Language Contact and the Making of an Afro-Hispanic Vernacular. Variation and Change in the Colombian Choco, Paperback - ***

Using a cohesive approach that combines linguistics, legal history and colonial studies, this study advances our knowledge of creolistics. Focusing...

When Eric Toensmeier and Jonathan Bates moved into a duplex in a run-down part of Holyoke, Massachusetts, the tenth-of-an-acre lot was barren groun...

Language in the Inner City firmly establishes African American Vernacular English not simply as slang but as a well-formed set of rules of pronunci...

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The study of variation and change is at the heart of the sociolinguistics. Providing a wide survey of the field, this textbook is organised around ...

An insightful exploration of English in South Africa, ideal for scholars and students concerned with forms of contemporary English. The volume inve...

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Explores how, in the Americas, people of African birth or descent found spiritual and social empowerment in the orbit of the Church. Draws connecti...

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By examining the manufacturing, commercial, and cultural activities of the maverick industrialist Chen Diexian (1879-1940), Eugenia Lean illustrate...

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Contributor(s): Author: Tom ChaffinIn 1845, seven years after fleeing bondage in Maryland, Frederick Douglass was in his late twenties and already ...

Publisher: Edinburgh University PressAuthor(s): Warren MaguireIllustration(s): 15 B/W tablesNumber of pages: 272Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 1...

Investigates the change and evolution of a fascinating English construction - comparative correlatives (e.g. the more you eat, the fatter you get)....

The full inside story of the iconic Ford Transit by an acknowledged expert

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Francio Guadeloupe has lived in both the Dutch Antilles and the Netherlands. An anthropologist, he is a keen observer by honed habit. Simultaneousl...

In Robert Motherwell: The Making of an American Giant, published to coincide with Motherwell's centenary, author Bernard Jacobson examines Motherwe...

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Representing a significant re-examination of the Tarikh al-fattash, proved to be one the most important nineteenth-century sources for the history ...

Examines two anonymous manuscripts of magic produced in Elizabethan England: the Antiphoner Notebook and the Boxgrove Manual. Explores how scribes ...

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