Penelope Eckert & John R. Rickford 
Style and Sociolinguistic Variation [PDF ebook] 

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 …