Peripheries : Syntactic Edges and Their Effects

David Adger
Paperback - $82.95

The syntactic periphery has become one of the most important areas of research in syntactic theory in recent years, due to the emergence of new research programmes initiated by Rizzi, Kayne and Chomsky. However research has concentrated on the empiri ...

Some Questions about Language : A Theory of Human Discourse and Its Objects

Mortimer Jerome Adler
Paperback - $45.95

Introducing Electronic Text Analysis : A Pratical Guide for Language and Literary Studies

Svenja Adolphs
Paperback - $80.95

"Introducing Electronic Text Analysis" is a practical and much needed introduction to bodies of linguistic data known as corpora. Written specifically for students studying this topic for the first time, the book begins with a discussion of the under ...

The End of the Poem : Studies in Poetics

Giorgio Agamben
Paperback - $35.95

This book, by one of Italy' s most important and original contemporary philosophers, represents a broad, general, and ambitious undertaking-- nothing less than an attempt to rethink the nature of poetic language and to rearticulate relationships amon ...

Language Shock : Understanding the Culture of Conversation

Michael Agar
Paperback - $38.95

This guide to understanding the culture of conversation is by one of America's foremost linguistic anthropologists. In a fascinating journey through the meaning of language--and the relationship of language to culture--Michael Agar sheds new light on ...

Sociolinguistics and Contemporary French

Dennis Ernest Ager
Paperback - $71.95

This textbook deals with the ways in which French is used in different circumstances and settings in France and abroad; with the language attitudes of French speakers; and with language policy. It is concerned not only with the linguistic data, but a ...

Let's Chat! ESL Dialogues with CDROM

Barbara J. Agor
Paperback - $20.95

This book-and-CD set presents sample dialogues for speaking on the phone, greetings and farewells, compliments, general small talk, and other common personal interactions. Includes a non-language icon and a number by each dialogue so that students kn ...

Words and Intelligence I : Selected Papers by Yorick Wilks

Khurshid Ahmad
Hardcover - $252.95

Yorick Wilks is a central figure in the fields of Natural Language Processing and Artificial Intelligence. His influence extends to many areas and includes contributions to Machines Translation, word sense disambiguation, dialogue modeling and Inf ...

Words and Intelligence II : Essays in Honor of Yorick Wilks

Khurshid Ahmad
Hardcover - $294.95

Yorick Wilks is a central figure in the fields of Natural Language Processing and Artificial Intelligence. His influence has extends to many areas of these fields and includes contributions to Machine Translation, word sense disambiguation, dialog ...

Pragmatic Markers in Contrast

Karin Aijmer
Hardcover - $193.95

Building on the first volume in the Studies in Pragmatics series which clearly set out the differences and similarities in approaches to discourse markers, Pragmatic Markers in Contrast continues the debate through offering a unique and thorough exam ...