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Hajicova Eva

ISBN: PB: 9788024637143, University of Chicago Press, Karolinum Press, November 2018
300 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

Not for sale in the Czech Republic and the Slovak Republic! "Syntax-Semantics Interface" is a collection of papers written by leading Czech linguist Eva Hajicova between 1973 and 2014 that draw on the theoretical framework of the functional generat...

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Linguistics

Revealing Structure

Buckley Eugene, Crane Thera, Good Jeff

ISBN: PB: 9781684000296, University of Chicago Press, Center for the Study of Language and Information, September 2018
292 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

Drawing from a wide range of perspectives in the analysis of grammatical structures, the papers collected in this book are unified not by linguistic subfield, but by the investigative method they employ in revealing grammatical patterns".Revealing St...

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Linguistics

Shaping Phonology

Brentari Diane, Lee Jackson L.

ISBN: HB: 9780226562452, University of Chicago Press, August 2018
320 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 11 halftones, 26 line drawings, 6 tables

Within the past forty years, the field of phonology – a branch of linguistics that explores both the sound structures of spoken language and the analogous phonemes of sign language, as well as how these features of language are used to convey meaning...

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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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Linguistics

Japanese

Japanese/Korean Linguistics Volume 24

Funakoshi Kenshi

ISBN: PB: 9781684000241, ISBN: HB: 9781684000258, University of Chicago Press, Center for the Study of Language and Information, February 2018
400 pp., 22.9x15 cm

Japanese and Korean are typologically similar, with linguistic phenomena in one often having counterparts in the other. The Japanese/Korean Linguistics Conference provides a forum for research, particularly through comparative study, on both language...

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Anthropology

Linguistics

Dark Matter of the Mind The Culturally Articulated Unconscious

Everett Daniel L.

ISBN: PB: 9780226526782, University of Chicago Press, November 2017
400 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 6 halftones, 18 line drawings, 2 tables

Is it in our nature to be altruistic, or evil, to make art, use tools, or create language? Is it in our nature to think in any particular way? For Daniel L. Everett, the answer is a resounding no: it isn't in our nature to do any of these things beca...

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Linguistics

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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Linguistics

Logical Reasoning with Diagrams and Sentences Using Hyperproof

Barker-Plummer David, Barwise Jon, Etchemendy John

ISBN: PB: 9781575869513, University of Chicago Press, Center for the Study of Language and Information, August 2017
227 pp., 25.4x17.8 cm, 27 figures

The "Logical Reasoning with Diagrams and Sentences" courseware package teaches the principles of analytical reasoning and proof construction using a carefully crafted combination of textbook, desktop, and online materials. This package is sure to be...

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Linguistics

Gift of the Gab How Eloquence Works

Crystal David

ISBN: PB: 9780300226409, ISBN: HB: 9780300214260, Yale University Press, May 2017
256 pp., 21.6x14 cm, 29 black&white illus.

We all know eloquence when we hear it. But what exactly is it? And how might we gain more of it for ourselves? This entertaining and, yes, eloquent book illuminates the power of language from a linguistic point of view and provides fascinating insigh...

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Linguistics

Truth about Language What It Is and Where It Came From

Corballis Michael C.

ISBN: HB: 9780226287195, University of Chicago Press, March 2017
288 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm, 10 halftones

Evolutionary science has long viewed language as, basically, a fortunate accident – a crossing of wires that happened to be extraordinarily useful, setting humans apart from other animals and onto a trajectory that would see their brains (and the pro...

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