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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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£30.00
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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£9.99
The Theta System
Argument Structure at the Interface
Martin Everaert;Marijana Marelj;Tal Siloni
Part of the Oxford Studies in Theoretical Linguistics series, this volume of eleven essays presents Tanya Reinhart’s Theta System (as developed up to her death in 2007), examines its underpinnings and its advantages, and suggests further developments.

£32.99

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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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£19.99
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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£19.99
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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£12.99
Onsets
Suprasegmental and Prosodic Behaviour
Nina Topintzi

£70.00

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The Science of Language
Interviews with James McGilvray
Noam Chomsky

£54.99

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£25.00
Stylistics
Lesley Jeffries;Dan McIntyre

£74.99

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Understanding English Grammar
Thomas E Payne
For students of English language and linguistics who are frustrated by the tedious ‘rule book’ teaching of English grammar, this textbook approaches the grammar of a language ‘as a dynamic, constantly changing set of habit patterns that allows people to communicate with one another’. The book offers a rigorous introduction to English grammar and syntax, with examples, exercises and chapter summaries.

£74.99

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You Say Potato
A Book About Accents
Ben Crystal;David Crystal
Everyone has an accent, though many of us think that we don't. What does our accent say about us – and what do we assume about other people when we hear theirs? Actor Ben Crystal and his linguist father David travel the world in search of the stories of spoken English, from Shakespeare's accent to the rise and fall of Received Pronunciation. Authoritative and packed with anecdotes, this book celebrates the rich variety of the English language.

£12.99

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Collins Easy Learning French Verbs
Collins
Part of the bestselling Easy Learning Language series, designed for both young and adult learners, from beginners up to GCSE students, this volume is clearly laid out and contains hundreds of example phrases. There are detailed rules for verb formation and verb tables as well as a 'Verb Wheel' with conjugations of commonly used verbs. A glossary of grammatical terms aids understanding of how language is constructed.

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Coordination in Syntax
Niina Ning Zhang

£79.99

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Defining Pragmatics
Mira Ariel

£79.99

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Derivations in Minimalism
Samuel D Epstein;T Daniel Seely

£34.99

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Introducting Morphology
Rochelle Lieber

£69.99

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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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Language and the African American Child
Lisa J Green

£69.99

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When Language Breaks Down
Analysing Discourse in Clinical Contexts
Ellisa D Asp;Jessica de Villiers

£29.99

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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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