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This volume offers a valuable overview of recent research into the semantic aspects of complex wo...
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This book looks at native speaker varieties of English, consideringhow and why they differ in t...
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Interest in word-formation is probably as old as interest in language itself. As Dr Bauer points ...
A ground-breaking text which examines the ways language has changed in the twentieth century. It ...