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Product Description: Methodological know-how has become one of the key qualifications in contemporary linguistics, which has a strong empirical focus. Containing 23 chapters, each devoted to a different research method, this volume brings together the expertise and insight of a range of established practitioners...read more
By Julia Schluter (editor)

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9781107004900 | Cambridge Univ Pr, December 16, 2013, cover price $120.00 | About this edition: Methodological know-how has become one of the key qualifications in contemporary linguistics, which has a strong empirical focus.

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9780521181860 | Cambridge Univ Pr, December 16, 2013, cover price $39.99 | About this edition: Methodological know-how has become one of the key qualifications in contemporary linguistics, which has a strong empirical focus.

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Product Description: This book envisions the study of bare noun phrases as a field of research in its own right rather than an accessory matter in the wider domain of nominal determination. Combining insights from different theoretical backgrounds and extending the empirical coverage of bare noun phenomena, the ten contributions provide new perspectives on long-standing but still actively debated problems as well as investigations into previously ignored issues...read more
By Albert Wall (editor)

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9789027206084 | John Benjamins Pub Co, November 15, 2013, cover price $149.00 | About this edition: This book envisions the study of bare noun phrases as a field of research in its own right rather than an accessory matter in the wider domain of nominal determination.

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By Horst J. Simon (editor)

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9783110310726 | Bilingual edition (Mouton De Gruyter, November 30, 2013), cover price $168.00

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Product Description: Reflecting a multitude of developments in the study of language change and variation over the last ten years, this extensively updated second edition features a number of new chapters and remains the authoritative reference volume on a core research area in linguistics...read more
By J. K. Chambers (editor) and Natalie Schilling (editor)

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9780470659946 | 2 edition (Blackwell Pub, August 26, 2013), cover price $205.00 | About this edition: Reflecting a multitude of developments in the study of language change and variation over the last ten years, this extensively updated second edition features a number of new chapters and remains the authoritative reference volume on a core research area in linguistics.

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Product Description: Everyday language use overflows with discourse-pragmatic features. Their frequency, form and function can vary greatly across social groups and change dramatically over time. And yet these features have not figured prominently in studies of language variation and change...read more

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9789027234933 | John Benjamins Pub Co, April 15, 2013, cover price $158.00 | About this edition: Everyday language use overflows with discourse-pragmatic features.
9780306701634, titled "A Handbook of American Music and Musicians, Containing Biographies of American Musicians and Histories of the Principal Musical Institutions, Firms, a" | Da Capo Pr, June 1, 1971, cover price $39.50 | also contains A Handbook of American Music and Musicians, Containing Biographies of American Musicians and Histories of the Principal Musical Institutions, Firms, a

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Product Description: Explanations for sound change have traditionally focused on identifying the inception of change, that is, the identification of perturbations of the speech signal, conditioned by physiological constraints on articulatory and/or auditory mechanisms, which affect the way speech sounds are analyzed by the listener...read more
By Alan C. L. Yu (editor)

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9780199573745 | Oxford Univ Pr, March 1, 2013, cover price $135.00 | About this edition: Explanations for sound change have traditionally focused on identifying the inception of change, that is, the identification of perturbations of the speech signal, conditioned by physiological constraints on articulatory and/or auditory mechanisms, which affect the way speech sounds are analyzed by the listener.

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Product Description: Bringing the advances of theoretical linguistics to the study of language change in a systematic way, this innovative textbook demonstrates the mutual relevance of historical linguistics and contemporary linguistics. Numerous case studies throughout the book show both that theoretical linguistics can be used to solve problems where traditional approaches to historical linguistics have failed to produce satisfying results, and that the results of historical research can have an impact on theory...read more

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9780521583329 | Cambridge Univ Pr, March 11, 2013, cover price $110.00 | About this edition: Bringing the advances of theoretical linguistics to the study of language change in a systematic way, this innovative textbook demonstrates the mutual relevance of historical linguistics and contemporary linguistics.

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This book gives a lucid and up-to-date overview of language change, discussing where our evidence about language change comes from, how and why changes happen, and how languages begin and end. It considers both changes that occurred long ago, and those currently in progress. This substantially revised third edition includes two new chapters on change of meaning and grammaticalization. New sections have been added to other chapters, as well as over 150 new references. The work remains nontechnical in style and accessible to the reader with no previous knowledge of linguistics.

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9781107023628 | 4th edition (Cambridge Univ Pr, February 25, 2013), cover price $99.99
9780521791557, titled "Language Change: Progress or Decay" | 3 sub edition (Cambridge Univ Pr, January 8, 2001), cover price $70.00 | About this edition: This book gives a lucid and up-to-date overview of language change, discussing where our evidence about language change comes from, how and why changes happen, and how languages begin and end.

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9781107678927 | 4th edition (Cambridge Univ Pr, February 25, 2013), cover price $39.99
9780521795357 | 3 edition (Cambridge Univ Pr, January 1, 2000), cover price $39.99
9780521422833 | Cambridge Univ Pr, October 1, 1991, cover price $18.95 | also contains Shallow Graves

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9780511025235, titled "Language Change: Progress Or Decay" | 3 edition (Cambridge Univ Pr, January 1, 2001), cover price $60.00

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Product Description: This book focuses on some of the most important issues in historical syntax. In a series of close examinations of languages from old Egyptian to modern Afrikaans, leading scholars present new work on Afro-Asiatic, Latin and Romance, Germanic, Albanian, Celtic, Indo-Iranian, and Japanese...read more
By Juanito Avelar (editor)

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9780199659203 | Oxford Univ Pr, December 29, 2012, cover price $135.00 | About this edition: This book focuses on some of the most important issues in historical syntax.

