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V. Ginsburgh

S. Weber

The Palgrave Handbook of Economics and Language

&lt;p&gt;Table of contents&lt;br&gt;List of Figures&lt;br&gt;List of Tables&lt;br&gt;Notes on Contributors&lt;br&gt;Victor Ginsburgh and Shlomo Weber, Introduction&lt;br&gt;Part I. Linguistic Diversity: Origins and Measurement&lt;br&gt;Chapter 1. Nigel Fabb, Linguistic Theory, Linguistic Diversity and Whorfian Economics&lt;br&gt;1.1 Introduction&lt;br&gt;1.2 Abstract linguistic form, and the rules and conditions which govern it&lt;br&gt;1.3 Linguistic diversity: An illustrative comparison between two languages&lt;br&gt;1.4 Theories of linguistic diversity&lt;br&gt;1.5 Whorfian psychology and economics: Causal relations between language and thought&lt;br&gt;1.6 Non-whorfian proposals that language influences thought&lt;br&gt;1.7 Conclusion&lt;br&gt;1.8 References&lt;br&gt;Chapter 2. Andrew Smith, Dynamic Models of Language Evolution. The Linguistic Perpective&lt;br&gt;2.1 Introduction&lt;br&gt;2.2 Language diversity&lt;br&gt;2.3 Language change&lt;br&gt;2.4 Dynamic models of language&lt;br&gt;2.5 Conclusion&lt;br&gt;2.6 References&lt;br&gt;Chapter 3. Andrew John, Dynamic Models of Language Evolution. The Economic Perspective&lt;br&gt;3.1 Introduction&lt;br&gt;3.2 How economic forces can influence language dynamics&lt;br&gt;3.3 Conclusion&lt;br&gt;3.4 References&lt;br&gt;Chapter 4. Mark Leikin, What Do We Learn from Neurolinguistics?&lt;br&gt;4.1 Introduction&lt;br&gt;4.2 Terms, definitions and research areas&lt;br&gt;4.3 Brain and language&lt;br&gt;4.4 Evolution of brain and language relationships&lt;br&gt;4.5 Development of brain and language relationships in childhood&lt;br&gt;4.6 The neurolinguistics of bilingualism&lt;br&gt;4.7 Conclusions&lt;br&gt;4.8 References&lt;br&gt;Chapter 5. Victor Ginsburgh and Shlomo Weber, Linguistic Distances and Ethno-linguistic Fractionalisation and Disenfranchisement Indices&lt;br&gt;5.1 Introduction&lt;br&gt;5.2 Languages, dialects and trade languages&lt;br&gt;5.3 Distances between languages&lt;br&gt;5.4 The effect of linguistic distances on economic outcomes&lt;br&gt;5.5 Linguistic distances between groups&lt;br&gt;5.6 Fractionalization and disenfranchisement indices&lt;br&gt;5.7 References&lt;br&gt;Chapter 6. Enrico Spolaore and Romain Wacziarg, Ancestry, Language and Culture&lt;br&gt;6.1 Introduction&lt;br&gt;6.2 Ancestry&lt;br&gt;6.3 Culture&lt;br&gt;6.4 Ancestry and culture: A simple conceptual framework&lt;br&gt;6.5 Ancestry and culture: Empirical evidence&lt;br&gt;6.6 Conclusion&lt;br&gt;6.7 References&lt;br&gt;Appendix: Derivations of the results in Section 6.4&lt;br&gt;Chapter 7. Efthymios Athanasiou, Juan Moreno-Ternero and Shlomo Weber, Language Learning and Communicative Benefits&lt;br&gt;7.1 Introduction&lt;br&gt;7.2 Communicative benefits&lt;br&gt;7.3 Efficiency&lt;br&gt;7.4 Efficient choices of official languages&lt;br&gt;7.5 Conclusion&lt;br&gt;7.6 References&lt;br&gt;Chapter 8. Niall Bond and Victor Ginsburgh, Language and Emotion&lt;br&gt;8.1 Introduction&lt;br&gt;8.2 Emotions and the polyglot&lt;br&gt;8.3 Choosing languages within language communities&lt;br&gt;8.4 'Colonized' writers&lt;br&gt;8.5 Migrating writers&lt;br&gt;8.6 Between languages: Nabokov, Green and Tabucchi&lt;br&gt;8.7 'Denying' the language in which they wrote: Kafka and Derrida&lt;br&gt;8.8 Concluding remarks&lt;br&gt;Part II. Languages and Markets&lt;br&gt;Chapter 9. Peter Egger, and Farid Toubal, Common