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Book SynopsisTHE INSTANT SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER!**AVAILABLE TO PRE-ORDER NOW**'KEPT ME READING EAGERLY'Philip Pullman'HUGE FUN AND, AS YOU'D EXPECT, ALSO BEAUTIFULLY WRITTEN'Gyles Brandreth'QUITE SIMPLY ONE OF THE FINEST MYSTERIES I HAVE EVER READ'Rob Rinder'A TANTALISING MYSTERY FOR WORD SLEUTHS AND CRIME FANS ALIKE'Janice Hallett, Sunday Times bestselling author of The AppealGuilty by Definition is a love letter not only to language but to the city of Oxford, wrapped within an intriguing mystery of a missing woman and considering the emotional aftershocks of her disappearance on those left behind. She'd known there would be ghosts in Oxford. Martha wasn't afraid of any headless horsemen, or nuns haunting the local ruins; it was Charlie, always Charlie she was afraid would find her. When an anonymous letter is delivered to the Clarendon English Dictionary, it is rapidly clear that this is not the usual lexicographical enquiry. Instead, the letter hints at secrets and lies linked to a particular year. For Martha Thornhill, the new senior editor, the date can mean only one thing: the summer her brilliant older sister Charlie went missing. After a decade abroad, Martha has returned home to the city whose ancient institutions have long defined her family. Have the ghosts she left behind her been waiting for her return?When more letters arrive, and Martha and her team pull apart the complex clues within them, the mystery becomes ever more insistent and troubling. It seems Charlie had been keeping a powerful secret, and someone is trying to lead the lexicographers towards the truth. But other forces are no less desperate to keep it well and truly buried. 'KEPT ME READING EAGERLY'Philip Pullman'HUGE FUN AND, AS YOU'D EXPECT, ALSO BEAUTIFULLY WRITTEN'Gyles Brandreth'A TANTALISING MYSTERY FOR WORD SLEUTHS AND CRIME FANS ALIKE'Janice Hallett, Sunday Times bestselling author of The AppealGuilty by Definition is a love letter not only to language but to the city of Oxford, wrapped within an intriguing mystery of a missing woman and considering the emotional aftershocks of her disappearance on those left behind. **AVAILABLE TO PRE-ORDER NOW**She'd known there would be ghosts in Oxford. Martha wasn't afraid of any headless horsemen, or nuns haunting the local ruins; it was Charlie, always Charlie she was afraid would find her. When an anonymous letter is delivered to the Clarendon English Dictionary, it is rapidly clear that this is not the usual lexicographical enquiry. Instead, the letter hints at secrets and lies linked to a particular year. For Martha Thornhill, the new senior editor, the date can mean only one thing: the summer her brilliant older sister Charlie went missing. After a decade abroad, Martha has returned home to the city whose ancient institutions have long defined her family. Have the ghosts she left behind her been waiting for her return?When more letters arrive, and Martha and her team pull apart the complex clues within them, the mystery becomes ever more insistent and troubling. It seems Charlie had been keeping a powerful secret, and someone is trying to lead the lexicographers towards the truth. But other forces are no less desperate to keep it well and truly buried.

