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The Third Gender: Studies in the Origin and History of Germanic Grammatical Gender by Frederick W Schwink 9783825314156
£36.49Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783825314156Author Frederick W SchwinkFormat PaperbackPage Count 118Imprint Universitatsverlag WinterPublisher Universitatsverlag WinterWeight(grams) 1619g -
Computing Natural Language: Context, Structure, and Processes by Atocha Aliseda-Llera 9781575861005
£27.51This book pursues the recent upsurge of research in the interface of logic, language and computation, with applications to artificial intelligence and machine learning. It contains a variety of contributions to the logical and computational analysis of... -
Translating the Untranslatable: A Solution to the Problem of Generating English Determiners by Francis Bond 9781575864600
£26.90One of the biggest problems for automatic translation is dealing with words and inflections that are obligatory in the target language but not in the source. This work is the first to provide a fully implemented solution to the problem of generating... -
Contours of English and English Language Studies by Anne Curzan 9780472034666
£37.82Contours of English assesses the state of English Language Studies, a thriving discipline located primarily in English departments and English curricula, at the beginning of the 21st century. Chapter by chapter, it is a book about aspects of English ... -
A Life Teaching Languages: A Memoir from Mississippi to the Bronx by Linda Watkins-Goffman 9780472035106
£24.72Everyone faces crossroads. While not everyone meets at the same crossroads, we all juggle multiple identities. It is these roles—sometimes conflicting and other times fitting together seamlessly—that Linda Watkins-Goffman explores in A Life Teaching... -
Cilungu Phonology by Lee Bickmore 9781575865508
£50.31Cilungu is an underrepresented language spoken in northern Zambia and Tanzania whose future is far from certain, given ongoing urbanization and the ascendancy of other regional languages. The product of over fifteen years of fieldwork, "Cilungu... -
Empirical and Experimental Methods in Cognitive/Functional Research by Sally Rice 9781575866123
£33.67Empirical and Experimental Methods in Cognitive/Functional Research consists of selected papers from the seventh meeting of the Conceptual Structure, Discourse, and Language Conference, held at the University of Alberta in October 2004. The papers fall... -
From Quirky Case to Representing Space: Papers in Honor of Annie Zaenen by Tracy Holloway King 9781575866628
RRP: £25.00£24.24Annie Zaenen's research has broadly influenced the field of linguistics, from the underlying architecture of formal theories to the minute details of lexical representation. This volume assembles a wide range of essays from linguists who have been... -
God and Sheikh Adi Are Perfect: Sacred Poems and Religious Narratives from the Yezidi Tradition by Philip G Kreyenbroek 9783447053006
£82.56Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783447053006Author Philip G KreyenbroekFormat PaperbackPage Count 435Imprint HarrassowitzPublisher HarrassowitzWeight(grams) 885gDimensions(mm) 244mm *... -
Ur III Incantations from the Frau Professor Hilprecht-Collection, Jena by Johannes J Van Dijk 9783447047074
RRP: £87.00£86.42Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783447047074Author Johannes J Van DijkFormat HardbackPage Count 157Imprint HarrassowitzPublisher HarrassowitzWeight(grams) 703gDimensions(mm) 300mm * 213mm... -
Genre and the Language Learning Classroom by Brian Paltridge 9780472088041
£30.88What is genre?How can genre be used as an organizing principle in ESL programs?How are genre and context explored in ESL classes?How can discourse structures be taught through genre?How can genre-based assessment tasks be incorporated into the language... -
Formal Methods and Empirical Practices by Roberta Ferrario 9781575866529
£28.09The philosopher Patrick Suppes has developed a unique and influential approach to studying the foundations of science - he combines an understanding of the main principles of scientific theories in axiomatic terms and formal models with a hands-on... -
On the Formal Way to Chinese Languages by Sze-Wing Tang 9781575863702
£28.95This collection presents readers with the main thrust of current research on Chinese languages from the perspective of formal linguistics. Contributors offer in-depth studies of important theoretical issues and contemporary questions, including... -
Logical Perspectives on Language and Information by Cleo Condoravdi 9781575862842