Spoken Languages and International Trade&lt;br&gt;9.1 Introduction&lt;br&gt;9.2 Common native and spoken languages on the globe and their measures&lt;br&gt;9.3 A trade economists stylized view on languages&lt;br&gt;9.4 Empirical results&lt;br&gt;9.5 Conclusions&lt;br&gt;9.6 References&lt;br&gt;Chapter 10. Nigel Holden, Economic Exchange and Business Language in the Ancient World. An Exploratory Review&lt;br&gt;10.1 Introduction&lt;br&gt;10.2 Language considerations&lt;br&gt;10.3 Context of trade and antiquity&lt;br&gt;10.4 The written word&lt;br&gt;10.5 The spoken language of business in the Ancient World&lt;br&gt;10.6 Commercial terms in various languages of the Ancient World&lt;br&gt;10.7 The businessman as unsavoury personage in Greek and Latin literature&lt;br&gt;10.8 Latin: Not just a lingua franca&lt;br&gt;10.9 Conclusions&lt;br&gt;10.10 References&lt;br&gt;Chapter 11. Susanne Tietze, Nigel Hoden and Wilhelm Barner-Rasmussen, Language Use in Multinational Corporations. Towards a Topography of Languages, Special Languages and Corporate Sociolects&lt;br&gt;11.1 Introduction&lt;br&gt;11.2 Cities and the MNC&lt;br&gt;11.3 Research on languageaspects of the MNC: A pragmatic perspective&lt;br&gt;11.4 Linguascapes, pragmatic spaces and the topography of language&lt;br&gt;11.5 Discussion&lt;br&gt;11.6 Conclusion&lt;br&gt;11.7 References&lt;br&gt;Chapter 12. Alicia Adsera and Mariola Pyltikova, Language and Migration&lt;br&gt;12.1 Introduction&lt;br&gt;12.2 The role of language in migration decisions&lt;br&gt;12.3 Language proficiency among migrants&lt;br&gt;12.4 Language and the returns to human capital&lt;br&gt;12.5 Language and migrants socioeconomic assimilation&lt;br&gt;12.6 Conclusions&lt;br&gt;12.7 References&lt;br&gt;Chapter 13. Johan Heilbron and Gis`ele Sapiro, Translation: Economic and Sociological Perspectives&lt;br&gt;13.1 Introduction&lt;br&gt;13.2 International translation flows and the global market of translations&lt;br&gt;13.3 Political, economic and cultural factors&lt;br&gt;13.4 Selection, import and reception patterns&lt;br&gt;13.5 Conclusions&lt;br&gt;13.6 References&lt;br&gt;Chapter 14. Dietmar Harhoff, Karin Hoisl, Bruno van Pottelsberghe de la Potterie and Charlotte Vandeput, Languages, Fees and the International Scopeof Patenting&lt;br&gt;14.1 Introduction&lt;br&gt;14.2 Institutional background and hypotheses&lt;br&gt;14.3 Data and econometric modeling&lt;br&gt;14.4 Empirical implementation and results&lt;br&gt;14.5 Concluding remarks&lt;br&gt;14.6 References&lt;br&gt;Part III. Linguistic Policies and Economic Development&lt;br&gt;Chapter 15. Klaus Desmet, Ignacio Ortu˜no-Ort´?n and Romain Wacziarg, Linguistic Cleavages and Economic Development&lt;br&gt;15.1 Introduction&lt;br&gt;15.2 A phylogenetic approach to linguistic diversity&lt;br&gt;15.3 Linguistic diversity, redistribution and economic growth&lt;br&gt;15.4 Linguistic diversity and economic development&lt;br&gt;15.5 Conclusion&lt;br&gt;15.6 References&lt;br&gt;Chapter 16. Sue Wright, Language Choices: Political and Economic Factors in Three European States&lt;br&gt;16.1 Introduction&lt;br&gt;16.2 Nation building&lt;br&gt;16.3 Language, advantage and group membership&lt;br&gt;16.4 Conclusion: The role of elites&lt;br&gt;16.5 References&lt;br&gt;Chapter 17. Selma Sonntag, Languages, Regional Conflicts and Economic Development in South Asia&lt;br&gt;17.1 Introduction&lt;br&gt;17.2 India&lt;br&gt;17.3 Sri Lanka&lt;br&gt;17.4 Nepal&lt;br&gt;17.5 Pakistan&lt;br&gt;17.6 Conclusion&lt;br&gt;17.7 References&lt;br&gt;Chapter 18. Brandon de la Cuesta and Leonard Wantchekon, Is Language Destiny? The Origins and Consequences of Ethnolinguistic Diversity in sub-Saharan Africa&lt;br&gt;18.1 Introduction&lt;br&gt;18.2 Why does Africa have such high levels of linguistic diversity?