Quel Canadien francophone, venant du Québec, du Nouveau-Brunswick ou de l'Ouest, ne s'est pas entendu dire, lors d'un voyage à Paris ou à Bruxelles, le fameux: «Mais ce que vous dites n'est pas français!
A spot-on guide to how and why Americans have become so bloody keen on Britishismsfor good or illThe British love to complain that words and phrases imported from Americafrom French fries to Awesome, man!
A spot-on guide to how and why Americans have become so bloody keen on Britishismsfor good or illThe British love to complain that words and phrases imported from Americafrom French fries to Awesome, man!
In John McWhorter's Defining Creole anthology of 2005, his collected articles conveyed the following theme: His hypothesis that creole languages are definable not just in the sociohistorical sense, but in the grammatical sense.
LOCKE AND MOORE IN CONVERSATION An original take on an original mind In a bold experiment linguist Terence Moore holds a series of conversations in 21st century language with 17th century philosopher, John Locke.
The Great Patriotic War (GPW) of the Soviet people against Nazi Germany, known in the West as the Eastern Front of WWII, continues to attract a number of military historians from different countries around the world.
Im Mittelpunkt dieser Arbeit steht die Untersuchung der Dynamik im System der Genus-Oppositionen im Deutschen mit dem dafür notwendigen Rückblick auf die indogermanische und urgermanische Vorstufe.
In building up a scenario for the arrival on the shores of Alaska of speakers of languages related to Eskimo-Aleut with genetic roots deep within Sineria, this book touches upon a number of issues in contemporary historical linguistics and archaeology.
Most scholarly attention on Shakespeare's vocabulary has been directed towards his enrichment of the language through borrowing words from other languages and has thus concentrated on the more learned aspects of his vocabulary.
This book documents an understudied phenomenon in Austronesian languages, namely the existence of recurrent submorphemic sound-meaning associations of the general form -CVC.
The Story of English illustrates the compelling history of how the relatively obscure dialects spoken by tribes from what are now Denmark, the Low Countries and northern Germany, became the most widely spoken language in the world, and of how that language evolved during the last two millennia.
This book gives an overview of the development of the evolution of language through a philosophical lens, and is a culmination of research combining visual communication, semiotic theory, cultural studies, linguistics, artificial intelligence and new media.
This book gives an overview of the development of the evolution of language through a philosophical lens, and is a culmination of research combining visual communication, semiotic theory, cultural studies, linguistics, artificial intelligence and new media.
Throughout the many political and social upheavals of the early modern era, names were words to conjure by, articulating significant historical trends and helping individuals and societies make sense of often dramatic periods of change.
