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Linguistics, seventh edition, Interactive eTextbook Access Code An Introduction to Language and Communication Adrian Akmajian, Ann K. Farmer, Lee Bickmore, Richard A. Demers The latest edition of a popular introductory text, including a section on computational linguistics, new non-English examples, quizzes for each chapter, and additional special topics. With this edition, Linguistics and content formerly included in A Linguistics Workbook are available as... Format: Digital product license key - Released: 06/04/2018

Women and Dictionary-Making Gender, Genre, and English Language Lexicography Lindsay Rose (University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign) Russell This book illuminates the significance of women and gender in English language dictionary making from the fifteenth century onward. Format: Hardback - Released: 00/04/2018

The Final-Over-Final Condition A Syntactic Universal Michelle (Reader, Anglia Ruskin University) Sheehan, Theresa (Senior Research Associate, University of Cambridge) Biberauer, Ro An examination of the evidence for and the theoretical implications of a universal word order constraint, with data from a wide range of languages. This book presents evidence for a universal word order constraint, the Final-over-Final Condition (FOFC), and discusses... Format: Paperback - Released: 27/10/2017

The Final-Over-Final Condition A Syntactic Universal Michelle (Reader, Anglia Ruskin University) Sheehan, Theresa (Senior Research Associate, University of Cambridge) Biberauer, Ro An examination of the evidence for and the theoretical implications of a universal word order constraint, with data from a wide range of languages. This book presents evidence for a universal word order constraint, the Final-over-Final Condition (FOFC), and discusses... Format: Hardback - Released: 27/10/2017

The Routledge Handbook of Lexicography Pedro A. (University of Valladolid, Spain and University of Stellenbosch, South Africa) Fuertes-Olivera The Routledge Handbook of Lexicography provides a comprehensive overview of the major approaches to lexicography and their applications within the field. This Handbook features key case studies and cutting-edge contributions from an international range of practitioners, teachers, and researchers. Analysing... Format: Hardback - Released: 02/10/2017

Word Studies in the Renaissance Gabriele (Emeritus Professor, University of Heidelberg) Stein This volume examines the ways in which Renaissance lexicographers selected, described, and analysed the lexicon. It explores the extent to which bi- and multilingual word lists and dictionaries in the 16th century are often pan-European in character, and discusses the... Format: Hardback - Released: 28/09/2017

Multiple Perspectives on Terminological Variation Patrick (Universite de Montreal) Drouin The aim of the present volume is to provide a present-day take on variation in terminology by looking forward and examining what leading scholars in the field are working on and where they are taking research in the field today.This... Format: Hardback - Released: 15/08/2017

Term Variation in Specialised Corpora Characterisation, automatic discovery and applications Beatrice (University of Nantes - LINA) Daille This book addresses term variation which has been a very important topic in terminology, computational terminology and natural language processing for up to twenty years. This book presents the first complete inventory of term variants and the linguistic procedures that... Format: Hardback - Released: 07/08/2017

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Lexical Collocations in Bilingual Lexicography Barbara Berti Format: Paperback - Released: 28/05/2018

The Dictionary Wars The Struggle for Language from the Birth of the Enlightenment to the French Revolution David Eick Narrates and analyzes a series of polemics surrounding French lexicography in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. This book suggests that the special place of dictionaries in French culture, along with the specificity of France as a linguistically focused community, has... Format: Hardback - Released: 30/06/2018

Etymological Collections of English Words and Provincial Expressions White Kennett This book is the first critical edition of White Kennett's Etymologicon Anglicanum, a long forgotten etymological compilation of the late 1690s with a substantial amount of regional dialect material. The first part introduces and contextualizes Kennett's work, and the second... Format: Hardback - Released: 19/07/2018

The Making of the Oxford English Dictionary Peter (Associate Editor, Oxford English Dictionary) Gilliver This book tells the history of the Oxford English Dictionary from its beginnings in the middle of the nineteenth century to the present. Drawing extensively on archival and other sources, it traces the conception of the idea of the Dictionary... Format: Paperback - Released: 19/07/2018

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Teaching and Researching Lexicography Reinhard R. K. Hartmann Who compiles dictionaries and other reference works? Which are used by whom? How do they achieve their purpose?Lexicography is a very important subject and the product of lexicography, the Dictionary, is a valuable resource in language learning.Teaching and Researching Lexicography... Format: Hardback - Released: 07/07/2017

Linguistics An Introduction to Language and Communication Adrian Akmajian, Ann K. Farmer, Lee Bickmore, Richard A. Demers The latest edition of a popular introductory linguistics text, now including a section on computational linguistics, new non-English examples, quizzes for each chapter, and additional special topics. This popular introductory linguistics text is unique for its integration of themes. Rather... Format: Paperback - Released: 16/06/2017

Small Dictionaries and Curiosity Lexicography and Fieldwork in Post-Medieval Europe Professor John Considine This book tells the story of the first European wordlists of minority and unofficial languages and dialects, from the end of the Middle Ages to the early nineteenth century. It explores not just the languages and the wordlists themselves, but... Format: Hardback - Released: 05/01/2017

Collocations and other lexical combinations in Spanish Theoretical, lexicographical and applied perspectives Sergi (Universitat Pompeu Fabra Barcelona, Spain) Torner Castells This edited collection presents the state of the art in research related to lexical combinations and their restrictions in Spanish from a variety of theoretical approaches, ranging from Explanatory Combinatorial Lexicology to Distributed Morphology and Generative Lexicon Theory. ? Section... Format: Hardback - Released: 08/12/2016

Building and Interpreting Possession Sentences Neil (Assistant Professor, Boston University) Myler A wide-ranging generative analysis of the typology of possession sentences, solving long-standing puzzles in their syntax and semantics. A major question for linguistic theory concerns how the structure of sentences relates to their meaning. There is broad agreement in the... Format: Hardback - Released: 21/10/2016

The Making of the Oxford English Dictionary Peter (Associate Editor, Oxford English Dictionary) Gilliver This book tells the history of the Oxford English Dictionary from its beginnings in the middle of the nineteenth century to the present. Drawing extensively on archival and other sources, it traces the conception of the idea of the Dictionary... Format: Hardback - Released: 08/09/2016

Impossible Languages Andrea Moro An investigation into the possibility of impossible languages, searching for the indelible fingerprint of human language. Can there be such a thing as an impossible human language? A biologist could describe an impossible animal as one that goes against the... Format: Hardback - Released: 02/09/2016

Using Japanese Synonyms A. E. (Hokkaido University, Japan) Backhouse Groups together Japanese near-synonyms and provides clear information on their meaning and use, richly illustrated with authentic examples. Format: Hardback - Released: 16/06/2016

1,101 Words2watch A Wordsmith's Guide to Misused and Confusing Words David Athol Coe, Sykes (Sydney Mining Club patron) Trevor Format: Paperback - Released: 31/05/2016

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