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Linguistic Ecologyby Mü hlhä Peter usler
Routledge 1996; US$ 163.00In this topical study of the large scale loss of human language, the author examines the transformation of the Pacific language region. He focuses on cultural and historical forces to explain such loss. more...
Major Languages of South Asia, the Middle East and Africaby Bernard Comrie
Routledge 1990; US$ 100.00Based on the much-praised The World's Major Languages , this is the first comprehensive guide in paperback to describe the development, grammar sound and writing system, and sociological factors of the major language families in these areas. more...
Languages in Americaby USA) Bronx City University of New York Hostos Community College Susan J. Dicker (Associate Professor of English
Multilingual Matters 2003; US$ 39.95This text tackles the controversial language issues facing an increasingly diverse nation. Highlighting the roles the non-English language have had in American history, it offers a cogent argument against language restrictionism. more...
New Language Bearings in Africaby Margaret Jepkiriu Muthwii; Angelina Kioko
Multilingual Matters 2004; US$ 69.95The collection of papers in this special volume discuss issues and challenges that are pertinent in understanding present-day moves and tendencies in the use of languages in the African contexts. more...
Vernacular Palaverby Moradewun Adejunmobi
Multilingual Matters 2004; US$ 49.95Vernacular Palaver examines the continuing appeal of the idea of the 'local' for cultural brokers in West Africa, even in instances where they have a growing interaction with diverse global and continental languages of wider communication. more...
Dialect Changeby Peter Auer; Frans Hinskens; Paul Kerswill
Cambridge University Press 2005; US$ 49.00This book brings together a team of leading scholars to explore all aspects of recent dialect change, in particular dialect convergence and divergence. Each specially-commissioned chapter is based on original research, giving an overview of current work on that particular area and presenting case studies to illustrate the issues discussed. more...
Language Diversity in the Pacificby Denis Cunningham; D.E Ingram; Kenneth Sumbuk
Multilingual Matters 2006; US$ 99.95The Southwest Pacific from Southern China through Indonesia, Australia and the Pacific Islands constitutes the richest linguistic region of the world. Some of its languages have already been lost; many more are under threat. This book tries to describe the languages that exist today and suggests policies that will support their maintenance. more...
Language in the USAby Edward Finegan; John R. Rickford
Cambridge University Press 2004; US$ 40.00This textbook provides a comprehensive survey of current language issues in the USA, exploring the nature of language variation and its social, historical and political significance. It is divided into three sections: Part I, American English; Part II, Other Language Varieties; and Part III, The Sociolinguistic Situation in the USA. more...
Comparative Syntax of the Balkan Languagesby Maria-Luisa Rivero; Angela Ralli
Oxford University Press 2001; US$ 85.00This collection of seven papers studies important aspects of the syntax of Albanian, Bulgarian, Greek, and Romanian from a comparative perspective based on current linguistic frameworks, including the Minimalist Program. Topics addressed include control, raising, and obviation, negation, noun phrase structure, clitic pronouns, and verb movement. more...
Balkan sprachbund morpho-syntactic featuresby Olga M. Tomic
Springer 2006; US$ 379.00Discusses the morpho-syntactic Balkan Sprachbund features in nine languages in which they are most numerous. This book focuses on displaying similarities and differences in the representation of the most widely acknowledged Balkan Sprachbund morpho-syntactic features and their interaction with other features in the structure of the DP. more...









