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Words on the Move: Why English Won't -- and Can't -- Sit Still (Like, Literally)

By John McWhorter

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9781627794718 | Henry Holt & Co, September 6, 2016, cover price $28.00

Experience Counts: Frequency Effects in Language

Product Description: Frequency is a critical factor in shaping emerging linguistic systems, be it in first or second language learning, or in the historical or social dimensions of language change. This volume comprises studies that show how and which patterns are abstracted from the language speakers hear, and what makes them adopt new usages or constructions...read more

By Heike Behrens (editor) and Stefan Pfander (editor)

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9783110343427 | Walter De Gruyter Inc, February 22, 2016, cover price $140.00 | About this edition: Frequency is a critical factor in shaping emerging linguistic systems, be it in first or second language learning, or in the historical or social dimensions of language change.

Rethinking Parameters

Product Description: Parameters of linguistic variation were originally conceived, within the chomskyan Principles and Parameters Theory, as UG-determined options that were associated with grammatical principles and had a rich deductive structure. This characterization of parametric differences among languages has changed significantly over the years, especially so with the advent of Minimalism...read more

By Amaya Mendikoetxea (editor)

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9780190461737 | Oxford Univ Pr on Demand, February 12, 2016, cover price $125.00 | About this edition: Parameters of linguistic variation were originally conceived, within the chomskyan Principles and Parameters Theory, as UG-determined options that were associated with grammatical principles and had a rich deductive structure.

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9780190461744 | Oxford Univ Pr, February 12, 2016, cover price $49.95

Responses to Language Varieties: Variability, Processes and Outcomes

By Dennis R. Preston (editor)

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9789027258304 | John Benjamins Pub Co, December 16, 2015, cover price $143.00

Making Waves: the Story of Variationist Sociolinguistics

Product Description: Making Waves tells the human story of an academic field based on one-to-one interviews with 43 of the most famous scholars in Variationist Sociolinguistics. Explanations of concepts, ideas, good practice and sage advice come directly from the progenitors of the discipline...read more

By Sali A. Tagliamonte

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9781118455166 | Har/psc edition (Blackwell Pub, October 26, 2015), cover price $99.95

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9781118455432 | Blackwell Pub, November 2, 2015, cover price $54.95 | About this edition: Making Waves tells the human story of an academic field based on one-to-one interviews with 43 of the most famous scholars in Variationist Sociolinguistics.

Language and Superdiversity

Product Description: A first synthesis of work done in sociolinguistic superdiversity, this volume offers a substantial introduction to the field and the issues and state-of-the-art research papers organized around three themes: Sketching the paradigm, Sociolinguistic complexity, Policing complexity...read more

By Massimiliano Spotti (editor)

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9781138844575 | Routledge, December 21, 2015, cover price $95.00 | About this edition: A first synthesis of work done in sociolinguistic superdiversity, this volume offers a substantial introduction to the field and the issues and state-of-the-art research papers organized around three themes: Sketching the paradigm, Sociolinguistic complexity, Policing complexity.

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9781138844582 | Routledge, December 21, 2015, cover price $52.95

Variation in Language: System- and Usage- Based Approaches

Product Description: Where is the locus of language variation? In the grammar, outside the grammar or somewhere in between? Taking up the debate between system- and usage-based approaches, this volume provides new discussions of fundamental issues of language variation...read more

By Aria Adli (editor), Marco Garcia Garcia (editor) and Goz Kaufmann (editor)

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9783110343557 | Walter De Gruyter Inc, July 20, 2015, cover price $140.00 | About this edition: Where is the locus of language variation?

Society in Language, Language in Society: Essays in Honour of Ruqaiya Hasan

Product Description: This collection of original articles covers a range of research connecting with the work of the eminent linguist Ruqaiya Hasan. It contains contributions from M.A.K. Halliday, G. Williams, D. Butt, D. Miller and M. Berry among others, an interview with Ruqaiya Hasan, and notes from the contributors about their connection with Ruqaiya Hasan's work...read more

By Jennifer Yameng Liang (editor)

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9781137402851 | Palgrave Macmillan, October 21, 2015, cover price $105.00 | About this edition: This collection of original articles covers a range of research connecting with the work of the eminent linguist Ruqaiya Hasan.