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Book SynopsisA truly original book in every sense of the word, The Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows poetically defines emotions that we all feel but don’t have the words to express, until now—from the creator of the popular online project of the same name.Have you ever wondered about the lives of each person you pass on the street, realizing that everyone is the main character in their own story, each living a life as vivid and complex as your own? That feeling has a name: “sonder.” Or maybe you’ve watched a thunderstorm roll in and felt a primal hunger for disaster, hoping it would shake up your life. That’s called “lachesism.” Or you were looking through old photos and felt a pang of nostalgia for a time you’ve never actually experienced. That’s “anemoia.” If you’ve never heard of these terms before, that’s because they didn’t exist until John Koenig began his epic quest to fill thTrade ReviewPRAISE FOR THE DICTIONARY OF OBSCURE SORROWS AND JOHN KOENIG "Creates beautiful new words that we need but do not yet have."—John Green, New York Times bestselling author of The Fault in Our Stars “These aren’t real words, but if crysalism and ellipsism don’t perfectly sound like their meanings, I don’t know what other words would.”—George Takei “BRILLIANT”—New York Magazine “Beautiful...amazing.”—Huffington Post “Its existence feels almost otherworldly, like spells from the mind of J.K. Rowling.”—Upworthy “Perfect.” —BuzzFeed “Expressed beautifully.”—Washington Post “If you’ve been waiting for your daily dose of beautiful, The Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows is going to do the trick for you. The site is a collection of madeup words that perfectly describe some of the most profound feelings human beings are capable of experiencing; words that for whatever reason have not yet been defined by any one term. You may find yourself nodding your head in a meditative state of quiet relation and subtle reverence the longer you scroll down the page. In short, this man’s mind is beautiful.” —Bustle “Words have the power to transform and make us see the world through a different lens. YouTube host Koenig connects the seemingly unconnectable feelings we as humans experience on a daily basis and puts words to them. Koenig brilliantly finds a way to show, in his new words and their definitions, how we connect to ourselves and one another through feelings and emotions.” —BoDean Warnock, Booklist "A beautiful little book…Whatever the half-baked, unfinished, yet-to-be-articulated emotion tumbling around in your brain, this book will find a way to name it. Koenig has a cunning ability to parse out emotions in a very specific way and pin them down into actual articulation, both in the word he creates itself and its poetic definition and etymology. There is joy to be found in every nook and cranny of this book.” —Michigan Daily Review

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Book SynopsisThis book uncovers the meanings behind over 130 tattoo symbols, delving into the history of the most popular motifs that recur in many different tattoo styles, including tribal, traditional, Japanese and realistic.Trade Review“Lavish illustrations make it a great resource for anyone contemplating some new body ink, or who is curious about tattoo history and the meaning behind the hearts, devils, and animals snaking over the communal epidermis...The Language of Tattoos is an entertaining field guide to the expanding tattoo tapestry that surrounds us.” * Foreword Reviews *"FIVE STARS. Regardless of the reader’s initial preference about tattoos, reading The Language of Tattoos might change some minds or at least serve as a beacon of knowledge." * Manhattan Book Review *Table of ContentsIntroduction Chapter 1 Love Chapter 2 Faith and Spirituality Chapter 3 Protection and Guidance Chapter 4 Transformation Chapter 5 Luck Chapter 6 Strength Chapter 7 Desire Chapter 8 Resilience Chapter 9 Loss, Memory and Transience Index

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Book SynopsisTHE INSTANT SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER!'KEPT ME READING EAGERLY'Philip Pullman'HUGE FUN AND, AS YOU'D EXPECT, ALSO BEAUTIFULLY WRITTEN' Gyles Brandreth'QUITE SIMPLY ONE OF THE FINEST MYSTERIES I HAVE EVER READ'Rob Rinder'A TANTALISING MYSTERY FOR WORD SLEUTHS AND CRIME FANS ALIKE'Janice Hallett, Sunday Times bestselling author of The AppealGuilty by Definition is a love letter not only to language but to the city of Oxford, wrapped within an intriguing mystery of a missing woman and considering the emotional aftershocks of her disappearance on those left behind.She'd known there would be ghosts in Oxford. Martha wasn't afraid of any headless horsemen, or nuns haunting the local ruins; it was Charlie, always Charlie she was afraid would find her. When an anonymous letter is delivered to the Clarendon E

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Book Synopsis'The man with all the answers in Albert Jack' Daily Express'Square meal' 'Load of old codswallop' 'Egg on your face' 'In the limelight'. . .The English language is littered with everyday expressions like these, but have you ever stopped to wonder what they really mean and where they come from? Red Herrings and White Elephants delves deep into the fabric of English phraseology and in doing so explores the wide-ranging factors and fascinating linguistic history which continues to inform the way we speak to this day.So whether you want to impress whilst hobnobbing with clever folk, lick your pub quiz knowledge into shape, or simply add a feather to your linguistic cap, you'll soon be full of incredible facts that leave you feeling as bright as a button.

