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by Markus Egg  Publisher Comments Deriving the correct meaning of such colloquial expressions as "I am parked out back" requires a unique interaction of knowledge about the world with a person's natural language tools, e.g., "I have a car that is parked in the back," and not the wrong... (read more)  List Price $70.00 Your price $44.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies 
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by Pieter A M Seuren Publisher Comments This book provides a vital student resource - a single-volume critical survey of the complete history of Western theoretical linguistics (grammar and semantics, including logic) from Plato till today.The volume concentrates on those issues that are of... (read more) List Price $34.95 Your price $23.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Michael Clyne Publisher Comments This book addresses the current suitation of community languages in Australia, analysing which are spoken, by whom, and whereabouts.... (read more) List Price $29.00 Your price $20.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by John Swales Publisher Comments Explores the world of research through the lens of discourse and language, for applied linguists.... (read more) Your price $27.00 (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 $60.00 Your price $15.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Gary Goshgarian Publisher Comments Celebrating its 25th anniversary, the ninth edition's objective remains the same - to bring together exciting readings that explore the various ways language and American society are interconnected - while reflecting on the new and fascinating language... (read more) Your price $25.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Neil Smith Publisher Comments This unique book provides an introductory overview of modern theoretical linguistics which manages to be both accessible and humorous without sacrificing either scholarship of insight.... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price $9.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Dorit Diskin Ravid Publisher Comments The study of language acquisition has taken on new meaning in the last decade. Now seen as part of the study of other forms of language variation across time and space, such as dialects and sociolects, and the study of pidgins and Creoles, it can help to... (read more) List Price $53.00 Your price $4.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Nanette Gottlieb Publisher Comments The public use of language deemed by certain groups within a society to be demeaning to their members has been widely debated in Japan, as in other countries. Such language is known in Japanese as sabetsu yogo(discriminatory language). Japan has no laws... (read more) List Price $105.00 Your price $79.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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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 $59.00 Your price $8.98 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Maryann Overstreet Publisher Comments This innovative work provides the first comprehensive account of general extenders ("or something," "and stuff," "or whatever"). Combining insights from linguistics, cognitive psychology, and interactional sociolinguistics, the author demonstrates that... (read more) List Price $45.00 Your price $10.00 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Paul Kerswill Publisher Comments How and why do adults modify their language when they move to a new area? In this detailed study of rural dialect users who have moved to the Norwegian city of Bergen, Kerswill throws light on this widespread phenomenon. The book is concerned with the... (read more) List Price $60.00 Your price $25.00 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Keith H Basso Publisher Comments In these seven essays, Keith Basso defines some of the central concerns of linguistic anthropology through the close study of Western Apache, showing how intricacies of language-place names, metaphor, uses of silence-help a people define their very... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price $3.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Kenneth N Stevens Publisher Comments This book presents a theory of speech-sound generation in the human vocal system. The comprehensive acoustic theory serves as one basis for defining categories of speech sounds used to form distinctions between words in languages. The author begins with... (read more) List Price $35.00 Your price $30.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by David Crystal Publisher Comments Whether looking at the whistle languages of the Canary Islands or describing the layout of the human throat, this landmark book will enrich the lives of everyone who reads it.... (read more) List Price $30.00 Your price $23.00 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Paul Hopper Publisher Comments calization, the processes whereby ordinary lexical items change over time into grammatical elements.... (read more) List Price $26.00 Your price $16.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Michael Cronin Book News Annotation Depending on their nationalist position, most people might number the living languages in Ireland today at somewhere between one and two. The language and literature scholars here, though are not just concerned about the present. They explore such... (read more) Your price $28.00 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Philip Lieberman Publisher Comments In this forcefully argued book, the leading evolutionary theorist of language draws on evidence from evolutionary biology, genetics, physical anthropology, anatomy, and neuroscience, to provide a framework for studying the evolution of human language and... (read more) List Price $49.95 Your price $33.50 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Roger Lass Publisher Comments Roger Lass offers a critical survey of the foundations of the art of historical linguistics.... (read more) List Price $60.00 Your price $30.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Rodney Sampson Publisher Comments Drawing on a wide range of philological and linguistic materials, Rodney Sampson provides for the first time a detailed comparative study tracing the rise and pattern of the evolution of nasal vowels in Romance; a family of language in which vowel... (read more) List Price $61.95 Your price $55.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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