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More than 20 years have passed since the introduction of the Universal Character Set. However, legacy applications still cannot even render German ...

Every man walks with a shadow . . . but what happens when he acquires a second one? Just ask Brazos-a dead ringer for Jack Palance who's a cold-blo...

Grammar-school students in Shakespeare's time were taught to recognise the two hundred figures of speech that Renaissance scholars had derived from...

He's handsome. He's charming. He's a total gentleman … and he's totally outgunned and outnumbered. He's Michael Patrick Obañon. He is faced with...

When it comes to flying gliders, ace pilot Breeze Callaghan is as smooth as they come. He perfects a skill that will prove vitally important for de...

This book is devoted to comparisons of the linguistic situation established by English and Scots in Lowland Scotland, with situations observed in t...

Sociolinguistics is a branch of linguistics which studies the ways in which language is integrated with human society, specifically, with reference...

One of the most detailed and comprehensive studies of Indo-European phonology, this book brings together leading linguists working in Indo-European...

Sixteen contributions by fellow linguists include papers on the English progressive; predication and the nominal clause; the use of mood and modal ...

Book & CD-ROM. During the mid-20th century, old South Greenlanders still spoke their genuine dialects when Mâliâraq Vebæk, herself a South Gree...

Introduction; The History of the Glossary; The Sources; Bibliographical References and Abbreviations; Index of Manuscripts; Specimen Lexici Runici ...

In this investigation, creative writing and philosophy are shown to be specific types of language games, distinct from speech as used in communicat...

Speech disorders or speech impediments, as they are also called, are a type of communication disorder where 'normal' speech is disrupted. This can ...

This book is aimed to provide the readers with interesting and useful data concerning several topics in speech and language pathology. Thus, the se...

American Sailor Kurt Reid is a hothead and a hard case-a man who hits first and asks questions later. As scrappy and rough around the edges as Jimm...

This volume contains seven papers (by V Traverso, L Mondada, P Touati, A B Hansen and M-B Mosegaard Hansen, A. Coveney, C. Bozier, and E. Westin) w...

In addition to a somewhat detailed exposition of certain portions of what may be called the book-work of formal logic, the following pages contain ...

The present book is an attempt at providing a number of seminal studies on contrastive linguistics and stylistics. This manuscript can not only be ...

Studies in Etymology is a textbook for a course or self study in building vocabulary through an understanding of Latin and Greek roots and the gram...

This book introduces a post-modern attitude into the science of language. In accordance with its own Critico-Philological Method the essay is a con...

This new edition has been thoroughly revised and brought into accordance with the rules and the practice of today's language. Numerous examples fro...