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The Syntax of Specifiers and Heads: Collected Essays of Hilda J. Koopman

The Syntax of Specifiers and Heads: Collected Essays...

Author: Hilda J Koopman
ISBN: 9780415652148
Format: Paperback
$105.00

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The Emergence of the English Native Speaker: A Chapter in Nineteenth-Century Linguistic Thought

The Emergence of the English Native Speaker: A Chapter...

Author: Stephanie Hackert
ISBN: 9781614511403
Format: Hardback
$274.47

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Oxford Dictionary of Reference and Allusion

Oxford Dictionary of Reference and Allusion

Author: Andrew Delahunty ,  Sheila Dignen
ISBN: 9780199567461
Format: Paperback
$20.95

An absorbing dictionary that clearly explains the meanings of references and allusions that are likely to be encountered...  Read More >>

Bibliographie linguistique de l’année 1999/Linguistic Bibliography for the year 1999: et compléments des années précédentes/and supplements for previous years

Bibliographie linguistique de l’année 1999/Linguistic...

Author: Mark Janse ,  Hella Olbertz
ISBN: 9789401037501
Format: Paperback
$145.17

BLonline, the internet version of BL, was officially presented on 21 March 2003 at a symposium in the Koninklijke...  Read More >>

Directions and Prospects for Educational Linguistics

Directions and Prospects for Educational Linguistics...

Author: Francis M. Hult
ISBN: 9789400733305
Format: Paperback
$290.37

Directions and Prospects for Educational Linguistics explores innovations that have developed from the creative...  Read More >>

Variation in the Input: Studies in the Acquisition of Word Order

Variation in the Input: Studies in the Acquisition of...

Author: Merete Anderssen ,  Kristine Bentzen
ISBN: 9789400733510
Format: Paperback
$290.37

The topic of variation in language has received considerable attention in the field of general linguistics in recent...  Read More >>

For the Love of Letters: The Joy of Slow Communication

For the Love of Letters: The Joy of Slow Communication...

Author: John O'Connell
ISBN: 9781780721095
Format: Hardback
$24.99

Handwritten is a celebration of letter-writing in all its guises  Read More >>

The Horologicon: A Day's Jaunt Through the Lost Words of the English Language

The Horologicon: A Day's Jaunt Through the Lost Words...

Author: Mark Forsyth
ISBN: 9781848314153
Format: Hardback
$32.99

The Horologicon - which means 'a book of things appropriate to each hour' - follows a day in the life of unusual,...  Read More >>

Julias Versuchung: Utopischer Wirtschaftsroman

Julias Versuchung: Utopischer Wirtschaftsroman

Author: Rosemarie Kentmann
ISBN: 9783663021131
Format: Paperback
$108.65

Wenn mir etwas wirklich wichtig ist, kann ich keine gro- Ben Worte machen. Deshalb war ich bei meinen bisheri- im-...  Read More >>

Victor Dudman's Grammar and Semantics

Victor Dudman's Grammar and Semantics

Author: J. Curthoys ,  V. Dudman
ISBN: 9781137029249
Format: Hardback
$145.17

Victor Dudman's revolutionary English Grammar brings grammar and logic together by conceiving grammar as 'the necessary...  Read More >>

Vygotsky’s Psychology-Philosophy: A Metaphor for Language Theory and Learning

Vygotsky’s Psychology-Philosophy: A Metaphor for Language...

Author: Dorothy Robbins
ISBN: 9781461354826
Format: Paperback
$290.37

He had input into different fields of psychology: its methodology, psychology of art, pathopsychology, the psy­...  Read More >>

A Companion to Baugh & Cable's A History of the English Language

A Companion to Baugh & Cable's A History of the English...

Author: Thomas Cable ,  Albert Baugh
ISBN: 9780205230754
Format: Paperback
$281.56

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Reference to Abstract Objects in Discourse

Reference to Abstract Objects in Discourse

Author: Nicholas Asher
ISBN: 9789401047517
Format: Paperback
$1003.17

Reference to Abstract Objects in Discourse presents a novel framework and analysis of the ways we refer to abstract...  Read More >>

A Better Pencil: Readers, Writers, and the Digital Revolution

A Better Pencil: Readers, Writers, and the Digital Revolution...

