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The Linguistics Student's Handbook
Edinburgh University Press 2007; US$ 89.55The book that tells you all the things you felt you were expected to know about linguistics, but were afraid to ask about. What do you know about Burushaski and Miwok?; What?s the difference between paradigmatic and syntagmatic?; What is E-language?; What is a language?; What does the symbol ?*? mean in linguistics?; What do you call the letter ð?;... more...
Classification and Modeling with Linguistic Information Granules
Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. KG 2006; US$ 179.99Whereas computer systems can easily handle even complicated and nonlinear mathematical models, human information processing is mainly based on linguistic knowledge. So the main advantage of using linguistic terms even with vague ranges is the intuitive interpretability of linguistic rules.Ishibuchi and his coauthors explain how classification and modeling... more...
Contributions to the Science of Text and Language
Springer 2006; US$ 54.99Contains contributions to the science of language, focusing on the study of word length in particular. The contributions range from three linguistic fields, namely, linguistics and text analysis, mathematics and statistics, and corpus and data base design, which together give a comprehensive approach to the study of word length studies. more...
An Introduction to Applied Linguistics
Edinburgh University Press 2007; US$ 109.45This Second Edition of the foundational textbook An Introduction to Applied Linguistics provides a state-of-the-art account of contemporary applied linguistics. The kinds of language problems of interest to applied linguists are discussed and a distinction drawn between the different research approach taken by theoretical linguists and by applied linguists... more...
Linguistic Evidence
De Gruyter 2005; US$ 182.00The renaissance of corpus linguistics and promising developments in experimental linguistic techniques in recent years have led to a remarkable revival of interest in issues of the empirical base of linguistic theory in general, and the status of different kinds of linguistic evidence in particular. By contrasting evidence from different sources with... more...
Ontolinguistics
De Gruyter 2007; US$ 182.00Current progress in linguistic theorizing is more and more informed by cross-linguistic investigation, focusing on the concepts that are part of every language user's ontology, the network of cross-connected conceptualizations the mind uses in coping with the world. How are ontological structures reflected in intra- and cross-linguistic regularities?... more...
Two-Step Approaches to Natural Language Formalism
De Gruyter 2003; US$ 133.00This book presents a unified formal approach to various contemporary linguistic formalisms such as Government & Binding, Minimalism or Tree Adjoining Grammar. Through a careful introduction of mathematical techniques from logic, automata theory and universal algebra, the book aims at graduate students and researchers who want to learn more about tightly... more...
Language Misconceived
Lawrence Erlbaum Associates 2006; US$ 99.95Linguistics is important. An understanding of linguistic principles is as essential to the layperson as it is to the language scholar. Using concrete examples from politics, law, and education, this book shows how people misconceive language every day and what the consequences of misconceptions can be. Since the meanings of words are often fuzzy at... more...
Analyzing Linguistic Data
Cambridge University Press 2008; US$ 38.00A straightforward introduction to the statistical analysis of language data, designed for students with a non-mathematical background. more...
Language Classification
Cambridge University Press 2008; US$ 123.00Discusses language classification and how and why languages diversify and spread. more...