&lt;br&gt;18.3 The economic and political effects of linguistic diversity&lt;br&gt;18.4 Conclusion&lt;br&gt;18.5 References&lt;br&gt;Chapter 19. Denis Kadochnikov, Languages, Regional Conflicts and Economic Development: Russia&lt;br&gt;19.1 Introduction&lt;br&gt;19.2 The standardization of the Russian language in the late medieval Russia (16-17th centuries)&lt;br&gt;19.3 Language policy in the context of the reforms of Peter the Great and his successors (18th century)&lt;br&gt;19.4 The role of foreign languages in Russia of the late 18th early 19th centuries&lt;br&gt;19.5 Language policy in the context of the territorial expansion of the Russian Empire (17-19th centuries)&lt;br&gt;19.6 Language and politics in the late imperial Russia&lt;br&gt;19.7 The Socialist Revolution of 1917 and the early Soviet language policy (1920-1930s)&lt;br&gt;19.8 Late Soviet language policy (1930-1980s)&lt;br&gt;19.9 Russian and other languages of the Russian Federation in the post-Soviet period&lt;br&gt;19.10 Summary: socio-economic and political factors and implications of language policy in Russia in historical perspective&lt;br&gt;19.11 References&lt;br&gt;Part IV. Globalisation and Minority Languages&lt;br&gt;Chapter 20. Jacques Melitz, English as a Global Language&lt;br&gt;20.1 Introduction&lt;br&gt;20.2 The status of English as a global language&lt;br&gt;20.3 Areas where English faces sharp limits&lt;br&gt;20.4 Language learning&lt;br&gt;20.5 Welfare implications&lt;br&gt;20.6 References&lt;br&gt;Chapter 21. François Grin, Challenges of Minority Languages&lt;br&gt;21.1 Introduction&lt;br&gt;21.2 What is a minority language?&lt;br&gt;21.3 The economics of minority language protection and promotion&lt;br&gt;21.4 Capacity, opportunity and desire: an overview of the basic model&lt;br&gt;21.5 Conditions for effective policies&lt;br&gt;21.6 Guidelines for language policy&lt;br&gt;21.7 The costs and net value of minority language policies&lt;br&gt;21.8 About contingent and absolute multilingualism&lt;br&gt;21.9 Concluding remarks&lt;br&gt;21.10 References&lt;br&gt;Appendix Minority languages in a strict sense: selected examples&lt;br&gt;Chapter 22. Bengt-ArneWickstr¨om, Language Rights: A Welfare-economics Approach&lt;br&gt;22.1 Introduction&lt;br&gt;22.2 Basic model&lt;br&gt;22.3 Modifications due to endogenous preferences&lt;br&gt;22.4 Modifications due to redistribution&lt;br&gt;22.5 Conclusions&lt;br&gt;22.6 References&lt;br&gt;Appendix. Formal analysis&lt;br&gt;Chapter 23. Jos´e Ram´on Uriarte Ayo, A Game-Theoretic Analysis of Minority Language Use in Multilingual Societies&lt;br&gt;23.1 Introduction&lt;br&gt;23.2 Multilingual societies&lt;br&gt;23.3 The reference point: Linguistic rights, linguistic politeness and expectations&lt;br&gt;23.4 The maximin language choice&lt;br&gt;23.5 Information in modern multilingual societies&lt;br&gt;23.6 The ultimatum language game&lt;br&gt;23.7 The bilinguals as a player population:The building of linguistic conventions&lt;br&gt;23.8 Linguistic politeness equilibrium&lt;br&gt;23.9 Policy suggestions&lt;br&gt;23.10 Conclusions&lt;br&gt;23.11 References&lt;br&gt;Index&lt;br&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

