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North American Icelandic: The Life of a Language
by Bir Arnbjornsdottir
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North American Icelandic evolved mainly in Icelandic settlements in Manitoba and North Dakota and is the only version of Icelandic that is not spoken in Iceland. But North American Icelandic is a dying language with few left who speak it. North American... ( read more)
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The First Word: The Search for the Origins of Language
by Christine Kenneally
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The First Word is a fascinating search for the origins of language, which takes the reader through genetics, evolution, and the process of defining language itself. Christine Kenneally is a capable guide to answering this difficult and complex question... ( read more)
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Metaphors We Live by
by George Lakoff
The Power of Babel: A Natural History of Language
by John Mcwhorter
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There are approximately 6,000 languages on Earth today, each a descendant of the tongue first spoken by Homo sapiens some 150,000 years ago. While laying out how languages mix and mutate over time, a noted linguistics professor argues that language is a... ( read more)
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Child Language: Acquisition and Growth (Cambridge Textbooks in Linguistics)
by Barbara Lust
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Exploring language development from birth, this accessible textbook introduces the field of child language acquisition, establishing key theoretical debates. It considers what characteristics of the human mind make it possible to acquire language and to... ( read more)
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The Loom of Language
by Frederick Bodmer
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It is at the same time a history of language, a guide to foreign tongues, and a method for learning them. It shows, through basic vocabularies, family resemblances of languages-Teutonic, Romance, Greek-helpful tricks of translation, key combinations of... ( read more)
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English As a Global Language
by David Cystal
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David Crystal, world authority on the English language, has written a timely and informative account of the phenomenon of English as a global language - the most successful the globe has ever known, with perhaps 1,500 million speakers. But if its rise... ( read more)
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The English Languages (Canto Book)
by Tom Mcarthur
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Plural? Monolithic? Legion? - Tom McArthur explores the nature of English in its local and global contexts.... ( read more)
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A Brief Introduction to the Arabic Alphabet (Brief Introduction)
by John Healey
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The Arabic alphabet has a fascinating history, one that is entwined with the development of culture and society in the Middle East. The authors trace the origins of the Arabic alphabet back to Aramaic, a descendant of Phoenecian, which itself gave rise... ( read more)
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Course in General Linguistics
by Ferdinand Saussure
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The Cours de linguistique generale, reconstructed from students' notes after Saussure's death in 1913, founded modern linguistic theory by breaking the study of language free from a merely historical and comparativist approach. Saussure's new method, now... ( read more)
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Cambridge Encyclopedia of the English Langua 2ND Edition
by David Crystal
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 472-479) and indexes.... ( read more)
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Language and Species (90 Edition)
by Derek Bickerton
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Language and Species presents the most detailed and well-documented scenario to date of the origins of language. Drawing on "living linguistic fossils" such as "ape talk," the "two-word" stage of small children, and pidgin languages, and on recent... ( read more)
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Studies in the Evolution of Language #6: Self-Organization in the Evolution of Speech
by Pierre Yves Oudeyer
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Oudeyer combines insights from neuroscience, evolutionary biology, and linguistics to explore questions about the origins of speech. He puts forward the startling proposal that speech can be spontaneously generated by the coupling of evolutionarily... ( read more)
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Is the Best Good Enough? Optimality and Competition in Syntax (Mit Working Papers in Linguistics)
by Pilar Barbosa
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Recent developments in linguistic theory have led to a reconsideration of the role of optimality in the overall architecture of the grammar. Emerging from this research is the idea that different components of the grammar interact to yield the best... ( read more)
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Language & Mind 3RD Edition
by Noam Chomsky
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Long-awaited third edition of Chomsky's outstanding essays on language and mind, with two additional chapters and a new preface.... ( read more)
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Developmental Clinical Psychology and Psychiatry #45: Language Impairment and Psychopathology in Infants, Children, and Adolescents
by Nancy J Cohen
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Language Impairment and Psychopathology in Infants, Children and Adolescents examines the remarkably high correlation between language impairment and a range of psychopathologic disorders in children and adolescence Nancy J. Cohen provides an... ( read more)
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The English Language (Oxford Language Classics)
by Robert Burchfield
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Here, Robert Burchfield, editor of the four-volume Supplement to the Oxford English Dictionary, offers a brief survey on the development of English. He expertly stresses the flexibility of the English language, tracing its ever-changing face from the 5th... ( read more)
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Redesigning English: New Texts, New Identities (English Language)
by Sharon Goodman
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The rapid development of communications technology is transforming the manner in which people communicate across time and space. In "English in a Postmodern World" the contributors examine both the ways in which the English language has adapted to new... ( read more)
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Neurolinguistics and Linguistic Aphasiology: An Introduction (Cambridge Studies in Speech Science & Communication)
by David Caplan
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This textbook provides the first up-to-date, comprehensive introduction to the emerging fields of neurolinguistics and linguistic aphasiology, Reflecting the dramatic changes that have taken place in the study of language disorders over the last decade... ( read more)
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Current Studies in Linguistics #35: Parasitic Gaps
by Peter Culicover
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This book offers a comprehensive survey of research on parasitic gaps, an intriguing syntactic phenomenon. The first section of the book contains a history of work on the topic and three fundamental previously published papers. The remaining three... ( read more)
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