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Shady Characters: The Secret Life of Punctuation, Symbols, & Other Typographical Marks by Keith Houston Publisher Comments 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) Your price: $25.95 New - Hardcover
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Logic in Grammar: Polarity, Free Choice, and Intervention by Gennaro Chierchia Publisher Comments 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) Your price: $70.75 New - Trade Paper
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Diagnosing Syntax by Lisa Lai-shen (edt) Cheng Publisher Comments 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) Your price: $76.25 New - Trade Paper
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What Is English?: And Why Should We Care? by Tim William Machan Publisher Comments 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) Your price: $42.50 New - Hardcover
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Diagnosing Syntax by Lisa Lai-shen (edt) Cheng Publisher Comments 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) Your price: $180.25 New - Hardcover
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Linguistic Inquiry Monographs #65: Subjunctive Conditionals: A Linguistic Analysis by Michela Ippolito Publisher Comments 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) Your price: $30.95 New - Trade Paper
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The Survey of Pidgin and Creole Languages Volume II Portuguese-Based, Spanish-Based, and French-Based by Susanne Maria (edt) Michaelis Publisher Comments 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) Your price: $276.25 New - Hardcover
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Logic in Grammar: Polarity, Free Choice, and Intervention by Gennaro Chierchia Publisher Comments 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) Your price: $180.25 New - Hardcover
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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) by David (edt) Willis Publisher Comments 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) Your price: $153.95 New - Hardcover
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Proximization by Piotr Cap Publisher Comments 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) Your price: $153.95 New - Hardcover
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Aspects of Split Ergativity (Oxford Studies in Comparative Syntax) by Jessica Coon Publisher Comments 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) Your price: $47.95 New - Trade Paper
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Aspects of Split Ergativity (Oxford Studies in Comparative Syntax) by Jessica Coon Publisher Comments 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) Your price: $113.95 New - Hardcover
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The Metalinguistic Dimension in Instructed Second Language Learning by Karen (edt) Roehr Publisher Comments 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) Your price: $159.25 New - Hardcover
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Sociolinguistics: A Very Short Introduction (Very Short Introductions) by John Edwards Publisher Comments 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) Your price: $11.95 New - Trade Paper
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Dark Tongues: The Art of Rogues and Riddlers by Daniel Heller-roazen Publisher Comments 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) Your price: $27.95 New - Hardcover
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Definite Descriptions by Paul Elbourne Publisher Comments 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) Your price: $153.95 New - Hardcover
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Young Language Learners' Motivation and Attitudes: Longitudinal, Comparative and Explanatory Perspectives by Sybille Heinzmann Publisher Comments 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) Your price: $159.25 New - Hardcover
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Componential Analysis of Kinship Terminology: A Computational Perspective by Vladimir Pericliev Publisher Comments 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) Your price: $80.00 New - Hardcover
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Definite Descriptions by Paul Elbourne Publisher Comments 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) Your price: $58.95 New - Trade Paper
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Time: Language, Cognition & Reality by Kasia M. Jaszczolt Publisher Comments 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) Your price: $143.25 New - Hardcover
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