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• Author(s): Ann K. Farmer • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: Linguistics - GeneralThis book clarifies some of the central issues in Japanese syntax, pointing the way to solving several long-standing problems. It prese...

• Author(s): Susumu Kuno • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: JapaneseConventional grammars tell us when we can use given grammatical patterns. However, they almost invariably fail to tell us when we cannot use them. Man...

• 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): 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): 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): 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): 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): 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): Thomas G. Bever | John M. Carroll | Lance A. Miller • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: Linguistics - GeneralThese essays by some of the most prominent figures in linguistics, artificial intelligence, and p...

• Author(s): George K. Zipf | George a. Miller • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: Communication StudiesAn investigation of speech as a form of behavior, examined in the manner of the exact sciences by the direct applic...

• Author(s): Roman Jakobson | Ronald F. Feldstein • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: Linguistics - Phonetics & PhonologyThe first English translation of a classic and groundbreaking work in historical phonology. Th...

• Author(s): David McNeill • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: Linguistics - GeneralA new way of viewing language, as a dynamic mode of meaning-making of which gesture is a fundamental part. When David McNeill began his...

• 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): S. -Y Kuroda • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: Linguistics - GeneralGenerative phonology, a comparatively recent development on the linguistic front, has stimulated a reconsideration of the conceptual sch...

• 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): James F. Kavanagh | Ignatius G. Mattingly • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: Linguistics - GeneralA collection of papers exploring why children acquire speech easily yet bog down when it comes to learning ...

• Author(s): Michael Erard • Publisher: MIXBZ • Publisher Imprint: MIXBZ • Subject: Creative Writing, Fiction • BISAC: Linguistics - Psycholinguistics - GeneralA beautiful and intimate exploration of first and last words--and the many facets of h...

• 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...