Pidgin has been defined with different criteria by various authors. Two of these criteria are social and structural. The social criterion is that a...

This book focuses on the sociolinguistics of English in relation to globalisation. The pattern of migration and linguistic flows that have become m...

The present pocket-sized alphabetic guide to Second Language Acquisition is a landmark and excellent piece of work which gives an up-to-date introd...

Is Greed good? The future of Earth and all of mankind may hang on that one question. And George Marquis Lorrilard-a space age ace-pilot, adventurer...

The purpose of this introduction is to give an outline of the results of acoustic analyses of Danish intonation, as reported in twelve papers, publ...

American Ann Halliday is as sexy as Rita Hayworth and as fiery as the Sahara sun. And now she's feeling some real heat, as the prize captive of the...

Running off to join the French Foreign Legion used to be every boy's dream of action and adventure. But for Lieutenant Bill Reilly-half Irish, half...

This special issue of Copenhagen Studies in Language series is devoted to human and machine translation and human-computer interaction in translati...

In The Great Escape and Papillon, Steve McQueen embodied the tough guy on the run from captivity and injustice. But when it comes to toughness, McQ...

Cast Spencer Tracy as Speed Kyle, master-builder of the hottest, fastest planes around. Then give the role of Cal Bradley, daredevil test pilot who...

Ideas in History is the result of collaborative efforts among nearly a dozen universities and colleges throughout the Nordic countries. The purpose...

Does size matter? Is bigger better? That's no small question to Tom Little-the circus midget with giant dreams. Tom may be king of the midgets, but...

While reading is a deeply personal activity, paradoxically, it is also fundamentally social and outward-looking. Daniel Coleman, a lifelong reader ...

Ablaut, the grammatically conditioned vowel alternations found in e.g. English sing vs. sang vs. sung, is one of the most characteristic features o...

Ablaut, the grammatically conditioned vowel alternations found in e.g. English sing vs. sang vs. sung, is one of the most characteristic features o...

This book contains twenty articles on the subject of derivational morphology in Indo-European languages, and is the result of the conference "Indo-...

Student guide in English for Lingua Latina: Part II: Roma Aeterna and provides an overview of the chapter readings and grammar found in each chapter.

Text in English & German. The present volume contains selected papers from a symposium on Internal Reconstruction in Indo- European: Methods, R...

How we communicate with others is basic to our personal satisfaction, fulfilment and success in life. Interpersonal communication is really the stu...

In this insightful study of Iranian cultural history and national identity, the late Shahrokh Meskoob, one of Iran's leading intellectuals, reviewe...

This book examines the analysis of language (possibly in conjunction with other semiotic systems) in the course of our lives as citizens of establi...

This is a third, revised edition of Stuart Robson's highly successful guide to the grammar of the Javanese language, spoken by around eighty millio...

This book analyses the latest trends in Indo-European studies, combining linguistic study with insights from archaeology, anthropology and archaeog...

Text in Spanish. The objective of this study was to investigate the role of the cultural content of narrative texts with different perspectives on ...

A language is a dynamic set of visual, auditory, or tactile symbols of communication and the elements used to manipulate them. Language can also re...

This book was published in response to the need to provide a comprehensive book dealing with the multidimensional complexity of language and litera...

Language acquisition is the process by which humans acquire the capacity to perceive, produce and use words to understand and communicate. This new...

In African societies, much as plain or direct language is cherished and highly appreciated because of the pragmatic clarity it offers, implicitness...

In an increasingly global and mobile society, language learning has become critical. The authors of this book present new research in the study of ...

This is a selection of essays in stylistics by John M Dienhart (1939-2004) which are now collected for the first time. The essays investigate a var...

In this book, the authors present current research in the study of language processing. Topics include neuroimaging and aphasiology in the 21st cen...

In learning languages, a distinction is usually made between mother tongues, second languages, and foreign languages. A mother tongue is the first ...

Latin/English vocabulary list for each chapter in Lingua Latina: Part II: Roma Aeterna.

Les actes du colloque publiés dans ce volume constituent une contribution importante à la recherche sur le français parlé, realisée à partir de cor...

Ce travail a pour objectif de dégager les propriétés lexico-syntaxiques et sémantiques du passif dit périphrastique en français moderne et de corré...

This book is divided into "an examination of the several ways of communicating our thoughts by speech" and "an attention to the principles of those...

Partant d'une introduction sur les approches structuraliste et sociolinguistique du changement phonétique, cette étude vise à éclaircir l'évolution...

About 17,000 entries of words and expressions are covered in this Tuareg-French dictionary. It covers the two main dialects of Niger: the Azawagh a...

Teacher's Materials contains teacher's materials and answer keys for Familia Romana (Lingua Latina Pars I) and Roma Aeterna (Lingua Latina Pars II)...

A reprint of the Cambridge University Press edition of 1976, with new introduction by the author.

The world is becoming more and more intricately multidimensional, both culturally and linguistically. Language is so deeply embedded in culture tha...

Most of us know of the Indo-European roots of European languages, but how did this precursor language take hold and what did Europe look like befor...

The Copenhagen Studies in Language Series carries studies in both language for general purposes and language for special purposes (LSP). Its scope ...

Actes du Colloque international de la Società di Linguistica Italiana, qui s'est tenu à Copenhague du 5 au 7 février 1998 sur la linguistique textu...

This book provides new research on linguistics. Chapter One shows the shortcomings and drawbacks of classical single-factor or unilateral theories ...

While there are many books on language and literacy education, there is an urgent need to provide a book which makes an essential link between theo...

This book began as one of the publication outlets for two flagship conferences in 2019: 12th Conaplin (Conference on Applied Linguistics) and 3rd I...