Laurie Bauer 
Watching English Change [PDF ebook] 
An Introduction to the Study of Linguistic Change in Standard Englishes in the 20th Century

From the 1750s to the 1830s, numerous British intellectuals, novelists, essayists, poets, playwrights, translators, educationalists, politicians, businessmen, travel writers, and philosophers brooded …

This is a concise dictionary of Ancient Greek with an additional supplement of proper names including Greek equivalents for famous names in Roman history with the vocabulary of the Attic Language, or …

The educational system in China”s Yanbian Prefecture presents a relatively successful model for Korean ethnic education. Koreans in China have a much higher percentage of literacy and middle school …

This textbook on English syntax aims to give students a thorough grounding in the basics of sentence structure, and at the same time strives to acquaint them with the essentials of syntactic argument …

History, archaeology, and human evolutionary genetics provide us with an increasingly detailed view of the origins and development of the peoples that live in Northwestern Europe. This book aims to r …

‘The book draws on a lot of research, is friendly to the reader, and will be of good value to teachers.’ Paul Nation, Victoria University of Wellington, Australia This comprehensive, up-to-date, and …

Arabic L2 Interlanguage is a significant and timely addition to the field of Second Language Acquisition, providing valuable insight into the development of ‘interlanguage’, the interim language of e …

This book examines the smuggling of migrants and trafficking in human beings in the EU with a comparative analysis of how British and Italian law has approached the issues. The work also analyzes the …

As the crow flies””, ””chunder””, ””cold enough to freeze the balls off a brass monkey””, ””three sheets to the wind”” – many terms like these are used in everyday English language conv …

This book centers on theoretical issues of phonology-syntax interface based on tone sandhi in Chinese dialects. It uses patterns in tone sandhi to study how speech should be divided into domains of v …