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23 produkter
Trask's Historical Linguistics
Av Robert McColl Millar, R L Trask
E-bok, 2023
607 kr
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Trask’s Historical Linguistics provides an accessible introduction to historical linguistics – the study of language change over time. This engaging book is illustrated with language examples from all six continents, and covers the fundamental concepts of language change, methods for historical …
History of the Scots Language
E-bok, 2023
386 kr
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This book provides a thorough yet approachable history of the Scots language, a close relative of Standard English with around 1.5 million speakers in Scotland and several thousand in Ireland, according to the 2011 census. Despite the long history of Scots as a language of high literature, it has …
History of the Scots Language
E-bok, 2023
386 kr
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This book provides a thorough yet approachable history of the Scots language, a close relative of Standard English with around 1.5 million speakers in Scotland and several thousand in Ireland, according to the 2011 census. Despite the long history of Scots as a language of high literature, it has …
A History of the Scots Language
Inbunden, 2023
1153 kr
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This book provides a thorough yet approachable history of the Scots language, a close relative of Standard English with around 1.5 million speakers in Scotland and several thousand in Ireland, according to the 2011 census. Despite the long history of Scots as a language of high literature, it has …
A History of the Scots Language
Häftad, 2023
475 kr
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This book provides a thorough yet approachable history of the Scots language, a close relative of Standard English with around 1.5 million speakers in Scotland and several thousand in Ireland, according to the 2011 census. Despite the long history of Scots as a language of high literature, it has …
Trask's Historical Linguistics
Av Robert McColl Millar, R L Trask
Häftad, 2023
607 kr
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Trask’s Historical Linguistics provides an accessible introduction to historical linguistics – the study of language change over time. This engaging book is illustrated with language examples from all six continents, and covers the fundamental concepts of language change, methods for historical …
Trask's Historical Linguistics
Av Robert McColl Millar, R L Trask
Inbunden, 2023
2585 kr
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Trask’s Historical Linguistics provides an accessible introduction to historical linguistics – the study of language change over time. This engaging book is illustrated with language examples from all six continents, and covers the fundamental concepts of language change, methods for historical …
Northern and Insular Scots
Inbunden, 2007
1341 kr
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The Scots dialects of northern Scotland, Orkney and Shetland are among the most traditional varieties of ‘English’, exhibiting features not current elsewhere for centuries. Until recently, they were spoken in communities whose traditional occupations have encouraged the equation of speech with …
Northern and Insular Scots
Häftad, 2007
682 kr
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The Scots dialects of northern Scotland, Orkney and Shetland are among the most traditional varieties of ‘English’, exhibiting features not current elsewhere for centuries. Until recently, they were spoken in communities whose traditional occupations have encouraged the equation of speech with …
English Historical Sociolinguistics
Häftad, 2012
513 kr
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Sociolinguistics provides a powerful instrument by which we can interpret the contemporary and near-contemporary use of language in relation to the society in which speakers live. Almost since the beginning of the discipline, however, attempts have been made to extrapolate backwards and interpret …
English Historical Sociolinguistics
Inbunden, 2012
2258 kr
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Sociolinguistics provides a powerful instrument by which we can interpret the contemporary and near-contemporary use of language in relation to the society in which speakers live. Almost since the beginning of the discipline, however, attempts have been made to extrapolate backwards and interpret …
Lexical Variation and Attrition in the Scottish Fishing Communities
Av Robert McColl Millar, William Barras m. fl.
Inbunden, 2014
1371 kr
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Over the last half century many scholars have recorded, analysed and theorised language death. At the same time, many sociolinguists have considered how rapid and dependable transport, mass education and increasingly globalised work patterns have affected how dialects in industrial and …
Trask's Historical Linguistics
Av Robert McColl Millar, R L Trask
E-bok, 2023
607 kr
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Trask’s Historical Linguistics provides an accessible introduction to historical linguistics – the study of language change over time. This engaging book is illustrated with language examples from all six continents, and covers the fundamental concepts of language change, methods for historical …
Linguistic Contact and Language Change
An Introduction
Häftad, 2024
351 kr
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Linguistic contact is a reality of everyday life, as speakers of different languages come into contact with one another, often causing language change. This undergraduate textbook provides a means by which these processes, both modern and historical, can be analysed, based on cutting-edge …
Linguistic Contact and Language Change
An Introduction
Inbunden, 2024
1274 kr
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Linguistic contact is a reality of everyday life, as speakers of different languages come into contact with one another, often causing language change. This undergraduate textbook provides a means by which these processes, both modern and historical, can be analysed, based on cutting-edge …
Lexical Variation and Attrition in the Scottish Fishing Communities
Av Robert McColl Millar, William Barras m. fl.
Häftad, 2026
322 kr
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Over the last half century many scholars have recorded, analysed and theorised language death. At the same time, many sociolinguists have considered how rapid and dependable transport, mass education and increasingly globalised work patterns have affected how dialects in industrial and …
Contact
The Interaction of Closely Related Linguistic Varieties and the History of English
Inbunden, 2016
2033 kr
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Much has been written on dialect formation through contact between dialects of the same language, but the question of what happens when closely related but linguistically discrete varieties come into contact with each other has largely been neglected. Here Robert McColl Millar sets out to redress …
Modern Scots
An Analytical Survey
Inbunden, 2018
2258 kr
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A textbook overview of the structure, use and diversity of Modern Scots This textbook overview of Modern Scots provides a description and analysis of the language covering lexical, phonological and structural patterns. It presents evidence for the diversity of the language through illustrations …
Modern Scots
An Analytical Survey
Häftad, 2018
338 kr
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A textbook overview of the structure, use and diversity of Modern Scots This textbook overview of Modern Scots provides a description and analysis of the language covering lexical, phonological and structural patterns. It presents evidence for the diversity of the language through illustrations …
Contact
The Interaction of Closely Related Linguistic Varieties and the History of English
Häftad, 2018
362 kr
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Presents a new approach to issues of language and dialect contact Much has been written on dialect formation through contact between dialects of the same language, but the question of what happens when closely related but linguistically discrete varieties come into contact with each other has …
Sociolinguistic History of Scotland
Häftad, 2022
288 kr
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'Millar's profound engagement with linguistic detail and socio-cultural developments shines out throughout this important book. Especially impressive is how Millar never forgets the human factor, including drawing on his own family's social and multi-lingual journey through time. The result is a …
