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Frequency of Use and the Organization of Language by Joan Bybee 9780195301571
Booksplease Price: £79.95This volume collects three decades of articles by distinguish linguist Joan Bybee. Her articles essentially argue for the importance of frequency of use as a factor in the analysis and explanation of... -
The Evolution of Grammar: Tense, Aspect and Modality in the Languages of the World by Joan L. Bybee
Booksplease Price: £41.68Joan Bybee and her colleagues present a new theory of the evolution of grammar that links structure and meaning in a way that directly challenges most contemporary versions of generative grammar... -
Phonology and Language Use by Joan L. Bybee 9780521533782
Booksplease Price: £55.15A research perspective that takes language use into account opens up new views of old issues and provides an understanding of issues that linguists have rarely addressed. Referencing new developments... -
Phonology and Language Use by Joan L. Bybee 9780521583749
Booksplease Price: £107.17A research perspective that takes language use into account opens up new views of old issues and provides an understanding of issues that linguists have rarely addressed. Referencing new developments... -
Language Change by Joan L. Bybee
Booksplease Price: £27.90How and why do languages change? This new introduction offers a guide to the types of change at all levels of linguistic structure, as well as the mechanisms behind each type. Based on data from a... -
Language, Usage and Cognition by Joan L. Bybee 9780521616836
Booksplease Price: £45.31Language demonstrates structure while also showing considerable variation at all levels: languages differ from one another while still being shaped by the same principles; utterances within a... -
Language, Usage and Cognition by Joan L. Bybee 9780521851404
Booksplease Price: £106.18Language demonstrates structure while also showing considerable variation at all levels: languages differ from one another while still being shaped by the same principles; utterances within a... -
Grammaticalization by Paul J. Hopper 9780521804219
Booksplease Price: £40.39This is a general introduction to grammaticalization, the change whereby lexical terms and constructions come in certain linguistic contexts to serve grammatical functions, and, once grammaticalized,... -
An Emergence Approach to Speech Acquisition: Doing and Knowing Barbara L. Davis 9781848726543
RRP: £65.99Booksplease Price: £64.03The central assertion in this volume is that the young child uses general skills, scaffolded by adults, to acquire the complex knowledge of sound patterns and the goal-directed behaviors for... -
Talk Is Cheap: Sarcasm, Alienation, and the Evolution of Language by John Haiman 9780195115253
Booksplease Price: £55.70Putting aside questions of truth and falsehood, the old 'talk is cheap' maxim carries as much weight as ever. Indeed, perhaps more. For one need not be an expert in irony or sarcasm to realize that...