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• Author(s): April McMahon | Robert McMahon • Publisher: OUP Oxford • Publisher Imprint: OUP Oxford • BISAC: Linguistics - GeneralThis book considers how languages have traditionally been divided into families, and asks how they should classified...

• Author(s): Peter Broeder | Jaap Murre • Publisher: OUP Oxford • Publisher Imprint: OUP Oxford • BISAC: Linguistics - GeneralThis book presents recent advances by leading researchers in computational modelling of language acquisition. The contri...

• Author(s): Anna Kibort | Greville G. Corbett • Publisher: OUP Oxford • Publisher Imprint: OUP Oxford • BISAC: Linguistics - GeneralThis book presents a critical overview of current work on linguistic features and establishes new bases for their...

• Author(s): Peter W. Culicover • Publisher: OUP Oxford • Publisher Imprint: OUP Oxford • BISAC: Linguistics - GeneralThis book combines ideas about the architecture of grammar and language acquisition, processing, and change to explain why langu...

• Author(s): Masayoshi Shibatani | Theodora Bynon • Publisher: OUP Oxford • Publisher Imprint: OUP Oxford • BISAC: Linguistics - GeneralWhat do all languages have in common, and what gives each language its individuality? These typological questi...

• Author(s): Peter Culicover • Publisher: OUP Oxford • Publisher Imprint: OUP Oxford • BISAC: Linguistics - GeneralThis book combines ideas about the architecture of grammar and language acquisition, processing, and change to explain why language...

• Author(s): Richard Hudson • Publisher: OUP Oxford • Publisher Imprint: OUP Oxford • BISAC: Grammar & PunctuationThis book argues that language is a network of concepts which in turn is part of the general cognitive network of the mind. It c...

• Author(s): Maggie Tallerman • Publisher: OUP Oxford • Publisher Imprint: OUP Oxford • BISAC: Linguistics - GeneralThis book addresses central questions in the evolution of language: where it came from; how and why it evolved; how it came to be ...

• Author(s): Jeff Good • Publisher: OUP Oxford • Publisher Imprint: OUP Oxford • BISAC: Linguistics - GeneralThis book looks at the relationship between linguistic universals and language change. Reflecting the resurgence of work in both fields o...

• Author(s): Frederick J. Newmeyer • Publisher: OUP Oxford • Publisher Imprint: OUP Oxford • BISAC: Linguistics - GeneralIn this important and pioneering book Frederick Newmeyer seeks to explain the variety of languages. He combines the leading i...

• Author(s): Enfield | N. J. Enfield • Publisher: OUP Oxford • Publisher Imprint: OUP Oxford • BISAC: Linguistics - SociolinguisticsMeanings of cultural importance are found not only in words but also in the very grammar of a language. This excit...

• Author(s): Jan Terje Faarlund • Publisher: OUP Oxford • Publisher Imprint: OUP Oxford • BISAC: Linguistics - GeneralA description of Chiapas Zoque, the language of the descendents of Mexico's oldest known civilization and whose inscriptions are...

• Author(s): Alexandra Y. Aikhenvald | Elena I. Mihas • Publisher: OUP Oxford • Publisher Imprint: OUP Oxford • BISAC: Linguistics - SociolinguisticsThis volume offers a comprehensive account of the typology of noun classification across the worl...

• Author(s): Gideon Goldenberg • Publisher: OUP Oxford • Publisher Imprint: OUP Oxford • BISAC: Linguistics - GeneralThis book offers a thorough, authoritative account of the branches of Semitic. These include some of the world's oldest attested ...

• Author(s): Daniel Dor | Chris Knight | Jerome Lewis • Publisher: OUP Oxford • Publisher Imprint: OUP Oxford • BISAC: Linguistics - GeneralThis book presents a new perspective on the origins of language, and highlights the key role of social and...

• Author(s): J. E. Miller | Regina Weinert | Jim Miller • Publisher: OUP Oxford • Publisher Imprint: OUP Oxford • BISAC: Linguistics - GeneralThe authors examine the types of clauses used by people when they are speaking off the cuff. They also a...

• Author(s): Alexandra Y. Aikhenvald | R. M. W. Dixon • Publisher: OUP Oxford • Publisher Imprint: OUP Oxford • BISAC: Grammar & PunctuationThe Grammar of Knowledge offers both a linguistic and anthropological perspective on the expression of...

• Author(s): Joseph Greenberg | William Croft • Publisher: OUP Oxford • Publisher Imprint: OUP Oxford • BISAC: Linguistics - GeneralThis book collects Joseph Greenberg's most important writings on the genetic classification of the world's languag...

