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• Author(s): Marina Yaguello • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: Linguistics - GeneralAn exploration of the practice of inventing languages, from speaking in tongues to utopian schemes of universality to the discoveries...

• Author(s): Gita Martohardjono • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: Linguistics - SyntaxExplorations of language development in different types of learner populations and across various languages. This volume examines l...

• Author(s): Andrea Moro • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: Linguistics - GeneralAn investigation into the possibility of impossible languages, searching for the indelible "fingerprint" of human language. Can there be ...

• Author(s): Morten H. Christiansen | Nick Chater | Peter W. Culicover • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: Linguistics - Psycholinguistics - GeneralA work that reveals the profound links between the evolution, acquisiti...

• Author(s): Ilse Lehiste • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: Linguistics - GeneralThese concise lectures have been developed and refined over a period of ten years as the basis for the author's senior and first-year gr...

• Author(s): Evangelia Adamou • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: Linguistics - GeneralA concise, accessible introduction to language endangerment and why it is one of the most urgent challenges of our times. 58% of the...

• Author(s): Vsevolod Kapatsinski • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: Linguistics - GeneralA book that uses domain-general learning theory to explain recurrent trajectories of language change.In this book, Vsevolod Kapa...

• Author(s): C. L. Baker • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: Linguistics - GeneralAn authoritative, self-contained introduction to the subject for students who have had no prior coursework in syntactic theory.English Sy...

• Author(s): C. L. Baker | John J. McCarthy • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: Linguistics - GeneralThis collection of articles and associated discussion papers focuses on a problem that has attracted increasing attent...

• Author(s): Leonard Talmy • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: Linguistics - GeneralA proposal that a single linguistic/cognitive system, "targeting," underlies two domains of reference, anaphora (speech-internal) and d...

• Author(s): Antonio Pareja-Lora | Maria Blume | Barbara C. Lust • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: Library & Information Science - Digital & Online ResourcesMaking diverse data in linguistics and the language ...

• Author(s): Marina Yaguello • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: Linguistics - GeneralAn exploration of the practice of inventing languages, from speaking in tongues to utopian schemes of universality to the discoveries...

• Author(s): N. J. Enfield • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: Linguistics - SociolinguisticsWhat is it about humans that makes language possible, and what is it about language that makes us human? If you are reading th...