Linguistics

This dictionary contains approximately 10,000 entries and provides a complete phonetic listing. Lithuanian is spoken by almost 3 million people in ...

Conversations with Lotman is a critical analysis of Russian cultural historian and theoretician Jurij Lotman's central contributions to the study o...

Eighteenth-century Italian playwright Pietro Chiari designated the age he lived in 'The Century of Women' - an age when women gained considerable p...

Adriana Belletti here collects work presented by top scholars at a workshop at the University of Siena in connection with a visit by Noam Chomsky. ...

First Published in 1994. This is an investigation to explore certain syntactic phenomena induced by sentence negation in Basque and English. In th...

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Twentieth-century literary criticism and Protestant theologies share a cultural sensibility, a number of presuppositions, and several analogous dif...

Discourses of Domination explores the issue of racial bias in the Canadian English-language press. Applying critical discourse analysis as their pr...

The Mysterious Barricades makes the case that escaping the enthrallment of recent theory in literary criticism and the philosophy of language will ...

This up-to-date dictionary is your key to the language and culture of Uzbekistan. Each entry offers clear phonetic pronunciation, making the dictio...

Knowledge by Agreement defends the ideas that knowledge is a social status (like money, or marriage), and that knowledge is primarily the possessio...

Urdu for Children is the first comprehensive instructional package for teaching children Urdu as a second language. It includes a two-volume textbo...

The forerunner of today's book clubs, nineteenth-century literary societies provided a lively social and intellectual forum where people could gath...

This book offers the first account of Old Norse syntax for almost a hundred years and the first ever in a non-Scandinavian language. The language o...

Featuring over 8500 entries, this concise dictionary reflects the daily use of the language spoken in Bosnia-Herzegovina. It includes an appendix o...

This is the first account of Jarawara, a Southern Amazonia language of great complexity and unusual interest, and now spoken by less than two hundr...

This book presents pioneering accounts by leading scholars of twelve central aspects of the grammar of Chinese languages. Deploying a combination o...

This book shows that every language has an adjective class and examines how these vary in size and character. The opening chapter considers current...

This important work considers the contemporary movement of "writing in the feminine", by examining the work of five women writers from French and E...

Problems of Rationality is the eagerly awaited fourth volume of Donald Davidson's philosophical writings. From the 1960s until his death in August ...

A.J. Ayer burst like a supernova upon the Anglo-American philosophical world in 1936, with "Language, truth and logic", an eloquent, uncompromising...