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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...
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...
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...
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...
Patterns In The Mind: Language And Human Nature
What is it about the human mind that accounts for the fact that we can speak and understand a language? Why cant other creatures do the same? And what does...
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...
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...
Theoretical Approaches to Disharmonic Word Order
This book considers the implications of cross-linguistic word-order patterns for linguistic theory. One of the salient results of Joseph Greenberg's pioneering work in language typology was the notion of a...
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.
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...
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...
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...
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...
The Language Myth: Why Language Is Not an Instinct
Language is central to our lives, the cultural tool that arguably sets us apart from other species. Some scientists have argued that language is innate, a type of unique human...
An Introduction to Sociolinguistics
This book covers most of the topics dealt with in courses described as either "sociolinguistics" or "the sociology of language". Planned as a basic introduction, it requires little previous knowledge...
Linguistic Diffusion In Arnhem Land
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Author: Jeffrey HeathBinding: PaperbackPublished: Australian Institute of Aboriginal Studies, 1978Condition:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: YellowedMarkings: No markingsCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageLinguistic Diffusion In Arnhem Land presents a rigorous...
Language and Literacy in Roman Judaea: A Study of the Bar Kokhba
This comprehensive exploration of language and literacy in the multi-lingual environment of Roman Palestine (c. 63 B.C.E. to 136 C.E.) is based on Michael Wise's extensive study of 145 Hebrew,...
Spilling the Beans on the Cat's Pyjamas: Popular Expressions - What
From the bestselling author of 'I before E', this light-hearted book examines some of the more unusual phrases that litter the English language. Discover how we got such phrases as...
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...
Media Discourse
The study of media language is increasingly important both for media studies and for discourse analysis and sociolinguistics. Norman Fairclough applies to media language his 'critical discourse analysis' framework which...
migres: French Words That Turned English
English has borrowed more words from French than from any other modern foreign language. French words and phrases-such as a la mode, ennui, naivete and caprice-lend English a certain je-ne-sais-quoi...
Secondhand Romance & Women's Fiction Bargain Box SP2675
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Secondhand Romance & Women's Fiction Bargain Box — 18 Books Eighteen novels for readers who want heart, humour, and the occasional ugly cry. This box moves from Cecelia Ahern at...
On the Offensive: Prejudice in Language Past and Present
I'm not a racist, but... You look good, for your age... She was asking for it... You're crazy... That's so gay... Have you ever wondered why certain language has the...
Ad Infinitum: A Biography of Latin
A detailed and in-depth biography of the Latin language from its very beginnings to the present day from the widely acclaimed author of 'Empires of the Word'. The Latin language...
The Default Country: a Lexical Cartography of 20th Century Australia
English was shaped by a damp green land in the far north and became the language of a wide brown land, Australia. How does that affect people's response to the...
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...
Rhythm, Chord & Malykhin: From the author of the sensational TikTok
If you loved From Lukov with Love - the sensational TikTok hit that is captivating readers all over the world - then you don't want to miss any of Mariana's...
Secondhand Women's Fiction & Romance Bargain Book Box SP2747
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A broad romance box anchored by some reliable names: Danielle Steel, Josephine Cox (two titles here), and Diane Chamberlain all deliver the emotionally driven storytelling their readers come for. Australian...
Should I Tell You?: Curl up with a gorgeous romantic novel from the
From the queen of feelgood fiction, an uplifting new novel of friendship, families and finding love . . .'What a gorgeous book! Jill has a great gift for characterisation -...
English Syntax
An authoritative, self-contained introduction to the subject for students who have had no prior coursework in syntactic theory.English Syntax is an authoritative, self-contained introduction to the subject for students who...
The Secret Messenger
The highly awaited new novel from the internationally bestselling author of The German Midwife (also published as A Woman of War ). Venice, 1943 The world is at war, and...
Articulate: A Deaf Memoir of Voice
Named a best book of the year by Kirkus Reviews Named a Notable Book of 2025 by the Washington Post A deaf writer's exploration of language, communication, and what it...
Save Me
Published in English for the first time, this is the first book in the Maxton Hall trilogy and the inspiration for the NUMBER ONE AMAZON PRIME TV series! Money, glamour,...
50 Romantic Havens: In The Mediterranean
Falling in love with warm sparkling water, clear as crystal, seductive as Calypso snow-capped mountains glistening in the rising sun, narrow cobbled lanes, crumbling ruins overlooking ancient landscapes, deserted coves...
Duino Elegies & The Sonnets to Orpheus: A Dual-Language Edition
Available for the first time in a single volume, Ranier Maria Rilke's two most beloved sequences of poems rendered by his most faithful translator. Rilke is unquestionably the twentieth century's...
A Language of Dragons
The most exciting debut of 2025 - an incredible fantasy Dark Academia, perfect for fans of Babel, Fourth Wing, and the Scholomance trilogyEVERY FIRE STARTS WITH A SINGLE SPARK.Welcome to...
The Quick Brown Fox
The book titled The Quick Brown Fox by the author Frank Devine. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.
Aucassin & Nicolette
$50.00 AUD
Author: Lettice SandfordBinding: HardbackPublished: The Folio Society, London, 1947Condition:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: Tanning and foxingMarkings: No markingsCondition remarks: Third book published by The Folio Society....
Ever After: The escapist, emotional and romantic new story from the
'Warm and funny and truly uplifting' Veronica Henry 'Achingly real and wise. A truly special, gorgeous story' Miranda Dickinson 'Heartbreaking and heart-mending. I adored it! ' Laura Jane Williams ***...