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Motives for Language Change
Cambridge University Press 2003; US$ 27.00The way languages change offers an insight into the nature of language itself. This specially commissioned volume considers the processes involved in language change and how they can be modelled and studied. In it, leading figures from different branches of linguistics re-examine some of the central issues in this field. more...
Irish English
Cambridge University Press 2007; US$ 50.00Comprehensive survey of the development and present-day features of English in Northern and the Republic of Ireland. more...
Eighteenth-Century English
Cambridge University Press 2010; US$ 88.00An edited collection which provides novel insights into the English language in the eighteenth century. more...
Varieties of English in Writing
John Benjamins Publishing Company 2010; US$ 135.00This volume is concerned with assessing fictional and non-fictional written texts as linguistic evidence for earlier forms of varieties of English. These range from Scotland to New Zealand, from Canada to South Africa, covering all the major forms of the English language around the world. Central to the volume is the question of how genuine written... more...
The Handbook of Language Contact
Wiley 2012; US$ 49.95The Handbook of Language Contact offers systematic coverage of the major issues in this field – ranging from the value of contact explanations in linguistics, to the impact of immigration, to dialectology – combining new research from a team of globally renowned scholars, with case studies of numerous languages. An authoritative reference... more...
The Dialects of Irish
De Gruyter 2011; US$ 182.00The book offers an easy-to-grasp overview of forms of modern Irish within a general linguistic framework. Based on recordings of more than 200 speakers (accessible as supplementary material on the accompanying DVD), the book demonstrates the vitality and breadth of the present-day language. Maps and tables allow easy orientation among the varieties... more...
The Sound Structure of Modern Irish
De Gruyter 2013; US$ 140.00The Sound Structure of Modern Irish contains essential information about the phonology of modern Irish along with many analyses of general linguistic issues. A major focus of the book is on a typological comparison between Irish and a number of other languages which have functionalised such phenomena as palatalisation and/or initial mutation. more...
A Source Book for Irish English
John Benjamins Publishing Company 2002; US$ 225.00The intention of the current book is to provide a flexible and comprehensive bibliographical tool to those scholars working or interested in Irish English. A whole range of references (approx. 2,500) relating to Irish English in all its aspects are gathered together here and in the majority of cases annotations are supplied. The book has a detailed... more...
Dublin English
John Benjamins Publishing Company 2005; US$ 180.00The present book describes the English language in all its facets as spoken in present-day Dublin, the capital of the Republic of Ireland. It covers the entire range of its history since the first arrival of English there several hundred years ago. Apart from the evolution of English in the capital, the book also concentrates on the significant changes... more...
Standards of English
Cambridge University Press 2012; US$ 88.00The first book-length exploration of 'standard Englishes' with contributions by the leading experts on each major variety of English discussed. more...