Language Development: The Lifespan Perspective

Product Description: Language Development: The lifespan perspective generates insights into the central issues of age-dependent language change, focusing especially on the middle and later stages of life. The contributors exploit contemporary and historical longitudinal data, adopting psycholinguistic, corpus linguistic and sociolinguistic approaches...read more

By Anja Voeste (editor)

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9789027218797 | John Benjamins Pub Co, July 22, 2015, cover price $143.00 | About this edition: Language Development: The lifespan perspective generates insights into the central issues of age-dependent language change, focusing especially on the middle and later stages of life.

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9780425158920, titled "Super Horoscope Libra 1998: September 23 - October 22" | Berkley Pub Group, August 1, 1997, cover price $6.99 | also contains Super Horoscope Libra 1998: September 23 - October 22

Academic Literacy and Student Diversity: The Case for Inclusive Practice

By Ursula Wingate

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9781783093489 | Multilingual Matters Ltd, April 1, 2015, cover price $129.95

9780412067716, titled "Handbook of Downstream Processing" | Chapman & Hall, December 1, 1996, cover price $171.00 | also contains Handbook of Downstream Processing

9780412067211, titled "Westcott's Plant Disease Handbook" | Kluwer Academic Pub, May 1, 1990, cover price $99.00 | also contains Westcott's Plant Disease Handbook

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9781783093472 | Multilingual Matters Ltd, April 1, 2015, cover price $39.95

Metrolingualism: Language in the City

Desperate to recoup the fortune that her stepmother had squandered, lovely China Warrick embarks on a perilous voyage to Singapore under the protection of the arrogant, notorious Captain Ethan Bloodwell

By Emi Otsuji

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9780415831635 | Routledge, March 12, 2015, cover price $170.00

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9780415831659 | Routledge, March 2, 2015, cover price $49.95

9780380896776, titled "Silk and Splendour" | Avon Books, November 1, 1986, cover price $3.95 | also contains Silk and Splendour | About this edition: Desperate to recoup the fortune that her stepmother had squandered, lovely China Warrick embarks on a perilous voyage to Singapore under the protection of the arrogant, notorious Captain Ethan Bloodwell

Auxiliary Selection Revisited: Gradience and Gradualness

By Malte Rosemeyer (editor)

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9780373244867, titled "The Heart Beneath" | Harlequin Books, August 1, 2002, cover price $4.75 | also contains The Heart Beneath

Product Description: Our favorite movies and TV shows feature indelible characters who tell us about themselves not just in what they say but in how they say it. The creative decisions behind these voicesâsuch as what accent or dialect to useâoffer rich data for sociolinguistic study...read more

By Robin Queen

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9780470659915 | Blackwell Pub, January 27, 2015, cover price $102.95

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9780470659922 | Blackwell Pub, January 27, 2015, cover price $35.95 | About this edition: Our favorite movies and TV shows feature indelible characters who tell us about themselves not just in what they say but in how they say it.

Where Metaphors Come From: Reconsidering Context in Metaphor

By Zoltan Kovecses

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9780190224868 | Oxford Univ Pr, February 12, 2015, cover price $74.00

Native Listening: Language Experience and the Recognition of Spoken Words

Product Description: Understanding speech in our native tongue seems natural and effortless; listening to speech in a nonnative language is a different experience. In this book, Anne Cutler argues that listening to speech is a process of native listening because so much of it is exquisitely tailored to the requirements of the native language...read more

By Anne Cutler

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9780262017565 | Mit Pr, July 27, 2012, cover price $52.00 | About this edition: Understanding speech in our native tongue seems natural and effortless; listening to speech in a nonnative language is a different experience.

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9780262527514 | Reprint edition (Mit Pr, January 30, 2015), cover price $32.00 | About this edition: Understanding speech in our native tongue seems natural and effortless; listening to speech in a nonnative language is a different experience.

On Diversity and Complexity of Languages Spoken in Europe and North and Central Asia

Product Description: The languages of Europe and North and Central Asia provide a rich variety of data. In this volume, some articles are summaries of large areal typological research projects, and some articles focus on structures or constructions in a single language...read more

By Lindsay J. Whaley (editor)

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9789027259295 | John Benjamins Pub Co, December 17, 2014, cover price $149.00 | About this edition: The languages of Europe and North and Central Asia provide a rich variety of data.