A Language of Dragons

REBELLION HAPPENS IN THE SHADOWSVivien Featherswallow has uncovered the secret language of dragons. Now can she use it to end a war?The extraordinary sequel to the instant #1 Sunday Times Bestseller, A Language of Dragons"A delicious mix of rebellion, romance and complex female characters, both human and dragon." The ObserverVivien Featherswallow has translated a secret language of dragons - sparking an all-out civil war, with dragons and humans fighting on both sides, in the process.And after defeating Prime Minister Wyvernmire and escaping Bletchley Park, Vivien has become the reluctant face of the rebellion - and been labelled the most wanted criminal in Britain. But what good is a rebel who must remain in hiding, powerless to help her friends?Unsure of her purpose, and torn with doubt about the life she thought she was meant to lead, Vivien travels to the remote Scottish Isles to find a mysterious, long-forgotten species of dragon - one which might hold the key to ending the war... forever.An epic, sweeping, unputdownable fantasy, A War of Wyverns is the unmissable sequel to the instant #1 Sunday Times Bestseller, A Language of Dragons.S. F. Williamson's book 'A Language of Dragons' was a No.1 Sunday Times bestseller w/c 2025-01-06.

A WAR OF WYVERNS

Alma Junior Classics

Only unabridged translation available When the Sesemann family and their friend Doctor Classen, who were so kind to Heidi during her stay in Frankfurt, visit her and her grandfather at their home in the Swiss Alps, young Klara Sesemann, an invalid, chooses to stay on for a while alone in the hope that the healthy mountain lifestyle and the expert nursing of Heidi's grandfather will do her good. Unfortunately, Heidi's devoted attention to Klara excites the jealousy of the goatherd Peter, who senses that the stranger has supplanted him in his only friend's affections. A fit of rage prompts Peter to commit an act intended to end Klara's stay on the mountain, which sets into motion a series of events that will produce a positive, unhoped for outcome. Beloved of generations of young people, Johanna Spyri's sequel to Heidi: Lessons at Home and Abroad is another cornerstone of children's literature and every bit as beguiling and heart-warming as the first volume. It is here presented in a brand-new, unabridged translation by Peter James Bowman, once again beautifully illustrated by Susan Hellard. This edition contains extra material for young readers, including a section on 'Other Classic Stories of Orphans', a glossary and a test-yourself quiz.

Beloved of generations of young people, Johanna Spyri’s sequel to&nbsp;Heidi: Lessons at Home and Abroad&nbsp;is another cornerstone of children’s literature and every bit as beguiling and heart-warming as the first volume. It is here presented in a brand-new, unabridged translation by Peter James Bowman, once again beautifully illustrated by Susan Hellard.

New Unabridged Translation with illustrations by Susan Hellard

Heidi: Putting Her Lessons to Good Use

A sun soaked, hilarious mediation on family life in mid-century Italy - and one of the most exciting rediscovered classics in years. During WWII, a young Tuscan woman falls in love with a man from the rural depths of southern Italy. As the conflict finally draws to a close, the two travel from Rome to finally meet with his family. But very quickly a dawning realisation breaks: her in-laws and their friends are eccentric in the extreme. They barely leave the house and they rarely speak to their son, fretting instead about their 'daughter' - a loud little dog - and worrying constantly, incessantly, about the weather. And, worst of all, they speak with a nostalgic warmth about the region's recently overthrown fascist regime... Translated by Ann Goldstein, the world-renowned translator of Elena Ferrante, A House in Sicily is a brilliantly funny, razor sharp examination of family life in the shadow of the darkest period of modern Italian history, and the most exciting rediscovered European classic in decades.

