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The North Through its Names: A Phenomenology of Medieval and Early-Modern Northern England
by Dave Postles
This volume in the English Surnames Survey series looks at the north of England. The definition of what constitutes 'the north' is dependent on a number of variables social, political, cultural, geographic and linguistic. Allied to this, is an understanding that there was a consciousness of northern-ness, both inside and outside its parameters, based on these criteria. The personal names from the north during the ...
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Examining the Farming/Language Dispersal Hypothesis
edited by Peter Bellwood and Colin Renfrew
Linguistic diversity is one of the most puzzling and challenging features of humankind. Why are there some six thousand different languages spoken in the world today? Why are some, like Chinese or English, spoken by millions over vast territories, while others are restricted to just a few thousand speakers in a limited area? The farming/language dispersal hypothesis makes the radical and controversial proposal that the present-day distributions ...
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Widening Harvest: The Neolithic Transition in Europe
edited by Albert J Ammerman and Paolo Biagi
This volume brings together papers presented at a conference titled "The Neolithic Transition in Europe: Looking Back-Looking Forward," held in Venice in 1998. Eighteen chapters address the origins of agriculture; the Neolithic transition in southern, central, and northern Europe; genetic and linguistic aspects of the Neolithic; and future prospects for research and analysis. 230p, 47 b/w figs (AIA Colloquia and Conference Papers, ...
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Morphosyntactic Alterations in English: Functional Cognitive Perspectives
edited by Pilar Guerrero Medina
This volume brings together fourteen papers which explore the discourse-pragmatic, semantic, morphological and syntactic factors involved in English morphosyntactic alternations. The contributors to this volume deal with different types of "diathesis alternations" -broadly defined by Levin (English Verb Classes and Alternations. A Preliminary Investigation, 1993) as "alternations in the expressions of arguments, sometimes accompanied by ...
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Tabous, interdits et obligations de langage en afghanistan: Éléments du vocabulaire de la vie privée en terre d'islam
by Charles Kieffer
This book reflects on a quarter-century of observations by Charles Kieffer (Research Director CNRS, Paris) during his dialectological research from 1957-1981 in all of Afghanistan, sometimes under very adventurous circumstances.

As a contributor to the "Linguistic Atlas of Afghanistan" under the direction of the late Prof. Georges Redard (University of Bern), he has also collected material about the private life and the intimate ...
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Exploring New Paths in Language Pedagogy: Lexis and Corpus-Based Language Teaching
edited by María Moreno Jaén, Fernando Serrano Valverde and María Calzada Pérez
This volume brings together current research and practical innovations in the field of foreign language teaching. The contributions are all by well-known experts in the area. More specifically, the volume aims to give some comprehensive and updated coverage of theory, research and practice in two of the most challenging issues in today's English language teaching scenarios: the development of L2 vocabulary knowledge and the contribution of new ...
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Linguistic Dating of Biblical Texts, Volume 1: An Introduction to Approaches and Problems
by Ian Young and Robert Rezetko
Volume 1 introduces the field of linguistic dating of biblical texts, particularly to intermediate and advanced students of biblical Hebrew who have a reasonable background in the language, having completed at least an introductory course at the university or divinity school level, but also to scholars of the Hebrew Bible in general who have not been exposed to the full scope of issues. The book is useful to a wide range of readers by introducing ...
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Indogermanistik und Linguistik im Dialog: Akten der XIII. Fachtagung der Indogermanischen Gesellschaft vom 21. bis 27. September 2008 in Salzburg
edited by Thomas Krisch and Thomas Lindner
English summary: The conference proceedings "Indogermanistik und Linguistik im Dialog" (Indo-European Studies and Linguistics in Dialogue) collects a representative selection of papers from the 13th conference of the same name held in 2008 by the Indo-European Society in Salzburg, Austria. It includes both contributions seeking a dialogue between Indo-European studies and general linguistics in an effort to apply modern linguistic methods ...
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Protolanguage and Prehistory: Akten der XII. Fachtagung der Indogermanischen Gesellschaft, Krakau, 11.-15.10.2004
edited by Rosemarie Lühr and Sabine Ziegler
Die hier versammelten Aufsätze berühren die verschiedenen Gebiete der Indogermanistik und geben Einblick in aktuelle Forschungsthemen, u.a. Rekonstruktion von Akzenten, Morphologie des Nomens und des Verbs, Wortstellung und onomasiologisch ausgerichtete Semantik. German and English text. 534p (Reichert Verlag 2010)
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Études de phonétique et linguistique berbères. Hommage à Naïma Louali (1961-2005)
edited by S. Chaker, A. Mettouchi and G. Philippson
English summary: This volume collects twenty studies on Berber linguistics dedicated to the memory of Naïma Louali. After a short biography of Louali, the articles are grouped into five sections: Phonetics, Intonation and Syntax, Grammar, Lexicology and Semantics, Literature. French text.

Cet ouvrage rassemble 20 études de linguistique berbère dédiées par ses amis(e)s et collègues, de France, d'Europe ...
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