Creole Discourse. Exploring prestige formation and change across Caribbean English-lexicon creoles.Creole languages are characteristically associated with a negative image. How has this prestige been formed? And is it as static as the diglossic situation in many anglo-creolophone societies seems to suggest? This volume examines socio-historical and epistemological factors in the prestige formation of Caribbean English-Lexicon...
Ken Lodge investigates the basic concepts of phonological theory. He especially focuses on sameness and difference, each a sine qua non of classification. It is assumed that all academic disciplines utilize these two basic concepts in classification. Since phonology deals with the interface between the abstract system of native speaker knowledge and physical entities, the linguistic classification of those physical entities needs a clear and rigorously applied criteria for deciding what constitutes the same sound and what does not.
WHO Classification of Tumours Pathology and Genetics of Tumours of the Urinary System and Male Genital Organs (World Health Organization Classification of Tumours) John N. Eble, Guido Sauter, Jonathan I., M.D. Epstein International Agency for Research on Cancer 2004-02 360 pages
Language Classification by Numbers This book considers how languages have traditionally been divided into families, and asks how they should classified in the future. It describes and applies computer programs from biology and evolutionary genetics to data about languages and shows how the power of the computer can be harnessed to throw light on long-standing problems in historical linguistics.
