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  • An Introduction to Genetics for Language Scientists

    Current Concepts, Methods, and Findings

    by Dan Dediu ...
    During the last few decades we have discovered enormous amounts about our genomes, their evolution and, importantly for linguists and language scientists, the genetic foundations of language and speech. Accessible and readable, this introduction is designed specifically for students and researchers working in language and linguistics. It carefully focuses on the most relevant concepts, methods and ... Read more

    $114.79 USD

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  • Introducing Linguistics

    A Graphic Guide

    by R. L. Trask ...
    Series Book 0 - Graphic Guides
    Covering thinkers from Aristotle to Saussure and Chomsky, "Introducing Linguistics" reveals the rules and beauty that underlie language, our most human skill. ... Read more

    $6.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • German

    A Linguistic Introduction

    by Sarah M. B. Fagan ...
    Standard German is spoken by approximately 95 million people worldwide. This book provides an introduction to the linguistic structure of standard German that is rich in descriptive detail and grounded in modern linguistic theory. It describes the main linguistic features: the sounds, structure and formation of words, structure of sentences, and meaning of words and sentences. It surveys the ... Read more

    $51.69 USD

  • Foundations of Language

    Brain, Meaning, Grammar, Evolution

    by Ray Jackendoff ...
    How does human language work? How do we put ideas into words that others can understand? Can linguistics shed light on the way the brain operates? Foundations of Language puts linguistics back at the centre of the search to understand human consciousness. Ray Jackendoff begins by surveying the developments in linguistics over the years since Noam Chomsky's Aspects of the Theory of Syntax. He goes ... Read more

    $35.99 USD

  • An Introduction to Word Grammar

    by Richard Hudson ...
    Series series Cambridge Textbooks in Linguistics
    Word grammar is a theory of language structure and is based on the assumption that language, and indeed the whole of knowledge, is a network, and that virtually all of knowledge is learned. It combines the psychological insights of cognitive linguistics with the rigour of more formal theories. This textbook spans a broad range of topics from prototypes, activation and default inheritance to the ... Read more

    $39.39 USD

  • A Brief History of English Syntax

    by Olga Fischer, Hendrik De Smet, Wim van der Wurff ...
    In its 1500-year history, the English language has seen dramatic grammatical changes. This book offers a comprehensive and reader-friendly account of the major developments, including changes in word order, the noun phrase and verb phrase, changing relations between clausal constituents and the development of new subordinate constructions. The book puts forward possible explanations for change, ... Read more

    $30.39 USD

  • New Perspectives in Language, Discourse and Translation Studies

    Edited by Mirosław Pawlak, Jakub Bielak ...
    Series series Education (R0)
    The current volume is a collection of papers representing the most recent developments in linguistics, specifically in the fields of language, discourse and translation studies. It includes papers representative of traditionally distinguished linguistic subdisciplines such as phonetics and phonology, morphology and syntax, historical linguistics, pragmatics, discourse analysis and sociolinguistics ... Read more

    $89.09 USD

  • Yearbook of Morphology 2001

    Edited by Jaap van Marle, G.E. Booij ...
    Series series Yearbook of Morphology
    A revival of interest in morphology has occurred during recent years. The Yearbook of Morphology series, published since 1988, has proven to be an eminent support for this upswing of morphological research, since it contains articles on topics which are central in the current theoretical debates which are frequently referred to.In the Yearbook of Morphology 2001 a number of articles is devoted to ... Read more

    $143.99 USD

  • The Afroasiatic Languages

    Edited by Zygmunt Frajzyngier, Erin Shay ...
    Series series Cambridge Language Surveys
    Afroasiatic languages are spoken by some 300 million people in Northern, Central and Eastern Africa and the Middle East. This book is the first typological study of these languages, which are comprised of around 375 living and extinct varieties. They are an important object of study because of their typological diversity in the areas of phonology (some have tone; others do not), morphology (some ... Read more

    $54.99 USD

  • Complexity in Language

    Developmental and Evolutionary Perspectives

    Edited by Salikoko S. Mufwene, Christophe Coupé, François Pellegrino ...
    Series series Cambridge Approaches to Language Contact
    The question of complexity, as in what makes one language more 'complex' than another, is a long-established topic of debate amongst linguists. Recently, this issue has been complemented with the view that languages are complex adaptive systems, in which emergence and self-organization play major roles. However, few students of the phenomenon have gone beyond the basic assessment of the number of ... Read more

    $38.59 USD

  • A Psycholinguistic Perspective on Finnish and Japanese Prosody

    Perception, Production and Child Acquisition of Consonantal Quantity Distinctions

    by Katsura Aoyama ...

    $89.99 USD

  • Discourse Analytic Research

    Repertoires and readings of texts in action

    Edited by Erica Burman, Ian Parker ...
    Series series RLE: Discourse Analysis
    First published in 1993, this book provides clear illustrations of discourse analytic work and empirical critiques of the traditional psychological approaches. Drawing on a range of examples, the contributors argue that identity, deeply felt emotions, prejudice, and attitudes to social issues are created by the language that describes them rather than being intrinsic to the individual. In ... Read more

    $48.99 USD