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How Languages Work: An Introduction to Language and Linguistics
Language is a sophisticated tool which we use to communicate in a multitude of ways. Updated and expanded in its second edition, this book introduces language and linguistics - presenting...
Similar Languages, Varieties, and Dialects: A Computational
Language resources and computational models are becoming increasingly important for the study of language variation. A main challenge of this interdisciplinary field is that linguistics researchers may not be familiar...
How Language Works
David Crystal's How Language Works is a fascinating tour through the world of language from one of today's most renowned experts. It ranges over everything from how children learn to...
Aitchison's Linguistics: A practical introduction to contemporary
This classic book is a straightforward introduction to linguistics which attempts to answer two fundamental questions: 'What is language?' and 'How does language work?' It outlines the scope of linguistics,...
Concise Encyclopedia of Pragmatics
Among the recent developments in the language sciences, the coming-of-age of the field of pragmatics and its official inauguration in the mid-seventies stand out as some of the most significant...
The Development of Latin Post-Tonic /Cr/ Clusters in Select Northern
The Development of Latin Post-Tonic /Cr/ Clusters in Select Northern Italian Dialects offers an explanation of the disparate outcomes of similar consonant clusters within several related Northern Italian dialects through...
Linguistic Semantics: An Introduction
Linguistic Semantics: An Introduction is the successor to Sir John Lyons's important textbook Language, Meaning and Context (1981).While preserving the general structure of the earlier book, the author has substantially...
Australia's Original Languages: An introduction
'A must read for all who would like to understand the languages and culture of Indigenous Australians.' Dr Ernie Grant, Elder of the Jirrbal nation When Captain Cook landed at...
A Lover's Discourse: Fragments
'A kind of mercurial elegy. . . Some extraordinary passion leaks through Barthes' lucid prose' Peter Ackroyd, Spectator 'May be the most detailed, painstaking anatomy of desire that we are...
Natural Language Semantics: Formation and Valuation
An introduction to natural language semantics that offers an overview of the empirical domain and an explanation of the mathematical concepts that underpin the discipline.This textbook offers a comprehensive introduction...
Luna and the Lie
'When I need a guaranteed five-star, slow-burn romance, I pick up Mariana Zapata every time' TESSA BAILEY, #1 New York Times bestselling author 'Everything Mariana writes is pure gold ....
Every Word Is a Bird We Teach to Sing: Encounters with the Mysteries
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A mind-expanding, deeply humane tour of language by the bestselling author of Born on a Blue Day and Thinking in Numbers . Is vocabulary destiny? Why do clocks "talk" to...
Korean Script Hacking: Learn how to read and write in Korean script in
" I would advise any beginner learner of Korean to work through this book - the small investment of time will soon be paid back " - Professor Alexander Arguelles,...
Introducing Linguistics: A Graphic Guide
More than anything else, language is what makes us human. Linguistics, the discipline which studies the structure, function, and phenomena of lanuage, has uncovered many surprising and fascinating things about...
In Other Words: A Coursebook on Translation
This bestselling Coursebook addresses the need for a systematic approach to training in translation studies by drawing on key areas in modern linguistic theory and relating them systematically to a...
The Babel Message: A Love Letter to Language
Keith Kahn-Harris is a man obsessed with something seemingly trivial - the warning message found inside Kinder Surprise eggs: WARNING, read and keep: Toy not suitable for children under 3...
Lying Is My Love Language: A debut Australian romantic comedy with the
A debut Australian romantic comedy with the wittiest banter you'll read all year - for readers of Emily Henry and Zoe Foster Blake. Telling the truth was never part of...
How To Make Love In Five Languages
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Author: Doris LillyBinding: HardbackPublished: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, Inc., 1964Condition:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: YellowedMarkings: No markingsThis witty guide, How To Make Love In Five Languages, presents...
The Babel Message: A Love Letter to Language
Keith Kahn-Harris is a man obsessed with something seemingly trivial - the warning message found inside Kinder Surprise eggs: WARNING, read and keep: Toy not suitable for children under 3...
Lulu: A romance
Jagose's prose is sophisticated and descriptive, a litany, in places, of words put together exquisitely and often unexpectedly. ELIZABETH JOLLEY, THE AGE 'And not just any chimpanzee, which would have...
Introduction to German Poetry: A Dual-Language Book
Over 40 poems by Goethe, Schiller, Heine, Hoelderlin, Brecht, and other masters. Full German text plus literal English translations on facing pages. Biographical and critical commentary on each poet. 34...
Generating Prose: Relations, Patterns, Structures
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The book titled Generating Prose: Relations, Patterns, Structures by the author Willis L Pitkin. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.
Talk on the Wild Side: Why Language Can't Be Tamed
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Language is the most human invention. Spontaneous, unruly, passionate, and erratic it resists every attempt to discipline or regularize it--a history celebrated here in all its irreverent glory. Language is...
A Little Book of Language
A lively journey through the story of language, from an infant's first word to the languages of the internet Language never leaves you alone. It's there in your head, helping...
If I Never Met You
Preorder Mhairi's new novel COVER STORY - coming soon! If faking love is this easy... how do you know when it's real? The brand new novel from Sunday Times bestselling...
Lucie Yi Is Not A Romantic
'If Jane Austen and Kevin Kwan had a love child, it might well be Lucie Yi Is Not A Romantic ' JODI PICOULT 'Funny as heck but also real and...
A Lover's Discourse
A funny and charming new novel from Xiaolu Guo about love, language, displacement and finding our place in the world 'A fragmentary meditation on the nature of love' Guardian A...
Gesenius' Hebrew Grammar
"Stands alone as the definitive reference work on Hebrew grammar." - Ancient Hebrew Studies Center For almost a century, Gesenius' Hebrew Grammar has proven to be one of the most...
Paris by the Book
HELLO!'s 'Pick of the Week' A whirlwind mystery and unravelling love story set in a little bookshop in the heart of Paris. 'Heartbreaking, moving and completely riveting.' 'Quirky and unusual.'...
Les Normaux: THE WEBTOON FANTASY ROMANCE PHENOMENON
'One of my favourite webcomics of all time' Alice Oseman Boy moves to new city. Boy meets vampire. They kiss, then become friends. But both would like something more... A...
Katherine Mansfield and Germany: Influences, Interactions, Afterlives
Katherine Mansfield and Germany is the first study of Mansfield's encounter with Germany and all things German: language, culture, society. This crucial area of her life and art has been...
The Wrath of the Fallen: The spicy and epic dark romantasy TikTok
My mind reached for his, hoping to calm the growing storm. Instead, I met Oblivion, hungry and waiting. Pure darkness. SAMKIEL AND DIANNA WILL RETURN in the next sizzling, dark...
Hunger: 'An instant cult classic. You have to read it' HARPER'S BAZAAR
THE RECORD-BREAKING KOREAN DARK-ROMANCE SENSATION When hunger consumes you, what can be left of morality? HALF A MILLION COPIES SOLD ACROSS 10 LANGUAGES 'An instant cult classic. You have to...