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Book SynopsisThe world's leading Spanish to English and English to Spanish bilingual dictionary.The perfect resource for all advanced students of the Spanish and English languages.With more than 310,000 words, meanings and phrases and 442,000 translations.First published in 1971, the Collins Spanish Dictionary pioneered a new approach to bilingual dictionary publishing which continues to inspire millions of language users today. With wide-ranging coverage of contemporary Spanish and English, a wealth of examples and idioms, and a clear layout, this remains the ideal dictionary for advanced learners and professionals using Spanish.Up-to-date, with thousands of the latest words from a wide range of areasThousands of examples and idioms, all based on evidence from a multimillion-word corpus of real Spanish and EnglishExtensive notes on language, grammar and culture, to help the user with typical translation issuesCoverage of European and Latin American SpanishIncludes the acclaimed Language in Use supTrade Review“A formidable achievement that provided a blueprint for any future bilingual dictionary”, The Independent.

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Book SynopsisFeaturing numerous updates, revisions, and enhanced coverage, Words in the Mind: An Introduction to the Mental Lexicon, 4th Edition, present the latest state of our knowledge about the ways we learn words, remember them, understand them, and find the ones we want to use.Table of ContentsPreface ix Acknowledgments xi Abbreviations and Symbols xiii Part I: Aims and Evidence 1 1 Welcome to Dictionopolis! 3 The human word-store 2 Links in the Chain 18 Assessing the evidence 3 Programming Dumbella 32 Modeling the mental lexicon 4 Brainy Matters 42 The physical underlay Part II: Basic Ingredients 51 5 Slippery Customers 53 Attempts to pin down the meaning of words 6 Bad Birds and Better Birds 66 Prototype theories 7 Whispering Chambers of the Imagination 80 Mental models 8 The Primordial Atomic Globule Hunt 90 The search for semantic primitives 9 Word-webs 99 Semantic networks 10 Close Companions 113 Words which cling together 11 Lexical All-sorts 119 Parts of speech 12 Verb Power 131 The role of verbs 13 Bits of Words 145 The internal architecture of words 14 Taking Care of the Sounds 157 Dealing with the sound patterns Part III: Newcomers 169 15 Multiple Meanings 171 The polysemy problem 16 Interpreting Ice-cream Cones 182 Metaphor and metonymy 17 Globbering Mattresses 194 Creating new words 18 What is a Bongaloo, Daddy? 209 How children learn the meaning of words 19 Aggergog Miggers, Wips and Gucks 222 How children cope with the sounds of words Part IV: The Overall Picture 235 20 Seeking and Finding 237 Selecting words 21 Organized Guesswork 248 Recognizing words 22 Odd Arrangements and Funny Solutions 261 The organization of the mental lexicon 23 Last Word 267 Final comments and future questions Notes 270 References 292 Index 327

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Book SynopsisA survey of computational methods for understanding, generating, and manipulating human language, which offers a synthesis of classical representations and algorithms with contemporary machine learning techniques.This textbook provides a technical perspective on natural language processing—methods for building computer software that understands, generates, and manipulates human language. It emphasizes contemporary data-driven approaches, focusing on techniques from supervised and unsupervised machine learning. The first section establishes a foundation in machine learning by building a set of tools that will be used throughout the book and applying them to word-based textual analysis. The second section introduces structured representations of language, including sequences, trees, and graphs. The third section explores different approaches to the representation and analysis of linguistic meaning, ranging from formal logic to neural word embeddings. The final section off