A House in Sicily

"A powerful novel set in a Hong Kong that feels remarkably universal." —Mohsin Hamid, author of Exit West "A dazzling, page-turning novel...Gripping, specific, important, and highly satisfying.” —Elif Batuman, author of The Idiot and Either/Or A powerful, award-winning novel that follows the lives of two women as democracy starts to crumble in Hong Kong On a weekend morning, college roommates Ah Lei and Panda wake up with very different reactions to the night before. They have been chased and tear-gassed in the streets of their city after joining tens of thousands of others to protest a national security law that would effectively spell the end of democracy in Hong Kong. Ah Lei can’t get out of bed, her heart heavy with the lingering images of the police and the violence on the streets, and her worries about the future of her hometown. Panda, whose resistance is no less ardent, puts on a sundress, lines her eyes, and urges Ah Lei to join her for brunch. While the demonstrations rage, the routine of life also persists for Ah Lei, Panda, and people in their orbits. They attend family gatherings, fight with their mothers, try and fail to focus at work on Mondays, and make time for dinner dates and app hookups. But the looming political tension and anxiety for the future transform such everyday encounters. In the span of a few months, life as they know it seems to become a mirage: the comfort of air-conditioned shopping malls is disrupted by bloodshed; tear gas and the sounds of rubber bullets amid neon signs strangely evoke happier memories of summer night fireworks. Gigi L. Leung’s visceral novel Everyday Movement reveals existential questions that interrupt normal life: belonging, patriotism, and the meaningfulness of an electoral democracy, as well as the pampering sense of normalcy created by consumerism. Fiery and tender, Leung’s writing captures the heartbreak, turmoil, and rebirth in bearing witness to and engaging with a shattering reality.

A powerful, award-winning novel that follows the lives of two women as democracy starts to crumble in Hong Kong On a weekend morning, college roommates Ah Lei and Panda wake up with very different reactions to the night before. They have been chased and tear-gassed in the streets of their city after joining tens of thousands of others to protest a national security law that would effectively spell the end of democracy in Hong Kong. Ah Lei can’t get out of bed, her heart heavy with the lingering images of the police and the violence on the streets, and her worries about the future of her hometown. Panda, whose resistance is no less ardent, puts on a sundress, lines her eyes, and urges Ah Lei to join her for brunch. While the demonstrations rage, the routine of life also persists for Ah Lei, Panda, and people in their orbits. They attend family gatherings, fight with their mothers, try and fail to focus at work on Mondays, and make time for dinner dates and app hookups. But the looming political tension and anxiety for the future transform such everyday encounters. In the span of a few months, life as they know it seems to become a mirage: the comfort of air-conditioned shopping malls is disrupted by bloodshed; tear gas and the sounds of rubber bullets amid neon signs strangely evoke happier memories of summer night fireworks. Gigi L. Leung’s visceral novel Everyday Movement reveals existential questions that interrupt normal life: belonging, patriotism, and the meaningfulness of an electoral democracy, as well as the pampering sense of normalcy created by consumerism. Fiery and tender, Leung’s writing captures the heartbreak, turmoil, and rebirth in bearing witness to and engaging with a shattering reality.

Everyday Movement

In this modern day fairy tale, seven sisters raised in the woods fight to keep their freedom.Deep in the woods of western Finland, a bear hunter has raised his seven daughters to live off the land and steer clear of the trappings of life in town, like cell phones and a social life outside their family. When on his youngest Elga’s twelfth birthday the hunter is killed by his prey, and their mother dies soon thereafter, the sisters are left with unpaid bills and a leaky house. The tension between sticking to the wild ways their father taught them and submitting to well-meaning townsfolk’s efforts to “help” threatens to divide the seven sisters. Eldest Johanna tries to wield control, young Elga feels tempted by the pull to education, artist Laura spends all her time dreaming up sculptures and exploring nature – but their trips to the farmer’s market to sell foraged mushrooms and their free time exploring their vast forest home bring them together in riotous fun. With evocative language and visceral scene-setting, readers get lost in world they’ve invented together and join the fight to protect it.Inspired by Aleksis Kivi’s classic Finnish novel&nbsp;Seven Brothers&nbsp;(1870), The Bear Hunter’s Daughters is at once realistic and fantastical, an intensely sensory exploration of our essential bonds both with nature and with one another.

