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The Prodigal Tongue: Dispatches from the Future of English
by Mark Abley  Publisher Comments The wild, wacky, and sometimes baffling road the English language takes in its astonishing evolution. Did you know that the newly minted term in Japanese for visiting Tokyo's Disneyland translates as flogging the mouse? Were you aware that words now move...
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Linguistics for Beginners (For Beginners)
by Terrence W Gordon Publisher Comments Linguistics For Beginners is the first book to ever make the arcane labors of linguistics accessible to general readers. It begins with a lucid definition of language and proceeds to examine how it becomes the subject matter of linguistics. Key topics...
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Phi-Theory: Phi-Features Across Modules and Interfaces (Oxford Linguistics)
by Daniel (edt) Harbour Publisher Comments Phi-features, such as person, number, and gender, present a rare opportunity for syntacticians, morphologists and semanticists to collaborate on a research enterprise in which they all have an equal stake and which they all approach with data and...
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Bare Syntax
by Cedric Boeckx Publisher Comments This important contribution to the Minimalist Program offers a comprehensive theory of locality and new insights into phrase structure and syntactic cartography. It unifies central components of the grammar and increases the symmetry in syntax. Its...
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Rules, Constraints, and Phonological Phenomena
by Bert (edt) Vaux Synopsis This volume of new work by prominent phonologists goes to the heart of current debates in phonological and linguistic theory: should the explanation of phonological variety be constraint or rule-based and, in the light of the resolution of this question,...
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Phi Theory: Phi-Features Across Modules and Interfaces (Oxford Studies in Theoretical Linguistics)
by Daniel (edt) Harbour Publisher Comments Phi-features, such as person, number, and gender, present a rare opportunity for syntacticians, morphologists and semanticists to collaborate on a research enterprise in which they all have an equal stake and which they all approach with data and...
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This Is My Truck (Our Toys)
by Amanda Hudson Publisher Comments - Leveled, repetitive text promotes sight recognition of basic words and builds reading skills - Reviewed by a reading consultant - Structural supports, such as close photo-text match and labeled...
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This Is My Book (Our Toys)
by Amanda Hudson Publisher Comments - Leveled, repetitive text promotes sight recognition of basic words and builds reading skills - Reviewed by a reading consultant - Structural supports, such as close photo-text match and labeled...
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Functional Categories
by Pieter Muysken Publisher Comments In every language there are descriptive lexical elements, such as evening and whisper, as well as grammatical elements, such as the and -ing. The distinction between these two elements has proven useful in a number of domains, but what is covered by the...
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Cambridge Studies in Linguistics #117: Functional Categories
by Pieter Muysken Publisher Comments In every language there are descriptive lexical elements, such as evening and whisper, as well as grammatical elements, such as the and -ing. The distinction between these two elements has proven useful in a number of domains, but what is covered by the...
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A Dictionary of Linguistics and Phonetics
by David Crystal Synopsis David Crystal's "A Dictionary of Linguistics and Phonetics" has long been the standard single-volume reference for its field. Now available in its sixth edition, it has been revised and updated to reflect the latest terms in the field. Includes in excess...
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The Sociolinguistics of Identity (Advances in Sociolinguistics)
by Tope (edt) Omoniyi Synopsis Across the social and behavioural sciences there has been an increased interest in identity as a subject of inquiry. Despite this, there remain questions to which researchers need to find answers and challenges to be made to older paradigms of analysis...
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The Boundaries of Babel: The Brain and the Enigma of Impossible Languages (Current Studies in Linguistics)
by Andrea Moro Publisher Comments In The Boundaries of Babel, Andrea Moro tells the story of an encounter between two cultures: contemporary theoretical linguistics and the cognitive neurosciences. The study of language within a biological context has been ongoing for more than fifty...
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A Dictionary of Linguistics and Phonetics
by David Crystal Publisher Comments David Crystal's A Dictionary of Linguistics and Phonetics has long been the standard single-volume reference for its field. Now available in its sixth edition, it has been revised and updated to reflect the latest terms in the field. Includes in excess...
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The Oxford Handbook of Comparative Syntax (Oxford Handbooks)
by Guglielmo (edt) Cinque Publisher Comments Comparison across formal languages is an essential part of formal linguistics. The study of closely-related varieties has proven extremely useful in illuminating relations between cross-linguistic syntactic differences that might otherwise appear...
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I-Language: An Introduction to Linguistics as Cognitive Science (Oxford Linguistics)
by Daniela Isac Publisher Comments I-Language introduces the uninitiated to linguistics as cognitive science. In an engaging, down-to-earth style Daniela Isac and Charles Reiss give a crystal-clear demonstration of the application of the scientific method in linguistic theory. Their...
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Perspectives on Language and Thought: Interrelations in Development
by Susan A. (edt) Gelman Publisher Comments From the time of birth through the early school years, young children rapidly acquire two complex cognitive systems: They organize their experiences into concepts and categories, and they acquire their first language. How do children accomplish these...
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I-Language: An Introduction to Linguistics as Cognitive Science (Oxford Linguistics)
by Daniela Isac Publisher Comments I-Language introduces the uninitiated to linguistics as cognitive science. In an engaging, down-to-earth style Daniela Isac and Charles Reiss give a crystal-clear demonstration of the application of the scientific method in linguistic theory. Their...
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Children's Discourse
by Maya Hickmann Publisher Comments This original comparative study explores two central questions in the study of first language acquisition: What is the relative impact of structural and functional determinants? What is universal versus language-specific during development? Maya Hickmann...
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Meaning in Context: Implementing Intelligent Applications of Language Studies
by Jonathan J. (edt) Webster Publisher Comments Meaning in Context collects some of the biggest names in systemic functional linguistics in one volume, and shows how this theory can be applied to language studies intelligently, in order to arrive at a better understanding of how meaning is constructed...
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