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Creoles, Their Substrates, and Language Typology
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Creoles, their Substrates, and Language TypologyCreoles, their Substrates, and Language Typology

Since creole languages draw their properties from both their substrate and superstrate sources, the typological classification of creoles has long been a major issue for creolists, typologists, and linguists in general.
 
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Understanding English Grammar: A Linguistic Introduction
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Understanding English Grammar: A Linguistic IntroductionUnderstanding English Grammar: A Linguistic Introduction

Language is primarily a tool for communication, yet many textbooks still treat English grammar as simply a set of rules and facts to be memorised by rote. This new textbook is made for students who are frustrated with this approach and would like instead to understand grammar and how it works. Why are there two future tenses in English?
 
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Письменный перевод с русского языка на английский
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Письменный перевод с русского языка на английскийПисьменный перевод с русского языка на английский

Данная книга представляет собой первую в нашей стране попытку создать курс письменного перевода с русского языка на английский. Она может быть использована как при подготовке переводчиков, так и в целях повышения квалификации преподавателей английского языка, а также всех изучающих английский язык.
 
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Why is Q Always Followed by U?: Word-Perfect Answers to the Most-Asked Questions About Language
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Why is Q Always Followed by U?: Word-Perfect Answers to the Most-Asked Questions About LanguageWhy is Q Always Followed by U?: Word-Perfect Answers to the Most-Asked Questions About Language

Long-time word-detective and bestselling author of "Port Out", "Starboard Home", Michael Quinion brings us the answers to nearly two hundred of the most intriguing questions he's been asked about language over the years.
 
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First Steps in Theoretical and Applied Linguistics
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First Steps in Theoretical and Applied LinguisticsFirst Steps in Theoretical and Applied Linguistics

First Steps in Theoretical and Applied Linguistics is an introduction to the liguistics branches (phonetics, phonology, morphology, syntax, semantics, pragmatics, sociolinguistics lexicography, translation and discourse analysis.


 
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The Language Wars: A History of Proper English
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The Language Wars: A History of Proper EnglishThe Language Wars: A History of Proper English

The English language is a battlefield. Since the age of Shakespeare, arguments over correct usage have been acrimonious, and those involved have always really been contesting values - to do with morality, politics and class. THE LANGUAGE WARS examines the present state of the conflict, its history and its future. Above all, it uses the past as a way of illuminating the present.
 
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Identity and Language Learning: Gender, Ethnicity and Educational Change
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Identity and Language Learning: Gender, Ethnicity and Educational ChangeUnder what conditions do language learners speak? How is a learner's changing identity related to the process of language learning? How can language teachers address the complex histories of language learners? These are the questions that are central to this book. Integrating research, theory, and classroom practice, this book will be of interest to students, teachers, and researchers in the fields of second language learning and teaching, TESOL, applied linguistics and language planning.

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