• Author(s): Alexandra Y. Aikhenvald | Robert M. W. Dixon | R. M. W. Dixon • Publisher: OUP Oxford • Publisher Imprint: OUP Oxford • BISAC: Grammar & PunctuationThis volume of new work explores the forms and functions of serial verbs. The int...

• Author(s): Richard a. Hudson • Publisher: OUP Oxford • Publisher Imprint: OUP Oxford • BISAC: Grammar & PunctuationThis book argues that language is a network of concepts which in turn is part of the general cognitive network of the mind. I...

• Author(s): Joseph H. Greenberg | William Croft • Publisher: OUP Oxford • Publisher Imprint: OUP Oxford • BISAC: Linguistics - GeneralThis book collects Joseph Greenberg's most important writings on the genetic classification of the world's lang...

• Author(s): Montserrat Sanz | Itziar Laka | Michael K. Tanenhaus • Publisher: OUP Oxford • Publisher Imprint: OUP Oxford • BISAC: Linguistics - GeneralThomas G. Bever's now iconic sentence, The horse raced past the barn fell, first appeared in h...

• Author(s): Cliff Goddard • Publisher: OUP Oxford • Publisher Imprint: OUP Oxford • BISAC: Linguistics - GeneralThis book introduces readers to the remarkable linguistic diversity of East and Southeast Asia. It combines serious but accessible tr...

• Author(s): Rudolf Botha | Martin Everaert • Publisher: OUP Oxford • Publisher Imprint: OUP Oxford • BISAC: Linguistics - GeneralThe book presents new and stimulating approaches to the study of language evolution and considers their implications...

• Author(s): Sonia Cristofaro • Publisher: OUP Oxford • Publisher Imprint: OUP Oxford • BISAC: Grammar & PunctuationThis book presents a typology of subordination systems across the world's languages. Traditional definitions of subordination ...

• Author(s): Diane Massam • Publisher: OUP Oxford • Publisher Imprint: OUP Oxford • BISAC: Linguistics - GeneralThis volume explores the expression of the concepts count and mass in human language and probes the complex relation between seemingly...

• Author(s): Doug Arnold | Jacques Durand | Louisa Sadler • Publisher: OUP Oxford • Publisher Imprint: OUP Oxford • BISAC: Linguistics - GeneralThis wide-ranging collection of essays provides penetrating insight into a variety of views on grammat...

• Author(s): Carol Myers-Scotton • Publisher: OUP Oxford • Publisher Imprint: OUP Oxford • BISAC: Linguistics - GeneralThe goal of this book, a companion volume to Social Motivations for Codeswitching (Oxford, 1993) is to describe and explain int...

• Author(s): C. J. Wells • Publisher: OUP Oxford • Publisher Imprint: OUP Oxford • BISAC: GermanThe first history of the German language to bridge the gap between the introductory handbook level and the more specialized journal articles, this vol...

• Author(s): Alexandra Y. Aikhenvald | R. M. W. Dixon • Publisher: OUP Oxford • Publisher Imprint: OUP Oxford • BISAC: Linguistics - GeneralThe present volume examines the ways in which linguistic traits may change in a contact situation. It cont...

• Author(s): J. H. W. Penney • Publisher: OUP Oxford • Publisher Imprint: OUP Oxford • BISAC: Linguistics - GeneralThis book brings together new and original work by forty two of the world's leading scholars of Indo-European comparative philology...

• Author(s): Larry Bailey | Charles J. Bailey | Charles James Nice Bailey • Publisher: OUP Oxford • Publisher Imprint: OUP Oxford • BISAC: Linguistics - Historical & ComparativeThis volume on developmental linguistics offers method and ration...

• Author(s): Dan Xu • Publisher: OUP Oxford • Publisher Imprint: OUP Oxford • BISAC: Linguistics - GeneralThis new interpretation of the early history of Chinese argues that Old Chinese was typologically a "mixed" language. It shows that, though ...

• Author(s): John a. Hawkins | J. A. Hawkins • Publisher: OUP Oxford • Publisher Imprint: OUP Oxford • BISAC: Linguistics - GeneralThis book addresses a question fundamental to any discussion of grammatical theory and grammatical variation: to wh...

• Author(s): Paul Kerswill | P. Kerswill • Publisher: OUP Oxford • Publisher Imprint: OUP Oxford • BISAC: Linguistics - SociolinguisticsHow and why do adults modify their language when they move to a new area? In this detailed study of rural dial...