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Introducing Chomsky, New Edition by John Maher Publisher Comments Heir to the Enlightenment tradition, Chomsky has introduced new perspectives on language, the creative individual and the nature of human freedom in society.... (read more) List Price $12.95 Your price: $6.98 Sale - Trade Paper 
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Crosslinguistic Research in Syntax and Semantics: Negation, Tense, and Clausal Architecture (Georgetown University Round Table on Languages and Linguisti) by Raffaella Zanuttini Publisher Comments "This book contains truly fundamental contributions concerning the functional makeup of the sentence by some of the very best specialists around the world."?Guglielmo Cinque, Dipartimento di Scienze del Linguaggio, Universita' Ca' Foscari Venezia... (read more) List Price $49.95 Your price: $33.50 Sale - Trade Paper
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Intelligent Linguistic Architectures: Variations on Themes by Ronald M. Kaplan (Center for the Study of Language and Information - Lecture N) by Miriam Butt Publisher Comments Ronald M. Kaplan has made foundational contributions to the development of computational linguistic research and linguistic theory, particularly within Lexical-Functional Grammar. Intelligent Linguistic Architectures, a tribute to Kaplans cutting-edge... (read more) List Price $37.00 Your price: $22.50 Sale - Trade Paper
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The Syntax of Italian Dialects (Oxford Studies in Comparative Syntax) by Christina Tortora Publisher Comments This volume collects original theoretical work on the syntax and morphology of Italian and a wide range of Italian dialects. It contains contributions by such leading figures as Cecilia Poletto, Guglielmo Cinque, and Richard Kayne, and examines topics... (read more) List Price $42.00 Your price: $23.50 Sale - Trade Paper
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Txtng: The Gr8 Db8 by David Crystal Publisher Comments Text messaging has spread like wildfire. Indeed texting is so widespread that many parents, teachers, and media pundits have been outspoken in their criticism of it. Does texting spell the end of western civilization? In this humorous, level-headed and... (read more) List Price $12.95 Your price: $5.95 Sale - Trade Paper
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Speaking Chicana: Voice, Power, and Identity by D Letticia Galindo Publisher Comments Previous studies in the fields of applied linguistics, sociolinguistics, and gender studies have focused upon Chicano linguistic communities as a monolith or have focused entirely upon male-centered aspects of language use, leaving a tremendous gap in... (read more) List Price $19.95 Your price: $9.95 Sale - Trade Paper
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Children's Language and Multilingualism: Indigenous Language Use at Home and School. Edited by Jane Simpson and Gillian Wigglesworth by Jane Simpson Publisher Comments All over the world there are children who learn one (or more) language at home and then have to learn another language when they attend school. In some cases this is because children come from immigrant backgrounds; in other cases children come from... (read more) List Price $49.95 Your price: $33.50 Sale - Trade Paper
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Working with Spanish Corpora (Corpus and Discourse) by Giovanni Parodi Publisher Comments The main focus of this book is the investigation of linguistic variation in Spanish, considering spoken and written, specialised and non-specialised registers from a corpus linguistics approach and employing computational updated tools. The ten chapters... (read more) List Price $170.00 Your price: $63.95 Sale - Hardcover
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Damp Squid: The English Language Laid Bare by Jeremy Butterfield Publisher Comments When James Murray compiled the OED in the 19th century, he used a small army of volunteers--and thousands upon thousands of paper slips--to track down the English language. Today, linguists use massive computer power--including the world's largest... (read more) List Price $12.95 Your price: $6.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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Linguistics in an Age of Globalization: Perspectives on Arabic Language and Teaching by Zeinab Ibrahim Publisher Comments This book is the third of a series of collected volumes on language and linguistics published by the AUC Press. The chapters this time are based on papers delivered at the second International AUC-Oxford University Conference on Language and Linguistics,... (read more) List Price $29.50 Your price: $19.95 Sale - Hardcover
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The Syntax of Icelandic (Cambridge Syntax Guides) by Hoskuldur Thrainsson Publisher Comments A guide to the structure of Icelandic, focusing on characteristics that have contributed greatly to syntactic research.... (read more) List Price $215.50 Your price: $58.98 Sale - Hardcover
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Walking English: A Journey in Search of Language by David Crystal Publisher Comments A fascinating and insightful romp through the language we speak every day, by the linguistic expert who ?succeeds again and again with clarity, wit and enthusiasm? (New York Times) In this discursive jaunt through the groves and thickets of the English... (read more) List Price $15.95 Your price: $7.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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The English Noun Phrase: The Nature of Linguistic Categorization (Studies in English Language) by Evelien Keizer Publisher Comments A study of noun phrases in English, looking at how we produce and understand them.... (read more) List Price $195.25 Your price: $57.98 Sale - Hardcover
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Language and Power: An Introduction to Institutional Discourse (Advances in Sociolinguistics) by Andrea Mayr Publisher Comments How language is used in institutions and how institutions generate language is a key concern of both sociolinguistics and social theory. This readable and comprehensive introduction to language and power in institutions combines theoretical reflection... (read more) List Price $50.75 Your price: $29.95 Sale - Trade Paper
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The Development of Language: Functional Perspectives on Species and Individuals (Open Linguistics) by Geoff Williams Publisher Comments This book presents a unique range of interdisciplinary work on questions of language development and evolution. It makes visible the significant contribution which meaning-oriented linguistics is making to debates about the origins of language - from the... (read more) List Price $60.00 Your price: $26.95 Sale - Trade Paper
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Lexicographer's Dilemma by Jack Lynch Publisher Comments In its long history, the English language has had many lawmakers—those who have tried to regulate or otherwise organize the way we speak. The Lexicographer's Dilemma poses a pair of questions—what does proper English mean, and who... (read more) List Price $16.00 Your price: $7.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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