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The Latin Grammar of Pharmacy - for the Use of Medical and Pharmaceutical Students: Including the Reading of Latin... The Latin Grammar of Pharmacy - for the Use of Medical and Pharmaceutical Students: Including the Reading of Latin Prescriptions, Latin-English and English-Latin References Vocabularies and Prosody (Hardcover)
Joseph Ince
R922 Discovery Miles 9 220 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Cherokee Narratives - A Linguistic Study (Hardcover): Durbin Feeling, William Pulte, Gregory Pulte Cherokee Narratives - A Linguistic Study (Hardcover)
Durbin Feeling, William Pulte, Gregory Pulte; Foreword by Bill John Baker
R950 Discovery Miles 9 500 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

The stories of the Cherokee people presented here capture in written form tales of history, myth, and legend for readers, speakers, and scholars of the Cherokee language. Assembled by noted authorities on Cherokee, this volume marks an unparalleled contribution to the linguistic analysis, understanding, and preservation of Cherokee language and culture. Cherokee Narratives spans the spectrum of genres, including humor, religion, origin myths, trickster tales, historical accounts, and stories about the Eastern Cherokee language. These stories capture the voices of tribal elders and form a living record of the Cherokee Nation and Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians' oral tradition. Each narrative appears in four different formats: the first is interlinear, with each line shown in the Cherokee syllabary, a corresponding roman orthography, and a free English translation; the second format consists of a morpheme-by-morpheme analysis of each word; and the third and fourth formats present the entire narrative in the Cherokee syllabary and in a free English translation. The narratives and their linguistic analysis are a rich source of information for those who wish to deepen their knowledge of the Cherokee syllabary, as well as for students of Cherokee history and culture. By enabling readers at all skill levels to use and reconstruct the Cherokee language, this collection of tales will sustain the life and promote the survival of Cherokee for generations to come.

An Introduction to the Greek Language - Containing an Outline of the Grammar, With Appropriate Exercises (Hardcover): A C... An Introduction to the Greek Language - Containing an Outline of the Grammar, With Appropriate Exercises (Hardcover)
A C (Asahel Clark) 1809- Kendrick
R803 Discovery Miles 8 030 Ships in 18 - 22 working days
Dhatupatha Handbook (Hardcover, 2nd Standard Size ed.): Ashwini Kumar Aggarwal Dhatupatha Handbook (Hardcover, 2nd Standard Size ed.)
Ashwini Kumar Aggarwal
R575 Discovery Miles 5 750 Ships in 18 - 22 working days
Latin Lessons - Adapted to Allen and Greenough's Latin Grammar (Hardcover): R F (Robert Fowler) 1838- Leighton Latin Lessons - Adapted to Allen and Greenough's Latin Grammar (Hardcover)
R F (Robert Fowler) 1838- Leighton
R867 Discovery Miles 8 670 Ships in 18 - 22 working days
Embodiment in Cross-Linguistic Studies - The 'Eye' (Hardcover): Melike Bas, Iwona Kraska-Szlenk Embodiment in Cross-Linguistic Studies - The 'Eye' (Hardcover)
Melike Bas, Iwona Kraska-Szlenk
R3,849 Discovery Miles 38 490 Ships in 18 - 22 working days

The volume explores the body part 'eye' as a source domain in conceptualization and a vehicle of embodied cognition. It includes in-depth case studies of languages situated in different cultural contexts in Europe, Asia, Africa, America, and Oceania. It also provides insights into cross-linguistic comparison of conceptualization patterns and semantic extension of the term 'eye' on various target domains. The contributions in the volume present a range of cultural models associated with the visual organ which take into account socio-cultural factors and language usage practices. The book offers new material and novel analyses within the subject of polysemy of body part terms. It also adds to studies on metaphor, metonymy and cultural conceptualizations within a cognitive linguistic paradigm.