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Book SynopsisWriting a War of Words is the first exploration of the war-time quest by Andrew Clark - a writer, historian, and volunteer on the first edition of the Oxford English Dictionary - to document changes in the English language from the start of the First World War up to 1919. Clark''s unique series of lexical scrapbooks, replete with clippings, annotations, and real-time definitions, reveals a desire to put living language history to the fore, and to create a record of often fleeting popular use. The rise of trench warfare, the Zeppelinophobia of total war, and descriptions of shellshock (and raid shock on the Home Front) all drew his attentive gaze. The archive includes examples from a range of sources, such as advertising, newspapers, and letters from the Front, as well as documenting social issues such as the shifting forms of representation as women ''did their bit'' on the Home Front. Lynda''s Mugglestone''s fascinating investigation of this valuable archive reassesses the conventionaTrade ReviewWriting a War of Words is scholarly, as a definitive study should be, but eminently readable. * E. L. Battistella, CHOICE *Writing a War of Words is an invaluable contribution both to lexicography and history 'from below', recording words and expressions which have been preserved thanks to Clark's immense efforts. It will certainly inspire future research which will provide new insights into the lexical impact of the Great War on the English language. The book will be of interest to lexicographers, language historians, historians and anyone interested in World War I and its discourse, which can be extended to the discourse of war in general. * Prof.Dr. Lelija Socanac, The LINGUIST *Lynda Mugglestone's "Writing a War of Words" is a fascinating account of the immense effort of Andrew Clark, a diarist, historian and philologist, to record in minute detail the fleeting existence of English words and shifting meanings which appeared during the Great War in a variety of unconventional sources such as advertising, newspapers, and letters from the Front. This immense lexical richness vividly recreates different aspects of everyday life of ordinary people facing the harsh realities of war. * Lelija Socanac, University of Zagreb, Linguist List *Mugglestone has a shrewd understanding of the technical business and psychological climate of lexicography. Her research is scrupulous, and through her analysis Clark's catalogue of usage comes to seem an achievement of almost Johnsonian proportions - each page a time capsule, and the whole project an extraordinarily detailed map of the period's changing "langscape"... a generous tribute to his [Clark's] linguistic curiosity and curatorial intelligence. * Henry Hitchings, Times Literary Supplement *The voluminous diaries and scrapbooks Andrew Clark compiled during World War One prove him alert to words and usage of the time and a skilled and prescient commentator on their significance. In her new book, Lynda Mugglestone reconstructs Clark's account of the 'war of words' amidst the war, his finger, as she puts it, 'on the pulse of words in time', equally an apt description of Mugglestone's historical touch. Anyone with an interest in the history of English, the Great War, or the Oxford English Dictionary, to which Clark contributed, must read Writing a War of Words. * Michael Adams, Indiana University Bloomington *Lynda Mugglestone's Writing a War of Words is a revelation. It tells the story of Andrew Clark, a diarist and philologist whose reflections on language and the Great War offer a wealth of information about English linguistic history and its social contexts. But more generally, it reveals the centrality of the Great War to the study of the English Language itself. Much has been made of Tolkien's war and its impact on his philology and fantasy. Clark is different: he is a personal, self-reflective writer, an acute observer of words and people, and a historian of the imagination. His diary is a true discovery, and Professor Mugglestone shows him standing on a par with Siegfried Sassoon and Robert Graves. Writing a War of Words will stand with Paul Fussell's The Great War and Modern Memory as a lasting, revisionary account of early twentieth-century personal writing, language change, and the wartime literary imagination. * Seth Lerer, University of California, San Diego *Table of ContentsPreface: Writing a War of Words 1: Word-hoard: From History to Historical Principles 2: Reading into Words 3: 'Doing One's Bit': From Voluntary Endeavour to Conscription 4: The Langscape of War 5: Border Crossings 6: English in a Time of Total War 7: Writing the Woman's Part 8: Written on the Body 9: Last Words

