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The Semantics of English Prepositions: Spatial Scenes, Embodied Meaning, and Cognition
by Andrea Tyler  Publisher Comments Provides a comprehensive, theoretical analysis of the semantics of English prepositions....
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The Structure of Coordination
by Jose Camacho Publisher Comments This book analyzes the structure of coordination from two perspectives: the symmetrical properties the construction imposes on its conjuncts, and how conjuncts interact with other categories outside coordination with respect to agreement and other...
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The Translation Studies Reader
by L. Venuti Publisher Comments "The Translation Studies Reader provides a definitive survey of the most important and influential approaches to translation theory and research, with an emphasis on the developments of the last thirty years. With introductory essays prefacing each...
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Linguistic Minimalism: Origins, Concepts, Methods, and Aims
by Cedric Boeckx Publisher Comments Boeckx examines the foundations and explains the underlying philosophy of the Minimalist Program for linguistic theory, the most radical version to date of Noam Chomsky's naturalistic approach to language. He exemplifies its methods, considers the...
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Advertising as Multilingual Communication
by Helen Kelly-holmes Publisher Comments Advertising has traditionally communicated messages with strong local and national identities to consumers. Increasingly, though, products, producers, advertising agencies and media are becoming internationalized. In the development of strategies that...
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Empirical Approaches to Language Typology #36: Verbal and Signed Languages: Comparing Structures, Constructs and Methodologies
by Elena Pizzuto Et Al Book News Annotation Signed languages share many characteristics with those that are verbal, not the least of which are in their structure and methodology. This collection of articles examines the ways in which signed and spoken compare, including in iconicity...
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Cognitive Linguistics Research [Clr] #35.2: Sociocultural Situatedness
by Roslyn M. (edt) Frank Publisher Comments The papers in this volume introduce and elaborate upon the concept of sociocultural situatedness, understood broadly as the way in which minds and cognitive processes are shaped, both individually and collectively, by their interaction with culturally...
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Kluwer International Series in Engineering & Computer Science #770: Speech and Human-Machine Dialog
by Wolfgang Minker Publisher Comments Speech and Human-Machine Dialog focuses on the dialog management component of a spoken language dialog system. Spoken language dialog systems provide a natural interface between humans and computers. These systems are of special interest for interactive...
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Principles and Parameters in a Vso Language: A Case Study in Welsh (Oxford Studies in Comparative Syntax)
by Ian G Roberts Publisher Comments Introducing a lucid and succinct analysis of the main syntactic properties of Welsh, Roberts puts forward a general analysis of clause structure, agreement, case-marking and other phenomena. He also provides us with a comparative analysis of these...
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Second Language Acquisition and Universal Grammar
by Lydia White Synopsis This authoritative textbook provides a linguistic perspective on second language acquisition. It argues for a role for Universal Grammar in second language acquisition. Theories as to the role of Universal Grammar and the extent of language transfer are...
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Multimodal Discourse: The Modes and Media of Contemporary Communication
by Gunther Kress Publisher Comments Multimodal Discourse outlines a new theory of communication for the age of interactive multimedia. Kress and Van Leeuwen show how two kinds of thought processes interact in the design and production of communicative messages: "design thinking" and...
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Oxford Studies in Theoretical Linguistics #2: Questions and Answers in Embedded Contexts
by Utpal Lahiri Publisher Comments Linguists have realized for some time that predicates of the "know" and "wonder" classes behave differently in semantic terms with respect to their interrogative complements, but have not so far fully understood how or why. This book seeks to explore and...
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Modern Chinese : History and Sociolinguistics (99 Edition)
by Ping Chen Publisher Comments This book describes the development of Modern Chinese from the late nineteenth century to the 1990s....
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Varieties of Modern English: An Introduction (Learning about Language)
by Diane Davies Publisher Comments Varieties of Modern English introduces the key terms and concepts for studying variation related to both users and uses, as well as to illustrate and discuss particular varieties of English. The book is an introductory account of the subject of language,...
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End of Story: Toward an Annihilation of Language and History
by Crispin Sartwell Publisher Comments In End of Story, Crispin Sartwell maintains that the academy is obsessed with language, and with narrative in particular. Narrative has been held to constitute or explain time, action, value, history, and human identity. Sartwell argues that this...
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Adverbs and Functional Heads: A Cross-Linguistic Perspective (Oxford Studies in Comparative Syntax)
by Guglielmo Cinque Publisher Comments One of the world's leading syntacticians presents evidence for locating Adverb Phrases in the specifiers of distinct functional projections within a novel and well articulated theory of the clause. In this theory, both adverbs and heads, which encode the...
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A Smack in the Pus: A Scots Slang Book (Mercat)
by Scott Simpson Publisher Comments This follow-up to the hugely successful Shut Yer Pus shows that there's nothing more pithy than Scots slang. The handy Scots-English/English-Scots format will help you unnerstaun as well as be understood. If you can't tell your erse from your elbae...
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Blackwell Textbooks in Linguistics #18: Writing Systems: A Linguistic Approach
by Henry Rogers Publisher Comments Accessibly written, "Writing Systems: A Linguistic Approach" provides detailed coverage of all major writing systems of historical or structural significance with thorough discussion of structure, history, and social context as well as important...
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Subject Inversion in Romance and the Theory of Universal Grammar (Oxford Studies in Comparative Syntax)
by Aafke C J Hulk Publisher Comments The Romance Languages document remarkable variations in subject word order in different constructions, and have various restrictions in their occurrence. No consensus has emerged on what the paramaters are for such variations. This volume does not...
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Man Made Language (UK Edition)
by Dale Spender Synopsis This edition of this feminist study of language offers clear analysis of the ways in which our language is "man-made", of all the subtle and not-so-subtle ways in which the masculine is asserted as the norm, while feminine experience is muted and pushed...
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