Explanation in Historical Linguistics. by Davis, Garry W.

Table of Contents: “…EXPLANATION IN HISTORICAL LINGUISTICS; Editorial page; Title page; Copyright page; Table of contents; Preface; Event structure accounting for the emerging periphrastic tenses and the passive voice in German; Historical explanation and historical linguistics; Elements of resistance in contact-induced language change; Articulatory variability, categorical perception, and the inevitability of sound change; On the historical development of marked forms; On misusing similarity; Reconstruction and syntactic typology: a plea for a different approach.…”
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Directions in Functional Linguistics. by Kamio, Akio

Table of Contents: “…Acknowledgments; Preface; Contributors; Dispersed Verbal Predicates in Vernacular Written Narrative; Deontic Modality and Conditionality in Discourse: A Cross-linguistic Study of Adult Speech to Young Children; Discourse Motivations for the Core-Oblique Distinction as a Language Universal; Agentivity and Aspect in Japanese: A Functional Perspective; On the Functions of Left-Dislocation in English Discourse; Evidentiality and Some Discourse Characteristics in Japanese; On Japanese Quantifier Floating; The Battle over Anaphoric 'Islands': Syntax vs. …”
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Linguistics for intercultural education. by Dervin, Fred

Table of Contents: “…Linguistics for Intercultural Education; Editorial page; Title page; LCC data; Table of contents; Introduction: Linguistics for intercultural education; 1. …”
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Linguistic categories, language description and linguistic typology /

Table of Contents: “…Cover -- Title page -- Copyright -- Table of contents -- 1 Linguistic categories, language description and linguistic typology -- An overview -- 1 Introduction: The rationale for this book -- 2 Language-specific vs. universal categories, description vs. comparison -- A long history made short -- 3 The lingtyp debate and its background -- 4 Recent insights: The Linguistic Typology debate -- 5 Concluding remarks -- 6 The contributions to this volume -- References -- 2 Towards standardization of morphosyntactic terminology for general linguistics -- 1 Terminological consistency and standardization -- 2 Comparative concepts, language-particular categories, and natural kinds -- 3 Examples of possible standard definitions of well-known terms -- 4 Principles for standard morphosyntactic terms -- 5 Shared-core definitions of comparative concepts -- 6 Stereotypes and prototypes -- 7 Standard comparative terms and language-particular description -- 8 Concluding remarks -- Acknowledgements -- References -- 3 Universal underpinnings of language-specific categories -- 1 Introduction -- 2 The (non-) universality of categories -- 3 Why do languages categorize their UoLs and how? …”
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Linguistic and literary studies. Volume 4,., Linguistics and Literature., Sociolinguistics and Applied Linguistics.

Table of Contents: “…IX.: Further refinements of Inwitte -- Linguistic fundamentals of the meter of Beowulf…”
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Functional approaches to language

Table of Contents: “…On the intellectual roots of functionalism in linguistics / T. Givón -- Functional explanation and its uses / Esa Itkonen -- Structure and function : a niche-constructional approach / Peter Harder -- Toward a thought-based linguistics / Wallace Chafe -- Changing language / Michael P. …”
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The compositionality of meaning and content. applications to linguistics, psychology and neuroscience /...

Table of Contents: “…Preface; I COMPOSITIONALITY AND LANGUAGE; Compositionality, Linguistic Evolution, and Induction by Minimum Description Length; Compositionality and Molecularism; Compositionality, Aberrant Sentences and Unfamiliar Situations; Challenging the Principle of Compositionality in Interpreting Natural Language Texts; Compositionality in Plant Fixed Expressions; Type- and Token-Level Composition; Compositionality and Contextuality as Adjoint Principles; II COMPOSITIONALITY AND THE MIND; Perspectives, Compositionality and Complex Concepts; Compositionality and the Pragmatics of Conceptual Combination.…”
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Hard-science linguistics /

Table of Contents: “…Preface; Introduction; PART I: ORIENTATION TO HARD-SCIENCE LINGUISTICS; 1 The Depth Hypothesis and the New Hard-Science Linguistics; 2 Issues in Hard-Science Linguistics; 3 An Introduction to Hard-Science Linguistics; 4 Rules of Order; PART II: RECONSTITUTING PHONETICS-PHONOLOGY; 5 Towards a Physical Definition of the Vowel Systems of Languages; 6 Articulatory Events are Given in Advance; 7 An Outline of Hard-Science Phonetics-Phonology; PART III: IN SEARCH OF CONTEXT; 8 Reconstituting Notions of Reference; 9 Reconstituting Austin''s Verdictives.…”
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Theoretical Issues in Contrastive Linguistics. by Fisiak, Jacek

