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The Language Instinct: How the Mind Creates Language (Perennial Classics) The Language Instinct: How the Mind Creates Language (Perennial Classics)
by Steven Pinker

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In this classic study, the world's leading expert on language and the mind lucidly explains everything you always wanted to know about languages: how it works, how children learn it, how it changes, how the brain computes it, and how it envolved. With... (read more)

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The Stuff of Thought: Language as a Window into Human Nature The Stuff of Thought: Language as a Window into Human Nature
by Steven Pinker

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With The Stuff of Thought, linguist Steven Pinker returns to the themes of language and human nature to examine how words express the workings of our minds. Dealing with many aspects of human cognitive and social evolution, Pinker demonstrates his... (read more)

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Sentential Negation in French Sentential Negation in French
by Paul Rowlett

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This is the first full-length study of sentential negation phenomena in French. Paul Rowlett assesses, from a generative perspective, the respective contribution made to the expression of clausal polarity by ne, pas, and elements such as jamais and... (read more)

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Cambridge Studies in Linguistics #81: Historical Linguistics and Language Change Cambridge Studies in Linguistics #81: Historical Linguistics and Language Change
by Roger Lass

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Roger Lass offers a critical survey of the foundations of the art of historical linguistics.... (read more)

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The Loom of Language The Loom of Language
by Frederick Bodmer

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Here is an informative introduction to language: its origins in the past, its growth through history, and its present use for communication between peoples. It is at the same time a history of language, a guide to foreign tongues, and a method for... (read more)

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Oxford Studies in Anthropological Linguistics #19: Lexical Acculturation in Native American Languages Oxford Studies in Anthropological Linguistics #19: Lexical Acculturation in Native American Languages
by Cecil H Brown

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Lexical acculturation refers to the accommodation of languages to new objects and concepts encountered as the result of culture contact. This unique study analyzes a survey of words for 77 items of European culture (e.g. chicken, horse, apple, rice... (read more)

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Current Studies in Linguistics #21: Foundations of Generative Syntax Current Studies in Linguistics #21: Foundations of Generative Syntax
by Robert Freiden

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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)

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Language Variation in South Asia Language Variation in South Asia
by William Bright

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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)

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Knowledge of Language: Its Nature, Origins, and Use (Convergence) Knowledge of Language: Its Nature, Origins, and Use (Convergence)
by Noam Chomsky

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"Why do we know so much more than we have evidence for in certain areas, and so much less in others? In tackling these questions--Plato's and Orwell's problem--Chomsky again demonstrates his unequalled capacity to integrate vast amounts of material... (read more)

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Genie: A Scientific Tragedy Genie: A Scientific Tragedy
by Russ Rymer

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The compelling story of a young woman's emergence into the world after spending her first 13 years strapped to a chair, and her rescue and exploitation by scientists hoping to gain new insight into language acquisition.... (read more)

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Language Myths Language Myths
by Laurie Bauer

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"The media are ruining English"; "Some languages are harder than others"; "Children can't speak or write properly anymore. Such pieces of "cultural wisdom" are often expressed in newspapers and on radio and television. Rarely is there a response from... (read more)

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Language and Species Language and Species
by Derek Bickerton

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Language and Species presents the most detailed and well-documented scenario to date of the origins of language. Drawing on "living linguistic fossils" such as "ape talk," the "two-word" stage of small children, and pidgin languages, and on recent... (read more)

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Studies in the Evolution of Language #6: Self-Organization in the Evolution of Speech Studies in the Evolution of Language #6: Self-Organization in the Evolution of Speech
by Pierre Yves Oudeyer

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Oudeyer combines insights from neuroscience, evolutionary biology, and linguistics to explore questions about the origins of speech. He puts forward the startling proposal that speech can be spontaneously generated by the coupling of evolutionarily... (read more)

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Is the Best Good Enough? Optimality and Competition in Syntax (Mit Working Papers in Linguistics) Is the Best Good Enough? Optimality and Competition in Syntax (Mit Working Papers in Linguistics)
by Pilar Barbosa

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Recent developments in linguistic theory have led to a reconsideration of the role of optimality in the overall architecture of the grammar. Emerging from this research is the idea that different components of the grammar interact to yield the best... (read more)

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Teaching and Researching: Listening (Applied Linguistics in Action) Teaching and Researching: Listening (Applied Linguistics in Action)
by Michael Rost

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 Applied Linguistics in Action Series Series Editors: Christopher N. Candlin, Chair Professor of Applied Linguistics, Centre for English Language Education and Communication Research, City University of Hong Kong David R. Hall, Head of Linguistics... (read more)

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The English Language (Oxford Language Classics) The English Language (Oxford Language Classics)
by Robert Burchfield

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Here, Robert Burchfield, editor of the four-volume Supplement to the Oxford English Dictionary, offers a brief survey on the development of English. He expertly stresses the flexibility of the English language, tracing its ever-changing face from the 5th... (read more)

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Modality & Structure in Signed & Spoken Modality & Structure in Signed & Spoken
by Richard P Meier

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The realization that signed languages are true languages is one of the great discoveries of the last 30 years of linguistic research. The work of many sign language researchers has revealed deep similarities between signed and spoken languages in their... (read more)

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Linguistic Semantics: An Introduction Linguistic Semantics: An Introduction
by John Lyons

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This successor to Language, Meaning and Context provides an invaluable introduction to linguistic semantics.... (read more)

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Parameters and Universals (Oxford Studies in Comparative Syntax) Parameters and Universals (Oxford Studies in Comparative Syntax)
by Richard S Kayne

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This is a collection of previously published essays on comparative syntax by the distinguished linguist Richard Kayne. The papers cover issues of comparative syntax as they are applied to French, Italian, and other Romance languages and dialects... (read more)

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On Nature and Language On Nature and Language
by Noam Chomsky

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Includes bibliographical references (p. 191-199) and index.... (read more)

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