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• 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): 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): 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): 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): Denis Bouchard • Publisher: OUP Oxford • Publisher Imprint: OUP Oxford • BISAC: Linguistics - GeneralThis book looks at how the human brain got the capacity for language and how language then evolved. Its four parts are concerned wit...

• Author(s): Peter M. Tiersma | Lawrence M. Solan • Publisher: OUP Oxford • Publisher Imprint: OUP Oxford • BISAC: Linguistics - GeneralThis book provides a state-of-the-art account of past and current research in the interface between linguistic...

• 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): 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): Simon Kirby • Publisher: OUP Oxford • Publisher Imprint: OUP Oxford • BISAC: Linguistics - GeneralThis book is a powerful demonstration of the value of looking at language as an adaptive system, which reaches the heart of debates in ...

• 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): 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): Inderjeet Mani | James Pustejovsky | Robert Gaizauskas • Publisher: OUP Oxford • Publisher Imprint: OUP Oxford • BISAC: ReadersThis reader collects and introduces important work in linguistics, computer science, artificial intelligen...

• Author(s): Simon Kirby | Morten Christiansen | Morten H. Christiansen • Publisher: OUP Oxford • Publisher Imprint: OUP Oxford • BISAC: Linguistics - Historical & ComparativeThe leading scholars in the rapidly growing field of language evolu...

• 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): 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): 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): Elizabeth Lanza • Publisher: OUP Oxford • Publisher Imprint: OUP Oxford • BISAC: Linguistics - GeneralThis study examines the simultaneous acquisition of Norwegian and English by two first-born children each with one American and one...

• 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): 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): Andreas Willi • Publisher: OUP Oxford • Publisher Imprint: OUP Oxford • BISAC: Linguistics - GeneralBy examining linguistic variation in Aristophanic comedy, Andreas Willi opens up a new perspective on intra-dialectal diversity in Cl...

• Author(s): Rudolf Botha | Martin Everaert • Publisher: OUP Oxford • Publisher Imprint: OUP Oxford • BISAC: Linguistics - GeneralLeading primatologists, cognitive scientists, anthropologists, and linguists consider how language evolution can be ...

• Author(s): Rudolf Botha | Chris Knight • Publisher: OUP Oxford • Publisher Imprint: OUP Oxford • BISAC: Linguistics - Historical & Comparative'When, why, and how did language evolve?' 'Why do only humans have language?' This book looks at t...

• Author(s): Elizabeth Lanza • Publisher: OUP Oxford • Publisher Imprint: OUP Oxford • BISAC: Linguistics - SociolinguisticsThis book examines the simultaneous acquisition of Norwegian and English by two first-born children each with one American...

• Author(s): Andreas Willi • Publisher: OUP Oxford • Publisher Imprint: OUP Oxford • BISAC: Linguistics - GeneralBy examining linguistic variation in Aristophanic comedy, Andreas Willi opens up a new perspective on intra-dialectal diversity in Cl...

• Author(s): Charles D. Yang • Publisher: OUP Oxford • Publisher Imprint: OUP Oxford • BISAC: Linguistics - GeneralIt is a simple observation that children make mistakes when they learn a language. Yet, to the trained eye, these mistakes are far ...

• Author(s): Anat Ninio • Publisher: OUP Oxford • Publisher Imprint: OUP Oxford • BISAC: Linguistics - GeneralLanguage development remains one of the most hotly debated topics in the cognitive sciences. In recent years we have seen contributions ...

• 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): Raffaella Folli | Christiane Ulbrich • Publisher: OUP Oxford • Publisher Imprint: OUP Oxford • BISAC: Linguistics - GeneralThis book explores the interaction of grammatical components in a wide variety of languages, and presents and ...

• Author(s): Stephen Barbour | Cathie Carmichael • Publisher: OUP Oxford • Publisher Imprint: OUP Oxford • BISAC: Linguistics - SociolinguisticsThis volume examines the role of language in the present and past creation of social, cultural, and na...

• Author(s): Stephen Barbour | Cathie Carmichael • Publisher: OUP Oxford • Publisher Imprint: OUP Oxford • BISAC: Linguistics - GeneralThis volume examines the role of language in the present and past creation of social, cultural, and national id...

• Author(s): Oswald J. L. Szemerenyi • Publisher: OUP Oxford • Publisher Imprint: OUP Oxford • BISAC: Linguistics - GeneralThis translation of the German edition, first published in 1970, introduces the standard text on the comparative-historical...

• Author(s): William Snyder • Publisher: OUP Oxford • Publisher Imprint: OUP Oxford • BISAC: Linguistics - GeneralThis is a systematic presentation of the parametric approach to child language. Linguistic theory seeks to specify the range of gram...

• Author(s): Pieter A. M. Seuren • Publisher: OUP Oxford • Publisher Imprint: OUP Oxford • BISAC: Grammar & PunctuationThis book contains a collection of twenty-two papers written by the author between 1972 and 1999, reflecting the developmen...

• Author(s): Charles D. Yang • Publisher: OUP Oxford • Publisher Imprint: OUP Oxford • BISAC: Linguistics - GeneralIt is a simple observation that children make mistakes when they learn a language. Yet, to the trained eye, these mistakes are far ...

• Author(s): Martin Haspelmath • Publisher: OUP Oxford • Publisher Imprint: OUP Oxford • BISAC: Linguistics - GeneralThis is an open access title available under the terms of a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 International licence. It is free to read at Oxford S...

• Author(s): Simon Kirby | Morten Christiansen • Publisher: OUP Oxford • Publisher Imprint: OUP Oxford • BISAC: Linguistics - Historical & ComparativeThe leading scholars in the rapidly growing field of language evolution give readable accoun...