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English

Does Science Need a Global Language? English and the Future of Research

Montgomery Scott L.

ISBN: HB: 9780226535036, University of Chicago Press, April 2013
240 pp., 23x15 cm, 1 table, 8 line illus.

In early 2012, the global scientific community erupted with news that the elusive Higgs boson had likely been found, providing potent validation for the Standard Model of how the universe works. Scientists from more than one hundred countries contrib...

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Dictionaries

Reference

Yup'ik Eskimo Dictionary (Second Edition) Volumes 1 and 2

Jacobson Steven A.

ISBN: PB: 9781555001155, University of Chicago Press, University of Alaska Press, March 2013
1248 pp., 27.9x21.6 cm

The most comprehensive Yup'ik dictionary in existence, the second edition of this important work now adds extensive research on Central Alaskan Yup'ik, enhancing the forty years of research done by Steven A. Jacobson on the Yup'ik language and dialec...

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Chinese

Written on Bamboo and Silk The Beginnings of Chinese Books and Inscriptions, Second Edition

Tsien Tsuen-Hsuin

ISBN: PB: 9780226814162, University of Chicago Press, March 2013
320 pp., 23x15 cm, 3 tables, 26 halftones, 4 line illus.

Paleography, which often overlaps with archaeology, deciphers ancient inscriptions and modes of writing to reveal the knowledge and workings of earlier societies. In this now-classic paleographic study of China, Tsuen-Hsuin Tsien traces the developme...

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Linguistics

Concreteness in Grammar

Dobrin Lise

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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Philosophy

Tacit and Explicit Knowledge

Collins Harry

ISBN: PB: 9780226004211, University of Chicago Press, January 2013
200 pp., 23x15 cm, 6 tables, 3 halftones, 7 line illus.

Much of what humans know we cannot say. And much of what we do we cannot describe. For example, how do we know how to ride a bike when we can't explain how we do it? Abilities like this were called "tacit knowledge" by physical chemist and philosophe...

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Dictionaries

University of Chicago Spanish-English Dictionary Sixth Edition: Diccionario Universidad de Chicago Ingles-Espanol, Sexta Edicion

Pharies David A.

ISBN: PB: 9780226666969, ISBN: HB: 9780226666952, University of Chicago Press, August 2012
626 pp., 21.6x14 cm

For more than sixty years, "The University of Chicago Spanish-English Dictionary" has set the standard for concise bilingual dictionaries. Now thoroughly revised to reflect the most current vocabulary and usage in both languages, this dictionary enab...

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Linguistics

Identity, Language, and Mind An Introduction to the Philosophy of John Perry

Newen Albert, van Riel Raphael

ISBN: PB: 9781575866420, ISBN: HB: 9781575866437, University of Chicago Press, Center for the Study of Language and Information, July 2012
161 pp., 23x15 cm

As one of the world's most eminent living philosophers, John Perry has covered a remarkable breadth of subjects in his published work, including semantics, indexicality, self-knowledge, personal identity, and consciousness. Looking particularly at th...

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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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Japanese

Japanese/Korean Linguistics Volume 19

Cheon Sang Lee, Sohn Ho-min, Cook Haruko Minegishi, O'Grady William, Serafim Leon Angelo

ISBN: PB: 9781575866185, ISBN: HB: 9781575866192, University of Chicago Press, Center for the Study of Language and Information, April 2012
547 pp., 22.9x15 cm

Japanese and Korean are typologically similar languages, and a linguistic phenomenon in the former often has a counterpart in the latter. The papers in this volume are from the nineteenth Japanese/Korean Linguistics Conference, which was held at the...

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Linguistics

Language, Proof, and Logic Second Edition

Barker-Plummer David, Barwise Jon, Etchemendy John

ISBN: PB + CD: 9781575866321, University of Chicago Press, Center for the Study of Language and Information, September 2011
650 pp., 23x20.5 cm

This textbook/software package covers first-order language in a method appropriate for a wide range of courses, from first logic courses for undergraduates (philosophy, mathematics, and computer science) to a first graduate logic course. The accompan...

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