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  • Cross-Disciplinary Perspectives on Lexical Blendingby Vincent Renner; Pierre Arnaud; François Maniez

    De Gruyter 2012; US$ 140.00

    The volume brings together a well-selected collection of twelve articles providing a comprehensive and very informative summary of contemporary work on lexical blending. It combines theoretically informed descriptions of a variety of languages and a number of contributions with a theoretically original focus. It is the first book of its kind on the... more...

  • Lexical Primingby Michael Hoey

    Taylor and Francis 2012; US$ 54.95

    Lexical Priming proposes a radical new theory of the lexicon, which amounts to a completely new theory of language based on how words are used in the real world. Here they are not confined to the definitions given to them in dictionaries but instead interact with other words in common patterns of use. Using concrete statistical evidence from... more...

  • Vocabularyby Ronald Carter

    Taylor and Francis 2012; US$ 51.95

    This new edition builds upon these foundations and develops further understanding of a key area of applied linguistics, with updated chapters on: * vocabulary and language teaching * dictionaries and lexicography * the literary study of vocabulary. It also includes new material on: * the relationship between vocabulary, grammar and discourse * the... more...

  • Das mentale Lexikonby Madjid Nezhad Masum

    Tectum Verlag 2012; US$ 25.87

    Hauptbeschreibung Ohne Wörter ist Sprachgebrauch kaum vorstellbar. Sie sind eine wichtige Grundlage für den Aufbau des lexikalischen Wissens, tragen zur Entwicklung der Sprachmodalitäten 'Hören', 'Sprechen', 'Lesen' und 'Schreiben' bei und ermöglichen es somit den Menschen, sprachlich miteinander zu kommunizieren. Besonders in der Fremdsprache erweist... more...

  • Advances in Generative Lexicon Theoryby James Pustejovsky; Pierrette Bouillon; Hitoshi Isahara; Kyoko Kanzaki; Chungmin Lee

    Springer 2012; US$ 139.99

    This collection of papers takes linguists to the leading edge of techniques in generative lexicon theory, the linguistic composition methodology that arose from the imperative to provide a compositional semantics for the contextual modifications in meaning that emerge in real linguistic usage. Today's growing shift towards distributed compositional... more...

  • Vocabularyby Ronald Carter

    Taylor and Francis 2012; US$ 44.95

    How do we teach and learn vocabulary? How do words work in literary texts? In this book, Ronald Carter provides the necessary basis for the further study of modern English vocabulary with particular reference to linguistic descriptive frameworks and educational contexts. Vocabulary: Applied Linguistic Perspectives includes an introductory account... more...

  • Words in the Mindby Jean Aitchison

    Wiley 2012; US$ 46.95

    Featuring new coverage of the brain and language, and lexical corpora, the 4th edition of Words in the Mind offers readers the latest thinking about the ways in which we learn words, remember them, understand them, and find the ones we want to use. Explores the latest insights into the complex relationship between language, words, and the human... more...

  • Grammars for Language and Genesby David Chiang; Aravind K. Joshi

    Springer 2011; US$ 79.99

    Grammars are gaining importance in natural language processing and computational biology as a means of encoding theories and structuring algorithms. But one serious obstacle to applications of grammars is that formal language theory traditionally classifies grammars according to their weak generative capacity (what sets of strings they generate) and... more...

  • Lexical Representationby Gareth Gaskell; Pienie Zwitserlood

    De Gruyter 2011; US$ 168.00

    This book includes the work of experts from a wide range of backgrounds who share the desire to understand how the human brain represents words. The focus of the volume is on the nature and structure of word forms and morphemes, the processes operating on the speech input to gain access to lexical representations, the modeling and acquisition of these... more...