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Product Description: The present volume seeks to unite the research of a range of scholars working on features of non-standard, vernacular English which show an areal distribution, i.e. which cluster geographically across the world. The volume is concerned with dialect input, innovations among varieties of English andthe areal diffusion of features among varieties...read more
By Raymond Hickey (editor)

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9783110278842 | Mouton De Gruyter, November 30, 2012, cover price $168.00 | About this edition: The present volume seeks to unite the research of a range of scholars working on features of non-standard, vernacular English which show an areal distribution, i.

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Product Description: Spreading Patterns examines how new constructions emerge and spread through the grammar of a language, in a process called "diffusion". This is done by tracking the development of three types of complements from the Middle English period to the present day...read more

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9780199812752 | Oxford Univ Pr, December 14, 2012, cover price $82.00 | About this edition: Spreading Patterns examines how new constructions emerge and spread through the grammar of a language, in a process called "diffusion".

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By Bert Cornillie (collaborator)

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9789027205971 | John Benjamins Pub Co, October 30, 2012, cover price $149.00

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Product Description: Departing from Schneider and Barron (2008), representing the emerging field of Variational Pragmatics, this volume examines pragmatic variation focusing on methods utilized to collect and analyze data in a variety of first (L1) and second (L2) language contexts...read more

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9789027218728 | John Benjamins Pub Co, September 12, 2012, cover price $149.00 | About this edition: Departing from Schneider and Barron (2008), representing the emerging field of Variational Pragmatics, this volume examines pragmatic variation focusing on methods utilized to collect and analyze data in a variety of first (L1) and second (L2) language contexts.

By Dagmar Divjak (editor) and Stefamn Th. Gries (editor)

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9783110273786 | Mouton De Gruyter, August 16, 2012, cover price $182.00

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9781592406258, titled "What Language Is: And What It Isn't and What It Could Be" | Gotham Books, August 4, 2011, cover price $26.00

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9781592407200, titled "What Language Is: And What It Isn't and What It Could Be" | Avery Pub Group, August 7, 2012, cover price $16.00

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Product Description: This book, Challenging Change: Literary and Linguistic Responses, is a collection of twenty-three articles which examine change understood in the broadest sense as the need of the modern man to redefine, revise, deconstruct and reconstruct previous theories, histories, moralities, social relationships, forms of language and language use...read more
By Vesna Lopicic (editor)

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9781443839006 | Cambridge Scholars Pub, July 1, 2012, cover price $75.95 | About this edition: This book, Challenging Change: Literary and Linguistic Responses, is a collection of twenty-three articles which examine change understood in the broadest sense as the need of the modern man to redefine, revise, deconstruct and reconstruct previous theories, histories, moralities, social relationships, forms of language and language use.

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Product Description: This volume brings together research carried out in a variety of geographic and linguistic contexts including Africa, Asia, Australia, Canada, the Caribbean, Europe and the United States and explores efforts to incorporate linguistic diversity into education and to ‘harness’ this diversity for learners’ benefit...read more

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9783034307260 | Peter Lang Pub Inc, May 21, 2012, cover price $69.95 | About this edition: This volume brings together research carried out in a variety of geographic and linguistic contexts including Africa, Asia, Australia, Canada, the Caribbean, Europe and the United States and explores efforts to incorporate linguistic diversity into education and to ‘harness’ this diversity for learners’ benefit.

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Product Description: Anglo-Saxon Keywords presents a series of entries that reveal the links between modern ideas and scholarship and the central concepts of Anglo-Saxon literature, language, and material culture. Reveals important links between central concepts of the Anglo-Saxon period and issues we think about today Reveals how material culture—the history of labor, medicine, technology, identity, masculinity, sex, food, land use—is as important as the history of ideas Offers a richly theorized approach that intersects with many disciplines inside and outside of medieval studies...read more

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9780470657621 | Blackwell Pub, May 15, 2012, cover price $49.95 | About this edition: Anglo-Saxon Keywords presents a series of entries that reveal the links between modern ideas and scholarship and the central concepts of Anglo-Saxon literature, language, and material culture.

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Product Description: Information Structure and Syntactic Change in the History of English is the first book to apply information structure as it relates to language change to a corpus-based analysis of a wide range of features in the evolution of English syntax and grammars of prose in long diachrony...read more

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9780199860210 | Oxford Univ Pr, July 11, 2012, cover price $82.00 | About this edition: Information Structure and Syntactic Change in the History of English is the first book to apply information structure as it relates to language change to a corpus-based analysis of a wide range of features in the evolution of English syntax and grammars of prose in long diachrony.

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Product Description: The Development of Latin Post-Tonic /Cr/ Clusters in Select Northern Italian Dialects offers an explanation of the disparate outcomes of similar consonant clusters within several related Northern Italian dialects through application of optimality theory and frequency effects...read more

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9781433116674 | Peter Lang Pub Inc, March 1, 2012, cover price $65.95 | About this edition: The Development of Latin Post-Tonic /Cr/ Clusters in Select Northern Italian Dialects offers an explanation of the disparate outcomes of similar consonant clusters within several related Northern Italian dialects through application of optimality theory and frequency effects.

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