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Essays in Semantics and Pragmatics
John Benjamins Publishing Company 1996; US$ 173.00Discourse Description
John Benjamins Publishing Company 1992; US$ 213.00Discourse Description presents in one convenient volume a variety of approaches to text description that have been proposed in the linguistic literature in the last decade or so. The book is organized to make it easy to understand and compare the various approaches. Since all of the researchers are analyzing the same text, their differences are readily... more...
Clause Combining in Grammar and Discourse
John Benjamins Publishing Company 1988; US$ 203.00Traditionally the study of syntax is restricted to the study of what goes on within the boundaries of the prosodic sentence. Although the nature of clause combining within a prosodic sentence has always been a central concern of traditional syntax (in GG, e.g. it underlies important research on deletion and anaphora), work within a discourse analysis... more...
The Language of Turn and Sequence
Oxford University Press, USA 2002; US$ 124.991. Introduction, Cecilia E. Ford, Barbara A. Fox, and Sandra A. Thompson. 2. Constituency and the Grammar of Turn Increments, Cecilia E. Ford, Barbara A. Fox, and Sandra A. Thompson. 3. Cultivating Prayer, Lisa Capps and Elinor Ochs. 4. Producing Sense with Nonsense Syllables: Turn and Sequence in Conversations with a Man with Severe Aphasia, Charles... more...
Interaction and Grammar
Cambridge University Press 1996; US$ 58.00This volume explores a rich variety of linkages between grammar and social interaction. more...
Discourse, Grammar and Typology
John Benjamins Publishing Company 1995; US$ 180.00This volume combines papers selected for their affinity with work on discourse analysis and language typology. The methodological platform is the authors' conviction that all linguistic work needs to be empirical in the sense that (1) generalizations are to be made on the basis of spoken texts in larger contexts, (2) generalizations are correct only... more...
Essays on Language Function and Language Type
John Benjamins Publishing Company 1997; US$ 210.00In their subject matter and in their theoretical orientation all the papers in this volume reflect the powerful influence of T. Givón. Most of them deal with questions of morphosyntactic typology, pragmatics, and grammaticalization theory. Many of them are directly based on extensive fieldwork on local languages of the Americas, Africa, Asia,... more...
Christmas Unwrapped/THE WRONG BROTHER/MISTLETOE MAGIC/IT'S CHRISTMAS, COWBOY!/NORTHERN FANTASY/HE'LL BE HOME FOR CHRISTMAS
Harlequin Enterprises Pty Ltd, Australia 2012; US$ 16.79The Wrong Brother by Maureen Child. A hard-hearted businessman? Sam Hale kissed Anna Cameron when she was a beautiful stranger - but when she found out who he was, she wouldn't even talk to him!. Mistletoe Magic by Sandra Hyatt. Your soon-to-be-ex millionaire husband? Luke Maitland had married Meg Elliot under extreme circumstances...certain it... more...
A Reference Grammar of Wappo
University of California Press 2006; US$ 50.00Wappo is an indigenous language, generally regarded as a language isolate, which was once spoken in the Russian River Valley, just north of San Francisco, California. This reference grammar is based on the speech of Laura Fish Somersal, its last fluent speaker, who died in 1990, and represents the most extensive data and grammatical research ever done... more...
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