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Semantics in Generative Grammar
Irene Heim
Paperback - $133.95
Written by two of the leading figures in the field, this is a lucid and systematic introduction to semantics as applied to transformational grammars of the Government-Binding model. It covers the fundamental constructions thoroughly with analyses, bu ...
The Semitic Languages
Robert Hetzron
Hardcover - $835.95
"The Semitic Languages" presents a unique, comprehensive survey of 23 languages from their origins in antiquity to the present day. The volume includes: an introduction to the grammatical traditions, subgrouping and writing systems; individual descri ...
The Semitic Languages
Robert Hetzron
Paperback - $137.95
The Semitic languages are a family of languages spoken by more than 370 million people across much of the Middle East, where they probably originated, and North and East Africa. They constitute the northeastern subfamily of the Afro-Asiatic languages ...
Speaking of Events
James Higginbotham
Hardcover - $226.95
In recent years the idea that an adequate semantics of ordinary language calls for some theory of events has sparked considerable debate among linguists and philosophers. Speaking of Events offers a vivid and up-to-date indication of this debate, wit ...
Speaking of Events
James Higginbotham
Paperback - $109.95
In recent years the idea that an adequate semantics of ordinary language calls for some theory of events has sparked considerable debate among linguists and philosophers. Speaking of Events offers a vivid and up-to-date indication of this debate, wit ...
Second Language Writers Text PR
Eli Hinkel
Paperback - $101.95
This comprehensive and detailed analysis of second language writers' text identifies explicitly and quantifiably where their text differs from that of native speakers of English. The book is based on the results of a large-scale study of university-l ...
Second Language Writers' Text : Linguistic and Rhetorical Featurs
Eli Hinkel
Hardcover - $218.95
Presents results of large-scale study of university-level text produced by writers who are not native speakers of English, to determine the specifice syntactic, lexical, and rhetorical features that differ from those in texts written by native speake ...
Metaphor and Iconicity : A Cognitive Approach to Analysing Texts
Masako K. Hiraga
Hardcover - $163.95
"Metaphor and Iconicity" attempts to clarify the interplay of metaphor and iconicity in the creation and interpretation of spoken and written texts from a cognitive perspective. There are various degrees in which metaphor and iconicity manifest thems ...
The Syntax and Pragmatics of Anaphora
Yan Huang
Paperback - $113.95
Develops a pragmatic theory of anaphora, which is a key topic in theoretical linguistics.
Discourse, Beliefs and Intentions : Semantic Defaults and Propositional Attitude Ascription
Katarzyna Jaszczolt
Hardcover - $234.95
This book is about beliefs, language, communication and cognition. It deals with the fundamental issue of the interpretation of the speaker's utterance expressing a belief and reporting on beliefs of other people in the form of oratio obliqua. The ma ...