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Forthcoming Linguistics Books

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  1. A Modern English Grammar on Historical Principles

    Volume 3

    By Otto Jespersen

    Series: Otto Jespersen

    This book was first published in 1954....

    To Be Published September 26th 2013 by Routledge

  2. Mankind, Nation and Individual

    By Otto Jespersen

    Series: Otto Jespersen

    This book was first published in 1947....

    To Be Published September 26th 2013 by Routledge

  3. The Routledge Dictionary of Modern American Slang and Unconventional English

    Edited by Tom Dalzell

    The Routledge Dictionary of Modern American Slang and Unconventional English offers the ultimate record of modern American Slang. The 25,000 entries are accompanied by citations that authenticate the words as well as offer lively examples of usage from popular literature, newspapers,...

    To Be Published September 26th 2013 by Routledge

  4. Grammaticalization and Language Change in Chinese

    A formal view

    By Xiu-Zhi Zoe Wu

    Series: Routledge Studies in Asian Linguistics

    To Be Published September 26th 2013 by Routledge

  5. Linguistic Epidemiology

    Semantics and Grammar of Language Contact in Mainland Southeast Asia

    By N.J. Enfield

    Series: Routledge Studies in Asian Linguistics

    This important new study examines in detail a semantic-pragmatic pattern surrounding the basic verb 'acquire' in nearly 30 Southeast Asian languages, concentrating on Lao, Vietnamese, Khmer, Kmhmu, Hmong, and varieties of Chinese.The book makes a significant contribution to empirical work on...

    To Be Published September 26th 2013 by Routledge

  6. Linguistic Strategies in Daoist Zhuangzi and Chan Buddhism

    The Other Way of Speaking

    By Youru Wang

    As the first systematic attempt to probe the linguistic strategies of Daoist Zhuangzi and Chan Buddhism, this book investigates three areas: deconstructive strategy, liminology of language, and indirect communication. It bases these investigations on the critical examination of original texts,...

    To Be Published September 26th 2013 by Routledge

  7. Language and Philosophical Problems

    By Sören Stenlund

    Language and Philosophical Problems investigates problems about mind, meaning and mathematics rooted in preconceptions of language. It deals in particular with problems which are connected with our tendency to be misled by certain prevailing views and preconceptions about language. Philosophical...

    To Be Published September 26th 2013 by Routledge

  8. The Dialects of Modern German

    A Linguistic Survey

    Edited by Charles Russ

    Covers the dialects of East and West Germany, Austria, Switzerland, Alsace and Luxembourg. There is a description of the dialect structure of each region, copiously illustrated with phonological, grammatical and lexical examples....

    To Be Published September 26th 2013 by Routledge

  9. Film Discourse Interpretation

    Towards a New Paradigm for Multimodal Film Analysis

    By Janina Wildfeuer

    Series: Routledge Studies in Multimodality

    This book contributes to the analysis of film from a multimodal and textual perspective by extending formal semantics into the realm of multimodal discourse analysis. It accounts for both the inferential as well as intersemiotic meaning making processes in filmic discourse and therefore addresses...

    To Be Published September 29th 2013 by Routledge

  10. Language Contact and the Origins of the Germanic Languages

    By Peter Schrijver

    Series: Routledge Studies in Linguistics

    History, archaeology, and human evolutionary genetics provide us with an increasingly detailed view of the origins and development of the peoples that live in Northwestern Europe. This book aims to restore the key position of historical linguistics in this debate by treating the history of the...

    To Be Published October 8th 2013 by Routledge