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by Ian G Roberts  Publisher Comments This is the first book-length study of Welsh syntax in English using minimalist theory. The central empirical issue addressed is an analysis of word order and clause structure in Welsh, within the context of the Principles and Parameters theory and Welsh... (read more)  List Price $29.95 Your price $23.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies 
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by Muriel Saville-troike Publisher Comments The Ethnography of Communication presents the terms and concepts which are essential for discussing how and why language is used and how its use varies in different cultures.... (read more) Your price $31.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Cary Publisher Comments sIf you teach English language learners, you probably have too many unanswered questions to count. How do I assess a student's English? How do I get my reluctant speakers to speak English? How do I teach grade-level content to English beginners... (read more) List Price $28.50 Your price $17.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Victoria Fromkin Publisher Comments AN INTRODUCTION TO LANGUAGE is ideal for use at all levels and in many different areas of instruction, including education, languages, psychology, anthropology, English, teaching English as a Second Language (TESL), and linguistics. All chapters in this... (read more) List Price $80.95 Your price $ (Used - ) check for new and sale copies
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by Anita K. Barry Publisher Comments Now in its second edition, Anita K. Barry's ENGLISH GRAMMAR makes students feel that they are active participants in shaping their language rather than passive victims of grammar rules that someone imposes on them. Each chapter contains three kinds of... (read more) List Price $131.50 Your price $86.00 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by James Higginbotham Publisher Comments In recent years the idea that an adequate semantics of ordinary language calls for some theory of events has sparked considerable debate among linguists and philosophers. Speaking of Events offers a vivid and up-to-date indication of this debate, with... (read more) List Price $70.00 Your price $14.50 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Myrna Gopnik Publisher Comments Is language somehow innate in the structure of the human brain, or is it completely learned? This debate is still at the heart of linguistics, especially as it intersects with psychology and cognitive science. In collecting papers which discuss the... (read more) List Price $35.00 Your price $10.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Kenneth R Bzoch Synopsis Kenneth R.Bzoch, Ph.D., the developer of the Reel-3 Scale, a test for early emergent speech and language, draws upon 31 actual detailed case studies of infants and toddlers learning to speak to illustrate how babies learn to talk. The backbone case study... (read more) List Price $17.50 Your price $11.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Peter Ludlow Publisher Comments Throughout the history of ideas, various branches of philosophy have spun off into the natural sciences, including physics, biology, and perhaps most recently, cognitive psychology. A central theme of this collection is that the philosophy of language... (read more) List Price $63.25 Your price $41.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Karen Ogulnick Publisher Comments This vivid collection explores the fascinating connections between language use, language learning, and one's cultural identity. The essays, many of them by well-known writers, represent a diversity of cultures, ages, and nationalities, making the wide... (read more) List Price $28.25 Your price $18.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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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 $22.99 Your price $18.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Chase Hensel Publisher Comments In this book, Chase Hensel examines how Yup'ik Eskimos and non-natives construct and maintain gender and ethnic identities through strategic talk about hunting, fishing, and processing. Although ethnicity is overtly constructed in terms of either/or... (read more) List Price $60.00 Your price $5.95 (Used - Mass Market) check for new and sale copies
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by David Kronenfeld Publisher Comments Meaning seems to shift from context to context; how do we know when someone says "grab a chair" that an ottoman or orange crate will do, but when someone says "let's buy a chair," they won't? Somehow, in spite of this slipperiness, we usually understand... (read more) List Price $35.00 Your price $4.25 (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) Your price $60.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Zdenek Salzmann Publisher Comments This fourth edition expands its coverage of the fundamental issues in the field, including language and gender, and language and ethnicity. Now with a built-in Resource Manual and Study Guide, Language, Culture, and Society is the teaching text for the... (read more) List Price $47.95 Your price $33.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by James M Wilce Publisher Comments Eloquence in Trouble captures the articulation of several troubled lives in Bangladesh as well as the threats to the very genres of their expression, lament in particular. The first ethnography of one of the most spoken mother tongues on earth, Bangla... (read more) List Price $120.00 Your price $9.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Tom Mcarthur Publisher Comments The Concise Companion to the English Language is a language lover's dream. Tom McArthur unveils a thousand-page cornucopia covering virtually every aspect of the English language as well as language in general. He covers a variety of topics, from... (read more) List Price $8.25 Your price $5.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Ishtla Singh Publisher Comments Pidgins and Creoles have always attracted a great deal of interest - academic and otherwise - but in recent decades they have become increasingly important as a field of linguistic inquiry. Placing pidgins and creoles in the wider setting of linguistic... (read more) List Price $65.00 Your price $13.50 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Barbara Johnstone Publisher Comments Qualitative Methods in Sociolinguistics is the only book on qualitative research methods designed especially for readers doing research on language and society. It provides a brief, accessible introduction to general theoretical and practical questions... (read more) List Price $38.50 Your price $23.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Claire Lefebvre Publisher Comments An examination of creole genesis, showing how mechanisms from source languages show themselves in creole.... (read more) List Price $80.00 Your price $47.50 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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