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LANGUAGE CONTACT AND LEXICAL ENRICHMENT IN ISRAELI HEBREW
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GHIL'AD ZUCKERMANN |
Israeli Hebrew is a spoken language, 'reinvented' over the course of the twentieth century. It has responded to the social demands of the newly emerging state, as well as to escalating globalization,… |
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Our Magnificent Bastard Tongue
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John McWhorter |
Why do we say "I am reading a catalog" instead of "I read a catalog"? Why do we say "do" at all? Is the way we speak a reflection of our cultural values? Delving into these provocative topics and mor… |
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Brush up your classics!
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Michael Macrone |
xiv, 238 p. : 22 cm |
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Lost in translation
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Ella Frances Sanders |
"An artistic collection of 50 drawings featuring unique, funny, and poignant foreign words that have no direct translation into English. Did you know that the Japanese have a word to express the way … |
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Goettinger Studien zu Wortschatz und Wortbildung im Polnischen
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Alek Pohl,Joachim Becker,André de Vincenz |
<P>Die 1972 von den Frankfurter Slavisten Olexa Horbatsch und Gerd Freidhof begründete Reihe Specimina philologiae Slavicae wird heute von Holger Kuße (Dresden), Peter Kosta (Potsdam), Beatrix Kreß (… |
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Türkçede batı kaynaklı kelimelerin yoğunluğu
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Fatin Sezgin |
Turkish language; foreign words and phrases. |
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Koguryo, the language of Japan's continental relatives
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Christopher I. Beckwith |
"This is the first-in-depth study of the extinct Koguryo language, which was once spoken in Manchuria and northern Korea. It covers the ethnolinguistic history of the Koguryo nation, philological tre… |
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English words from Latin and Greek elements
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Donald M. Ayers |
Presents an overview of the development of the English language and examines the formation of words especially from Greek and Latin roots. Also discusses definitions and usage. |
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