Offers a descriptive account of English as it is used in India. This book includes: a discussion of the sociolinguistic and cultural factors; the history of the establishment of English in India, bringing it up to modern times; and, a description of the linguistic aspects - phonetics and phonology, lexical, discourse and morphosyntactic features.

It is commonly agreed by linguists and anthropologists that the majority of languages spoken now around the globe will likely disappear within our lifetime. The phenomenon known as language death has started to accelerate as the world has grown smaller.
This extinction of languages, and the knowledge therein, has no parallel in human history. K. David Harrison's book is the first to focus on the essential question, what is lost when a language dies? What forms of knowledge are embedded in a language's structure and vocabulary?

When a child has communication problems-- diagnosed or not--parents are first looking for a place to go for help. The Parent’s Guide to Speech and Language Problems is a one-stop resource, offering not just the most up-to-date medical information but also advice and encouragement from a mom who’s been there.Author Debbie Feit has two children with speech problems and knows what it takes to survive and thrive day-to-day as a family.

The study of comparative syntax in closely related languages has yielded valuable insights into syntactic phenomena - for example in the study of the Romance languages - yet little comparative work has been done on English dialects. This is the first comparison of the syntax of Belfast English and Standard English, using Chomsky's "Principles and Parameters"/Minimalist framework.