"Go jump in a lake! Bawdy, fantastic, and surprisingly poignant, The Bear Hunter's Daughters is the perfect book for the wildest person in your life. Told with brio and humor, this fable of the seven redhaired sisters settles deep in your bones. I loved it from beginning to end." - Keith Donohue, author of The Girl in the Bog and The Stolen ChildIn this funny and unforgettable modern day fairy tale, seven sisters raised in the woods fight to keep their freedom.Deep in the woods of western Finland, a bear hunter has raised his seven daughters to live off the land and steer clear of the trappings of life in town, like cell phones and a social life outside their family. When on his youngest Elga’s twelfth birthday the hunter is killed by his prey and their mother dies soon thereafter, the sisters are left with unpaid bills and a leaky house.The tension between sticking to the wild ways their father taught them and submitting to well-meaning townsfolk’s efforts to “help” threatens to divide the seven sisters. The eldest, Johanna, tries to wield control, Elga feels tempted by the pull to education, artist Laura spends all her time dreaming up sculptures and exploring nature—but the sisters' trips to the farmer’s market to sell foraged mushrooms and their free time in their vast forest home bring them together in riotous fun. With evocative language and visceral scene-setting, readers get lost in world they’ve invented together and join the fight to protect it.Inspired by Aleksis Kivi’s classic Finnish novel Seven Brothers (1870), The Bear Hunter’s Daughters is at once realistic and fantastical, an intensely sensory exploration of our essential bonds both with nature and with one another.

A Tale of Seven Sisters

The Bear Hunter's Daughters

When Weasel comes home, he can hardly believe his eyes: Bear and Badger are playing. But Badger is Weasel's friend! Badger suggests the three friends play together. But Bear and Weasel can't agree on anything: not football, not memory, not hide and seek.Weasel never follows the rules. Bear always wants to be in charge.Set in a charming outdoor forest house, this picture book is a brilliant battle of wills between friends. Readers will enjoy every twist and turn of this very funny argument about a very familiar problem.

Tomorrow I'm in Charge!

Empirische Linguistik / Empirical Linguistics

Die Sprache Unserdeutsch entstand im 20. Jahrhundert während der deutschen Kolonialisierung in Papua-Neuguinea und gilt heute mit weniger als 75 Sprecher:innen als kritisch gefährdet. Obwohl Unserdeutsch durch den Status als einzige bekannte deutschlexifizierte Kreolsprache, als moribunde Minderheitensprache und vom Kolonialismus geprägte Kontaktvarietät von großer Bedeutung für unterschiedliche Forschungsdisziplinen ist, ist die Sprache noch kaum erforscht. Diese Arbeit bietet nun erstmals eine umfassende strukturelle Analyse der Variation in Unserdeutsch, basierend auf Interviews mit den letzten Sprecher:innen der Sprache, die mit unterschiedlichen statistischen Methoden ausgewertet wurden. Bei der Untersuchung liegt der Fokus auf der Frage, welche gesellschaftlichen und sprachlichen Aspekte die Verwendung bestimmter Formen beeinflussen. Dazu wird unter anderem die Rolle von Sprachkontakt sowie der Einfluss des Status als bedrohte Sprache mit wenigen Sprecher:innen untersucht. Diese Arbeit vereint durch ihre interdisziplinäre Herangehensweise mehrere Forschungsgebiete miteinander und liefert damit wichtige Anknüpfungspunkte für zukünftige Studien zur Variation in bedrohten Sprachen und Minderheiten- und Kreolsprachen.