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Book SynopsisDo, or should, dictionaries control language? How do they treat language change, both now and in the past? Which words do dictionaries leave out - and on what grounds? Dictionaries are far more than works which list the words and meanings of a language. In this Very Short Introduction Lynda Mugglestone shows that all dictionaries are partial and all are selective. They are human products, reflecting the dominant social and cultural assumptions of the time in which they were written.Dictionaries exist then not only as works which seek to document language, but also as cultural documents that are connected to the world in which they were produced. Exploring common beliefs about dictionaries, providing glimpses of behind the scenes dictionary makers at work, and confronting the problems of how a word is to be defined, Mugglestone shows that dictionaries are always, and inevitably, more than the crafting of a simple list of words. Concluding with a look at the range of modern dictionaries Table of ContentsPREFACE

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Book SynopsisThis Element Recovering Old English examines the philological activities of scholars involved in the recovery of Old English in the period between c. 1550 and 1830. It is done by collecting documents, recording the lexicon editing texts and studying the grammar.Table of Contents1. Preamble; 2. Collecting old English; 3. Recording old English; 4. Editing old English; 5. Studying old English; 6. Transitions and turning points; Bibliographies.

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Book SynopsisThis Element is a critical inquiry into how words animate politics. It offers readers venues in which to consider the history and contingency of ideas like power, race, patriarchy and revolution of Myanmar.Table of ContentsA political lexicon: how come?; 1. Politics; 2. Power; 3. Dictatorship; 4. Federalism; 5. Sovereignty; 6. Citizen; 7. Race; 8. Buddhism; 9. Genocide; 10. Impunity; 11. Interrogation; 12. Revolution; 13. Reform; 14. Development; 15. Patriarchy; 16. Freedom; References.

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Book SynopsisAn interdisciplinary perspective on the role of lexis in various areas of linguistic communication

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Book SynopsisThis is an important and practical guide to contemporary lexicography, designed for lexicographers, language students and teachers, translators and academics. It surveys types of dictionary, how different kinds of information are dealt with when compiling dictionaries, how this information is presented to users, and how dictionaries are actually used.Trade Review'… this is an excellent and truly international survey of the current state of lexicography.' Reinhard HartmannTable of Contents1. Lexicography; 2. Types of dictionaries; 3. Data collection and data selection; 4. The dictionary as text; 5. The lemma; 6. Spelling and word division; 7. Pronunciation; 8. Morphology; 9. Part-of-speech membership; 10. Constructions; 11. Collocations; 12. Idioms and other fixed word combinations; 13. Meaning description in monolingual dictionaries; 14. Equivalents in bilingual dictionaries; 15. Examples; 16. Encyclopedic information; 17. Illustrations; 18. Marking; 19. Etymology; 20. Microstructure; 21. Macrostructure; 22. Megastructure; 23. Cross-reference structure; 24. Dictionary projects; 25. Legal and ethical aspects; 26. The electronic dictionary; 27. Dictionary use; 28. Dictionary criticism.

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Book SynopsisFocusing on Slavic languages, Danko Šipka provides a systematic approach to lexical indicators of cultural identity. In contrast to existing research, which focuses heavily on syntactic and phonological approaches,Šipka''s approach is novel, more systematic and encompassing, and postulates three lexical layers of cultural identity: deep, exchange, and surface. The deep layer pertains to culture-specific words, divisions, and features that are generally not subject to change and intervention. The exchange layer includes lexical markers of cultural influences resulting from lexical borrowing, which situates the speakers into various cultural circles. This layer is subject to gradual changes and some limited level of intervention from linguistic elites is possible. Finally, the surface layer encompasses the processes and consequences of lexical planning. It is subject to abrupt changes and it is shaped in constant negotiation between linguistic elites and general body of speakers.Table of Contents1. A conceptual map; 2. Relevant research traditions; 3. Research methodology; 4. Lexeme-level culture-bound words, divisions, and features; 5. Lexicon-based culture-bound field density; 6. Stability and change; 7. Cultural influences; 8. Geographical contact; 9. Inbound and outbound exchange; 10. Lexical planning; 11. Lexicographic traditions; 12. Attitudes; Conclusion; 13. Interaction between the layers; 14. Main findings; 15. An outlook.