Table of Contents: “…THEORETICAL ISSUES IN CONTRASTIVE LINGUISTICS; THEORETICAL ISSUES IN CONTRASTIVE LINGUISTICS; Editorial page; Editorial page; Title page; Title page; Copyright page; Copyright page; FOREWORD; FOREWORD; Table of contents; Table of contents; INTRODUCTION; INTRODUCTION; PART I: ISSUES IN CONTRASTIVE LINGUISTIC THEORY; PART I: ISSUES IN CONTRASTIVE LINGUISTIC THEORY; CONTRASTIVE SOCIOLINGUISTICS; CONTRASTIVE SOCIOLINGUISTICS; EQUIVALENCE AND CONGRUENCE IN TRANSFORMATIONAL CONTRASTIVE STUDIES; EQUIVALENCE AND CONGRUENCE IN TRANSFORMATIONAL CONTRASTIVE STUDIES.…”
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The first glot international state-of-the-article book : the latest in linguistics /

Subjects: “…Linguistics.…”
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Language typology : a functional perspective

Table of Contents: “…Typology as one research application within systemic 0.8cm functional linguistics -- 1.2.2. Theory and description -- the boundary between the two -- 1.3. …”
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Mathematical Methods in Linguistics / by Partee, Barbara H.

Table of Contents: “…MATHEMATICAL METHODS IN LINGUISTICS -- Studies in Linguistics and Philosophy Volume 30 -- MATHEMATICAL METHODS IN LINGUISTICS corrected second printing of the first edition -- Copyright -- Table of Contents -- List of Symbols -- Preface -- Part A SET THEORY -- Chapter 1 Basic Concepts of Set Theory -- Chapter 2 Relations and Functions -- Chapter 3 Properties of Relations -- Chapter 4 Infinities -- Appendix A Set-Theoretic Reconstruction of Number Systems -- Review Exercises -- Part B LOGIC AND FORMAL SYSTEMS -- Chapter 5 Basic Concepts of Logic and Formal Systems -- Chapter 6 Statement Logic -- Chapter 7 Predicate Logic -- Chapter 8 Formal Systems, Axiomatization, and Model Theory -- Appendix B-I Alternative Notations and Connectives -- Appendix B-II Kleene's Three-valued Logic -- Review Exercises -- Part C ALGEBRA -- Chapter 9 Basic Concepts of Algebra -- Chapter 10 Operational Structures -- Chapter 11 Lattices -- Chapter 12 Boolean and Heyting Algebras -- Review Exercises -- Part D ENGLISH AS A FORMAL LANGUAGE -- Chapter 13 Basic Concepts -- Chapter 14 Generalized Quantifiers -- Chapter 15 Intensionality -- Part E LANGUAGES, GRAMMARS, AND AUTOMATA -- Chapter 16 Basic Concepts -- Chapter 17 Finite Automata, Regular Languages and Type 3 Grammars -- Chapter 18 Pushdown Automata, Context Free Grammars and Languages -- Chapter 19 Turing Machines, Recursively Enumerable Languages and Type 0 Grammars -- Chapter 20 Linear Bounded Automata, Context Sensitive Languages and Type 1 Grammars -- Chapter 21 Languages Between Context Free and Context Sensitive -- Chapter 22 Transformational Grammars -- Appendix E-I The Chomsky Hierarchy -- Appendix E-II Semantic Automata -- Review Exercises -- Solutions to selected exercises -- Bibliography -- Index.…”
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Foundations of axiomatic linguistics / by Mulder, Jan W. F.

Table of Contents: “…Chapter VIII: Postulates for axiomatic linguistics. --…”
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Eastward flows the great river : festschrift in honor of Professor William S-Y. Wang on his 80th birthday

Table of Contents: “…Phonetic Features of Colloquial Cantonese -- 4. Linguistic Adaptation: The Trade-Off between Case Marking and Fixed Word Orders in Germanic and Romance Languages -- 5. …”
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Hypothesis A-Hypothesis B : Linguistic Explorations in Honor of David M. Perlmutter /

