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First published in Great Britain in 1935, this Routledge Revival reissues one of the most influential works ever published in the field of linguistics. Leonard Bloomfield's Language is both a masterpiece of textbook writing and a classic of academic scholarship, which examines the fundamentals of language and linguistics in a clear, precise manner. Intended as an introduction to the field of linguistics, for both the general reader and for students of linguistics, this detailed study covers a breadth of topics, ranging from: world languages, phonetic structure and syntax, through...

500 Common Chinese Proverbs and Colloquial Expressions is a dictionary of key Chinese proverbs or suyu. Suyu are vivid and colourful expressions widely used in Chinese language. The smooth use of chengyu in Chinese writing and of suyu in spoken Chinese not only makes communication more effective, it is also an indicator of mastery of the language.

This dictionary will provide an ideal resource for all intermediate to advanced learners of Chinese. Concise and practical, it draws upon a large corpus of authentic language data to present 500 of the most commonly used Chinese suyu. The suyu...

Erstmalige systematische Untersuchung der Bildung nicht zusammengesetzter Substantive und Adjektive im Alt- und Mittelirischen in drei Teilen: Teil I behandelt in 11 Kapiteln (Wurzelnomina o-, a-, i-, i-, u-, n-, r-Stamme, Heteroklitika, s-, Dental- und Gutturalstamme) diejenigen Worter, die primar aus der Wurzel mittels einfachster Morpheme abgeleitet sind, in bezug auf ihre Flexion und Struktur und ihre Semantik. Teil II befat sich in 7 Kapiteln mit den vorhistorisch identifizierbaren Suffixen, jeweils nach dem ersten zugrundeliegenden Konsonanten gruppiert, und in weiteren...

North Sami: An Essential Grammar is the first book of Sami grammar to be published in English.

The book provides:

• a clear and comprehensive overview of modern Sami grammar including examples drawn from authentic texts of various genres.
• a systematic order of topics beginning with the alphabet and phonology, continuing with nominal and verbal morphology and syntax, and concluding with more advanced topics such as discourse particles, complex sentences, and word formation.
• Full explanations of the grammatical...

Identity and Dialect Performance discusses the relationship between identity and dialects. It starts from the assumption that the use of dialect is not just a product of social and demographic factors, but can also be an intentional performance of identity. Dialect performance is related to identity construction and in a highly globalised world, the linguistic repertoire has increased rapidly, thereby changing our conventional assumptions about dialects and their usage.

The key outstanding feature of this particular book is that it spans an extensive range of communities...

This volume offers qualitative as well as corpus-based quantitative studies on three domains of grammatical variation in the British Isles. All studies draw heavily on the Freiburg English Dialect Corpus (FRED), a computerized corpus for predominantly British English dialects comprising some 2.5 million words. Besides an account of FRED and the advantages which a functional-typological framework offers for the study of dialect grammar, the volume includes the following three substantial studies.

Tanja Herrmann's study is the first systematic cross-regional study of relativization...