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Shady Characters: The Secret Life of Punctuation, Symbols, & Other Typographical Marks
Shady Characters: The Secret Life of Punctuation, Symbols, & Other Typographical Marks
by Keith Houston
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A charming and indispensable tour of two thousand years of the written word, Shady Characters weaves a fascinating trail across the parallel histories of language and typography. Whether investigating the asterisk (*) and dagger (... (read more)

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Logic in Grammar: Polarity, Free Choice, and Intervention
Logic in Grammar: Polarity, Free Choice, and Intervention
by Gennaro Chierchia
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This book investigates the relation between language and logic. Gennaro Chierchia looks at the way syntactic and inferential processes interact in determining polarity sensitive and free choice phenomena. He analyses these as a form of grammaticized... (read more)

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Diagnosing Syntax
Diagnosing Syntax
by Lisa Lai-shen (edt) Cheng
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Diagnosis is an essential part of scientific research. It refers to the process of identifying a phenomenon, property, or condition on the basis of certain signs and by the use of various diagnostic procedures. This book is the first ever to consider the... (read more)

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What Is English?: And Why Should We Care?
What Is English?: And Why Should We Care?
by Tim William Machan
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What is English? Can we be as certain as we usually are when we say something is not English? To find some answers Tim Machan explores the language's present and past, and looks ahead to its futures among the one and a half billion people who speak it... (read more)

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Diagnosing Syntax
Diagnosing Syntax
by Lisa Lai-shen (edt) Cheng
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Diagnosis is an essential part of scientific research. It refers to the process of identifying a phenomenon, property, or condition on the basis of certain signs and by the use of various diagnostic procedures. This book is the first ever to consider the... (read more)

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Linguistic Inquiry Monographs #65: Subjunctive Conditionals: A Linguistic Analysis
Linguistic Inquiry Monographs #65: Subjunctive Conditionals: A Linguistic Analysis
by Michela Ippolito
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In this book, Michela Ippolito proposes a compositional semantics for subjunctive (or would) conditionals in English that accounts for their felicity conditions and the constraints on the satisfaction of their presuppositions by capitalizing on the... (read more)

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The Survey of Pidgin and Creole Languages Volume II Portuguese-Based, Spanish-Based, and French-Based
The Survey of Pidgin and Creole Languages Volume II Portuguese-Based, Spanish-Based, and French-Based
by Susanne Maria (edt) Michaelis
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These books represent the most systematic and comprehensive guide ever published to the world's pidgins, creoles and mixed languages, designed, edited, and written by the world's leading experts in the field. The three-volume Survey brings together over... (read more)

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Logic in Grammar: Polarity, Free Choice, and Intervention
Logic in Grammar: Polarity, Free Choice, and Intervention
by Gennaro Chierchia
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This book investigates the relation between language and logic. Gennaro Chierchia looks at the way syntactic and inferential processes interact in determining polarity sensitive and free choice phenomena. He analyses these as a form of grammaticized... (read more)

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The History of Negation in the Languages of Europe and the Mediterranean: Volume I Case Studies (Oxford Studies in Diachronic and Historical Linguistics)
The History of Negation in the Languages of Europe and the Mediterranean: Volume I Case Studies (Oxford Studies in Diachronic and Historical Linguistics)
by David (edt) Willis
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This is the first book in a two-volume comparative history of negation in the languages of Europe and the Mediterranean. The work integrates typological, general, and theoretical research, documents patterns and directions of change in negation across... (read more)

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Proximization
Proximization
by Piotr Cap
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This book proposes a new theory (“proximization theory”) in the area of political/public legitimization discourse. Located at the intersection of Pragmatics, Cognitive Linguistics and critical approaches, the theory holds that legitimization of... (read more)

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Aspects of Split Ergativity (Oxford Studies in Comparative Syntax)
Aspects of Split Ergativity (Oxford Studies in Comparative Syntax)
by Jessica Coon
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In languages with aspect-based split ergativity, one portion of the grammar follows an ergative pattern, while another shows a "split." In this book, Jessica Coon argues that aspectual split ergativity does not mark a split in how case is assigned, but... (read more)

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Aspects of Split Ergativity (Oxford Studies in Comparative Syntax)
Aspects of Split Ergativity (Oxford Studies in Comparative Syntax)
by Jessica Coon
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In languages with aspect-based split ergativity, one portion of the grammar follows an ergative pattern, while another shows a "split." In this book, Jessica Coon argues that aspectual split ergativity does not mark a split in how case is assigned, but... (read more)

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The Metalinguistic Dimension in Instructed Second Language Learning
The Metalinguistic Dimension in Instructed Second Language Learning
by Karen (edt) Roehr
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The metalinguistic dimension refers to the way in which learners bring to bear knowledge about language into their learning of a second language, the "L2". This book brings together new research on the metalinguistic dimension, given its... (read more)

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Sociolinguistics: A Very Short Introduction (Very Short Introductions)
Sociolinguistics: A Very Short Introduction (Very Short Introductions)
by John Edwards
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Sociolinguistics deals with the social life of language, language in its sociocultural context. It is a branch of linguistics that looks less at the shape or sound of words--morphology or phonology--and more at how our words and sentences are influenced... (read more)

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Dark Tongues: The Art of Rogues and Riddlers
Dark Tongues: The Art of Rogues and Riddlers
by Daniel Heller-roazen
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In Dark Tongues, Daniel Heller-Roazen offers a sustained exploration of a perplexing fact that has never received the attention it deserves. Wherever human beings share a language, they also strive to make from it something new: a cryptic idiom that will... (read more)

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Definite Descriptions
Definite Descriptions
by Paul Elbourne
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This book argues that definite descriptions ('the table', 'the King of France') refer to individuals, as Gottlob Frege claimed. This apparently simple conclusion flies in the face of philosophical orthodoxy, which incorporates Bertrand Russell's theory... (read more)

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Young Language Learners' Motivation and Attitudes: Longitudinal, Comparative and Explanatory Perspectives
Young Language Learners' Motivation and Attitudes: Longitudinal, Comparative and Explanatory Perspectives
by Sybille Heinzmann
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Taking three different perspectives, this book looks at primary school children's language learning motivation and language attitudes. In adopting a longitudinal perspective, the book fills a research gap and provides a macro-level analysis of... (read more)

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Componential Analysis of Kinship Terminology: A Computational Perspective
Componential Analysis of Kinship Terminology: A Computational Perspective
by Vladimir Pericliev
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This book presents the first computer program, called KINSHIP, automating the task of componential analysis of kinship vocabularies. KINSHIP accepts as input the kin terms of a language with their attendant kin types and can produce all alternative... (read more)

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Definite Descriptions
Definite Descriptions
by Paul Elbourne
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This book argues that definite descriptions ('the table', 'the King of France') refer to individuals, as Gottlob Frege claimed. This apparently simple conclusion flies in the face of philosophical orthodoxy, which incorporates Bertrand Russell's theory... (read more)

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Time: Language, Cognition & Reality
Time: Language, Cognition & Reality
by Kasia M. Jaszczolt
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This book considers linguistic and mental representations of time. Prominent linguists and philosophers from all over the world examine and report on recent work on the representation of temporal reference; the interaction of the temporal information... (read more)

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