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The First Word: The Search for the Origins of Language by Christine Kenneally Staff Pick 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) List Price $26.95 Your price: $14.95 Used - Hardcover 
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The Power of Babel: A Natural History of Language by John Mcwhorter Publisher Comments 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) List Price $13.99 Your price: $9.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Parameters of Slavic Morphosyntax (Oxford Studies in Comparative Syntax) by Steven Franks Publisher Comments Focusing on issues of case theory and comparative grammar, this study treats selected problems in the syntax of the Slavic languages from the perspective of Government-Binding theory. Steven Franks seeks to develop parametric solutions to related... (read more) List Price $133.50 Your price: $9.50 Used - Trade Paper
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CSLI Lecture Notes #148: Generative Approaches to Finnic and Saami Linguistics by Diane Nelson Publisher Comments With unusual structural characteristics, Finnish and Saami offer interesting challenges to linguistic theories formulated around more popular languages. Grammatically, for instance, languages in the Finnic and Saami group utilize extensive systems of... (read more) List Price $44.50 Your price: $12.00 Used - Trade Paper
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A Glossary of Language and Mind by Jean Aitchison Publisher Comments This alphabetical guide to language and mind gives an up-to-date introduction to the key topics of speech comprehension, speech production and child language. Written by a well-known author in the field, the entries are concise and lucid, and provide an... (read more) List Price $26.95 Your price: $11.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The English Languages (Canto Book) by Tom Mcarthur Publisher Comments Plural? Monolithic? Legion? - Tom McArthur explores the nature of English in its local and global contexts.... (read more) List Price $30.75 Your price: $8.95 Used - Trade Paper
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A Brief Introduction to the Arabic Alphabet (Brief Introduction) by John Healey Publisher Comments 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) List Price $11.95 Your price: $9.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Analysing Sociolinguistic Variation (06 Edition) by Sali A. Tagliamonte Publisher Comments A comprehensive 'how to' guide to the practical analysis of language variation in a social context.... (read more) List Price $43.99 Your price: $22.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Symbol, Status, and Personality by Samuel Ich Hayakawa Publisher Comments A discussion of the importance of language in contemporary society.<BR>... (read more) List Price $16.95 Your price: $3.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Cambridge Encyclopedia of the English Langua 2ND Edition by David Crystal Publisher Comments Includes bibliographical references (p. 472-479) and indexes.... (read more) List Price $45.50 Your price: $25.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Studies in the Evolution of Language #6: Self-Organization in the Evolution of Speech by Pierre Yves Oudeyer Publisher Comments 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) List Price $53.50 Your price: $29.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Is the Best Good Enough? Optimality and Competition in Syntax (Mit Working Papers in Linguistics) by Pilar Barbosa Publisher Comments 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) List Price $45.75 Your price: $9.95 Used - Trade Paper 
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Developmental Clinical Psychology and Psychiatry #45: Language Impairment and Psychopathology in Infants, Children, and Adolescents by Nancy J Cohen Synopsis 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) List Price $68.25 Your price: $45.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The English Language (Oxford Language Classics) by Robert Burchfield Publisher Comments 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) List Price $22.00 Your price: $7.75 Used - Trade Paper
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Redesigning English: New Texts, New Identities (English Language) by Sharon Goodman Publisher Comments 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) List Price $49.75 Your price: $8.80 Used - Trade Paper
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Neurolinguistics and Linguistic Aphasiology: An Introduction (Cambridge Studies in Speech Science & Communication) by David Caplan Publisher Comments 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) List Price $76.25 Your price: $20.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Current Studies in Linguistics #35: Parasitic Gaps by Peter Culicover Publisher Comments 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) List Price $69.25 Your price: $16.80 Used - Hardcover
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Verb Complexes in Thai by Nuttanart Facundes Synopsis Verb Complexes in Thai is a comprehensive study of Thai complex verb phrases which are non-arguments of the main predicate of a clause: Directional Serial Verb Constructions, Aspectual Constructions and Adjoining Constructions. The author investigates... (read more) List Price $130.50 Your price: $30.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Linguistic Semantics: An Introduction by John Lyons Publisher Comments This successor to Language, Meaning and Context provides an invaluable introduction to linguistic semantics.... (read more) List Price $53.50 Your price: $27.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Metaphors We Live by by George Lakoff Publisher Comments conversion in... (read more) List Price $16.00 Your price: $8.95 Used - Trade Paper
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