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• 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): 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): 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): 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): Carol Neidle | Judy Kegl | Dawn Maclaughlin • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: Linguistics - GeneralRecent research on the syntax of signed languages has revealed that, apart from some modality-specific di...

• 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): 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): 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): David W. Lightfoot • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: Linguistics - GeneralOver the past decade, generative grammarians have viewed language acquisition as a process of fixing option points or parameters d...

• Author(s): Noam Chomsky • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: Linguistics - GeneralLanguage and Problems of Knowledge is Noam Chomsky's most accessible statement on the nature, origins, and current concerns of the field...

• 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...