Table of Contents: “…Contents -- Contributors -- Preface -- My Path in Linguistics -- 1 Depictives and Serialization in Tzotzil -- 2 Prolegomenon to Any Future Typology of Impersonal Sentences -- 3 Romanian as a Two-Gender Language -- 4 1-handed PERSONs and ASL Morphology -- 5 Six Arguments for Wh-Movement in Chamorro -- 6 On the Existence (and Distribution) of Sentential Subjects -- 7 Syntax and Semantics of Polish Emotion Verbs: A Corpus Study -- 8 Term Relations and Relational Hierarchies -- 9 Constraints on Verb Stem Stacking in Southern Tiwa…”
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Principles and prediction : the analysis of natural language : papers in honor of Gerald Sanders

Table of Contents: “…TYPOLOGICAL ISSUES; THE SECOND PERSON IS RIGHTLY SO CALLED; THE STRUCTURE OF CATEGORY SYSTEMS; ON THE NATURAL DOMAIN OF LINGUISTIC UNIVERSALS; II. SYNTACTIC ISSUES; WHY IS SYNTAX COMPLICATED?…”
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History and Perspectives of Language Study : Papers in Honor of Ranko Bugarski

Table of Contents: “…HISTORY AND PERSPECTIVES OF LANGUAGE STUDY -- Editorial page -- Title page -- LCC data -- Ranko Bugarski -- Table of Contents -- In Honor of Ranko Bugarski -- Ranko Bugarski: Select List of Publications, 1968-1999 -- PART I: Towards the History of Language Study -- The Impact of the Relationship Between Language, Thought, and Action on the Applied Potential of Approaches... -- Historical Linguistics in Time -- Two Approaches to Morphological Typology and the Diachronic Characterization and Comparison of Languages -- The Amnesic Syndromes of Structuralism -- Saussure's View of the Value of Diachrony -- J. …”
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Los criollos de base ibérica. ACBLPE 2003 by Fernández, Mauro

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Writing essays in English language and linguistics : principles, tips and strategies for undergraduates / by Murray, Neil, 1960-

Table of Contents: “…Cover; Writing Essays in English Language and Linguistics; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Acknowledgements; Introduction; A guide to the book's icons:what do they mean?…”
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Estudios de fraseología y fraseografia del español actual

Subjects: “…Linguistics.…”
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The second Glot international state-of-the-article book : the latest in linguistics /

Table of Contents: “…The syntactic representation of linguistic events /…”
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Refurbishing our foundations : elementary linguistics from an advanced point of view / by Hockett, Charles Francis

Table of Contents: “…REFURBISHING OUR FOUNDATIONS ELEMENTARY LINGUISTICS FROM AN ADVANCED POINT OF VIEW; Editorial page; Title page; Copyright page; PREFACE; Table of contents; 0. …”
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Writings in General Linguistics : On Sound Alternation (1881) and Outline of Linguistic Science (1883). by Kruszewski, Mikolaj

Table of Contents: “…WRITINGS IN GENERAL LINGUISTICS; Editorial page; Title page; Copyright page; Dedication; Foreword; Table of contents; INTRODUCTION MIKOLAJ KRUSZEWSKI'S CONTRIBUTION TO GENERAL LINGUISTICS; ON SOUND ALTERNATION; OUTLINE OF LINGUISTIC SCIENCE; TRANSLATOR'S FOREWORD; LIST OF ABBREVIATIONS; INTRODUCTION; PRINZIPIEN DER SPRACHENTWICKELUNG.; CHAPTER 1. …”
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Adjectives in Germanic and Romance

Subjects: “…Linguistics.…”
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Papers in theoretical linguistics / by Danielsen, Niels

Table of Contents: “…PAPERSIN THEORETICAL LINGUISTICS; Editorial page; Title page; Copyright page; Table of contents; FOREWORD; NIELS DANIELSEN: LIST OF PUBLICATIONS; NIELS DANIELSEN IN MEMORIAM; ON THE UNIVERSALITY OF LANGUAGE; REFERENCES; DIE RELATIVA IM NEUHOCHDEUTSCHENUND -- UND ANDREN SPRACHEN; Anhang; ON THE NUCLEUS CONSTRUCTIONS IN HUMAN LANGUAGE; A FIRST CONSTITUTIONAL STEP TOWARDS A UNIVERSAL SYNTAX; THE CASES UNRAVELLED (OR: BACK TO LINGUISTICS!)…”
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From Grammar to Science : New Foundations for General Linguistics. by Yngve, Victor H., 1920-2012

Table of Contents: “…A SCIENTIFICALLYJUSTIFIED NOTATION; 14. LINGUISTIC THEORIES OF GROUPS.…”
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Productivity and Creativity : Studies in General and Descriptive Linguistics in Honor of E.M. Uhlenbeck /

Table of Contents: “…Section 1. General linguistics -- section 2. Javanese and Indonesian -- section 3. …”
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I-language : an introduction to linguistics as cognitive science / by Isac, Daniela, Reiss, Charles

Subjects: “…Linguistics.…”
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Interpreting : Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow. by Bowen, David

Subjects: “…Linguistics.…”
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The domain of language by Fortescue, Michael D.

