Linguistics
Linguistics
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The Languages of Native North America
This book is a comprehensive and authoritative survey of the native North American languages. These ...Read more
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Indian Sign Language
Plains Indians from different tribes speaking different languages were nevertheless able to communic...Read more
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An Introduction to Old Norse
The first edition of this standard work was published in 1927 and has been reprinted several times. ...Read more
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The Language of News Media
Written by a linguist who is himself a journalist, this is a uniquely informed account of the langua...Read more
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Words and Rules: The Ingredients of Language
In 'Words and Rules', Steven Pinker explains the mysteries of language by examining a single constru...Read more
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The Language Instinct: How the Mind Creates Language
The classic book on the development of human language by the world’s leading expert on language an...Read more
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Learnability and Cognition: The Acquisition of Argument Structure
When children learn a language, they soon are able to make surprisingly subtle distinctions: "donate...Read more
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Language Learnability and Language Development
In this influential study, Steven Pinker develops a new approach to the problem of language learning...Read more
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Serendipities
'Serendipities' is an iconoclastic, dazzingly erudite and witty demonstration, by one of the world's...Read more
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The Search for the Perfect Language
From the early Dark Ages to the Renaissance it was widely believed that the language spoken in the G...Read more
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A Theory of Semiotics
..". the greatest contribution to [semiotics] since the pioneering work of C. S. Peirce and Charles ...Read more
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Mouse or Rat?: Translation as Negotiation
'Translation is always a shift, not between two languages but between two cultures. A translator mus...Read more