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Paperback. Designed primarily to help students in freshman composition appreciate the medium they are trying to master, this text brings together a collection of articles that examine language from many points of view. Editor(s): Hirschberg, Stuart; Hirschberg, Terry. Num Pages: 672 pages, halftones. BIC Classification: CF; GTC. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 234 x 154 x 31. Weight in Grams: 903.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1998
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press Inc United States
- Number of pages
- 672
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780195120448
- ISBN
- 9780195120448
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 192.26
€ 192.26
Paperback. This work follows the continuum of poetic formulae in Indo-European languages, from Old Hittite to medieval Irish. The author uses the comparative method to reconstruct traditional poetic formulae of considerable complexity that stretch as far back as the original common language. Num Pages: 640 pages, 3 illustrations, bibliography. BIC Classification: 1D; 1FKA; CFF; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 235 x 157 x 33. Weight in Grams: 894.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2001
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press Inc United States
- Number of pages
- 640
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780195144130
- ISBN
- 9780195144130
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 96.90
€ 96.90
Paperback. This text presents the findings of Sue Savage-Rumbaugh into the linguistic and cognitive skills of a number of laboratory-based primates. It discusses the theoretical and conceptual implications of the work for cognitive, developmental, and linguistic research. Num Pages: 256 pages, numerous halftones. BIC Classification: CFD; JMAQ; JMC; JMR. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 232 x 155 x 12. Weight in Grams: 360.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2001
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press Inc United States
- Number of pages
- 256
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780195147124
- ISBN
- 9780195147124
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 76.42
€ 76.42
Paperback. Presents an overview of how American political communication has been changed by the use of certain dominant political terms. Based on eleven separate studies of the political language used in the United States, this book offers an understanding of American politics and American language. Num Pages: 296 pages, numerous tables and graphs. BIC Classification: CFG; JPA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 234 x 156 x 14. Weight in Grams: 420.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2005
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press Inc United States
- Number of pages
- 296
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780195162394
- ISBN
- 9780195162394
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 91.37
€ 91.37
Paperback. In this linguistic study of law school education, Mertz shows how law professors employ the Socratic method between teacher and student, forcing the student to shift away from moral and emotional terms in thinking about conflict, toward frameworks of legal authority instead. Num Pages: 336 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: CFB; LAQ; LAS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 233 x 158 x 19. Weight in Grams: 478.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press Inc United States
- Number of pages
- 336
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780195183108
- ISBN
- 9780195183108
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 94.35
€ 94.35
Hardback. Ancient Anatolia was a region where indigenous peoples mixed with conquerors and incomers: Persians, Greeks, Gauls, Romans, Jews. Names from all these sources intermingled, and it is by studying them that the cultural interactions and changes and resistances that occurred can be illuminated. Editor(s): Parker, Robert. Series: Proceedings of the British Academy. Num Pages: 256 pages, 13 figures, including 2 maps. BIC Classification: 1DVT; 2AHA; CFF; HBJ; HBLA. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 242 x 158 x 21. Weight in Grams: 586.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 256
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780197265635
- ISBN
- 9780197265635
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 121.91
€ 121.91
Hardback. British Academy lectures have previously been published in the Proceedings of the British Academy. Lectures are now made available in the new open access Journal of the British Academy and are also printed in an annual volume. This volume publishes 8 lectures from the 2012 and 2013 programmes, which were posted to the Journal in 2013. Editor(s): Carsten, Janet; Frith, Simon. Series: British Academy Lectures. Num Pages: 300 pages, c. 25 illustrations. BIC Classification: CF; DC; HB; JH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 247 x 174 x 13. Weight in Grams: 504.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 300
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780197265666
- ISBN
- 9780197265666
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 70.23
€ 70.23
Hardback. This volume sets out four different default-based frameworks for describing morphology. Major proponents of these frameworks address a range of questions about the role of defaults in the lexicon, such as the place of morphology in the grammar and the challenge of meaning-form dissociations that plagues morphology. Editor(s): Hippisley, Andrew. Num Pages: 352 pages. BIC Classification: CFK; CFX; JM. Dimension: 234 x 156. .
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 352
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780198712329
- ISBN
- 9780198712329
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 170.54
€ 170.54
Hardback. This book examines specific sound changes that cannot be explained by phonological means alone but crucially rely on morphological information. It offers a unified theoretical account of these phenomena as well as a rich database of attested patterns in the world's languages. Series: Oxford Studies in Phonology and Phonetics. Num Pages: 384 pages. BIC Classification: CFH; CFK. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 234 x 156. .
