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Perry John

ISBN: PB: 9781684000500, ISBN: HB: 9781684000494, University of Chicago Press, Center for the Study of Language and Information, January 2021
489 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

This book gathers together in one volume many influential papers by renowned philosopher of language John Perry.

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Bantu Applicative Constructions

Pacchiarotti Sara

ISBN: PB: 9781684000593, University of Chicago Press, Center for the Study of Language and Information, January 2020
0 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

This book addresses various shortcomings in definitions of "applicative" when compared to what is actually found across languages and proposes a four-way distinction among applicative constructions, especially relevant to Bantu, a large family of lan...

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Linguistics

Revisiting the Essential Indexical

Perry John

ISBN: PB: 9781684000524, ISBN: HB: 9781684000616, University of Chicago Press, Center for the Study of Language and Information, January 2020
146 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

In this book, renowned philosopher John Perry responds to criticisms of his influential writing on "the essential indexical". He begins by explaining the conclusions of his past articles. He then argues that many criticisms are based on confusions ab...

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Literary Criticism

Linguistics

Enumerations Data and Literary Study

Piper Andrew

ISBN: PB: 9780226568751, ISBN: HB: 9780226568614, University of Chicago Press, August 2018
256 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 48 line drawings, 26 tables

For well over a century, academic disciplines have studied human behavior using quantitative information. Until recently, however, the humanities have remained largely immune to the use of data – or vigorously resisted it. Thanks to new developments...

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Comparative Method of Language Acquisition Research

Pye Clifton

ISBN: PB: 9780226539614, ISBN: HB: 9780226481289, University of Chicago Press, November 2017
304 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 12 halftones, 1 line drawing, 90 tables

The Mayan family of languages is ancient and unique. With their distinctive relational nouns, positionals, and complex grammatical voices, they are quite alien to English and have never been shown to be genetically related to other New World tongues....

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What Is Said and What Is Not The Semantics/Pragmatics Interface

Penco Carlo, Domaneschi Filippo

ISBN: HB: 9781575866680, University of Chicago Press, Center for the Study of Language and Information, February 2015
224 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

This volume contains essays that explore explicit and implicit communication through linguistic research. Taking as a framework Paul Grice's theories on "what is said", the contributors explore a number of areas, including: the boundary between seman...

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Interaction of Tone with Voicing and Foot Structure Evidence from Kera Phonetics and Phonology

Pearce Mary D.

ISBN: PB: 9781575866086, University of Chicago Press, Center for the Study of Language and Information, September 2013
440 pp., 23x15 cm

This book investigates the topics of tone, vowel harmony, and metrical structure, with special reference to Kera, a Chadic language spoken in Chad and Cameroon. Kera is a tone language where a change in the pitch of the word can make a difference to...

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Literary Criticism

Prague English Studies and the Transformation of Philologies

Prochazka Martin, Pilny Ondrej

ISBN: PB: 9788024621562, University of Chicago Press, Karolinum Press, September 2013
140 pp., 20.3x12.7 cm

Not for sale in the Czech Republic and the Slovak Republic! This collaborative monograph will commemorate the centenary of the Prague English Studies, officially inaugurated in 1912 by the appointment of Vilem Mathesius. Apart from reassessing the...

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Linguistics

Reference and Reflexivity Second Edition

Perry John

ISBN: PB: 9781575865249, ISBN: HB: 9781575865232, University of Chicago Press, Center for the Study of Language and Information, April 2012
275 pp., 22x14 cm

In this volume John Perry develops his "reflexive-referential" account of indexicals, demonstratives, and proper names. For this new second edition, Perry has added a new preface and two chapters on the distinction between semantics and pragmatics an...

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Phonetic Symbol Guide

Pullum Geoffrey K., Ladusaw William A.

ISBN: PB: 9780226685366, ISBN: HB: 9780226685359, University of Chicago Press, July 1996
358 pp., 20.3x13.2 cm, 375 line drawings

"Phonetic Symbol Guide" is a comprehensive and authoritative encyclopedia of phonetic alphabet symbols, providing a complete survey of the hundreds of characters used by linguists and speech scientists to record the sounds of the world's languages....

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