Author: Dennis Baron (Professor of English and Linguistics, Professor of English and Linguistics, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)
ISBN: 9780199914005
Format: Paperback
$58.95

A Better Pencil puts our complex, still-evolving hate-love relationship with computers and the internet into perspective,...  Read More >>

New Directions In Language Development And Disorders

New Directions In Language Development And Disorders...

Author: Michael Perkins ,  Sara Howard
ISBN: 9781461368656
Format: Paperback
$448.77

Proceedings of the Child Language Seminar, held 4-6 September, 1998, in Sheffield, England  Read More >>

The Informational Complexity of Learning: Perspectives on Neural Networks and Generative Grammar

The Informational Complexity of Learning: Perspectives...

Author: Partha Niyogi
ISBN: 9781461374930
Format: Paperback
$290.37

Among other topics, The Informational Complexity of Learning: Perspectives on Neural Networks and Generative Grammar...  Read More >>

Interdisciplinary Approaches to Language: Essays in Honor of S.-Y. Kuroda

Interdisciplinary Approaches to Language: Essays in...

Author: C. Georgopoulos ,  Roberta Ishihara
ISBN: 9789401056977
Format: Paperback
$580.77

The thirty-two papers in this collection are offered to Professor S.-Y. The contributions to the collection reflect...  Read More >>

The Collected Works of L. S. Vygotsky: Scientific Legacy

The Collected Works of L. S. Vygotsky: Scientific Legacy...

Author: L.S. Vygotsky ,  Robert W. Rieber
ISBN: 9781461371915
Format: Paperback
$659.97

Vygotsky was a Russian psychologist and one of the most influential psychologists in the world during the 20th century....  Read More >>

The Semantics of Media

The Semantics of Media

Author: J. Ross
ISBN: 9789401063838
Format: Paperback
$290.37

Media are objects with content and character that we describe using in- phrases: in the story, in the picture,...  Read More >>

African American, Creole, and Other Vernacular Englishes in Education: A Bibliographic Resource

African American, Creole, and Other Vernacular Englishes...

Author: John R. Rickford (Stanford University, USA) ,  Julie Sweetland (San Jose State University, USA)
ISBN: 9780415888677
Format: Paperback
$126.00

This comprehensive bibliography provides more than 1600 references to publications from the past half century on...  Read More >>

The Collected Works of L.S. Vygotsky: The Fundamentals of Defectology (Abnormal Psychology and Learning Disabilities)

The Collected Works of L.S. Vygotsky: The Fundamentals...

Author: L.S. Vygotsky ,  Robert W. Rieber
ISBN: 9781461362128
Format: Paperback
$871.17

The Plenum translations ofVygotsky' s texts are appearing at a moment when authentic and authoritative English versions...  Read More >>

Found in Translation: How Language Shapes Our Lives and Transforms the World

Found in Translation: How Language Shapes Our Lives...

Author: Nataly Kelly ,  Jost Zetzsche
ISBN: 9780399537974
Format: Paperback
$49.99

Translation. It's everywhere we look, but seldom seen-until now. Found in Translation reveals the surprising and...  Read More >>

Language and Enlightenment: The Berlin Debates of the Eighteenth Century

Language and Enlightenment: The Berlin Debates of the...

Author: Avi Lifschitz (Senior Lecturer in European History, Senior Lecturer in European History, University College London)
ISBN: 9780199661664
Format: Hardback
$318.00

Highlights the importance of language in the social theory, epistemology, and aesthetics of the Enlightenment. Argues...  Read More >>

Horologicon Signed Edition

Horologicon Signed Edition

Author: Forsyth M
ISBN: 9781848315969
Format: Hardback
$33.61

The characteristically brilliant sequel to The Sunday Times Number One bestseller The Etymologicon, The Horologicon...  Read More >>

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