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Word for Word

Stories Behind Everyday Words We Use
Khaled Ahmed
$50.00
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Hardback,  Feb 2012 ISBN13: 9780195478273ISBN10: 0195478274 The stories behind how everyday Urdu words are linked to English, German, French, and Russian words
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German

Biography of a Language
Ruth Sanders
$18.95
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Paperback,  Mar 2012 ISBN13: 9780199913763ISBN10: 0199913765 A fascinating history of the German language
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The Oxford Handbook of Tense and Aspect

Robert I. Binnick
$175.00
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Hardback,  Apr 2012 ISBN13: 9780195381979ISBN10: 0195381971 A comprehensive, authoritative, and accessible guide to tense and aspect

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The Theta System

Argument Structure at the Interface
Martin Everaert, Marijana Marelj, Tal Siloni
$150.00
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Hardback,  Apr 2012 ISBN13: 9780199602513ISBN10: 0199602514 This book considers the recent results and evaluations of the Theta System in both theoretical and experimental domains
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Information Structure and Syntactic Change in the History of English

Anneli Meurman-Solin, Maria Jose Lopez-Couso, Bettelou Los
$74.00
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Hardback,  Apr 2012 ISBN13: 9780199860210ISBN10: 0199860211 The first book to apply information structure as it relates to language change

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Ways of Structure Building

Myriam Uribe-Etxebarria, Vidal Valmala
$160.00
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Hardback,  Jul 2012 ISBN13: 9780199644933ISBN10: 0199644934 An updated view of the must-know approaches to structure building in natural languages

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Jamieson's Dictionary of Scots

The Story of the First Historical Dictionary of the Scots Language
Susan Rennie
$135.00
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Hardback,  Jul 2012 ISBN13: 9780199639403ISBN10: 019963940X The first account of the making of John Jamieson's pioneering Etymological Dictionary of the Scottish Language
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A History of the Spanish Lexicon

A Linguistic Perspective
Steven N. Dworkin
$110.00
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Hardback,  Jul 2012 ISBN13: 9780199541140ISBN10: 0199541140 A history of the Spanish lexicon
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Laws and Rules in Indo-European

Philomen Probert, Andreas Willi
$199.00
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Hardback,  Aug 2012 ISBN13: 9780199609925ISBN10: 0199609926 Leading scholars from all over the world reassess the operation of the laws and rules in Indo-European
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“The most influential and seminal language book of the year” —William Safire

cover In Always On, Naomi S. Baron reveals that online andmobile technologies--including instant messaging, cell phones,multitasking, Facebook, blogs, and wikis—are profoundlyinfluencing how we read and write, speak and listen, but not in theways we might suppose.


Authoritative and comprehensive

cover The Oxford Encyclopedia of American Literature surveys the terrain of American literary history, from the 1600s to the present day, through 350 interpretive essays.


From feudalism to fiduciary

cover The Oxford Encyclopedia of Economic History captures the true interdisciplinary nature of economics.