Linguistic Variation: Confronting Fact and Theory

Product Description: Linguistic Variation: Confronting Fact and Theory honors Shana Poplack in bringing together contributions from leading scholars in language variation and change. The book demonstrates how variationist methodology can be applied to the study of linguistic structures and processes...read more

By Andrâ Lapierre (editor)

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9781138024540 | Routledge, November 17, 2014, cover price $155.00 | About this edition: Linguistic Variation: Confronting Fact and Theory honors Shana Poplack in bringing together contributions from leading scholars in language variation and change.

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9781138024557 | Routledge, November 11, 2014, cover price $54.95 | About this edition: Linguistic Variation: Confronting Fact and Theory honors Shana Poplack in bringing together contributions from leading scholars in language variation and change.

Language Variation and Change

By Richard Cameron (editor)

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9780415731089 | Routledge, October 22, 2014, cover price $1780.00

Challenging the Monolingual Mindset

By John Hajek (editor) and Yvette Slaughter (editor)

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9781783092505 | Multilingual Matters Ltd, October 15, 2014, cover price $49.95

Challenging the Monolingual Mindset

By Yvette Slaugher (editor)

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9781783092512 | Multilingual Matters Ltd, October 15, 2014, cover price $169.95

Questioning Language Contact: Limits of Contact, Contact at Its Limits

Product Description: This volume critically exposes problems in present language contact analysis and uses empirical findings to provide answers to the following questions. What can we learn from the study of language contact for our knowledge of languages, their dynamics and their functions (systemic elaborations, language practices, semiotic developments)? How should linguistic theory incorporate the empirical findings of language contact studies, and how could these alter underlying postulates of existing models (choice of analysis and epistemic framework)? Which role has language contact been playing in the history of linguistic research and academic life? And how has this idea influenced individual researchers and their approaches...read more

By Robert Nicolai (editor)

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9789004279049 | Bilingual edition (Brill Academic Pub, August 21, 2014), cover price $175.00 | About this edition: This volume critically exposes problems in present language contact analysis and uses empirical findings to provide answers to the following questions.

Linguistic Variation in a Minimalist Framework

By M. Carme Picallo (editor)

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9780198702894 | Oxford Univ Pr, September 24, 2014, cover price $110.00

Auxiliary Selection Revisited: Gradience and Gradualness

Product Description: From a typological perspective, auxiliary selection the alternation between have and be in participle constructions presents both striking regularities and differences. The papers presented in this volume describe and explain this variation on the basis of synchronic and diachronic evidence from a multitude of European languages...read more

By Rolf Kailuweit (editor)

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9783110347371 | Walter De Gruyter Inc, February 26, 2015, cover price $140.00 | About this edition: From a typological perspective, auxiliary selection the alternation between have and be in participle constructions presents both striking regularities and differences.

Temporality: Universals and Variation

Entries detail developments in international affairs, the effects of contact with major powers on the rest of the world, and political and economic impacts, and offer the author's perspective on international issues.

By Maria Bittner

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9781405190404 | Blackwell Pub, May 27, 2014, cover price $113.95

9780313323829, titled "Greenwood Encyclopedia of International Relations" | Greenwood Pub Group, May 1, 2002, cover price $124.95 | also contains Greenwood Encyclopedia of International Relations | About this edition: Entries detail developments in international affairs, the effects of contact with major powers on the rest of the world, and political and economic impacts, and offer the author's perspective on international issues.

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9781405190398 | Blackwell Pub, May 27, 2014, cover price $56.95

Sociolinguistics and Second Language Acquisition: Learning to Use Language in Context

Product Description: Sociolinguistics and Second Language Acquisition is a comprehensive textbook that bridges the gap between the fields of sociolinguistics and second language acquisition, exploring the variety of ways in which social context influences the acquisition of a second language...read more

By Kimberly L. Geeslin

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9780415529471 | Routledge, May 29, 2014, cover price $135.00 | About this edition: Sociolinguistics and Second Language Acquisition is a comprehensive textbook that bridges the gap between the fields of sociolinguistics and second language acquisition, exploring the variety of ways in which social context influences the acquisition of a second language.

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9780415529488 | Routledge, May 14, 2014, cover price $54.95 | About this edition: Sociolinguistics and Second Language Acquisition is a comprehensive textbook that bridges the gap between the fields of sociolinguistics and second language acquisition, exploring the variety of ways in which social context influences the acquisition of a second language.

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