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• Author(s): Gillian Ramchand | Charles Reiss • Publisher: OUP Oxford • Publisher Imprint: OUP Oxford • BISAC: Linguistics - GeneralThis state-of-the-art guide to some of the most exciting work in current linguistics explores how the core compone...

• 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): 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): Daniel Nettle | D. H. Nettleton • Publisher: OUP Oxford • Publisher Imprint: OUP Oxford • BISAC: Linguistics - SemanticsThere are some 6,500 different languages in the world. This book investigates why diversity arose, how it relates...

• Author(s): Susan Pintzuk | G. Tsoulas | A. Warner • Publisher: OUP Oxford • Publisher Imprint: OUP Oxford • BISAC: Linguistics - SociolinguisticsLinguistic theory has undergone deep changes since the early 1990's, given the widespread impact of...

• 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): 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): 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): 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): 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): 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): J. P. Mallory | D. Q. Adams • Publisher: OUP Oxford • Publisher Imprint: OUP Oxford • BISAC: Linguistics - GeneralThis book introduces Proto-Indo-European, describes how it was reconstructed from its descendant languages, and shows w...

• Author(s): Anthony Fox • Publisher: OUP Oxford • Publisher Imprint: OUP Oxford • BISAC: Linguistics - Historical & ComparativeHow and why are languages constantly changing? Historical linguistics seeks to find out by going beyond the histor...

• 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): 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): Keith Allan • Publisher: OUP Oxford • Publisher Imprint: OUP Oxford • BISAC: Linguistics - GeneralLeading scholars examine the history of linguistics from ancient origins to the present. They consider every aspect of the field from l...

• 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): R. M. W. Dixon | Alexandra Y. Aikhenvald • Publisher: OUP Oxford • Publisher Imprint: OUP Oxford • BISAC: Linguistics - GeneralA complement clause is used instead of a noun phrase; for example one can say either I heard [the result] ...

• 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): 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): Susan Pintzuk | George Tsoulas | Anthony Warner • Publisher: OUP Oxford • Publisher Imprint: OUP Oxford • BISAC: Grammar & PunctuationLinguistic theory has undergone deep changes since the early 1990's, given the widespread impac...

• 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): Carol Myers-Scotton • Publisher: OUP Oxford • Publisher Imprint: OUP Oxford • BISAC: Linguistics - SociolinguisticsContact Linguistics is a critical investigation of what happens to the grammars of languages when bilingual speakers u...

• 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): 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): 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): 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): 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): R. M. W. Dixon • Publisher: OUP Oxford • Publisher Imprint: OUP Oxford • BISAC: Linguistics - GeneralR.M.W. Dixon provides a comprehensive guide to the nature of human languages and their description and analysis. The books are a one...

• 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): 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): Yan Huang • Publisher: OUP Oxford • Publisher Imprint: OUP Oxford • BISAC: Linguistics - GeneralUnderstanding any communication depends on the listener or reader recognizing that some words refer to what has already been said or writ...

• Author(s): Alexandra Y. Aikhenvald | R. M. W. Dixon • Publisher: OUP Oxford • Publisher Imprint: OUP Oxford • BISAC: Linguistics - SociolinguisticsThis book considers how and why forms and meanings of different languages at different times may ...

• 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...