Autor: Wowra Frank

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Language and Species

"Language and Species" presents the most detailed and well-documented scenario to date of the origins of language. Drawing on "living linguistic fossils" such as "ape talk," the "two-word" stage of …


geschrieben von D. Bickerton (Autor) und Derek Bickerton (Autor)

Lexical Change and Variation in the Southeastern United States, 1930-1990

This book discusses words used in the Southeast and how they have changed during the 20th century. It also describes how the lexicon varies according to the speaker's age, race, education, sex, and …


geschrieben von Ellen Johnson (Autor)

Writing from the Heart

With warm, lively, often humorous anecdotes, advice, and lessons, this unique approach to …


geschrieben von Nancy Aronie (Autor)

The Ulysses Guide: Tours Through Joyce's Dublin

Follow all eighteen episodes of Ulysses in their original locations with this essential companion for Joyce lovers. Retrace the footsteps of Stephen Dedalus and Leopold Bloom on eight tours through …


geschrieben von Robert Nicholson (Autor)

An Economy of Colour: Visual Culture and the North Atlantic World, 1660-1830

The contributors to this volume analyze visual culture in the context of British and French Colonial activity in the North Atlantic from 1660-1830. It is a response to a noticeable omission in current …

Introduction: visual culture and the Atlantic world, 1660-1830, Geoff Quilley and Kay Dian Kriz. Identifying the Atlantic world - textuality, visuality and hybridity: envisioning the colonial body - …


geschrieben von Geoff Quilley (Herausgeber) und Kay Dian Kriz (Herausgeber)

Structures and Categories for the Representation of Meaning

Logical method of representing the meanings of linguistic …

Preface; Acknowledgements; 1. Linguistics: strings; 2. Logic: trees; 3. Computer science: graphs; 4. Categorial graphs; 5. Basic categories: count nouns; 6. Basic categories: pointers; 7. Quantifiers, …


geschrieben von Timothy C. Potts (Autor)

Syntactic Change: A Minimalist Approach to Grammaticalization

Ian Roberts is Professor of Linguistics at the University of Cambridge. Anna …

A general account of grammaticalization in …

Acknowledgements; Introduction; 1. Parameters, functional heads and language change; 2. T elements; 3. C elements; 4. D elements; 5. Theoretical consequences; References; Index of languages; Index of …


geschrieben von Ian Roberts (Autor) und Anna Roussou (Autor)

Cnuasach Focal as Teileann

Collection of words, phrases and connotations not found in standard dictionaries, based on large body of folklore collected in Teileann, Co. Donegal, from the thirties onward. It is the most extensive …


geschrieben von Una M. Ui Bheirn (Autor) und Una M. Ui Bheirn (Autor)

A Book of Welsh Names

Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high …


geschrieben von Trefor Rendall Davies (Autor)

The Early Medieval Bible

Eleven linked studies interpreting the evidence of Bible …

Preface; 1. The oldest manuscripts of the Latin Bible Patrick McGurk; 2. The Royal 1. B. vii Gospels and English book production in the seventh and eighth centuries Richard Gameson; 3. Mass production …


geschrieben von Richard Gameson (Herausgeber)


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