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Linguistics

Grammars of Approach Landscape, Narrative, and the Linguistic Picturesque

Wall Cynthia

ISBN: HB: 9780226467665, University of Chicago Press, March 2019
352 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 9 colour plates, 16 halftones, 7 line drawings, 2 tables

In "Grammars of Approach", Cynthia Wall offers a close look at changes in perspective in spatial design, language, and narrative across the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries that involve, literally and psychologically, the concept of "ap...

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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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Grammatical Framework Programming with Multilingual Grammars

Ranta Aarne

ISBN: PB: 9781575866260, ISBN: HB: 9781575866277, University of Chicago Press, Center for the Study of Language and Information, July 2011
340 pp., 23x15 cm

Grammatical Framework is a programming language designed for writing grammars, which has the capability of addressing several languages in parallel. This thorough introduction demonstrates how to write grammars in Grammatical Framework and use them i...

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Grammar, Geometry, and Brain

Fenstad Jens Erik

ISBN: PB: 9781575865928, University of Chicago Press, Center for the Study of Language and Information, April 2010
120 pp., 23x15 cm

This original study considers the effects of language and meaning on the brain. Jens Erik Fenstad – an expert in the fields of recursion theory, nonstandard analysis, and natural language semantics – combines current formal semantics with a geometric...

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Linguistics

Gesture and Thought

McNeill David

ISBN: PB: 9780226514635, ISBN: HB: 9780226514628, University of Chicago Press, September 2007
328 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm, 92 figures, 13 tables

Gesturing is such an integral yet unconscious part of communication that we are mostly oblivious to it. But if you observe anyone in conversation, you are likely to see his or her fingers, hands, and arms in some form of spontaneous motion. Why? Davi...

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