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A student grammar of Modern Standard Arabic
An introduction to sociolinguistics
Språkdannelse og -stabilisering i møtet mellom kvensk og norsk
Talk Mandarin today
The acquisition of syntax in Romance languages
The Celtic roots of English
The linguistics of history
(In)vulnerable domains in multilingualism
A beginner’s guide to Tajiki
A feature-based syntax of functional categories
A grammar of Hindi
A grammar of Mosetén
A grammar of Semelai
A handbook of phonetics.
A natural history of Latin: The story of the world’s most successful language.
A reference grammar of Modern Hebrew
A synchronic and diachronic study of the grammar of the Chinese Xiang dialects.
Advanced media Arabic
American English
An Ili Salar vocabulary: Introduction and a provisional Salar-English lexicon
An introduction to Welsh
Analysing academic writing
Analysing discourse: Textual analysis for social research
Ancient Greek
Angles on the English-speaking world, vol. 4: Writing and vocabulary in foreign language acquisition.
Annual review of cognitive linguistics, vol. 3
Artificial descendants of Latin.
Black doves speak: Herodotus and the languages of Barbarians.
Boko, Bokobaru and Busa dictionaries
Borrowing: A Pacific perspective
C-ORAL-ROM: Integrated reference corpora for spoken Romance languages.
Children’s discourse: Person, space and time across languages
Classical Mongolian
Clausal syntax of German
Compliments and compliment responses: Grammatical structure and sequential organization
Consonance in the Qur’an: A conceptual, intertextual and linguistic analysis
Construction grammars: Cognitive grounding and theoretical extensions
Conversation analysis: Studies from the first generation
Dialect and dichotomy: Literary representations of African American speech
Dictionnaire Fon-Français avec une esquisse grammaticale
Die Interaktion der Aspektsemantik mit dem Lexikon im Marokkanisch-Arabischen
Discourse and silencing
Discourse markers in Colombian Spanish: A study in polysemy.
Discourse: A critical introduction
Drawing the boundaries of meaning
English and globalization: Perspectives from Hong Kong and Mainland China
English in modern times: 1700–1945
English syntax: An introduction.
Explorations in the semantics/pragmatics interface
Formulaic language, Vol 2
Fundamentos de semántica composicional
Genus als grammatische und textlinguistische Kategorie
Grammatical variation across space and time
Grammaticalization and English complex prepositions: A corpus-based study
Hearing gesture: How our hands help us think.
Historical linguistics 2003. Selected papers from the 16th International Conference on Historical Linguistics
Historical linguistics: An introduction.
How English works: A linguistic introduction
Image, language, brain
Innamincka talk: A grammar of the Innamincka dialect of Yandruwandha with notes on other dialects. and Innamincka words: Yandruwandha dictionary and stories.
Intercultural conversation
Interpretation and understanding
Introducing language in use: A coursebook
Introducing phonetics and phonology.
It-extraposition and non-extraposition in English
Kabba: A Nilo-Saharan language of the Central African Republic
Kazak
Khamnigan Mongol
Lakota
Language and creativity: The art of common talk.
Language and identity: National, ethnic, religious.
Language and society in Japan.
Language contacts in prehistory: Studies in stratigraphy
Language endangerment and language revitalization.
Language in use: Cognitive and discourse perspectives on language and language learning.
Language variation: Papers on variation and change in the Sinosphere and in the Indosphere in honour of James A. Matisoff.
Language, cohesion and form.
Language, nation and power
Languages and cultures in contrast and comparison
Le français en Amérique du Nord: État présent.
Le français en contact avec l’anglais au Cameroun
Le samba leko, langue Adamawa du Cameroun: Cameroun du Nord, famille Adamawa
Less translated languages
Lexical cohesion and corpus linguistics
Lexicography and the OED: Pioneers in the untrodden forest
Linguistic dimensions of crisis talk: Formalising structures in a controlled language
Linguistic variation yearbook 2005
Linguistics in the Netherlands 2005
Linguistics in the Netherlands 2005
Meaning, expression and thought
Meaning: The dynamic turn
Medical interpreting and cross-cultural communication
Modality in Slavonic languages
Modern Literary Uzbek
Multiple wh-fronting
Nominal phrases from a Scandinavian perspective
Notes grammaticales et lexique du Kiholu
Numerous meanings: The meaning of English cardinals and the legacy of Paul Grice.
Playing with words
Politeness and face in Caribbean Creoles.
Pratiques et attitudes linguistiques dans l’Afrique d’aujourd’hui
Progressives, patterns, pedagogy: A corpus-driven approach to English progressive forms, functions, contexts and didactics
Quechua-Spanish bilingualism: Interference and convergence in functional categories
Qur’anic stylistics: A linguistic analysis
Racism and discourse in Spain and Latin America
Rules and representations
Secondary stress in English words.
Semantics versus pragmatics
Sociolinguistic variation in seventeenth-century France.
Sociolinguistics: The study of speakers’ choices.
Standard Lithuanian
Strategies in academic discourse
Strength and weakness at the interface
Studies in linguistic motivation.
Study abroad and second language use: Constructing the self
Syntactic effects of morphological change
Syntactic structures and morphological information
Tajik
Talk that counts: Age, gender, and social class differences in discourse
Task-based instruction in foreign language education: Practices and programs
Tense and aspect in Romance languages: Theoretical and applied perspectives.
Text, context, pretext: Critical issues in discourse analysis.
Textual patterns: Key words and corpus analysis in language education.
The acquisition of complex sentences
The Aryanpur progressive Persian-English dictionary, one-volume, concise
The Austronesian languages of Asia and Madagascar
The Cambridge encyclopedia of the English language.
The complete code of Hammurabi
The contest of language: Before and beyond nationalism
The development of prosodic structure in early words
The development of scientific writing
The function of function words and functional categories
The function of function words and functional categories
The handbook of bilingualism
The history of English: A student’s guide
The linguistic legacy of Spanish and Portuguese
The mathematics of language
The morphosyntax of complement-head sequences: Clause structure and word order patterns in Kwa
The nature and conditions of pragmatic and discourse transfer investigated through naturalized role-play
The phonology of Endo: A southern Nilotic language of Kenya.
The phonology of Mongolian.
The semantics of polysemy: Reading meaning in English and Warlpiri
The social art
The syntax and semantics of split constructions
The syntax of Old Norse: With a survey of the inflectional morphology and a complete bibliography
The Tai languages of Assam: A grammar and texts.
Theory construction in second language acquisition
Thinking syntactically: A guide to argumentation and analysis
Tibeto-Burman languages of Nepal: Manange and Sherpa.
Time in natural language
Topic chains in Chinese: A discourse analysis and applications in language teaching
Training for the new millennium
Triggers.
UG and external systems: Language, brain and computation.
Variational pragmatics
WALS Online
Weeds in the garden of words
What is thought?
What makes grammaticalization
William Dwight Whitney and the science of language
Word power: Phrasal verbs and compounds: A cognitive approach
Written communication across cultures: A sociocognitive perspective on business genres
Written communication across cultures: A sociocognitive perspective on business genres
Yearbook of morphology 2004
Yiddish: A linguistic introduction.