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Klingon for the Galactic Travelerby Marc Okrand
Simon & Schuster 2011; US$ 14.99"Heghlu'meH QaQ jajvam." "It is a good day to die." What is the proper response to this? What should I do? Now, with Klingon for the Galactic Traveler you will know. Organized into four easy-to-use sections, this book will guide your steps through the Klingon language and customs: The regional dialects of the Empire Common, everyday usage of the language The slang phrases and curses that color the Klingon volcabulary Most importantly, the proper verbal, physical, and cultural responses. A misspoken word to a Klingon, who is quick to take offense and even quicker to take action, could have dire consequences. This book is the indispensable guide for the galactic traveler. more...
Creolization of Language and Cultureby Robert Chaudenson; Salikoko Mufwene
Routledge 2001; US$ 62.95This is an accessible book which makes an important contribution to the study of Pidgin and Creole language varieties, as well as to the development of contemporary European languages outside Europe. more...
Wariby Daniel L. Everett; Barbara Kern
Routledge 1997; US$ 333.00This is the first major study of any Chapakuran language, and makes an important contribution to the database of linguistic theory. This study is especially timely as the Chapakuran languages of Western Brazil and Eastern Bolivia are endangered. more...
Nigerian Pidginby Nick Faraclas
Routledge 1996; US$ 333.00This is the first comprehensive grammar of Nigerian Pidgin. This book provides basic descriptive and analytical treatment of the syntax , morphology and phonology of a language which may soon be the most widely spoken in Africa. more...
Origins of Predicatesby Tomio Hirose
Routledge 2003; US$ 123.00This book offers a new perspective on natural language predicates by analyzing data from the Plains Cree language. more...
Pidgins and Creolesby Loreto Todd
Routledge 1990; US$ 41.95`A marvellous feat of culling major issues and synthesising complex arguments.'- Journal of Linguistics `This slender but meaty volume is a good, solid and current introduction.'- Language in Society more...
Dictionary Of Native American Literatureby Andrew Wiget
Taylor & Francis 1994; US$ 225.00This dictionary, produced by the Association for the Study of American Indian Literature, contains 40 critical-biographical essays on various writers spanning two time periods: the historical emergence of Native American writers (to 1800) and the Native American Renaissance (1967-). more...
An Introduction to Pidgins and Creolesby John Holm; S. R. Anderson; J. Bresnan; B. Comrie; W. Dressler; C. J. Ewen
Cambridge University Press 2000; US$ 42.00This textbook is a clear and concise introduction to the study of how new languages come into being. Starting with an overview of the field's basic concepts, it surveys the new languages that developed as a result of the European expansion to the Americas, Africa, Asia and the Pacific. more...
The Missing Spanish Creolesby John H. McWhorter
University of California Press 2000; US$ 15.95John McWhorter challenges an enduring paradigm among linguists in this provocative exploration of the origins of plantation creoles. Using a wealth of data--linguistic, sociolinguistic, historical--he proposes that the "limited access model" of creole genesis is seriously flawed. more...
Sounds Like Lifeby Janis B. Nuckolls
Oxford University Press 1996; US$ 145.00Sound-symbolism occurs when words resemble the sounds associated with the phenomena they attempt to describe, rather than an arbitrary representation. For example the word raven is arbitrary in that it does not resemble a raven; cuckoo, however, is sound -symbolic in that it resembles the bird's call. In Sounds Like Life, Janis Nuckolls studies the occurrence of sound-symbolic words in Pastaza Quechua (a dialect of Quechua), which is spoken in eastern Ecuador. The use of sound-symbolic words is much more prevalent in Pastaza Quechua than in any other language, and they symbolize a wider range of sensory perceptions including sounds, rhythms, and visual patterns. Nuckolls uses discourse data from everyday contexts to demonstrate the Quechua... more...









