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A critical work on the African American vernacular tradition and its expression in contemporary Hip hop. Because of the increasing influence of h...

Brilliant communication is just a book away.100 Words to Make You Sound Smart is an informative and entertaining resource that can help anyone be...

A guide to the artistry that lifts a sentence from good to great. We all know the basic structure of a sentence: a subject/verb pair expressing a...

CRESTFALLEN at CHICANERY and CIRCUMLOCUTION? Have no TRUCK with TOMFOOLERY? Or OMNISCIENT about OBLOQUIES and OPSIMATHS? Whether you've answered ...

Compares the sounds, phonology, and prosody of General American English and Southeastern Brazilian Portuguese. Product DetailsISBN-13: 978087840...

This revised edition remains the only comprehensive grammar of the underdocumented Digo (Chidigo) language. Included in this revision is additional...

This is the first full-length reference grammar of Mam, a Mayan language spoken today by over 400,000 people in the western highlands of Guatema...

Nese is a dying Oceanic language spoken on the island of Malekula, in northern Vanuatu. This book, based on first-hand fieldwork data, and without ...

Bjarke Frellesvig describes the development of the Japanese language from its recorded beginnings until the present day as reflected by the writt...

This book provides a thorough yet approachable history of the Scots language, a close relative of Standard English with around 1.5 million speakers...

The individual volumes of Sir Anthony Kenny's acclaimed History of Western Philosophy have been hailed as "wonderfulauthoritativehugely rewarding...

First ever critical study of Tolkien's little-known essay, which reveals how language invention shaped the creation of Middle-earth and beyond, to...

A new edition of a successful undergraduate textbook on contemporary international Standard English grammar, based on Huddleston and Pullum's ear...

" . . . the greatest contribution to [semiotics] since the pioneering work of C. S. Peirce and Charles Morris." --Journal of Aesthetics and Art C...

The inception of the Ghost Dance religion in 1890 marked a critical moment in Lakota history. Yet, because this movement alarmed government offic...

For anyone who wants to become a more effective writer, a more perceptive reader, and a more precise thinker, an understanding of English sentenc...

In this pioneering exploration of African American slang - a highly informal vocabulary and a significant aspect of African American English - Ma...

When it first appeared in 1975, After Babel created a sensation, quickly establishing itself as both a controversial and seminal study of literar...

Die dynamische Erforschung des Althochdeutschen findet ihren Niederschlag in kontinuierlicher Weiterentwicklung der Althochdeutschen Grammatik. So ...

Während die Mhd. Grammatik von Hermann Paul seit der 20. Auflage (1969) und die Frühneuhochdeutsche Grammatik (1993) - beide in der Reihe "Sammlu...

This groundbreaking study clarifies the differences between British and American English and defines the distinguishing characteristics of Americ...

During the Cultural Revolution, Mao exhorted the Chinese people to "smash the four olds" old customs, old culture, old habits, and old ideas. Yet...