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A User's Guide to Thought and Meaning by Ray Jackendoff
Booksplease Price: £17.50A User's Guide to Thought and Meaning presents a profound and arresting integration of the faculties of the mind - of how we think, speak, and see the world. Ray Jackendoff starts out by looking... -
A User's Guide to Thought and Meaning by Ray Jackendoff 9780199693207
Booksplease Price: £17.19A User's Guide to Thought and Meaning presents a profound and arresting integration of the faculties of the mind - of how we think, speak, and see the world. Ray Jackendoff starts out by looking... -
Patterns In The Mind: Language And Human Nature by Ray Jackendoff
Booksplease Price: £21.29What is it about the human mind that accounts for the fact that we can speak and understand a language? Why can't other creatures do the same? And what does this tell us about the rest of human... -
Parenthetical Constructions in the Parallel Architecture Ray Jackendoff 9780198951070
RRP: £84.00Booksplease Price: £76.92Parentheticals, it is fair to say, are everywhere, and, as can easily be shown, they come in a huge variety of flavors. Two characteristics set them apart from ordinary arguments and adjuncts: they... -
The Texture of the Lexicon: Relational Morphology and the Parallel Architecture by Ray Jackendoff
Booksplease Price: £27.09In this volume, Ray Jackendoff and Jenny Audring embark on a major reconceptualization of linguistic theory as seen through the lens of morphology. Their approach, Relational Morphology, extends the... -
The Texture of the Lexicon: Relational Morphology and the Parallel Architecture by Ray Jackendoff 9780198827900
Booksplease Price: £67.63In this volume, Ray Jackendoff and Jenny Audring embark on a major reconceptualization of linguistic theory as seen through the lens of morphology. Their approach, Relational Morphology, extends the... -
Meaning and the Lexicon: The Parallel Architecture 1975-2010 by Ray Jackendoff 9780199568888
Booksplease Price: £59.95Meaning and the Lexicon brings together 35 years of pathbreaking work on language by Ray Jackendoff. It traces the development of his Parallel Architecture, in which phonology, syntax, and semantics... -
Foundations of Language: Brain, Meaning, Grammar, Evolution by Ray Jackendoff 9780199264377
RRP: £45.99Booksplease Price: £37.72How 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... -
Meaning and the Lexicon: The Parallel Architecture 1975-2010 by Ray Jackendoff 9780199568871
Booksplease Price: £84.78Meaning and the Lexicon brings together 35 years of pathbreaking work on language by Ray Jackendoff. It traces the development of his Parallel Architecture, in which phonology, syntax, and semantics... -
Verb-Particle Explorations by Nicole Dehe 9783110172287
RRP: £104.50Booksplease Price: £67.92The contributions in this book are a representative cross-section of recent research on verb-particle constructions. The syntactic, semantic, morphological, and psycholinguistic phenomena associated... -
Evolution and Revolution in Linguistic Theory: Studies in Honor of Carlos P. Otero by Hector Campos
RRP: £72.00Booksplease Price: £64.78This volume presents essays by some of the leading figures in the vanguard of theoretical linguistics within the framework of universal grammar. One of the first books to adopt the "minimalist"... -
Explaining Syntax: Representations, Structures, and Computation by Peter W. Culicover 9780199660230
RRP: £152.50Booksplease Price: £109.33This 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... -
Natural Language Syntax by Peter W. Culicover 9780199230181
RRP: £65.00Booksplease Price: £55.99In this book, Peter Culicover introduces the analysis of natural language within the broader question of how language works - of how people use languages to configure words and morphemes in order to... -
Simpler Syntax by Peter W. Culicover 9780199271085
RRP: £100.00Booksplease Price: £64.80This 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... -
Construction Morphology by Geert Booij 9780199571925
Booksplease Price: £40.76This book shows how complex words and word-like phrasal lexical units can be analysed as constructions, as pairings of forms and meanings. It contributes to current work on the architecture of the... -
Simpler Syntax by Peter W. Culicover 9780199271092
RRP: £55.00Booksplease Price: £41.56This 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... -
Theory of Prominence: Temporal Structure of Music Based on Linguistic Stress by Bryan Hayslett 9781108813334
RRP: £18.00Booksplease Price: £16.52Many twentieth and twenty-first century composers have written music with rhythmic structures that must be understood through a framework distinct from even, periodic meter, which has been a salient... -
Syntactic Nuts: Hard Cases, Syntactic Theory, and Language Acquisition by Peter W. Culicover 9780198700234
RRP: £59.00Booksplease Price: £54.58This book investigates the architecture of the language faculty by considering what the properties of language reveal about the mental abilities and processes involved in language acquisition. The... -
Form and Meaning in Word Formation: A Study of Afrikaans Reduplication by Rudolf P. Botha 9780521352604
