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by Michael Rost  Publisher Comments Applied Linguistics in Action Series Series Editors: Christopher N. Candlin, Chair Professor of Applied Linguistics, Centre for English Language Education and Communication Research, City University of Hong Kong David R. Hall, Head of Linguistics... (read more)  Your price $32.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies 
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by Richard P Meier Publisher Comments The realization that signed languages are true languages is one of the great discoveries of the last 30 years of linguistic research. The work of many sign language researchers has revealed deep similarities between signed and spoken languages in their... (read more) Your price $75.00 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Irmengard Rauch Publisher Comments The contributions in New Insights in Germanic Linguistics III are representative of the stimulating and productive medley of offerings presented at the April 2000 meetings of the Berkeley Germanic Linguistics Roundtable. Formal syntax informs the essays... (read more) Your price $18.00 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Gregory D. Anderson Publisher Comments This is the most comprehensive survey ever published of the auxiliary verb construction. Drawing on a database of over 800 languages Dr Anderson examines their morphosyntactic forms and semantic roles. He investigates and explains the historical changes... (read more) List Price $125.00 Your price $65.00 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Frederick Newmeyer Publisher Comments Linguistics: The Cambridge Survey is a comprehensive introduction to current research in all branches of the field of linguistics, from syntactic theory to ethnography of speaking, from signed language to the mental lexicon, from language acquisition to... (read more) List Price $43.00 Your price $14.21 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Oswald Ducrot Publisher Comments All of the] articles are well-informed and useful and many... are models of lucidity and acumen... Porter's translation is stylish, accurate, and highly readable.--MLN A valuable addition to any linguistics or stylistics library and is helpful reading... (read more) List Price $19.95 Your price $10.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by J C Wells Publisher Comments 'The first comprehensive study of how English is pronounced by different people in different places. It provides an integrated and unified framework for existing scholarly treatments of regional forms of speech and makes many original contributions to... (read more) List Price $45.00 Your price $16.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Robbins Burling Publisher Comments Convincing account of the origins of language.... (read more) List Price $30.00 Your price $11.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Jacques Durand Publisher Comments Frontiers of Phonology is a collection of essays that present a selective overview of trends in the linguistic analysis of sound structure. The essays are written by specialists from Europe, Canada and the USA and discuss issues from three broad areas of... (read more) List Price $31.00 Your price $11.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Martti Juha Rudanko Book News Annotation Applies a range of analytical methods to the study of selected texts, producing new interpretations of the Bill of Rights--especially the debate of June 8, 1789 in the US House of Representatives; Keats' To Autumn; episodes from King Lear and The... (read more) List Price $51.00 Your price $16.00 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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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 $9.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Mark C Baker 
Powells.com Staff Pick It's difficult to fathom that the incredible number of languages in the world can be broken down into a small group of shared parameters. Mark Baker shows that this is possible due to a key uniting factor: grammar. His investigation spans the... (read more) List Price $17.00 Your price $9.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Richard S Kayne Publisher Comments This is a collection of previously published essays on comparative syntax by the distinguished linguist Richard Kayne. The papers cover issues of comparative syntax as they are applied to French, Italian, and other Romance languages and dialects... (read more) List Price $42.00 Your price $35.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Morton H. Christiansen and Nick Chater Publisher Comments Setting forth the state of the art, leading researchers present a survey on the fast-developing field of Connectionist Psycholinguistics. Using connectionist or "neural" networks, which are inspired by brain architecture, to model empirical data on human... (read more) Your price $40.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Laure Danon Boileau Publisher Comments Laurent Danon-Boileau is one of France's most respected child psychoanalysts. In The Silent Child, he takes us into his office to watch him treat six children who cannot or will not speak. Reminiscent of Oliver Sacks's The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a... (read more) List Price $25.00 Your price $5.78 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Lynn M Berk Publisher Comments English Syntax: From Word to Discourse is a clear and highly accessible descriptive grammar of English with a strong semantic and discourse/functional focus. Designed for beginning graduate students and advanced undergraduates in linguistics, it is also... (read more) List Price $28.95 Your price $15.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Michael Tomasello Publisher Comments Constructing a Language offers a compellingly argued, psychologically sound new vision for the study of language acquisition.... (read more) List Price $45.00 Your price $30.00 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Elabbas Benmamoun Publisher Comments Focusing on the relation between functional categories and lexical and phrasal categories in Arabic dialects, Benmamoun proposes that universally functional categories are specified for categorial features which determine their relation with lexical... (read more) List Price $45.00 Your price $11.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Geoffrey Poole Publisher Comments Syntactic Theory is a new textbook which emphasizes theory-building and hypothesis-testing as it develops and motivates Chomsky's Principles and Parameters framework. The initial chapters guide the student through introductory topics and later chapters... (read more) Your price $35.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Paul Rowlett Publisher Comments This is the first full-length study of sentential negation phenomena in French. Paul Rowlett assesses, from a generative perspective, the respective contribution made to the expression of clausal polarity by ne, pas, and elements such as jamais and... (read more) List Price $32.00 Your price $14.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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