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Word for Word

Stories Behind Everyday Words We Use
Khaled Ahmed
$50.00
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Hardback,  Feb 2012 ISBN13: 9780195478273ISBN10: 0195478274 The stories behind how everyday Urdu words are linked to English, German, French, and Russian words
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German

Biography of a Language
Ruth Sanders
$18.95
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Paperback,  Mar 2012 ISBN13: 9780199913763ISBN10: 0199913765 A fascinating history of the German language
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The Oxford Handbook of Tense and Aspect

Robert I. Binnick
$175.00
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Hardback,  Apr 2012 ISBN13: 9780195381979ISBN10: 0195381971 A comprehensive, authoritative, and accessible guide to tense and aspect

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The Theta System

Argument Structure at the Interface
Martin Everaert, Marijana Marelj, Tal Siloni
$150.00
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Hardback,  Apr 2012 ISBN13: 9780199602513ISBN10: 0199602514 This book considers the recent results and evaluations of the Theta System in both theoretical and experimental domains
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Information Structure and Syntactic Change in the History of English

Anneli Meurman-Solin, Maria Jose Lopez-Couso, Bettelou Los
$74.00
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Hardback,  Apr 2012 ISBN13: 9780199860210ISBN10: 0199860211 The first book to apply information structure as it relates to language change

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Ways of Structure Building

Myriam Uribe-Etxebarria, Vidal Valmala
$160.00
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Hardback,  Jul 2012 ISBN13: 9780199644933ISBN10: 0199644934 An updated view of the must-know approaches to structure building in natural languages

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Jamieson's Dictionary of Scots

The Story of the First Historical Dictionary of the Scots Language
Susan Rennie
$135.00
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Hardback,  Jul 2012 ISBN13: 9780199639403ISBN10: 019963940X The first account of the making of John Jamieson's pioneering Etymological Dictionary of the Scottish Language
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A History of the Spanish Lexicon

A Linguistic Perspective
Steven N. Dworkin
$110.00
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Hardback,  Jul 2012 ISBN13: 9780199541140ISBN10: 0199541140 A history of the Spanish lexicon
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Laws and Rules in Indo-European

Philomen Probert, Andreas Willi
$199.00
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Hardback,  Aug 2012 ISBN13: 9780199609925ISBN10: 0199609926 Leading scholars from all over the world reassess the operation of the laws and rules in Indo-European
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Looking at Art History from a Fresh Perspective

cover The Oxford History of Art series offers substantial and innovative texts that clarify, illuminate, and debate the critical issues at the heart of art history today