Introduction to New Testament Textual Criticism (Paperback, Revised Edition): J.Harold Greenlee Introduction to New Testament Textual Criticism (Paperback, Revised Edition)
J.Harold Greenlee
R578 Discovery Miles 5 780 Ships in 18 - 22 working days

F. F. Bruce commented on the first edition, "I am glad to give it my warm commendation. As an introduction to the criticism of the New Testament it has . . . no equal in English." Since Bruce's comments on the original edition thirty years ago, this clear and comprehensive introduction to New Testament textual criticism has remained a popular text for beginning and intermediate students. Diagrams, an appendix of Latin terms, supplementary readings, a bibliography, and an index make this revised edition an invaluable resource.

A Writer of Attic Prose - Models From Xenophon, Exercises and Guide, a Vocabulary of Attic Prose Usage (Hardcover): Isaac... A Writer of Attic Prose - Models From Xenophon, Exercises and Guide, a Vocabulary of Attic Prose Usage (Hardcover)
Isaac 1843-1931 Flagg; Created by Xenophon
R837 Discovery Miles 8 370 Ships in 18 - 22 working days
Catalogue of Irregular Greek Verbs - With All the Tenses Extant, Their Formation, Meaning, and Usage (Hardcover): Philipp... Catalogue of Irregular Greek Verbs - With All the Tenses Extant, Their Formation, Meaning, and Usage (Hardcover)
Philipp Buttmann, John Roles Fishlake
R871 Discovery Miles 8 710 Ships in 18 - 22 working days
Concise Encyclopedia of Brain and Language (Paperback): Harry A. Whitaker Concise Encyclopedia of Brain and Language (Paperback)
Harry A. Whitaker
R3,732 R3,484 Discovery Miles 34 840 Save R248 (7%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

This volume descibes, in up-to-date terminology and authoritative interpretation, the field of neurolinguistics, the science concerned with the neural mechanisms underlying the comprehension, production and abstract knowledge of spoken, signed or written language. An edited anthology of 165 articles from the award-winning Encyclopedia of Language and Linguistics 2nd edition, Encyclopedia of Neuroscience 4th Edition and Encyclopedia of the Neorological Sciences and Neurological Disorders, it provides the most comprehensive one-volume reference solution for scientists working with language and the brain ever published.

Onomastics of the "Chanson de Roland" - Or: Why Gaston Paris and Joseph Bedier were both right (Hardcover): Gustav A. Beckmann Onomastics of the "Chanson de Roland" - Or: Why Gaston Paris and Joseph Bedier were both right (Hardcover)
Gustav A. Beckmann; Translated by Linda Archibald
R6,150 Discovery Miles 61 500 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

This ambitious study of all proper names in the Chanson de Roland is based for the first time on a systematic survey of the whole geographical and historical literature from antiquity to after 1100 for the Geographica, and on working through (almost) the entire documentary tradition of France and its neighbouring regions from 778 to the early 12th century for the personal names. The overall result is clear: the surviving song is more tightly and profoundly structured, even in smaller scenes, than generally assumed, it is also richer in depicting reality, and it has a very long prehistory, which can be traced in outline, albeit with decreasing certainty, (almost) back to the Frankish defeat of 778. Here are some individual results: for the first time, a detailed (and ultimately simple!) explanation not only of the 'pagan' catalogue of peoples, but also of the overarching structure of Baligant's empire, the organisation of North Africa, the corpus of the Twelve Anti-Pairs as well as the 'pagan' gods are given, and individual names such as Bramimunde and Jurfaret, toponyms such as Marbrise and Marbrose are explained. From Roland's Spanish conquests (v. 196-200), the course of the elapsed set anz toz pleins is reconstructed. Even the names of the weapons prove to be a small structured group, in that they are very discreetly adapted to their respective 'pagan' or Christian owner. On the Christian side, the small list of relics in Roland's sword is also carefully devised, not least in what is left out: a relic of the Lord; this is reserved for Charlemagne's Joiuse. The author explains for example, why from the archangel triad only Michael and Gabriel descend to the dying Roland, whereas 'the' angel Cherubin descends in Rafael's place. Munjoie requires extensive discussion, because here a (hitherto insufficiently recorded) toponym has been secondarily charged by the poet with traditional theological associations. The term Ter(e) major is attested for the first time in reality, namely in the late 11th century in Norman usage. For the core of France, the fourth cornerstone - along with Besancon, Wissant and Mont-Saint-Michel - is Xanten, and its centre is Aachen. The poet's artful equilibration of Charles's ten eschieles and their leaders is traced. The "Capetian barrier" emerges as a basic fact of epic geography. Approximatively, the last quarter of the study is devoted to the prehistory of the song, going backwards in time: still quite clearly visible is an Angevin Song of Roland from around 1050, in which Marsilie, Olivier, Roland, Ganelon, Turpin and Naimes already have roles similar to those in the preserved Song. Behind it, between about 970 and shortly after 1000, is the Girart de Vienne from the Middle Rhone, already recognised by Aebischer, with the newly invented Olivier contra Roland. Finally, in faint outlines, an oldest attainable, also Middle Rhone adaptation of the Roland material from shortly after 870 emerges. For the Chanson de Roland, Gaston Paris and Joseph Bedier were thus each right on the main point that was close to their hearts: the surviving song has both the thoroughly sophisticated structure of great art that Bedier recognised in it, and the imposingly long prehistory that Paris conjectured.