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Book SynopsisThe numbering system for the Early Egyptian inscriptions, which was originally introduced by J. Kahl (1994) and which was expanded by I. Regulski in her Database of Early Dynastic inscriptions, is mapped on the numbering system defined by J. Kahl, N. Kloth and U. Zimmermann (1995) for the 3rd Dynasty inscription and on this of P. Kaplony (IÄF, IÄFS, KBIÄF). The numbering system has been expended to provide a unique identifier for each inscription that can be used as a reference in databases and printed publications. (German introduction.)

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Book SynopsisIf we send a message into space, will extraterrestrial beings receive it? Will they understand?The endlessly fascinating question of whether we are alone in the universe has always been accompanied by another, more complicated one: if there is extraterrestrial life, how would we communicate with it? In this book, Daniel Oberhaus leads readers on a quest for extraterrestrial communication. Exploring Earthlings' various attempts to reach out to non-Earthlings over the centuries, he poses some not entirely answerable questions: If we send a message into space, will extraterrestrial beings receive it? Will they understand? What languages will they (and we) speak? Is there not only a universal grammar (as Noam Chomsky has posited), but also a grammar of the universe?Oberhaus describes, among other things, a late-nineteenth-century idea to communicate with Martians via Morse code and mirrors; the emergence in the twentieth century of SETI (the search for extraterrestri

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Book SynopsisA dictionary records a language and a cultural world. This global history of lexicography is the first survey of all the dictionaries which humans have made, from the ancient civilizations of Mesopotamia, Egypt, China, India, and the Greco-Roman world, to the contemporary speech communities of every inhabited continent. Their makers included poets and soldiers, saints and courtiers, a scribe in an ancient Egyptian ''house of life'' and a Vietnamese queen. Their physical forms include Tamil palm-leaf manuscripts and the dictionary apps which are supporting endangered Australian languages. Through engaging and accessible studies, a diverse team of leading scholars provide fascinating insight into the dictionaries of hundreds of languages, into the imaginative worlds of those who used or observed them, and into a dazzling variety of the literate cultures of humankind.Table of ContentsPart I. The Ancient World: 1. Ancient Mesopotamia Niek Veldhuis; 2. Ancient and Coptic Egypt Frank Feder; 3. Ancient China Françoise Bottéro; 4. Ancient India Lata Mahesh Deokar and Jean-Luc Chevillard; 5. The Greco-Roman world Rolando Ferri; Part II. The Pre-Modern World: 6. China c.600–c.1700 Nathan Vedal; 7. India and Tibet, c.500–c.1750 Lata Mahesh Deokar and Jean-Luc Chevillard; 8. Arabic to c.1800 Ramzi Baalbaki; 9. Hebrew to c.1650 Aharon Maman; 10. The Chinese periphery to c.1800 Mårten Söderblom Saarela; 11. The Turkic languages and Persian to c.1700 Marek Stachowski; 12. Byzantine Greek Stefano Valente; 13. Medieval Latin Christendom John Considine; 14. Early modern Western and Central Europe John Considine; Part III. The Modern World: Continuing Traditions: 15. China from c.1700 Henning Klöter; 16. Japanese, Korean, and Vietnamese from c.1800 David Lurie, Heokseung Kwon and John D. Phan; 17. Turkish and Persian from c.1700 Luciano Rocchi and Arthur Dudney; 18. South Asia from c.1750 Walter Hakala and Lisa Mitchell; 19. Arabic from c.1800 Jan Hoogland; 20. Modern Hebrew Tsvi Sadan; 21. The Slavic and Baltic languages Rick Derksen; 22. The Germanic languages other than English from c.1700 Ulrike Haß; 23. Standard varieties of English from c.1700 Charlotte Brewer; 24. Regional varieties of English Michael Adams; 25. The Romance languages from c.1700 Pascale Renders; Part IV. The Modern World: Missionary and Subsequent Traditions: 26. Missionary traditions in South America Otto Zwartjes; 27. Missionary traditions in Mesoamerica Otto Zwartjes; 28. Missionary and subsequent traditions in North America Willem de Reuse; 29. Missionary traditions in East Asia Otto Zwartjes; 30. European traditions in India and Indonesia Toon Van Hal; 31. Missionary and subsequent traditions in Africa Gonçalo Fernandes; 32. Missionary and other traditions in Australia William B. McGregor.