£27.98Rapid innovations in digital technology deeply influence views on language and information processing. Any new developments raise many questions for researchers, and can help shed new light on old approaches. Logic is a tool that researchers can use to... -
Generative Approaches to Finnic and Saami Linguistics by Diane Nelson 9781575864129
RRP: £28.00£27.79With unusual structural characteristics, Finnish and Saami offer interesting challenges to linguistic theories formulated around more popular languages. Grammatically, for instance, languages in the Finnic and Saami group utilize extensive systems of... -
Optimal Communicaton by Reinhard Blutner 9781575865133
RRP: £70.00£68.98This volume explores how the effectiveness of communication is shaped by aspects of semantics and pragmatics such as compositionality, the roles of the speaker and hearer, and the acquisition of meaning. "Optimal Communication" surveys recent research in... -
Language and Grammar: Studies in Mathematical Linguistics and Natural Language by Claudia Casadio 9781575864884
£30.99The application of logic to grammar is a fundamental issue in philosophy and has been investigated by such renowned philosophers as Leibniz, Bolzano, Frege, and Husserl. Language and Grammar examines categorial grammars and type-logical grammars, two... -
World Englishes in Asian Contexts by Yamuna Kachru 9789622097551
£33.92Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789622097551Author Yamuna KachruFormat HardbackPage Count 436Imprint Hong Kong University PressPublisher Hong Kong University PressWeight(grams) 890g -
The Rhetorical Mediator: Understanding Agency in Indigenous Translation and Interpretation Through Indigenous Approaches to UX by Nora K Rivera 9781646425303
£19.19Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781646425303Author Nora K RiveraFormat PaperbackPage Count 250Imprint Utah State University PressPublisher Utah State University Press -
The Spatial Foundations of Language and Cognition: Thinking Through Space by Kelly S. Mix 9780199553242
£116.11This book presents recent research on the role of space as a mechanism in language use and learning. It proceeds from the notion that cognition in real time, developmental time, and over evolutionary time occurs in space, and that the physical properties... -
Language Complexity as an Evolving Variable by Geoffrey Sampson 9780199545216
£51.41This book presents a challenge to the widely-held assumption that human languages are both similar and constant in their degree of complexity. For a hundred years or more the universal equality of languages has been a tenet of faith among most... -
Movement in Language: Interactions and Architectures by Norvin Richards 9780198241171
£63.71This book is the most comprehensive, integrated explanatory account yet published of the properties of question formations and their variation across languages. It makes an important contribution to the current debate over whether syntax should be... -
Hellenistic Poetry by G. O. Hutchinson 9780198140405
£51.41The work of the Hellenistic poets in the third century BC has not only an important place in Greek literature, but also a particular significance for Latin poetry. Despite much technical work on the texts and language of these authors - Theocritus,... -
Women, Language and Grammar in Italy, 1500-1900 by Helena Sanson 9780197264836
£101.35This monograph examines the relationship between women, language and grammar with particular reference to the Italian context between the sixteenth and the end of the nineteenth century, from the codification of Italian as a literary language to the... -
Attitudes De Se: Linguistics, Epistemology, Metaphysics by Neil Feit 9781575866642
£36.27De se statements are emphatic assertions in which speakers make fundamental claims about either themselves or others. In English, they are usually conveyed via "I" statements or third person reflexive pronouns, such as "she herself,"... -
Simpler Syntax by Peter W. Culicover 9780199271085
RRP: £95.00£64.31This groundbreaking book offers a new and compelling perspective on the structure of human language. The fundamental issue it addresses is the proper balance between syntax and semantics, between structure and derivation, and between rule systems and... -
Language in Danger: The Loss of Linguistic Diversity and the Threat to Our Future by Andrew Dalby 9780231129008
£42.91Every two weeks the world loses another indigenous language. Evolving over hundreds or even thousands of years, distinct languages are highly complex and extremely adaptable, but they are also more fragile and endangered than we might expect. Of the... -
