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An innovative and unified grammar of sentence intonation, applied to Romance languages (French, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, Catalan and Romanian).

In The Crucible of Language, Vyvyan Evans explains what we know, and what we do, when we communicate using language.

Drawing on real-life interviews, Brandt explores what happens when writing overtakes reading as the basis of people's daily literate experience.

Written in a detailed and fascinating manner, this book is ideal for general readers interested in the English language.

A comprehensive and very readable resource to help students of English language and linguistics write essays, projects and reports.

This completely revised and expanded edition of Crystal's acclaimed book incorporates developments in the lively field of language study.

This book outlines the relationship between our identity as members of groups and the language varieties important to each group.

Boost your confidence and grades with this step-by-step guide to tackling university writing assignments.

This textbook provides a comprehensive and structured vocabulary for all levels of undergraduate French courses.

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Basic Persian: A Grammar and Workbook comprises an accessible reference grammar and related exercises in a single volume....

A practical reference guide to the core structures and features of modern Czech, this book focuses on the morphology and syntax of the language. Presenting a description of the language, it uses clear, jargon-free explanations and sets out the complexities of Czech in short, readable sections.

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T'ung and Pollard's Colloquial Chinese course is the ideal introductory course for all dedicated learners of Mandarin Chinese....

"Master the everyday language; up-to-date cultural situations; accessible and thorough"--Cover.

This second edition of Thai: An Essential Grammar provides an up-to-date and concise reference guide to Thai grammar....

"Master the everyday language; up-to-date cultural situations; accessible and thorough"--Cover.

Introduces Dutch culture and people through the medium of the language used. This book provides students with the basic tools to express themselves in a wide variety of situations. It includes useful exercises and a full answer key, grammar tables for easy reference, and frequent comparative references to English grammar.

Can a bump on the head cause someone to speak with a different accent? Can animals, aliens, and objects talk? Can we communicate with gods, demons, and the dead? Language Myths, Mysteries and Magic is a curio shop full of colourful superstitions, folklore, and legends about language.

Accessible and wide-ranging, this introduction to contemporary Philosophy of Action guides the reader through the major views and arguments. The topics addressed include the nature of intentional action and its explanation, the nature of reasons, the role of desire and intention in action, the nature of autonomy and the possibility of group agents.

Linguistic Fieldwork offers practical guidance on areas such as applying for funding, the first session on a new language, writing up the data and returning materials to communities. This expanded second edition provides new content on the results of research, on prosody elicitation, on field experiment design, and on working in complex syntax.

Explains words and expressions from the present-day vocabulary of Arabic

Introduces the essentials of Chinese syntax. This book presents Chinese entries in both Pinyin romanization and Chinese characters, and are accompanied, in most cases, by English translations to facilitate self-tuition as well as classroom teaching in both spoken and written Chinese.

Long trusted as the most comprehensive, up-to-date and user-friendly grammar available, French Grammar and Usage is a complete guide to French as it is written and spoken today. It includes clear descriptions of all the main grammatical phenomena of French, and their use, illustrated by numerous examples taken from contemporary French, and distinguishes the most common forms of usage, both formal...

Long trusted as the most comprehensive, up-to-date and user-friendly grammar available, HAMMER'S GERMAN GRAMMAR AND USAGE FIFTH EDITION provides students and teachers with a complete guide to German as it is written and spoken today.

This completely revised and expanded edition of Crystal's acclaimed book incorporates developments in the lively field of language study.

A compendium of useful things for linguistics students to know, from the IPA chart to the Saussurean dichotomies, this book will be the constant companion of anyone undertaking studies of linguistics.