(Išleidimo metai: 24-Apr-2025, Hardback, Leidėjas: William Collins, ISBN-13: 9780008626525)
The fascinating story of ancient words new revelations await The Guardian A magisterial feat New Scientist ________________________________...Daugiau...
Serija: Beihefte zur Zeitschrift fur Romanische Philologie
(Išleidimo metai: 14-Oct-2025, Hardback, Leidėjas: De Gruyter, ISBN-13: 9783111484273)
This volume gathers a thematic selection of scientific contributions presented at the 17th Cambridge Italian Dialect Syntax-Morphology Meeting (Zurich, 1113 September 2023). The chapters address linguistic phenomena at the intersection of syntax...Daugiau...
From the author of the New York Times bestseller Word Freak, a vibrant, lively, and illuminating journey through the exotic world of Merriam-Webster, dictionaries, and language, at a time of rapid-fire change in the way we create,...Daugiau...
This collection explores the global impact of English through fact-based and contrastive analyses of different types of Anglicisms across a wide range of languages.The volume showcases the ways in which contact-induced language change opera...Daugiau...
In this volume, the author provides an overview of English concepts of translation into the vernacular from 1475 to 1611, the main period of the English Renaissance. The corpus consists of more than 200 documents, all of which are the front matters o...Daugiau...
Systems of Social Action delves into the intricate world of social interactions through the lens of everyday requests, showing how our simplest ordinary actions are tied to complex social dynamics. It demonstrates that requesting is more tha...Daugiau...
Did you know that an astronaut is literally a star sailor, that a thesaurus is, in fact, a treasure trove of words, and that someone who is sinister is actually just left-handed? Have you ever wondered why E...Daugiau...
Serija: Oxford Studies in Diachronic and Historical Linguistics
(Išleidimo metai: 09-Oct-2025, Hardback, Leidėjas: Oxford University Press, ISBN-13: 9780198943167)
This book provides an in-depth examination of alignment and subject assignment in Latin. Claudia Fabrizio challenges the myth of Latin as a language defined solely by a nominative-accusative alignment system through a comprehensive analysis of a wid...Daugiau...
(Išleidimo metai: 09-Oct-2025, Hardback, Leidėjas: Michael Joseph Ltd, ISBN-13: 9780241736609)
The Rosetta Stone for modern times Graydon Carter This truly remarkable book is quite unlike any other work of etymology or entertainment Andrew Roberts Ben Schott cannot write an inelegant sentence The Times -------...Daugiau...
Serija: Trends in Linguistics. Studies and Monographs [TiLSM]
(Išleidimo metai: 06-Oct-2025, Hardback, Leidėjas: De Gruyter Mouton, ISBN-13: 9783110999839)
The tendency to view grammar in isolation from multilingual settings is so pervasive that even modern approaches do not often overcome the monolingual paradigm. At the same time, the effects of language contact very clearly manifest themselves, as...Daugiau...
(Išleidimo metai: 02-Oct-2025, Hardback, Leidėjas: Black and White Publishing, ISBN-13: 9781785307430)
Every single one of the letters youre reading right now can tell a fascinating story, having been on a long linguistic, historical, political and social journey to reach this very page. The English alphabet is a tool that weve inherited...Daugiau...
Originally published in 1969, this book examines the factors which at different historical periods led people to use one language (Swahili) rather than another, or within a given period, to use a particular language in one set of circumstan...Daugiau...
(Išleidimo metai: 30-Sep-2025, Hardback, Leidėjas: Cambridge University Press, ISBN-13: 9781108834070)
Designed specifically for class use, this text guides students through developing their own full, working constructed language. It introduces basic concepts and the decisions students need to make about their conlangs speakers and world, before walk...Daugiau...
A complete, example-rich guide for students on developing their own full, working constructed language. Containing over 70 end-of-chapter exercises for testing understanding and building a conlang, as well as advanced material sections, it is ideal f...Daugiau...
Serija: Oxford Studies in Diachronic and Historical Linguistics
(Išleidimo metai: 30-Sep-2025, Hardback, Leidėjas: Oxford University Press, ISBN-13: 9780198888741)
This volume brings together specialists in inflectional morphology, historical linguistics, and dialectology to explore the processes, directionality, models, and targets of morphological analogy. The chapters draw on atlas data and historical source...Daugiau...
The Scots language is the hidden treasure of Scottish culture. For many of us it is still how we speak to each other, how we express our feelings, our humour, even our Scottishness. It not only connects us to our communities at an emotional level bu...Daugiau...
Serija: The New Cambridge History of the English Language
(Išleidimo metai: 30-Sep-2025, Hardback, Leidėjas: Cambridge University Press, ISBN-13: 9781009205689)
This volume investigates the Indo-European and Germanic background to the English language and then considers various kinds of contact involving the first speakers of English. It also examines the manner in which English developed and the structural...Daugiau...
Serija: The New Cambridge History of the English Language
(Išleidimo metai: 30-Sep-2025, Hardback, Leidėjas: Cambridge University Press, ISBN-13: 9781009205450)
Various kinds of text which document the history of English form the focus of the current volume. Vernacular speech in writing and orality along with issues of literacy and manuscripts are highlighted. The value of text corpora in the collection and...Daugiau...
Bringing together a collection of conversations with leading lexicographers from around the world, this innovative book explores the role dictionaries have played in history. Covering twenty different languages, it is essential reading for academic...Daugiau...
(Išleidimo metai: 30-Sep-2025, Hardback, Leidėjas: Cambridge University Press, ISBN-13: 9781009392419)
Bringing together a collection of conversations with leading lexicographers from around the world, this innovative book explores the role dictionaries have played in history. Covering twenty different languages, it is essential reading for academic...Daugiau...
Dieses Buch bietet eine ausführliche etymologische Analyse von 210 synchron undurchsichtigen Adjektiven des Tocharischen. Viele dieser Adjektive galten bisher als unerklärt. Die vorgeschlagenen Etymologien geben uns neue Einblicke in die sprachliche...Daugiau...