The Irregular Verbs of Attic Prose - Their Forms, Prominent Meanings, and Important Compounds; Together With Lists of Related... The Irregular Verbs of Attic Prose - Their Forms, Prominent Meanings, and Important Compounds; Together With Lists of Related Words and English Derivatives (Hardcover)
Addison 1849- Hogue
R870 Discovery Miles 8 700 Ships in 18 - 22 working days
Minoan, Etruscan, and Related Languages - A Comparative Analysis (Hardcover): Sergej Jatsemirskij Minoan, Etruscan, and Related Languages - A Comparative Analysis (Hardcover)
Sergej Jatsemirskij; Edited by Peggy Duly, S. C. Compton
R939 R818 Discovery Miles 8 180 Save R121 (13%) Ships in 18 - 22 working days
The Unity of the Latin Subjunctive - a Quest ... a Paper Read in Abstract Before the Classical Association (Hardcover): E a... The Unity of the Latin Subjunctive - a Quest ... a Paper Read in Abstract Before the Classical Association (Hardcover)
E a (Edward Adolf) 1 Sonnenschein
R734 Discovery Miles 7 340 Ships in 18 - 22 working days
A Functional Discourse Grammar Theory of Grammaticalization - Volume 1: Functional Change (Hardcover): Riccardo Giomi A Functional Discourse Grammar Theory of Grammaticalization - Volume 1: Functional Change (Hardcover)
Riccardo Giomi
R4,913 Discovery Miles 49 130 Ships in 18 - 22 working days

Meaning change in grammaticalization has been variously described in terms of decreasing semantic weight and increasing generality, abstraction, (inter)subjectivity or discourse orientation. The author shows that all these trends are subsumed by the notion of scope increase along a precise hierarchy of semantic and pragmatic layers of grammatical organization such as endorsed by Functional Discourse Grammar. The scope-increase hypothesis is immune from the exceptions and veritable counterexamples to all the aforementioned generalizations and has the decisive advantage of being more objectively measurable, given its direct bearing on actual linguistic structure. The extremely rare exceptions to this generalization are also addressed and found to always result from a type of change independent from grammaticalization - the merger of two separate speech acts.

The Bible in Greek - Translation, Transmission, and Theology of the Septuagint (Hardcover): Siegfried Kreuzer The Bible in Greek - Translation, Transmission, and Theology of the Septuagint (Hardcover)
Siegfried Kreuzer
R1,369 Discovery Miles 13 690 Ships in 18 - 22 working days
Studies in Japanese and Korean Historical and Theoretical Linguistics and Beyond - Festschrift presented to John B. Whitman... Studies in Japanese and Korean Historical and Theoretical Linguistics and Beyond - Festschrift presented to John B. Whitman (English, Japanese, Korean, Hardcover)
Alexander Vovin, William McClure
R3,684 Discovery Miles 36 840 Ships in 18 - 22 working days

The Studies in Japanese and Korean Historical and Theoretical Linguistics and Beyond presented in honour of Prof. John B. Whitman includes contributions by a range of mid-generation to senior scholars among his closest colleagues and collaborators representing the front line of contemporary research in the areas of historical and theoretical linguistics of Japanese and Korean as well of Chinese, Turkish, and Russian. Particularly, in all these areas it deals with still ongoing debates about the important issues in historical and theoretical linguistics concerning these languages that are reflected in articles often representing opposing points of view. This book can serve as a good introduction to the current state-of-art and the most essential problems in the fields it covers.

