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Cambridge Studies in Linguistics Morpheme Order and Semantic Scope: Word Formation in the Athapaskan Verb Book 90 (Paperback)

Athapaskan languages are of great linguistic interest due to their intricate morphology. In this clear and insightful book Keren Rice offers a rich survey of morpheme ordering in Athapaskan verbs with implications for both synchronic grammar and... more

Cambridge Studies in Linguistics (Hardco Structural Markedness and Syntactic Structure: A Study of Word Order and the Left Periphery in Mexican Spanish (Hardcover)

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Cambridge Textbooks in Linguistics: Morphosyntax (Paperback)

Bringing together the results of sixty years of research in typology and universals this textbook presents a comprehensive survey of Morphosyntax - the combined study of syntax and morphology. Languages employ extremely diverse morphosyntactic... more

Cambridge Studies in Linguistics: Communicative Functions and Linguistic Forms in Speech Interaction (Paperback)

Prosody is generally studied at a separate linguistic level from syntax and semantics. It analyses phonetic properties of utterances such as pitch and prominence and orders them into phonological categories such as pitch accent boundary tone and... more

Cambridge Handbooks in Language and Linguistics: The Cambridge Handbook of Historical Syntax (Paperback)

Change is an inherent feature of all aspects of language and syntax is no exception. While the synchronic study of syntax allows us to make discoveries about the nature of syntactic structure the study of historical syntax offers even greater... more

Cambridge Studies in Linguistics Relevance Relations in Discourse: A Study with Special Reference to Sissala Book 55 (Hardcover)

Using data from Sissala a previously unanalyzed language this book shows that the analysis of text and discourse is best approached from a cognitive rather than a strictly linguistic point of view. In two introductory chapters Regina Blass argues... more

Cambridge Studies in Linguistics The Sentence in Written English Book 3 (Paperback)

A substantially revised edition of Huddleston s contribution to Sentence and Clause in Scientific English the final report of a research project into the linguistic properties of scientific English carried out at University College London in 1964-7.... more

Pre-Owned Grammatical Theory in United States: From Bloomfield to Chomsky: 67 (Cambridge Studies in Linguistics Series Number 67) Paperback

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Cambridge Studies in Linguistics: Morphosyntactic Change (Hardcover)

Particle verbs (combinations of two words but lexical units) are a notorious problem in linguistics. Is a particle verb like look up one word or two? It has its own entry in dictionaries as if it is one word but look and up can be split up in a... more

Cambridge Studies in Linguistics The Emergence of Meaning Book 135 (Hardcover)

Over the past forty years scientists have developed models of human reasoning based on the principle that human languages and classical logic involve fundamentally different concepts and different methods of interpretation. In The Emergence of... more

Cambridge Studies in Linguistics Symmetry Breaking in Syntax Book 136 (Hardcover)

In this illuminating new theory of grammar Hubert Haider demonstrates that there is a basic asymmetry in the phrase structure of any language whatever sentence structure it takes. Moreover he argues that understanding this asymmetry is the key to... more

Cambridge Introductions to Language and Introducing Psycholinguistics (Paperback)

Psycholinguistics is the study of how humans produce and understand language. This textbook provides a clear introduction to the subject for students with a basic knowledge of linguistics. It introduces central aspects of the production and... more

Cambridge Introductions to Language and Introducing Psycholinguistics. by Paul Warren (Hardcover)

Psycholinguistics is the study of how humans produce and understand language. This textbook provides a clear introduction to the subject for students with a basic knowledge of linguistics. It introduces central aspects of the production and... more

Cambridge Studies in Linguistics Onsets: Suprasegmental and Prosodic Behaviour Book 125 (Paperback)

The concept of the onset i.e. the consonant(s) before the vowel of a syllable is critical within phonology. While phonologists have examined the segmental behaviour of onsets their prosodic status has instead been largely overlooked. In fact most... more

Cambridge Studies in Linguistics Null Subjects Book 137 (Hardcover)

The null subject has always been central to linguistic theory because it tells us a great deal about the underlying structure of language in the human brain and about the interface between syntax and semantics. Null subjects exist in languages such... more

Cambridge Textbooks in Linguistics Relevance Theory (Hardcover)

Over the past twenty years relevance theory has become a key area of study within semantics and pragmatics. In this comprehensive new textbook Billy Clark introduces the key elements of the theory and how they interconnect. The book is divided into... more

Cambridge Textbooks in Linguistics Relevance Theory (Paperback)

Over the past twenty years relevance theory has become a key area of study within semantics and pragmatics. In this comprehensive new textbook Billy Clark introduces the key elements of the theory and how they interconnect. The book is divided into... more

Cambridge Studies in Linguistics Regularity in Semantic Change Book 97 (Hardcover)

This new and important study of semantic change examines the various ways in which new meanings arise through language use especially the ways in which speakers and writers experiment with uses of words and constructions. Drawing on extensive... more

Cambridge Studies in Linguistics Linguistic Evolution: With Special Reference to English Book 5 (Paperback)

Professor Samuels presents a comprehensive explanation of the reasons for linguistic change applying his theory in particular to the history of English. He assesses and mediates between the conflicting dogmas of different schools of linguistics and... more

Cambridge Textbooks in Linguistics Aspect: An Introduction to the Study of Verbal Aspect and Related Problems (Paperback)

An introduction to the general linguistic study of aspect. Topics covered include the relation of tense and aspect the morphology and the semantics of aspect and structuralist and philosophical approaches. Dr Comrie draws his examples particularly... more

Cambridge Studies in Linguistics Modality in Syntax Semantics and Pragmatics Book 165 (Hardcover)

What do we mean when we say things like If only we knew what he was up to! Clearly this is more than just a message or a question to our addressee. We are expressing simultaneously that we don t know and also that we wish to know. Several modes of... more

The Cambridge Dictionary of Linguistics (Hardcover)

The Cambridge Dictionary of Linguistics provides concise and clear definitions of all the terms any undergraduate or graduate student is likely to encounter in the study of linguistics and English language or in other degrees involving linguistics... more

Pre-Owned Computational Linguistics: An Introduction (Studies in Natural Language Processing) Paperback

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Cambridge Studies in Linguistics The Emergence of Meaning Book 135 (Paperback)

Over the past forty years scientists have developed models of human reasoning based on the principle that human languages and classical logic involve fundamentally different concepts and different methods of interpretation. In The Emergence of... more

Cambridge Studies in Linguistics Output-Driven Phonology: Theory and Learning Book 139 (Hardcover)

This book presents the theory of output-driven maps and provides a fresh perspective on the extent to which phonologies can be characterized in terms of restrictions on outputs. Closely related to traditional conceptions of process opacity but... more

Pre-Owned Explanations in the Study of Child Language Development (Paperback 9780521285933) by Martin Atkinson

9780521285933. Pre-Owned: Good condition. Trade paperback. Pages: 300. Trade paperback (US). 300 p. Cambridge Studies in Linguistics . Worked examples or Exercises. Intended for college/higher education audience. Dr Atkinson s work has grown out of... more

Pre-Owned Syntactic Anchors: On Semantic Structuring (Cambridge Studies in Linguistics Series Number 118) Paperback - USED

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Cambridge Studies in Linguistics Mirrors and Microparameters: Phrase Structure Beyond Free Word Order Book 122 (Paperback)

What is the nature of syntactic structure? Why do some languages have radically free word order ( nonconfigurationality )? Do parameters vary independently (the micro-view) or can they co-vary en masse (the macro-view)? Mirrors and Microparameters... more