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"Jasanoff comes up with some of the strongest arguments yet made for assuming that Indo-European languages other than Hittite and Tocharian underwent a substantial period of common development, and this needs to be fitted into any model of the dispersal of the language...
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OUP Oxford
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2003-07-03
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"Professor Machan explores for the first time fully a new dimension in the understanding of the role of the English language in medieval England. He is rigorous and sceptical in his examination of assumptions that have come to be too easily accepted - about the rise of...
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OUP Oxford
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2003-06-05
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Linguistics falls in the gap between arts and science, on the edges of which the most fascinating discoveries and the most important problems are found. Rather than following the conventional organization of many contemporary introductions to the subject, the author of...
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OUP Oxford
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2003-04-24
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Talking Proper is a history of the rise and fall of the English accent as a badge of cultural, social, and class identity. Lynda Mugglestone traces the origins of the phenomenon in late eighteenth-century London, follows its history through the nineteenth and twentieth...
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OUP Oxford
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2003-02-20
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This volume presents the first results of a long-term research project, funded by the Italian government, which aims at mapping out the fine functional structure of sentences, nominal phrases, and other major phrases making up sentences. In particular, it examines the...
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Oxford University Press
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2002-10-31
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This volume presents the first results of a long-term research project, funded by the Italian government, which aims at mapping out the fine functional structure of sentences, nominal phrases, and other major phrases making up sentences. In particular, it examines the...
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Oxford University Press
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2002-10-31
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Discourse Analysis as Theory and Method is a systematic introduction to discourse analysis as a body of theories and methods for social research. It brings together three central approaches, Laclau and Mouffe's discourse theory, critical discourse analysis and...
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SAGE Publications Ltd
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2002-10-10
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Marit Julien investigates the relation between morphology and syntax, or more specifically, the relation between the form of inflected verbs and the position of those verbs. She surveys 530 languages and shows that, with the exception of agreement markers, the...
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Oxford University Press
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2002-09-26
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This collection of previously unpublished articles examines Noam Chomsky's Extended Projection Principle and its relationship to subjects and expletives (words like "it" that stand for other words). Re-examining Chomsky's proposition that each clause must have a...
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Oxford University Press
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2002-09-19
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Prosodic Features andProsodic Structure presents an overall view of the nature of prosodic features of language - accent, stress, rhythm, tone, pitch, and intonation - and shows how these connect to sound systems and meaning. It is a work of great scholarship and...
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OUP Oxford
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2002-04-19
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This book describes the development of the scientific article from its modest beginnings to the global phenomenon that it has become today. Their analysis of a large sample of texts in French, English, and German focuses on the changes in the style, organization, and...
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Oxford University Press
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2002-04-11
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This is the definitive survey of the English language - in all its forms. Crystal writes accessibly about the structure of the language, the uses of English throughout the world and finally he gives a brief history of English. The book has been fully revised and there...
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Penguin
Parution :
2002-03-28
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This collection of previously unpublished, cutting-edge research discusses the conversation analysis (CA) approach to understanding language use. CA is the dominant theory for analyzing the social use of language and is concerned with the description of how speakers...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2002-02-28
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How can an infinite number of sentences be generated from one human mind?How did language evolve in apes? In this book Donald Loritz addresses these and other fundamental and vexing questions about language, cognition, and the human brain. He starts by tracing how...
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Oxford University Press
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2002-02-28
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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...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2002-01-24
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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...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2002-01-24
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Linguists have become increasingly interested in examining how class culture is socially constructed and maintained through spoken language. Julie Lindquist's examination of the linguistic ethnography of a working-class bar in Chicago is an important and original...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2002-01-17
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Linguists have become increasingly interested in examining how class culture is socially constructed and maintained through spoken language. Julie Lindquist's examination of the linguistic ethnography of a working-class bar in Chicago is an important and original...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2002-01-17
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Syntactically speaking, it has long been known that noun phrases are parallel to clauses in many respects. While most syntactic theories incorporate this principle, nouns have generally been regarded as inferior to verbs in terms of their licensing abilities, and...
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Oxford University Press
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2001-11-29
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Recently there has been a growing interest among discourse analysts in incorporating prosody into the analysis of spoken language. Wennerstrom considers the role of prosody in a variety of discourse genres and offers an over-all framework within which future analysis...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2001-11-01
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