Language Variety in the New South - Contemporary Perspectives on Change and Variation (Hardcover): Jeffrey Reaser, Eric... Language Variety in the New South - Contemporary Perspectives on Change and Variation (Hardcover)
Jeffrey Reaser, Eric Wilbanks, Karissa Wojcik, Walt Wolfram
R2,691 Discovery Miles 26 910 Ships in 18 - 22 working days

Bringing together scholars from a range of disciplines to assess the use and meaning of language in the South, a region rich in dialects and variants, this comprehensive edited collection reflects the cutting-edge research presented at the fourth decennial meeting of Language Variety in the South in 2014. Focusing on the ongoing changes and surprising continuities associated with the contemporary South, the contributors use innovative methodologies to pave new pathways for understanding the social dynamics that shape the language in the South today. Along with the editors, contributors to the volume include Agnes Bolonyai, Katie Carmichael, Phillip M. Carter, Becky Childs, Danica Cullinan, Nathalie Dajko, Catherine Evans Davies, Robin Dodsworth, Hartwell S. Francis, Kirk Hazen, Anne H. Charity Hudley, Neal Hutcheson, Alex Hyler, Mary Kohn, Christian Koops, William A. Kretzschmar Jr., Sonja L. Lanehart, Andrew Lynch, Ayesha M. Malik, Christine Mallinson, Jim Michnowicz, Caroline Myrick, Michael D. Picone, Dennis R. Preston, Paul E. Reed, Joel Schneier, James Shepherd, Erik R. Thomas, Sonya Trawick, and Tracey L. Weldon.

Southern Regional French - A Linguistic Analysis of Language and Dialect Contact (Hardcover): Damien Mooney Southern Regional French - A Linguistic Analysis of Language and Dialect Contact (Hardcover)
Damien Mooney
R2,380 Discovery Miles 23 800 Ships in 18 - 22 working days

Despite apparent interest in defining francais regional since as early at the nineteenth century, we have been left wondering about the precise origins and changing nature of contemporary regional varieties of French, particularly in the south of France. Through an examination of linguistic transfer, in a situation of bilingualism, and of levelling and diffusion during dialect contact, this study examines the hypothesis that regional French pronunciations have resulted from contact with France's minority languages, and challenges the received view that young Southerners are abandonning their regional lilt in favour of a more cosmopolitan Parisian accent. The differential mechanisms of linguistic change active during the genesis and evolution of both northern and southern regional French, as well as broader questions concerning the interface between language and dialect contact, are also discussed.

Strangers at the Gate! Multidisciplinary Explorations of Communities, Borders, and Othering in Medieval Western Europe... Strangers at the Gate! Multidisciplinary Explorations of Communities, Borders, and Othering in Medieval Western Europe (Hardcover)
Simon C. Thomson
R5,089 Discovery Miles 50 890 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

This volume showcases a range of different approaches to strangers and strangeness across medieval western Europe. It focuses on how communities responded to the arrival of strangers and to different ways in which individuals and groups were constructed as estranged. Further, it reflects on different forms of border-crossing, from lived experience to literary imagination and from specific journeys in precise contexts to the conceptualisation of the shift from life to death. In the range of its contributions - applying linguistic, historical, archaeological, architectural, archival, literary, and theological analyses - it seeks to bring together disciplines and geographical areas of study that are too often strangers to one another in medieval studies. Contributors are Sherif Abdelkarim, Anna Adamska, Adrien Carbonnet, Wim De Clercq, Florian Dolberg, Joshua S. Easterling, Susan Irvine, Marco Mostert, Richard North, James Plumtree, Euan McCartney Robson, Beatrice Saletti, Simon C. Thomson and Gerben Verbrugghe.