Gender, Sexuality, and Meaning: Linguistic Practice and Politics by Sally McConnell-Ginet 9780195187809
£82.13This volume offers a representative selection of Sally McConnell-Ginet's publications on language, gender and sexuality, which circle around the following themes: language users are actively engaged in making meanings, both as speakers and listeners;... -
Arabic, Self and Identity: A Study in Conflict and Displacement by Yasir Suleiman 9780199747016
RRP: £64.00£55.40Arabic, Self, and Identity uses autoethnography, autobiography, and a detailed study of names to investigate the links between conflict and displacement, and between the Self and group identity. In the process it raises questions about trauma and... -
Syntactic Change in Akkadian: The Evolution of Sentential Complementation by Guy Deutscher 9780198299882
£58.16Akkadian is one of the earliest attested languages and the oldest recorded Semitic language. It exists in written record between 2500BC and 500BC, much of it in letters and reports concerned with domestic and business matters, and written in colloquial... -
Language Interrupted: Signs of Non-Native Acquisition in Standard Language Grammars by John H. McWhorter 9780195309805
£73.68Foreigners often say that English language is "easy." A language like Spanish is challenging in its variety of verb endings (the verb speak is conjugated hablo, hablas, hablamos), and gender for nouns, whereas English is more straight forward (I speak,... -
Mind Design and Minimal Syntax by Wolfram Hinzen 9780199274413
£22.77This book introduces generative grammar as an area of study and asks what it tells us about the human mind. Wolfram Hinzen lays the foundation for the unification of modern generative linguistics with the philosophies of mind and language. He introduces... -
Behavior and Culture in One Dimension: Sequences, Affordances, and the Evolution of Complexity by Dennis P. Waters 9780367708399
RRP: £135.00£117.28Behavior and Culture in One Dimension adopts a broad interdisciplinary approach, presenting a unified theory of sequences, their functions and an overview of how they underpin the evolution of complexity. Sequences of DNA guide the functioning of the... -
Course in General Linguistics by Laura E. B. Key 9781912302857
RRP: £19.99£17.69Ferdinand de Saussure's Course in General Linguistics is one of the most influential texts of the 20th-century - an astonishing feat for what is, at heart, a series of deeply technical lectures about the structure of human languages. What the Course's... -
The Cognitive Neuroscience of Second Language Acquisition by Marianne Gullberg 9781405155427
RRP: £41.95£36.73This volume explores the cognitive neuroscience of second language acquisition from the perspectives of critical/sensitive periods, maturational effects, individual differences, neural regions involved, and processing characteristics. The research... -
Names, Naming, and the Law: Onomastics, Identity, Power, and Policy by I. M. Nick 9781032556413
RRP: £135.00£117.68Across many social and commercial domains, governments regulate the official names used to identify individuals, groups, places, companies & products, and even diseases. This innovative volume investigates the relationship between names and the law, with... -
Restrictive Language Policy in Practice: English Learners in Arizona by Amy J. Heineke 9781783096411
RRP: £99.95£82.82As the most restrictive language policy context in the United States, Arizona's monolingual and prescriptive approach to teaching English learners continues to capture international attention. More than five school years after initial implementation,... -
Cognitive Poetics: An Introduction by Peter Stockwell 9781138781368
RRP: £135.00£117.68A pioneering text in its first edition, this revised publication of Cognitive Poetics offers a rigorous and principled approach to literary reading and analysis. The second edition of this seminal text features: * updated theory, frameworks, and... -
Life as a Bilingual: Knowing and Using Two or More Languages by Francois Grosjean 9781108838641
RRP: £74.99£68.13About half the world's population knows and uses two or more languages in everyday life, and an increasing number of parents are raising their children bilingual. This makes a resource on what it means to become and be bilingual all the more necessary... -
Phraseology and the Advanced Language Learner by Svetlana Vetchinnikova 9781108499804
RRP: £110.00£98.74Phraseology is often thought of as an anomaly and a headache for language learners. However, researchers have tended to focus on just one end of the scale: fairly fixed, conventional multi-word units. Here their special status and any divergence from the...