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Data-Intensive Investigations of English

In this collection of innovative and original articles, an international team of scholars demonstrate the newest technological trends and data-intensive technologies in the empirical study of English ling…

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Xavier Bach, Louise Esher, Sascha Gaglia
Comparative and Dialectal Approaches to Analogy

This volume brings together specialists in inflectional morphology, historical linguistics, and dialectology to explore the processes, directionality, models, and targets of morphological analogy. The cha…

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The New Cambridge History of the English Language: Volume 3

How language change manifests itself in the history of English is the primary focus of this volume. It considers the transmission of English though dictionaries and grammars down to the digital means foun…

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The Handbook of Language Contact

The second edition of the definitive reference on contact studies and linguistic change--provides extensive new research and original case studiesLanguage contact is a dynamic area of contemporary linguis…

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The Bloomsbury Handbook of Literacy

This collection of international, research-informed case studies gives a unique range of perspectives on the state of literacy in the twenty first century, as both a discipline and a function of everyday …

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Claudia Fabrizio
Alignment and Subjecthood in Latin

This book provides a detailed, empirically supported, and theoretically informed examination of alignment and subject assignment in Latin. The author challenges the myth of Latin as a language defined sol…

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Nicholas Evans, Sebastian Fedden
The Oxford Guide to the Papuan Languages

This volume presents a wide-ranging survey of the Papuan languages, spoken on the island of New Guinea and its surroundings. They make up around 12% of the world's languages, with a level of linguistic di…

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Maj-Britt Mosegaard Hansen,
Cyclic Change in Grammar and Discourse

This is an open access title available under the terms of a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 International licence. It is free to read at Oxford Academic and offered as a free PDF download from OUP and selected open acces…

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Genre in English Medical Writing, 1500-1820

"Written by an interdisciplinary team of scholars, this book offers novel perspectives on the history of medical writing and scientific thought-styles by examining patterns of change and reception in…

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Lorna Gibb
Rare Tongues

An enthralling tour of the world's rarest and most endangered languagesLanguages and cultures are becoming increasingly homogenous, with the resulting loss of a rich linguistic tapestry reflecting unique …

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James Geary
The World in a Phrase

Celebrating the short, witty, philosophical phrases known as aphorisms, this delightful history is an entertaining tour through the wisest and wittiest sayings in the world.Aphorisms are literature's hand…

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Wei Li,
Metonymy in Li Bai's Poetry

This book explores metonymic patterns in Li Bai's poetry from a cognitive poetic perspective and offers new insights into the use of metonymies in poetry more widely. Focusing more specifically on Annotat…

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Caleb Everett
A Myriad of Tongues

Exploring breakthroughs in language and cognition research, Caleb Everett finds that fundamentals of human perception are culturally encoded by the words and sentences we use. The experience of time, spac…

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Liejiong Xu, Danqing Liu,
Topic Structure of the Chinese Language

The current book is the first systematic exposition and analysis of the structure and meaning aspects of the Chinese topic-comment structure. While early analyses of the Chinese topic (and topicalization)…

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Hana Videen
The Deorhord

An entertaining tour of Old English words for animals, from the author of The Wordhord: Daily Life in Old EnglishMany of the animals we encounter in everyday life, from pets and farm animals to the wild c…

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Amalia E Gnanadesikan
The Writing Revolution

An exploration of the original Information Technology - the writing systems of historyThe Writing Revolution: Cuneiform to the Internet explores the origins, historical development, adaptations, linguisti…

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Samuel Brazys
The Invisible Hand(out)

The Invisible Hand(out): Aid, Trade, and Unequal Globalization examines the relationship between foreign aid, market access, and economic growth in developing countries during the era of globalization.

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The Oxford Guide to the Bantu Languages

This volume brings together leading scholars from Africa, Europe, the Americas and beyond to provide a detailed account of the languages of the Bantu family, which cover an area from Cameroon and Kenya in…

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Martin E Huld
Naming the Horse

In Naming the Horse, author Martin E. Huld explains the basis of linguistic palaeontology, the reconstruction and analysis of past cultures through the words such cultures used to describe and define the …

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The Oxford Guide to the Languages of the Central Andes

This volume presents the first comprehensive overview in English of the languages of the Central Andes, spoken primarily in Peru and Bolivia. Chapters provide detailed descriptions of individual languages…

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