in the study of language contact, associated partly with the linguistic effects of globalization and increased migration all over the world. Written by a leading expert in the field, this much-needed account brings together disparate findings to examine the dynamics of contact between languages in ... see all copies from $23.44! new only from $24.16! \| SVS
9	Languages in Contact: The Partial Restructuring of Vernaculars more books like this by John Holm add to wishlist There is widespread agreement that certain non-Creole language varieties are structurally quite different from the European languages out of which they grew; however, until recently, linguists have found difficulty in accounting for either their genesis or their synchronic structure. This study argues that the transmission of source languages from ... see all copies from $27.98! new only from $32.40! \| SVS
10	Algeria in Others' Languages more books like this by Anne-Emmanuelle Berger (Editor) add to wishlist For decades the superimposition of languages in Algeria has had growing cultural and political consequences. The relations between identity and language, already complicated before independence, became all the more entangled after 1962 when the new state imposed standard Arabic as the sole national language. The vernacular brand of Arabic spoken ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $6.00!
11 view cover	Intercultural Language Use and Language Learning more books like this by Eva Alcn Soler (Editor), Maria Pilar Safont Jord (Editor), Eva Alca3n Soler (Editor) add to wishlist This volume attempts to address an issue that deserves further attention on the part of language acquisition researchers: that of intercultural learners in instructed language contexts. Given the fact that most speech communities where such learning takes place are at least bilingual, and the idea that English is studied for the purposes of ... see all copies from $88.86! new only from $88.86! \| first editions \| SVS
12 view cover	Analysing English in a Global Context: A Reader more books like this by Anne Burns (Editor), Caroline Coffin (Editor) add to wishlist Analysing English in a Global Context offers a global perspective on the changing uses and forms of English and develops the skills needed to analyse these forms. Together with its companion volumes, it presents English language teaching in a variety of specific institutional, geographic, and cultural contexts. This Reader addresses key ... see all copies from $41.59! new only from $41.59!
13 view cover	Language and History in the Early Germanic World more books like this by D H Green add to wishlist This book offers a distinctive and accessible approach to the earliest encounters of the Germanic tribes of Northern Europe with classical antiquity and with early Christianity. It brings together linguistic evidence from across Europe and dating from before Caesar to about 900 AD, to shed light on important aspects of Germanic culture. It shows ... see all copies from $36.62! new only from $37.90! \| SVS
14 view cover	Contact Linguistics: Bilingual Encounters and Grammatical Outcomes more books like this by Carol Myers-Scotton add to wishlist Contact Linguistics is a critical investigation of what happens to the grammars of languages when bilingual speakers use both their languages in the same clause. It consolidates earlier insights and presents the new theoretical and empirical work of a scholar whose ideas have had a fundamental impact on the field. It also shows that bilingual data ... see all copies from $54.75! new only from $56.40!
15 view cover	English in Language Shift: The History, Structure and Sociolinguistics of South African Indian English more books like this by Rajend Mesthrie add to wishlist Rajend Mesthrie examines the rise of a new variety of English among Indian migrant workers indentured on the plantations of Natal in South Africa. Considering the historical background to, and linguistic consequences of, language shift in an immigrant context, he draws significant parallels between second language acquisition and the processes of ... see all copies from $15.71! new only from $41.33! \| SVS
16 view cover	Alchemy of English more books like this by Braj B Kachru add to wishlist see all copies from $12.04! new only from $28.55!
17 view cover	Spanish in the United States: Sociolinguistic Aspects more books like this by Jon Amastae (Photographer), Lucia Elias-Olivares (Photographer) add to wishlist When this book was first published in 1982, there were approximately eleven million Spanish-speaking people in the United States. This volume constitutes a comprehensive and accessible set of readings on the Spanish spoken in the United States. The authors examine various aspects of language structure and language use by the American Chicano, ... see all copies from $15.98! new only from $33.69! \| first editions \| SVS
18 view cover	Analyzing Variation in Language: Papers from the Second Colloquium on New Ways of Analyzing Variation more books like this by Ralph W Fasold (Editor), Dr. Roger W Shuy (Editor) add to wishlist see all copies from $4.20! new only from $19.72! \| first editions \| SVS
19 view cover	Grammars in Contact: A Cross-Linguistic Typology more books like this by Alexandra Y Aikhenvald (Editor), R M W Dixon (Editor) add to wishlist Languages can be similar in many ways - they can resemble each other in categories, constructions and meanings, and in the actual forms used to express these. A shared feature may be based on common genetic origin, or result from geographic proximity and borrowing. Some aspects of grammar are spread more readily than others. The question is - ... see all copies from $37.56! new only from $37.56! \| SVS
20	Melanesian Pidgin and the Oceanic Substrate more books like this by Roger M Keesing add to wishlist Topics in this volume include: interlingual contact in the Pacific to the mid-19th century; the Sandalwood period; the Tok Pisin language; oceanic Austronesian languages; structures and sources of pidgin syntax; the pidgin pronominal system; and calquing - pidgin and Solomons languages. see all copies from $9.90! new only from $63.95! \| first editions
21 view cover	Contested Tongues: Language Politics and Cultural Correction in Ukraine more books like this by Laada Bilaniuk add to wishlist During the controversial 2004 elections that led to the "Orange Revolution" in Ukraine, cultural and linguistic differences threatened to break apart the country. "Contested Tongues" explains the complex linguistic and cultural politics in a bilingual country where the two main languages are closely related but their statuses are hotly contested. ... see all copies from $4.47! new only from $19.71! \| SVS
22 view cover	Language Contact, Creolization, and Genetic Linguistics more books like this by Sarah Grey Thomason add to wishlist Ten years of research back up the theory advanced by author Thomason and Kaufman, who rescue the study of contact-induced language change from the neglect it has suffered. The authors establish a new framework for the historical analysis of all degrees of contact-induced language change. see all copies from $9.04! new only from $31.30! \| first editions \| SVS
23 view cover	Voices of Our Ancestors: Language Contact in Early South Carolina more books like this by Patricia Causey Nichols (Editor) add to wishlist This is an exploration of diverse linguistic underpinnings in South Carolina's social history.In "Voices of Our Ancestors", Patricia Causey Nichols offers the first detailed linguistic history of South Carolina as she explores the contacts between distinctive language cultures in the colonial and early federal eras and studies the dialects that ... see all copies from $29.25! new only from $34.13! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
24 view cover	When Languages Collide: Perspectives on Language Conflict, Compe and Coexistence more books like this by Professor Bruce Bueno de Mesquita, Brian D Joseph, Johanna DeStefano add to wishlist see all copies from $17.60! new only from $53.46! \| first editions
25 view cover	Language Interrupted: Signs of Non-Native Acquisition in Standard Language Grammars more books like this by John McWhorter add to wishlist Foreigners often say that English language is "easy." A language like Spanish is challenging in its variety of verb endings (the verb speak is conjugated hablo, hablas, hablamos), and gender for nouns, whereas English is more straight forward (I speak, you speak, we speak). But linguists generally swat down claims that certain languages are ... see all copies from $49.75! new only from $49.75!

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