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Book SynopsisFocusing on Slavic languages, Danko Šipka provides a systematic approach to lexical indicators of cultural identity. In contrast to existing research, which focuses heavily on syntactic and phonological approaches,Šipka''s approach is novel, more systematic and encompassing, and postulates three lexical layers of cultural identity: deep, exchange, and surface. The deep layer pertains to culture-specific words, divisions, and features that are generally not subject to change and intervention. The exchange layer includes lexical markers of cultural influences resulting from lexical borrowing, which situates the speakers into various cultural circles. This layer is subject to gradual changes and some limited level of intervention from linguistic elites is possible. Finally, the surface layer encompasses the processes and consequences of lexical planning. It is subject to abrupt changes and it is shaped in constant negotiation between linguistic elites and general body of speakers.Table of Contents1. A conceptual map; 2. Relevant research traditions; 3. Research methodology; 4. Lexeme-level culture-bound words, divisions, and features; 5. Lexicon-based culture-bound field density; 6. Stability and change; 7. Cultural influences; 8. Geographical contact; 9. Inbound and outbound exchange; 10. Lexical planning; 11. Lexicographic traditions; 12. Attitudes; Conclusion; 13. Interaction between the layers; 14. Main findings; 15. An outlook.

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Book SynopsisWords that Teem With Meaning - Copenhagen Views on LexicographyTable of ContentsOn the use of nomilized phrasal verbs in English literary prose; idioms into English; principles and design of a bilingual dictionary of current idiomatic usage; Danish Dickens translations as sources of neologisms in 19th-century dictionaries; English influence on modern Danish vocabulary and its implications for Danish/English lexicography; possession and existence - a problem in active Danish-Russian lexicography; synonomics after Chomsky - a challenge in progress; tools for historical linguists - innovations in the use of English historical dictionaries, corpora and databases.

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Book SynopsisA classic work that situates linguistic theory in the broader cognitive sciences, formulating and developing the minimalist program. In his foundational book, The Minimalist Program, published in 1995, Noam Chomsky offered a significant contribution to the generative tradition in linguistics. This twentieth-anniversary edition reissues this classic work with a new preface by the author. In four essays, Chomsky attempts to situate linguistic theory in the broader cognitive sciences, with the essays formulating and progressively developing the minimalist approach to linguistic theory. Building on the theory of principles and parameters and, in particular, on principles of economy of derivation and representation, the minimalist framework takes Universal Grammar as providing a unique computational system, with derivations driven by morphological properties, to which the syntactic variation of languages is also restricted. Within this theoretical framework, linguistic

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Book SynopsisAn investigation into the possibility of impossible languages, searching for the indelible “fingerprint” of human language.Can there be such a thing as an impossible human language? A biologist could describe an impossible animal as one that goes against the physical laws of nature (entropy, for example, or gravity). Are there any such laws that constrain languages? In this book, Andrea Moro—a distinguished linguist and neuroscientist—investigates the possibility of impossible languages, searching, as he does so, for the indelible “fingerprint” of human language.Moro shows how the very notion of impossible languages has helped shape research on the ultimate aim of linguistics: to define the class of possible human languages. He takes us beyond the boundaries of Babel, to the set of properties that, despite appearances, all languages share, and explores the sources of that order, drawing on scientific experiments he himself help

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Book SynopsisThis index lists, in the order in which they appear in the New Testament, all the New Testament entries of the 'Bauer-Arndt-Gingrich Greek Lexicon (BAG).' It is based on the second edition of BAG and is set in readable Greek type.

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