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Language Policy #2: Language and Language-In-Education Planning in the Pacific Basin by R. B. Kaplan Publisher Comments This work examines and reviews the ecological context of language planning in 14 countries in the Pacific basin: Japan, the two Koreas, Taiwan, the Philippines, Indonesia, Malaysia, Brunei Darussalam, Singapore, Australia, New Zealand, Papua New Guinea... (read more) Available July 2012 Your price: $219.75 New - Trade Paper 
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Plain English: A Wealth of Words by Bryan Evans Publisher Comments Plain English has its roots in the language spoken by the English 1000 and more years ago. It is a beautiful language which fosters clear thought and speech. It is a language for those who like to say much with few words. Plain English is found in the... (read more) Available June 2012 Your price: $23.95 New - Trade Paper
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Indo-European Verb: Proceedings of the Conference of the Society for Indo-European Studies, Los Angeles, 13-15 by Craig Melchert Publisher Comments The contents address a wide range of issues regarding the formal and functional categories to be reconstructed for the PIE verb and their development into the attested verbal systems of the older Indo-European languages.... (read more) Available June 2012 Your price: $188.50 New - Trade Paper
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Understanding Sociolinguistics (Hodder Arnold Publication) by Enam Al-wer Publisher Comments Understanding Sociolinguistics offers a comprehensive overview of the prevalent linguistic traditions of the past and shows how sociolinguistics, as pioneered by Labov in the 1960's, diverged from these. It discusses recent sociolinguistic developments... (read more) Available February 2013 Your price: $36.75 New - Trade Paper
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Empirical Approaches to Language Typology [Ealt] #48: Ergativity, Valency and Voice by Gilles Authier Synopsis This volume is a collection of articles concerned with the typology of valency and valence change in a large and diversified sample of languages that display ergative alignment in their grammar. The authors are specialists on one or more ergative... (read more) Available May 2012 Your price: $178.95 New - Hardcover
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Languages: A Very Short Introduction (Very Short Introductions) by Stephen Anderson Publisher Comments How many languages are there? Are new languages still being discovered? Why are so many languages disappearing? In this Very Short Introduction, eminent linguist Stephen Anderson addresses such questions as he illuminates the science behind languages... (read more) Available August 2012 Your price: $11.95 New - Trade Paper
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Intelligence and Security Arabic (Essential Middle Eastern Vocabularies) by Mark Evans Publisher Comments Your guide to current terms and concepts used in intelligence and security Arabic. What is the Arabic term for 'sleeper cell'? How would you say 'hijacker'? Could you recognise the phrase 'operational planning'? Or 'money-laundering investigations'? This... (read more) Available July 2012 Your price: $26.25 New - Trade Paper
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Beginning Linguistics by Laurie Bauer Publisher Comments This introduction to linguistics for the absolute beginner focuses on the core topics of phonetics, phonology, morphology, syntax, semantics, and pragmatics. Theoretically-neutral, each essential topic is covered in depth and the author's engaging style... (read more) Available June 19, 2012 Your price: $34.50 New - Trade Paper
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External Influences on English: From Its Beginnings to the Renaissance by D. Gary Miller Publisher Comments This book provides the fullest account ever published of the external influences on English during the first thousand years of its formation. In doing so it makes profound contributions to the history of English and of western culture more generally... (read more) Available October 2012 Your price: $127.25 New - Hardcover
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English Accents and Dialects: An Introduction to Social and Regional Varieties of English in the British Isles (Hodder Education Publication) by Arthur Hughes Publisher Comments English Accents and Dialects is an essential guide to the varieties of English spoken in Britain and Ireland today. Together with invaluable overviews of numerous regional accents and dialects, this fifth edition provides you with a set of diagnostic... (read more) Available June 2012 Your price: $53.50 New - Trade Paper
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The Sound of Indo-European: Phonetics, Phonemics, and Morphophonemics by Benedicte Nielsen Whitehead Publisher Comments One of the most detailed and comprehensive studies of Indo-European phonology, The Sound of Indo-European brings together leading linguists working in Indo-European studies to examine both the broadest definitions of the group—from... (read more) Available May 2012 Your price: $140.25 New - Hardcover
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The Handbook of East Asian Psycholinguistics: Volume 1, Chinese by Ping Li Publisher Comments Spoken by one-fifth of the world's population, Chinese differs significantly from most Indo-European languages in its grammar, lexicon, and written and spoken forms--features which have profound implications for the learning, representation and... (read more) Available July 2012 Your price: $58.25 New - Trade Paper
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Pragmatics: An Advanced Resource Book for Students (Routledge Applied Linguistics) by Karin Aijmer Publisher Comments Routledge Applied Linguistics is a series of comprehensive textbooks, providing students and researchers with the support they need for advanced study in the core areas of English language and applied linguistics. Each book in the series guides readers... (read more) Available June 2012 Your price: $57.25 New - Trade Paper
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Flora of North America: North of Mexico Volume 9: Magnoliophyta: Picramniaceae to Rosaceae (Flora of North America) by Fna Ed Committee Publisher Comments To be published in 30 volumes, Flora of North America represents the first and only comprehensive taxonomic guide to the extraordinary diversity of plant life blanketing our continent north of Mexico. The collaborative effort of more than 30 major U.S... (read more) Available November 2012 Your price: $115.95 New - Hardcover
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Corpus Semantics: An Introduction (Corpus and Discourse) by Wolfgang Teubert Publisher Comments This book presents an introduction to analysing semantics through corpus linguistics. Corpus linguistics involves the creation of large databases of natural language against which certain hypotheses can be tested. These corpora therefore enable language... (read more) Available November 2012 Your price: $49.95 New - Trade Paper
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Routledge Encyclopedia of Language Teaching and Learning by Michael Byram Publisher Comments The Routledge Encyclopedia of Language Teaching and Learning is an authoritative reference dealing with all aspects of this increasingly important field of study. Offering a comprehensive range of articles on contemporary language teaching and its... (read more) Available October 2012 Your price: $368.75 New - Hardcover
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Irish Sign Language by Lorraine Leeson Publisher Comments As the first all-inclusive description of Irish sign language, this book describes the social and historical background of this individual variety of sign language and places it in a world context. Phonology, morphology, syntax, semantics and pragmatics... (read more) Available May 2012 Your price: $109.50 New - Hardcover
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A Journey Through Cultures: Metaphors for Guiding the Design of Cross-Cultural Interactive Systems (Human Computer Interaction) by Luciana Cardoso De Castro Salgado Publisher Comments A Journey Through Cultures addresses one of the hottest topics in contemporary HCI: cultural diversity amongst users. For a number of years the HCI community has been investigating alternatives to enhance the design of cross-cultural systems. Most... (read more) Available August 2012 Your price: $108.50 New - Hardcover
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Biology of Disease by Roz Gibbs Publisher Comments Biomedical scientists are the foundation of modern healthcare, from cancer screening to diagnosing HIV, from blood transfusion for surgery to food poisoning and infection control. Without biomedical scientists, the diagnosis of disease, the evaluation of... (read more) Available June 2012 Your price: $50.25 New - Trade Paper
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Verbs: Aspect and Causal Structure by William Croft Publisher Comments This book presents a model of event structure for the analysis of aspectual constructions and argument structure constructions in English and other languages. Representing the culmination of two decades of the author's research and thought, it explores... (read more) Available May 2012 Your price: $180.25 New - Hardcover
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