Creole Country - TransAtlantic Kindred Grammars (Hardcover): Merelyn Bates-Mims Creole Country - TransAtlantic Kindred Grammars (Hardcover)
Merelyn Bates-Mims
R758 Discovery Miles 7 580 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Second Language Learning Before Adulthood - Individual Differences in Children and Adolescents (Hardcover): Vanessa De Wilde,... Second Language Learning Before Adulthood - Individual Differences in Children and Adolescents (Hardcover)
Vanessa De Wilde, Claire Goriot
R4,327 Discovery Miles 43 270 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Researchers have looked into the role of individual differences in second language learning and found that differences between learners in areas such as language aptitude, language learning motivation and exposure to the language influence second language learning. Most of this research concerned adults. Far fewer studies have addressed the role of individual differences in second language learning of young learners. As second language learning programmes tend to start earlier than before and children are nowadays frequently exposed to a foreign language in social settings such as online games and social media, studying the role of individual differences in young learners can contribute both to SLA-theories and to evidence-based L2 education. This book discusses recent findings concerning the role of individual differences in language learning in young learners. The chapters in the book concern different topics linked to internal individual differences such as language aptitude, motivation, attitude and external individual differences such as exposure and type of instruction, the relative contribution of internal and external factors to language learning, and the interplay between the two types of individual differences.

The Secret Adam (Hardcover): E.S Drower The Secret Adam (Hardcover)
E.S Drower
R862 R741 Discovery Miles 7 410 Save R121 (14%) Ships in 18 - 22 working days
Simultaneous Structure in Phonology (Hardcover): D. Robert Ladd Simultaneous Structure in Phonology (Hardcover)
D. Robert Ladd
R2,727 Discovery Miles 27 270 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

In this book, D. Robert Ladd focuses on problems with the one-dimensional idealization of language on which much linguistic theory is based. Strings of sequentially-ordered elements play an important role as theoretical abstractions in both phonology and syntax. Yet many well-known phonological phenomena (such as vowel harmony, ablaut morphology, and pitch features) are problematic for this one-dimensional idealization, and many attempts (such as autosegmental phonology) have been made to allow for these troublesome characteristics in our theories. The book deals with diverse aspects of these problematical non-sequential phenomena. The five main chapters cover distinctive features and autosegments, systematic phonetics, the definition of 'prosody', aspects of vocal paralinguistic communication and 'gradience', and duality of patterning. Each chapter reviews a wide range of relevant literature, generally going back to the beginnings of modern linguistics in the early twentieth century, and all of them can usefully be read as free-standing synthetic overviews of the issues they discuss. The final chapter suggests that phonological structure, sequential or otherwise, can be seen as a special case of the segmentation of continuous action into discrete events, and that research on this general topic within cognitive psychology is relevant to phonological theory. Professor Ladd's unique work makes a fundamental contribution to phonology and phonetics and to linguistic theory more generally. His book will interest all theoretical linguists and cognitive scientists concerned with understanding the relation between phonological representations and the speech signal.

Studies in Asian Historical Linguistics, Philology and Beyond (Hardcover): John Kupchik, Jose Andres Alonso de la Fuente, Marc... Studies in Asian Historical Linguistics, Philology and Beyond (Hardcover)
John Kupchik, Jose Andres Alonso de la Fuente, Marc Hideo Miyake
R5,115 Discovery Miles 51 150 Ships in 18 - 22 working days

Professor Alexander V. Vovin's fruitful research has brought incomparable results to the fields of Asian linguistics and philology throughout the past four decades. In this volume, presented in honour of Professor Vovin's 60th birthday, twenty-two authors present new research regarding Japanese, Korean, Turkish, Khitan, Yakut, Mongolian, Chinese, Hachijo, Ikema Miyakoan, Ainu, Okinawan, Nivkh, Eskimo-Aleut and other languages. The chapters are both a tribute to his research and a summary of the latest developments in the field.

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