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From Syntax to Text The Janus Face of Functional Sentence Perspective
ISBN: PB: 9788024628790, University of Chicago Press, Karolinum Press, October 2015
400 pp., 24x16.5 cm
Not for sale in the Czech Republic and the Slovak Republic! The volume deals with the interaction between syntax, informational structure (or functional sentence perspective), and text in present-day English and Czech. Libuše Duškova...
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Language and the Creative Mind
ISBN: HB: 9781575866710, University of Chicago Press, Center for the Study of Language and Information, August 2014
420 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
This volume brings together papers from the 11th Conceptual Structure, Discourse and Language Conference, held in Vancouver in May 2012. In the last few years, the cognitive study of language has begun to examine the interaction between language and...
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Concreteness in Grammar
ISBN: PB: 9781575866062, University of Chicago Press, Center for the Study of Language and Information, March 2013
240 pp., 23x15 cm
Based on an exhaustive search of published sources and the author's firsthand fieldwork, "Concreteness in Grammar" explores the role of phonological form in the noun class systems of the Arapesh languages spoken in Papua New Guinea. Linguists have lo...
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Fundamental Issues in the Romance Languages
ISBN: PB: 9781575865867, ISBN: HB: 9781575865874, University of Chicago Press, Center for the Study of Language and Information, April 2010
420 pp., 23x15 cm
"Fundamental Issues in the Romance Languages" compares six Romance languages – Catalan, French, Spanish, Italian, Portuguese, and Romanian – and summarizes the last thirty years of scholarship in the fields of morphology, syntax, semantics, and disco...
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Dictionary of Selected Synonyms in the Principal Indo-European Languages
ISBN: PB: 9780226079370, University of Chicago Press, June 1988
416 pp., 27.9x21.5 cm
Originally published in 1949 and appearing now for the first time in a paperbound edition, Buck's "Dictionary" remains an indispensable tool for diachronic analysis of the Indo-European languages. Arranged according to the meaning of words, the work...
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