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    National 5 English: Reading For Understanding, Analysis And Evaluation
    M. M. Firth - Paperback - Hodder Gibson
    This title offers guidance in one of the most important areas of National 5 English, in a skill area that some students believe 'cannot be practised'. Written by two highly experienced teachers and authors, it shows that such practice offers the best chance of success and demonstrates that reading for understanding, analysis and evaluation for National 5 English is a skill that can be acquired and improved.
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    Language Acquisition And Change: A Morphosyntactic Perspective
    Jürgen M. Meisel - Hardback - Edinburgh University Press
    This monograph addresses diachronic change of languages in terms of a restructuring of speakers' internal grammatical knowledge. The authors answer questions about the circumstances surrounding grammatical change and attempt to identify causes, constructing a general theory of diachronic change consistent with insights from language acquisition.
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    National 5 English
    David Swinney - Paperback - Hodder Gibson
    This volume contains authentic materials for SQA examination practice, written by expert examiners, with detailed marking schemes and tips on gaining top marks.
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    A Historical Phonology Of English
    Donka Minkova - Paperback - Edinburgh University Press
    This work describes the segmental and prosodic changes in the history of English. It provides analyses of these changes both as phonological events and in relation to the evolution of interlocking aspects of earlier English.
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    Colloquial Scottish Gaelic: The Complete Course For Beginners
    Katherine M. Spadaro - Paperback - Routledge
    'Colloquial Scottish Gaelic' offers a series of stimulating and informative lessons in modern Gaelic, the historic language of the Highlands and Islands of Scotland. The text emphasises up-to-date, conversational language.
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    Colloquial Scottish Gaelic: The Complete Course For Beginners
    Katherine M. Spadaro - Book with sound disc - Routledge
    'Colloquial Scottish Gaelic' offers a series of stimulating and informative lessons in modern Gaelic, the historic language of the Highlands and Islands of Scotland. It emphasises up-to-date, conversational language.
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    Colloquial Scottish Gaelic: The Complete Course For Beginners
    Katherine M. Spadaro - Hardback - Routledge
    'Colloquial Scottish Gaelic' offers a series of stimulating and informative lessons in modern Gaelic, the historic language of the Highlands and Islands of Scotland. The text emphasises up-to-date, conversational language.
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    Humboldt, Worldview And Language
    James W. Underhill - Paperback - Edinburgh University Press
    Underhill's concise and rigorously researched book clarifies the main ideas and proposals of Humboldt's linguistic philosophy and demonstrates the way his ideas can be adopted and adapted by thinkers and linguists today.
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    Creating Worldviews: Metaphor, Ideology And Language
    James W. Underhill - Paperback - Edinburgh University Press
    Reflecting upon language and the role metaphor plays in patterning ideas and thought, Underhill analyses the discourse of several languages in recent history.
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    Historical Linguistics: An Introduction
    Lyle Campbell - Hardback - Edinburgh University Press
    Containing abundant examples and problem sets, this book provides an accessible, hands-on, how-to introduction to historical linguistics, one of the most popular undergraduate linguistic areas.

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