Table of Contents: “…Language in the wild: a forest walk -- 16. Linguistics through the ages -- 17. Pull-ups and put-downs: how to transform your life by hopping on bars -- 18. …”
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Historical Linguistics 2001 : Selected Papers from the 15th International Conference on Historical Linguistics, Melbourne, 13-17 August 2001 /

Table of Contents: “…HISTORICAL LINGUISTICS 2001; Editorial page; Title page; LCC page; Table of contents; Contributors' addresses; Preface; Language contact and language change in Amazonia; Grammaticalization and the historical development of the genitive in Mainland Scandinavian; Beyond the comparative method?…”
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Doing Applied Linguistics : a guide for students. by Groom, Nicholas

Table of Contents: “…Questions about applied linguistics; 2. Topics in applied linguistics; 3. The impact of applied linguistics; 4. …”
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Synchrony and diachrony : a dynamic interface

Subjects: “…Historical linguistics.…”
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Issues in Mathematical Linguistics : Workshop on Mathematical Linguistics, State College, PA, April 1998. by Martín-Vide, Carlos

Table of Contents: “…ISSUES IN MATHEMATICAL LINGUISTICS; Editorial page; Title page; Copyright page; Foreword; Table of contents; List of Contributors; Commands as Binary Relations; Generalized Minimalist Grammars; An Infinite Hierarchy of Mildly Context-Sensitive Families of Languages; Some Uses and Abuses of Mathematics in Linguistics; Logical Splicing in Natural Languages; X-Families: An Approach to the Study of Families of Syntactically Similar Languages; Overparsing; Computational Complexity in Language Models; Grammar Efficiency and the Historical Development of Word Order in French; Author Index.…”
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Why do linguistics? : reflective linguistics and the study of language / by English, Fiona, Marr, Tim

Table of Contents: “…pt. ONE Reflective linguistics -- Introduction to Part I -- 1. About noticing: Becoming a linguistic ethnographer -- 2. …”
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Meaning and the Lexicon : the Parallel Architecture 1975-2010. by Jackendoff, Ray, 1945-

Table of Contents: “…Contents; Abbreviations; Preface; 1 Prologue: The Parallel Architecture and its Components (2010); Remarks on Chapter 2; 2 Morphological and Semantic Regularities in the Lexicon (1975); Remarks on Chapters 3 and 4; 3 On Beyond Zebra: The Relation of Linguistic and Visual Information (1987); 4 The Architecture of the LinguisticSpatial Interface (1996); Remarks on Chapter 5; 5 Parts and Boundaries (1991); Remarks on Chapter 6; 6 The Proper Treatment of Measuring Out, Telicity, and Perhaps Even Quantification in English (1996); Remarks on Chapters 713.…”
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Texture of internet : netlinguistics in progress

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Word hunters : field linguists on fieldwork /

Table of Contents: “…Introduction; 2. The linguist as an a#x80;#x98;after-death demona#x80;#x99.…”
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Corpus linguistics at work / by Tognini-Bonelli, Elena

Table of Contents: “…Corpus Linguistics at Work; Editorial page; Title page; Copyright page; Table of contents; Acknowledgements; 1. …”
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Language and logos : studies in theoretical and computational linguistics /

Table of Contents: “…Wide Scope im situ What it Takes to be Missing -- Part III Automata Theory -- Robust Parsing as a Constraint Optimization Problem within a Finite-state Approach -- Îæ-Removal by Loop Reductionfor Finite-state Automata over Complete Semirings -- Efficient Online A; -Best Lookupin Weighted Finite-State Cascades -- Tomita's Algorithm Revisited -- Part IV Mathematical Linguistics -- On the Treatment of Multiple-WMnterrogatives in Minimalist Grammars -- Some Remarks on Mildly Context-Sensitive Copying -- Part V Computational Linguistics…”
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