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Sign Languages
Ed. Diane Brentari
What are the unique characteristics of sign languages and what can they tell us about language more generally? This volume comprises 25 chapters by an international team of scholars, who discuss more than 40 sign languages, old and young, around the world, providing a wealth of linguistic and anthropological information on such topics as the languages’ history and transmission, their grammatical structures and variation both within and between languages.

£119.99

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Insider's Spanish
Intermediate Conversation Course
Virginia Catmur;Jennifer Stanley-Smith
Designed for all intermediate learners, as well as those following the Michel Thomas method, this conversational course focuses on colloquial language and the conversation strategies used by native Spanish speakers. The ten lessons cover a range of topics and aim to advance overall fluency, expand vocabulary and improve listening, comprehension and grammar. The boxed set comprises a text book, one MP3 CD-ROM and one interactive CD-ROM.

£39.99

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Globalization and Language Vitality
Perspectives from Black Africa
Cecile Vigouroux
Slightly off-mint.

£85.00

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Premodifiers in English
Their Structures and Significance
Jim Feist

£66.00

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Communicating Early English Manuscripts
Ed. Päivi Pahta;Andreas H Jucker
Covering a wide range of genres, this study of the communicative aspects of English manuscripts from the 14th to 19th centuries demonstrates how handwritten texts can be used to analyse the history of language as communication between individuals and groups.

£71.00

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The Lesser-Known Varieties of English
An Introduction
Daniel Schreier;et al
Providing sociolinguistic and historical information on lesser-known native varieties of English around the world, this volume comprises 18 essays arranged by region, from Orkney and Shetland to Pitcairn Island.

£64.00

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Neutralization
Daniel Silverman
Addressed to advanced students of phonological theory, this text considers the concept of neutralization from many different theoretical perspectives and schools of linguistic thought and discusses both its function-negative and function-positive roles.

£69.99

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Onsets
Suprasegmental and Prosodic Behaviour
Nina Topintzi

£70.00

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£5.99
A Theory of Syntax
Minimal Operations and Universal Grammar
Norbert Hornstein

£64.99

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£40.00
Why Do Languages Change?
RL Trask

£64.99

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£14.99
The Cambridge Handbook of Pragmatics
Ed. Keith Allan;Ed. Kasia M Jaszczolt

£110.00

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£12.99
Evolving English Wordbank
A Glossary of Present-Day English Dialect and Slang
Jonathan Robinson
Jonathan Robinson curates the British Museum's archive of sound recordings illustrating British accents and dialects. He has compiled this quirky yet fascinating glossary by using such audio material collected from present-day dialect speakers, as well as old dictionaries' evidence of historical usage, so that the Wordbank not only provides a snapshot of vernacular English in the early 21st century but also reveals the ancient origins of many words and phrases in use today.

£12.99

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Language Classification by Numbers
April McMahon;Robert McMahon

£75.00

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£5.99
Field Linguistics
A Beginner's Guide
Terry Crowley

£95.00

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Sound Structure in Language
Jorgen Rischel

£89.00

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£5.99
Tense and Aspect in Bantu
Derek Nurse

£100.00

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£39.00
Functional Categories
Pieter Muysken

£28.99

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£9.99
Inflectional Identity
Asaf Bachrach;Andrew Nevins

£90.00

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Words, Meaning and Vocabulary
An Introduction to Modern English Lexicology
Howard Jackson;Etienne Ze Amvela
A systematic and accessible introduction to the lexicology of modern English, exploring the sources of modern English words and the development of vocabulary over time, looking meanings. 9”x7”

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£15.99
English Collocation Studies
The OSTI Report
John M Sinclair;Susan Jones;Robert Daley
No jacket.

£75.00

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Portraits of Linguistics: A Biographical Source Book for the History
Of Western Linguistics, 1746-1963 (Two volumes)
Thomas A Sebeok

£160.00

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£8.99
Hand Talk
Sign Language among American Indian Nations
Jeffrey E Davis
A sign language that cut across language barriers played a crucial role among the various Indian nations, and it survives today. This book contains a comprehensive description of the language, from phonology to discourse, and compares it with other sign languages.

£69.99

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Translation
Susan Bassnett (The University of Warwick, UK)
Each of these invaluable introductory guides to today's critical terminology offers an original overview by a leading literary or cultural critic.

£15.99

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The Mersey Sound
Liverpool's Language, People and Places
Ed. Anthony Grant;Ed. Clive Grey
In these nine essays, linguists based in or connected with Liverpool draw on current scientific research into Merseyside’s language to explore the history, place names and development of Scouse. Slightly off-mint.

£14.99

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The Music, or Melody and Rhythmus of Language (1818)
James Chapman
James Chapman’s textbook is his ‘synopsis’, with examples from literature and a notation based on music, of Joshua Steele’s Prosodia Rationalis (1775), which argued that English shared the same accidents of speech – accent emphasis, pause, force and quality of sound – as ancient Greek and Latin. Facsimile reprint. No jacket.

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Story of Spanish
Off-mint.

£21.73

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There are Tittles in This Title
Mitchell Symons
Off-mint.

£9.99

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A–Z of Arabic-English–Arabic Translation
Ronak Husni;Daniel L Newman
This guide to common grammatical, lexical and semantic issues in Arabic translation is suitable for classroom use by university students and as a reference work for professional translators. The authors highlight common pitfalls in working both from English to Arabic and from Arabic to English, suggesting strategies for effective translation, offering guidance on correct usage and discussing idiomatic expressions in both languages. Each problem is illustrated with examples drawn from contemporary literature and media texts.

£18.99

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£6.99
Write On
The No-nonsense Guide to Professional Writing
Gurdon Martin

10.48

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£4.99
Janner's Speechmaker
Greville Janner
Slightly off-mint

£12.99

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£3.99
Letter by Letter
An Alphabetical Miscellany
Laurent Pflughaupt
Slightly off-mint

£19.08

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£6.99
Innatura
Bertoli Viale Alessandra;Blasi Carlo;Anna Detheridge;Alessandra Bertole Viale
Off-mint

£24.95

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£6.99
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