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by Esther Torrego  Publisher Comments This monograph investigates the nature, properties, and consequences of the grammatical constraints that yield overt marking of objects in a variety of languages. The author, working within the Minimalist Program, concentrates on the syntactic and... (read more)  List Price $52.00 Your price $12.80 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies 
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by Richard Bauman Publisher Comments First published in 1974, this collection of classic case studies in the ethnography of speaking had a formative influence on the field. No other volume has so successfully provided a broad, cross-cultural survey of the use, role, and function of language... (read more) List Price $52.00 Your price $19.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Robert Freiden Publisher Comments This is the first entry-level introduction to generative syntax to develop a foundational approach that rationally reconstructs syntactic theory from the perspective of current research. It shows how basic grammatical concepts are incorporated into... (read more) List Price $52.00 Your price $17.25 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by William Bright Publisher Comments South Asia presents the linguist with a bewildering variety of regional dialects, social dialects, formal and informal registers, literary standards, languages, writing systems, and language families. Written over a period of more than twenty years... (read more) List Price $65.00 Your price $7.00 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Ronald Langacker Publisher Comments A new and fundamentally different conception of language structure and linguistic investigation.... (read more) List Price $27.95 Your price $18.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Joanna Blake Publisher Comments This book examines the degree to which apes pave the way to human language.... (read more) List Price $65.00 Your price $12.00 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by David Crystal Publisher Comments The Stories of English is a groundbreaking history of the language by David Crystal, the world-renowned writer and commentator on English. Other books have been written on the subject, but they focused on the educated, printed language called standard... (read more) List Price $35.00 Your price $23.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Adrian Akmajian About the Author The late Adrian Akmajian was Professor of Linguistics at the University of Arizona.... (read more) List Price $32.00 Your price $14.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Noam Chomsky Publisher Comments A fascinating analysis of human language and its influence on other disciplines by one of the nation's most respected linguists. Chomsky is also the author of What Uncle Sam Really Wants and The Prosperous Few and the Restless Many (15,000 copies sold).... (read more) List Price $9.95 Your price $4.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Philip Lieberman Publisher Comments Eve Spoke presents a compelling case for the pivotal role that speech has played in human language and human evolution. Wrestling with the age-old question of why such a large gulf exists between humans and other animals, Philip Lieberman mines both the... (read more) List Price $25.00 Your price $6.80 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by V J Cook Synopsis The theory of Universal Grammar is central to the concerns of present-day linguistics. The book is intended as an introduction for those who want a broad overview of the theory with sufficient detail to see how its main concepts work. The new edition of... (read more) List Price $44.50 Your price $35.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Anthony Fox Publisher Comments This book, not intended to be a grammar, is a comprehensive description of the major features of German in "linguistic" terms according to the principles of modern linguistics. It considers aspects of German phonology, morphology, syntax, and semantics... (read more) List Price $42.00 Your price $18.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Georgia M Green Publisher Comments This book differs from other introductions to pragmatics in approaching the problems of interpreting language use in terms of interpersonal modelling of beliefs and intentions. It is intended to make issues involved in language understanding, such as... (read more) List Price $21.00 Your price $12.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Ray Jackendoff Publisher Comments Over the past two decades, Ray Jackendoff has persistently tackled difficult issues in the theory of mind and related theories of cognitive processing. Chief among his contributions is a formal theory that elaborates the nature of language and its... (read more) List Price $18.00 Your price $8.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Ynez Viole Oneill Review Much learning is amassed in this very attractive and well-written book, and an important and hitherto somewhat neglected medical problem or series of problems handled carefully and comprehensively, despite the immense historical perspective required... (read more) List Price $115.00 Your price $12.80 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Zdenek Salzmann About the Author Zdenek Salzmann, a native of Prague, is professor emeritus of anthropology at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst . A specialist in Native American languages and folklore, he has held guest professorships at Yale University and the University of... (read more) List Price $25.00 Your price $7.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Charles Barber Publisher Comments A textbook survey of the English language, introducing the theoretical and technical concepts of historical linguistics.... (read more) List Price $18.95 Your price $9.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by M A K Halliday Publisher Comments For nearly half a century, 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 the seminal works of Professor Halliday.... (read more) List Price $60.00 Your price $35.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Noam Chomsky Publisher Comments Language and Problems of Knowledge is Noam Chomsky's most accessible statement on the nature, origins, and current concerns of the field of linguistics. He frames the lectures with four fundamental questions: What do we know when we are able to speak and... (read more) List Price $17.00 Your price $11.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Ralph Penny Publisher Comments This textbook provides a clear and elegant account of the development of Spanish over the last 2000 years.... (read more) List Price $26.00 Your price $15.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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