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This book brings together many of Peter Culicover's most significant observations on the nature of syntax and its place within the architecture of human language. Over four decades he has sought to understand the cognitive foundations of linguistic theory and the place...
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OUP Oxford
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2013-10-03
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This book explores the relations between language, the world, the minds of individual speakers, and the collective minds of particular language communities. Pieter Seuren examines the status of abstract rule systems underlying speech and considers how much computational...
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OUP Oxford
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2013-10-03
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This book argues (a) that there is no principled way to distinguish inflection and derivation and (b) that this fatally undermines conventional approaches to morphology. Conceptual shortcomings in the relation between derivational and lexically-derived word forms,...
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OUP Oxford
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2013-10-03
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This book looks at how the human brain got the capacity for language and how language then evolved. Its four parts are concerned with different views on the emergence of language, with what language is, how it evolved in the human brain, and finally how this process led...
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OUP Oxford
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2013-09-26
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Wordsmiths and Warriors explores the heritage of English through the places in Britain that shaped it. It unites the warriors, whose invasions transformed the language, with the poets, scholars, reformers, and others who helped create its character.
The book relates a...
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OUP Oxford
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2013-09-26
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Bringing together a comprehensive collection of newly-commissioned articles, this Handbook covers the most recent developments across a range of sub-fields relevant to the study of second language Spanish. Provides a unique and much-needed collection of new research in...
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Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2013-09-24
Collection :
Blackwell Handbooks in Linguistics
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In this complete survey of the theories, methods, and key findings within applied linguistics, students are introduced to core research questions and the various approaches to tackling these. Provides a comprehensive introduction to this interdisciplinary field of...
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Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2013-09-23
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Introducing Linguistics
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Quotatives considers the phenomenon “quotation” from a wealth of perspectives. It consolidates findings from different strands of research, combining formal and functional approaches for the definition of reported discourse and situating the phenomenon in a broader...
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Wiley-Blackwell
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2013-09-23
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Language in Society
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An Introduction to Syntactic Analysis and Theory offers beginning students a comprehensive overview of and introduction to our current understanding of the rules and principles that govern the syntax of natural languages. Includes numerous pedagogical features such as...
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Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2013-09-23
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This book brings together papers dealing with essential issues in applied linguistics and multilingualism that have been contributed by leading figures in these two fields and present state-of-the-art developments in theory and research. The first part includes articles...
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Springer
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2013-09-18
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How do I structure a journal article?; "Can I use 'I' in a research article?"; "Should I use an active or passive voice?" - Many such questions will be answered in this book, which documents the linguistic devices that authors use to show how they align or distance...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2013-09-12
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The papers included in the volume look at how language awareness affects the outcomes of foreign and second language acquisition in advanced learners.The book focuses on questions such as how much linguistic knowledge is open to the learner’s conscious experience, what...
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Springer
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2013-09-07
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Thomas G. Bever's now iconic sentence, The horse raced past the barn fell, first appeared in his 1970 paper "The Cognitive Basis of Linguistic Structures". This 'garden path sentence', so-called because of the way it leads the reader or listener down the wrong parsing...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2013-08-30
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This book is all about ellipsis in natural language - the phenomena in which words and phrases go missing in the linguistic signal, but are nonethe less interpreted by the receiver, eg in the following sentence, the second instance of read is understood whether or not...
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OUP Oxford
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2013-08-29
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This book brings together leading international scholars to consider whether in some languages there are phenomena which are unique to morphology, determined neither by phonology or syntax. Central to these phenomena is the notion of the 'morphome', conceived by Mark...
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OUP Oxford
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2013-08-29
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This book is the first major cross-linguistic study of 'flexible words', i.e. words that cannot be classified in terms of the traditional lexical categories Verb, Noun, Adjective or Adverb. Flexible words can - without special morphosyntactic marking - serve in...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2013-08-29
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What is English? Can we be as certain as we usually are when we say something is not English? To find some answers Tim Machan explores the language's present and past, and looks ahead to its futures among the one and a half billion people who speak it. His search is...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2013-08-23
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An original and accessible discussion of the nature of religious language that draws on the latest research in the philosophy of language. The historical background to research on religious language is also explored and connections are made with both Continental...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2013-08-22
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Study abroad is now both an international industry and an experience that can have a deep impact on students' attitudes and approaches to second language learning. Narratives of Second Language Identity inStudy Abroad brings together three important research areas by...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2013-08-15
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Arabic is one of the world's largest languages, spoken natively by nearly 300 million people. By strength of numbers aloneArabic is one of our most important languages, studied by scholars across many different academic fields and cultural settings. It is, however, a...
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Oxford University Press
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2013-08-15
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