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Let's Chat! ESL Dialogues with CDROM

Barbara J. Agor
Paperback - $18.95

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 ...

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Words and Intelligence I : Selected Papers by Yorick Wilks

Khurshid Ahmad
Hardcover - $243.95

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 ...

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Words and Intelligence II : Essays in Honor of Yorick Wilks

Khurshid Ahmad
Hardcover - $283.95

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 ...

Book cover for Karin Aijmer: Pragmatic Markers in Contrast

Pragmatic Markers in Contrast

Karin Aijmer
Hardcover - $184.95

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 ...

Book cover for Alexandra Y. Aikhenvald: A Grammar of Tariana, from Northwest Amazonia

A Grammar of Tariana, from Northwest Amazonia

Alexandra Y. Aikhenvald
Paperback - $163.95

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 ...

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Classifiers : A Typology of Noun Categorization Devices

Alexandra Y. Aikhenvald
Hardcover - $650.95

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 ...

Book cover for Alexandra Y. Aikhenvald: Classifiers

Classifiers : A Typology of Noun Categorization Devices

Alexandra Y. Aikhenvald
Paperback - $147.95

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 ...

Book cover for Alexandra Y. Aikhenvald: Evidentiality

Evidentiality

Alexandra Y. Aikhenvald
Hardcover - $383.95

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 ...

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Claiming Power in Doctor-Patient Talk

Nancy Ainsworth-Vaughn
Hardcover - $200.95



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