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La collection Manuals of Romance Linguistics (MRL) a l'ambition de presenter un panorama d'ensemble de la linguistique romane tenant compte des derniers acquis de la recherche. Elle comprendra une soixantaine de volumes qui pourront etre utilises separement tout en offrant dans leur totalite une bonne approche globale de l'eventail actuel de la linguistique romane. L'accent sera mis en particulier sur les linguae minores auxquelles les deux grands ouvrages de references de la discipline, le Dictionnaire de la linguistique romane (Lexikon der Romanistischen...

The Routledge Dictionary of Modern American Slang offers the ultimate record of modern, post WW2 American Slang.

The 25,000 entries are accompanied by citations that authenticate the words as well as offer examples of usage from popular literature, newspapers, magazines, movies, television shows, musical lyrics, and Internet user groups. Etymology, cultural context, country of origin and the date the word was first used are also provided. In terms of content, the cultural transformations since 1945 are astounding. Television, computers, drugs, music, unpopular wars, youth...

Teiwa is a non-Austronesian ('Papuan') language spoken on the island of Pantar, in eastern Indonesia, located just north of Timor island. It has approx. 4,000 speakers and is highly endangered. While the non-Austronesian languages of the Alor-Pantar archipelago are clearly related to each other, as indicated by the many apparent cognates and the very similar pronominal paradigms found across the group, their genetic relationship to other Papuan languages remains controversial. Located some 1,000 km from their putative Papuan neighbors on the New Guinea mainland, the Alor-Pantar languages...

Language Isolates is the first volume to explore this fascinating group of languages that comprise a third of the world's languages.

Individual chapters written by experts in the field examine the major language isolates by geographic regions with up-to-date descriptions of many previously undocumented language isolates. Each language isolate represents a unique lineage and a unique window on what is possible in human language making this an essential volume for anyone interested in understanding the diversity of human language.

The Languages and Linguistics of Australia: A Comprehensive Guide is part of the multi-volume reference work on the languages and linguistics of the continents of the world. The volume provides a thorough overview of Australian languages, including their linguistic structures, their genetic relationships, and issues of language maintenance and revitalisation.

Australian English, Aboriginal English and other contact varieties are also discussed.

This brand new reference work provides a comprehensive and specialized business vocabulary in a practical and accessible format. Over 15,000 business terms are arranged by topic, with the English words listed alphabetically within each topic for easy reference. Each Japanese term is given in both the native script and its romanized form.

The Encyclopedia of the World's Endangered Languages presents expert analysis of the current language policy situation in every multilingual country and on every continent, detailed descriptions of little-known languages from all over the world, and clear alphabetical entries, region by region, of all the world's languages currently thought to be in danger of extinction.

This new edition has been updated to reflect the greater amount of theorizing on language death, endangerment and revitalization from the last decade. Individual chapters have been thoroughly...