Mapping Applied Linguistics: A Guide for Students and Practitioners

Mapping Applied Linguistics: A Guide for Students and Practitioners provides an innovative and wide-ranging introduction to the full scope of applied linguistics. Incorporating both socio-cultural and cognitive perspectives, the book maps the diverse and constantly expanding range of theories, methods and issues faced by students and practitioners alike. Practically oriented...
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The Making of Language (2011)

Author(s): Mike Beaken Publisher: Dunedin, Year: 2011 ISBN: 978-1-906716-14-1 Description: Since the first edition of this book in 1996 there have been some far-reaching changes in attitudes to the topic of language origins. One of the reasons I gave for writing this book in the first place was...
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The Search for the Perfect Language (1995)

Author(s): Umberto Eco Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell, Year: 1995 ISBN: 0631174656,9780631174653 Description: The idea that there once existed a language which perfectly and unambiguously expressed the essence of all possible things and concepts has occupied the minds of philosophers, theologians, mystics and others for at least two millennia. This is...
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Extra-grammatical Morphology in English (2013)

Author(s): Elisa Mattiello Series: Topics in English Linguistics 82 Publisher: Mouton de Gruyter, Year: 2013 ISBN: 3110293862,9783110293869 Description: Extra-grammatical morphology is a hitherto neglected area of research, highly marginalised because of its irregularity and unpredictability. Yet many neologisms in English are formed by means of extra-grammatical mechanisms, such...
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Studies on the Phonological Word

Author(s): T. Alan Hall, Ursula Kleinhenz (Eds.) Series: Current Issues in Linguistic Theory 174 Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing Company, Year: 1999 ISBN: 9027236801,9789027236807 Description: The present volume consists of nine articles dealing with the role of the constituent ‘phonological word’ (or ‘prosodic word’) in various typologically diverse languages....
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Formal Semantics: The Essential Readings (2002)

Author(s): Paul Portner, Barbara H. Partee (Eds.) Series: Linguistics: The Essential Readings Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell, Year: 2002 ISBN: 0631215417,9780137362653 Description: “Formal Semantics: The Essential Readings” is a collection of seminal papers that have shaped the field of formal semantics in linguistics. Download https://usafiles.net/H0k/Formal_Semantics_The_Essential_Readings.pdf
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