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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 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 $99.00 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 $18.95 (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 Anthony Fox Publisher Comments This book focuses on the description and analysis of the "prosodic" features of speech, including length, accent and stress, tone, and intonation. Fox identifies criteria for defining these features and examines the features in depth from a variety of... (read more) Your price $45.00 (Used - Trade Paper) 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 $25.00 (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... (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 Filip T Loncke Publisher Comments Augmentative and alternative communication (ACC) is the result of multiple developments in several areas of educational sciences, clinical psychology, speech-language pathology, engineering, speech synthesis, sociology and psycholinguistics. With... (read more) List Price $115.00 Your price $19.20 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Jean Aitchison Publisher Comments Why do people sometimes leave off the ends of words when they speak? Is it sloppiness, progress, or inevitable erosion? This book attempts to answer such questions by giving a lucid and up-to-date overview of language change. It discusses where our... (read more) List Price $18.95 Your price $8.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by M A K Halliday Publisher Comments Professor M A K Halliday has been enriching the discipline of linguistics with his keen insights into the social semiotic phenomenon we call language. This ten-volume series presents his seminal works. This fourth volume contains sixteen papers that look... (read more) List Price $60.00 Your price $34.95 (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 Deborah Tannen Publisher Comments Provides a clear framework for understanding how ordinary conversation creates meaning and establishes relationships.... (read more) List Price $27.99 Your price $17.50 (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 $28.00 Your price $21.00 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Gerry T M Altmann Publisher Comments The brain holds some 10 billion neurons, an truly amazing number. But taken one at a time, there is nothing amazing about a nerve cell. If you stimulate one, it will stimulate other neurons to which it is connected. And that is all that a neuron does... (read more) List Price $30.00 Your price $20.95 (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) List Price $42.95 Your price $33.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Glenn G Gilbert Publisher Comments Creolistics, an important branch of language contact theory and sociolinguistics, is one of the most socially engaged areas of language study today. Pidgin and Creole Linguistics in the Twenty-First Century explores where the field is headed in the new... (read more) Your price $52.00 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Emanuel J Drechsel Publisher Comments Drawing on fieldwork and archival research, Drechsel presents a grammatical, sociolinguistic, and ethnohistorical study of Mobilian Jargon, a Muskogean-based American Indian pidgin of the Mississippi valley. Though linguistic and extralinguistic evidence... (read more) Your price $80.00 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Zoltan Kovecses Publisher Comments This clear and lucid primer fills an important need by providing a comprehensive account of the many new developments in the study of metaphor over the last twenty years and their impact on our understanding of language, culture, and the mind. Beginning... (read more) List Price $19.95 Your price $16.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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