Gunter Rohdenburg & Julia Schluter 
One Language, Two Grammars? [PDF ebook] 
Differences between British and American English

Persian, or Farsi, is one of the world”s oldest languages. Dating back to the sixth century B.C., it is spoken today by over forty million people in Iran and 5 million in Afghanistan. This is the fi …

This volume examines the connection between socio-economic class and bilingual practices, a previously under-researched area, through looking at differences in bilingual settings that are classified …

Hungarian is spoken by 12-14 million people worldwide. A unique language, completely unrelated to the languages of its neighbouring countries, it boasts a grammar full of complex features and a vocab …

This book re-examines the old debate about the relationship between rationality and literacy. Does writing ‘restructure consciousness?’ Do preliterate societies have a different ‘mind-set’ from liter …

The Routledge Language Family series is aimed at undergraduates and postgraduates of linguistics and language, and those with an interest in historical linguistics, linguistic anthropology and langua …

What did eighth-century Japanese sound like? How does one decode its complex script? This book provides the definitive answers to these questions using an unprecedented range of data from the past an …

This is Volume II of fourteen in the India: Language and Literature Series. Originally published in 1878, this book offers information on the Languagesof the East Indies, that include the language fa …

First published in 2000. This title is Volume VIII in the XIV-Volume set titled India: Language and Literature, part of Truber”s Oriental Series. This volume embraces the contents of the little work …

Using acoustic studies of Bernese, Hungarian, Levantine Arabic and Madurese, the author argues that differences in geminate timing are ultimately correlated with whether a language is syllable-or mor …

This book deals with the narrative discourse–specifically lifestories–of 16 patients suffering from Alzheimer”s disease (AD). It attempts to understand the discourse of these patients in contextua …