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 384
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780198747321
- ISBN
- 9780198747321
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 158.49
€ 158.49
Hardback. Francois Recanati has pioneered the 'mental file' framework for thinking about concepts and how we refer to the world in thought and language. He now explores what happens to mental files in a dynamic setting: Recanati argues that communication involves interpersonal dynamic files. Series: Lines of Thought. Num Pages: 208 pages. BIC Classification: CFA; HPM. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 209 x 141 x 17. Weight in Grams: 342.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 208
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780198790358
- ISBN
- 9780198790358
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 90.48
€ 90.48
Hardback. An edition of the recently discovered notebook used in the seventeenth-century by John Wallis to teach language to the 'deaf mute' Alexander Popham, who could not inherit unless he could speak - one of the most famous cases in the history of deaf education. David Cram and Jaap Maat place the work in its personal, social, and scientific contexts. Editor(s): Cram, Dr. David; Maat, Jaap. Num Pages: 320 pages. BIC Classification: 3JD; CFA; CFZ; HBTB; HPC; PDA; PDX. Dimension: 234 x 153. .
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 320
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780199677085
- ISBN
- 9780199677085
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 170.09
€ 170.09
Hardback. This book provides a compositional, truth-conditional, crosslinguistic semantics for evidentiality, the linguistic encoding of the source information on which a statement is based. The new proposal is based on extensive data from Cheyenne, English, and a variety of other languages. Series: Oxford Studies in Semantics and Pragmatics. Num Pages: 192 pages. BIC Classification: CFGA. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 246 x 171. .
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 192
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780199681570
- ISBN
- 9780199681570
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 157.16
€ 157.16
Hardback. This book offers a crosslinguistic survey of polysynthetic languages, in which single multi-morpheme verb forms can express what would be whole sentences in English. It looks at a range of issues from a cross-theoretical perspective, including complexity, argument structure, language contact, and language obsolence. Editor(s): Fortescue, Michael; Mithun, Marianne; Evans, Nicholas. Series: Oxford Handbooks. Num Pages: 992 pages. BIC Classification: CFDC; CFF; CFK; JHMC. Dimension: 246 x 171. .
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 992
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780199683208
- ISBN
- 9780199683208
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 239.23
€ 239.23
Paperback. Num Pages: 208 pages, black & white illustrations, figures. BIC Classification: 2AB; CF. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 134 x 183 x 9. Weight in Grams: 164.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Pearson Education (US) United States
- Edition
- 2 Rev ed
- Number of pages
- 208
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780321852762
- ISBN
- 9780321852762
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 74.13
€ 74.13
Paperback. Num Pages: 152 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: CF; JNSV. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 154 x 228 x 14. Weight in Grams: 234.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2005
- Publisher
- Taylor & Francis Inc United States
- Number of pages
- 152
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780805857290
- ISBN
- 9780805857290
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 27.12
€ 27.12
Paperback. Translator(s): Duke, James; Forstman, Jack. Series: AAR Religions in Translation. Num Pages: 264 pages. BIC Classification: CFP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 230 x 154 x 17. Weight in Grams: 367.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1978
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press Inc United States
- Number of pages
- 264
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780891301868
- ISBN
- 9780891301868
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 78.82
€ 78.82
Paperback. Series: American Philological Association American Classical Studies. Num Pages: 160 pages, illus. BIC Classification: CF; DSBB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 228 x 152 x 7. Weight in Grams: 184.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1984
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press Inc United States
- Number of pages
- 160
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780891307358
- ISBN
- 9780891307358
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 47.63
€ 47.63
Paperback. Series: AAR Academy Series. Num Pages: 232 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: CFP; HRCG3. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 214 x 137 x 12. Weight in Grams: 270.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1985
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press Inc United States
- Number of pages
- 232
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780891308362
- ISBN
- 9780891308362
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 39.12
€ 39.12
Paperback. Series: AAR Academy Series. Num Pages: 248 pages. BIC Classification: CFP; HRAB; HRCM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 215 x 137 x 14. Weight in Grams: 275.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1985
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press Inc United States
- Number of pages
- 248
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780891308638
- ISBN
- 9780891308638
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 51.34
€ 51.34
Paperback. Series: AAR Studies in Religion. Num Pages: 312 pages. BIC Classification: CFP; HRAB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 153 x 18. Weight in Grams: 438.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1991
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press Inc United States
- Number of pages
- 312
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781555406110
- ISBN
- 9781555406110
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 60.92
€ 60.92