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A Grammar of Tariana, from Northwest Amazonia
Alexandra Y. Aikhenvald
Paperback - $170.95
The speakers of Tariana, an endangered Arawak language from the northwest Amazonian jungle, traditionally marry someone speaking a different language; therefore, most are fluent in five or six languages. This comprehensive grammar reveals how Tariana ...
Classifiers : A Typology of Noun Categorization Devices
Alexandra Y. Aikhenvald
Hardcover - $673.95
Almost all languages have some grammatical means for categorizing nouns. This book provides a comprehensive and original analysis of noun categorization devices all over the world. It will interest typologists, those working in the fields of morphosy ...
Classifiers : A Typology of Noun Categorization Devices
Alexandra Y. Aikhenvald
Paperback - $153.95
Almost all languages have some grammatical means for categorizing nouns. This book provides a comprehensive and original analysis of noun categorization devices all over the world. It will interest typologists, those working in the fields of morphosy ...
Evidentiality
Alexandra Y. Aikhenvald
Hardcover - $397.95
In a number of languages, scattered across the world, every statement must contain a specification of the type of evidence on which it is based--whether the speaker saw it, or heard it, or inferred it from indirect evidence, or learnt it from somebod ...
Grammars in Contact : A Cross-Linguistic Typology
Alexandra Y. Aikhenvald
Hardcover - $317.95
The present volume examines the ways in which linguistic traits may change in a contact situation. It contains an encyclopaedic introduction, which sets out a general theory of contact-induced change, and twelve subsequent chapters, which analyse the ...
Teach Yourself Linguistics
Jean Aitchison
Paperback - $22.95
"Teach Yourself Linguistics" is a straightforward introduction to linguistics, the systematic study that seeks to answer two fundamental questions: "What is language?" and "How does language work?" This book outlines the scope of linguistics, expl ...
The Articulate Mammal : An Introduction to Psycholinguistics
Jean Aitchison
Hardcover - $264.95
This highly successful text has been substantially revised to take account of the considerable changes in Chomsky's recent ideas. The chapters on grammatical innateness, child language acquisition, and speech comprehension have been largely rewritten ...