Untersuchung einer bedrohten Kreolsprache

Sprachliche Variation in Unserdeutsch

New Approaches to English Historical Linguistics

This book challenges the long-held theory that the English pronouns they, their, them are loanwords from Old Norse, arguing instead that the pronouns ultimately derive from the Old English demonstratives þ¿ – þ¿ra – þ¿m. Based on the most comprehensive quantitative and qualitative analysis yet published of third-person plural personal pronoun usage in early English, the study presents evidence of morphosyntactic and phonological continuity from Old to Middle English, particularly in the northern and (south)western dialects. It concludes that contact with Old Norse primarily reinforced existing native developments rather than introducing entirely new forms, thus highlighting the complex interplay of internal linguistic evolution and language contact that combined to shape they, their, them. This book will be of interest to students and scholars of Historical Linguistics, Language Variation and Change, Language Contact, as well as readers interested in the history of the English language.

This book challenges the long-held theory that the English pronouns 
 they, their, them
 are loanwords from Old Norse, arguing instead that the pronouns ultimately derive from the Old English demonstratives 
 þā – þāra – þām
 . Based on the most comprehensive quantitative and qualitative analysis yet published of third-person plural personal pronoun usage in early English, the study presents evidence of morphosyntactic and phonological continuity from Old to Middle English, particularly in the northern and (south)western dialects. It concludes that contact with Old Norse primarily reinforced existing native developments rather than introducing entirely new forms, thus highlighting the complex interplay of internal linguistic evolution and language contact that combined to shape 
 they, their, them
 . This book will be of interest to students and scholars of Historical Linguistics, Language Variation and Change, Language Contact, as well as readers interested in the history of the English language.

Forms, Functions and Etymology

The Early History of they

The second volume in Stig Sæterbakken’s loosely connected “S Trilogy,” Self-Control moves from the dark portrait of codependent marriage featured in the acclaimed Siamese to a world of solitary loneliness and repression.
A middle-aged man, Andreas Feldt, feeling that he is unable to communicate with his adult daughter over the course of lunch, announces on an inexplicable whim that he is going to get a divorce. This impulsive lie does not only destroy Andreas’ conversation with his daughter, but also puts doubt in his own mind about his own existence, shaped by routine and the people around him. Faced with this virtual invisibility—no matter what actions he takes, the world seems to take no notice—Andreas is cut adrift from the certainties of his life and forced to navigate through a society where it seems everyone is only one loss of self-control away from an explosion of dissatisfaction and rage.
What follows is the awakening of a glaring suspicion of reality within our narrator’s psyche, as if he has a blind spot somewhere in his memory. Is there something he has forgotten, something he does not want to, or is not capable of remembering?

Self-Control

THE INSTANT SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER The must-have sequel to the bestselling The Cat Who Saved Books - an uplifting tale from Japan about a talking cat and the power of books to make a difference in the world. Nanami Kosaki loves reading. The local library has become a home from home. Books are her friends. When Nanami notices that some of her favourite books are disappearing from the library shelves, she becomes suspicious of a man in a grey suit whose furtive behaviour doesn't feel right. Should she follow him to see what he's up to? It wouldn't be dangerous . . . would it? When a smart-talking tabby cat called Tiger appears and issues a grave warning about how dangerous that would be, they decide to team up and investigate. Where have all the books gone? And can the unlikely duo overcome the challenges ahead? Translated from Japanese by Louise Heal Kawai * The Cat Who Saved the Library was a Sunday Times bestseller w/c 19.04.25

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The go-to resource for uncovering, understanding and overcoming accent and linguistic bias in the workplace. The way you speak can determine everything from whether you get hired or promoted, to whether people listen to you in meetings. It can affect the strength of your business relationships and reputation, but also whether people think they can trust you. We hear accents loud and clear, yet often they are quietly derailing our efforts to create inclusive work environments where every voice is heard. Linguistic discrimination is still unrecognized in the great majority of Diversity, Equity &amp; Inclusion (DEI) circles, yet it underpins every type of discrimination in the workplace from race and age to gender, neurodiversity and even sexuality. It is the hidden bias that is derailing even the best DEI efforts. Accent Matters is the go-to resource for uncovering, understanding and overcoming linguistic bias in the workplace. Through fascinating stories and examples of accent bias from all over the world, you'll find out how you've been conditioned to prefer certain accents over others, and how those preferences interfere with the way you listen to and interact with those around you. For those who have accents, but especially for those who think they don't, this book will be an eye-opening journey into a fundamental bias that affects every aspect of our lives, both professionally and personally.

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