RRP: £100.00Booksplease Price: £90.57This study of reduplication in Afrikaans provides a unified and principled analysis of an unusual and highly complex word formation process, shedding new light on the scope and content of various... -
Form and Meaning in Word Formation: A Study of Afrikaans Reduplication by Rudolf P. Botha 9780521026130
Booksplease Price: £32.12This study of reduplication in Afrikaans provides a unified and principled analysis of an unusual and highly complex word formation process, shedding new light on the scope and content of various... -
Syntactic Nuts: Hard Cases, Syntactic Theory, and Language Acquisition by Peter W. Culicover 9780198700241
Booksplease Price: £73.63This book investigates the architecture of the language faculty by considering what the properties of language reveal about the mental abilities and processes involved in language acquisition. The... -
Non-Canonical Gender Systems by Sebastian Fedden 9780198795438
Booksplease Price: £112.65This book explores the boundaries of the category of gender and their theoretical significance within the framework of Canonical Typology. Grammatical gender is a famously puzzling category: although... -
Grammar & Complexity: Language at the Intersection of Competence and Performance by Peter W. Culicover 9780199654604
Booksplease Price: £43.26This book combines ideas about the architecture of grammar and language acquisition, processing, and change to explain why languages show regular patterns when there is so much irregularity in their... -
Metric Manipulations in Haydn and Mozart: Chamber Music for Strings, 1787-1791 by Danuta Mirka 9780195384925
Booksplease Price: £64.30Playing with Meter makes a significant contribution to music theory and to the growing conversation on metric perception and musical composition. Focusing on the chamber music of Haydn and Mozart... -
The Oxford Handbook of Morphological Theory by Jenny Audring 9780192845139
Booksplease Price: £60.05This volume is the first handbook devoted entirely to the multitude of frameworks adopted in the field of morphology, including Minimalism, Optimality Theory, Network Morphology, Cognitive Grammar,... -
Language Change, Variation, and Universals by Peter W. Culicover 9780198865391
Booksplease Price: £107.59This volume explores how human languages become what they are, why they differ from one another in certain ways but not in others, and why they change in the ways that they do. Given that language is... -
The Sounds of Poetry Viewed as Music Alfred Lerdahl 9780231221184
Booksplease Price: £85.37Poets, literary critics, and lovers of poetry often speak of the "music of poetry." The Sounds of Poetry Viewed as Music gives substance to the metaphor by building on recent research in linguistics... -
Metric Manipulations in Haydn and Mozart: Chamber Music for Strings, 1787-1791 by Danuta Mirka 9780199354085
RRP: £43.99Booksplease Price: £31.89Metric Manipulations in Haydn and Mozart makes a significant contribution to music theory and to the growing conversation on metric perception and musical composition. Focusing on the chamber music... -
The Sounds of Poetry Viewed as Music Alfred Lerdahl 9780231221191
Booksplease Price: £23.69Poets, literary critics, and lovers of poetry often speak of the "music of poetry." The Sounds of Poetry Viewed as Music gives substance to the metaphor by building on recent research in linguistics... -
Tonal Pitch Space by Fred Lerdahl 9780195178296
RRP: £44.99Booksplease Price: £30.84Building on the foundation of Lerdahl and Jackendoff's influential A Generative Theory of Tonal Music, this volume presents a multidimensional model of diatonic and chromatic spaces that quantifies... -
The Morphology of Dutch by Geert Booij 9780198838852
Booksplease Price: £78.40This volume provides a detailed and comprehensive description of the morphological system of Dutch. Following an introduction to the basic assumptions of morphological theory, separate chapters are... -
Unbounded Dependency Constructions: Theoretical and Experimental Perspectives by Rui P. Chaves 9780198784999
Booksplease Price: £112.65This book is about one of the most intriguing features of human communication systems: the fact that words that go together in meaning can occur arbitrarily far away from each other. In the sentence... -
Numbers, Language, and the Human Mind by Heike Wiese 9780521108652
RRP: £27.00Booksplease Price: £26.81What constitutes our number concept? What makes it possible for us to employ numbers the way we do; which mental faculties contribute to our grasp of numbers? What do we share with other species, and... -
Unbounded Dependency Constructions: Theoretical and Experimental Perspectives by Rui P. Chaves
RRP: £39.99Booksplease Price: £37.97This book is about one of the most intriguing features of human communication systems: the fact that words that go together in meaning can occur arbitrarily far away from each other. In the sentence... -
The Visual Language of Comics: Introduction to the Structure and Cognition of Sequential Images. by Neil Cohn
Booksplease Price: £35.19Drawings and sequential images are an integral part of human expression dating back at least as far as cave paintings, and in contemporary society appear most prominently in comics. Despite this...