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Do you worry that your understanding of English grammar isn't what it should be? It may not be your fault. For hundreds of years, vague and confused ideas about how to state the rules have been passed down from one generation to the next. The available books for the general reader - thousands of them, shamelessly plagiarizing each other - repeat the same misguided definitions and generalizations that appeared in the schoolbooks used by your gr...

Language is the medium in which we humans compose our thoughts, explain our thinking, construct our arguments, and create works of literature. Without language, societies as complex as ours could not exist. Geoffrey Pullum offers a stimulating introduction to the many ways in which linguistics, as the scientific study of language, matters. With its close relationships to psychology, education, philosophy, and computer science, the subject has...

Language is the medium in which we humans compose our thoughts, explain our thinking, construct our arguments, and create works of literature. Without language, societies as complex as ours could not exist. Geoffrey Pullum offers a stimulating introduction to the many ways in which linguistics, as the scientific study of language, matters. With its close relationships to psychology, education, philosophy, and computer science, the subject has...

Frontmatter -- Introduction: Desmond C. Derbyshire and Geoffrey K. Pullum -- Introduction -- Part I: Grammatical Sketches -- Outline of contents for grammatical sketches -- Macushi: Miriam Abbott -- Introduction -- Syntax of the Sentence or Clause -- Syntax Of Phrase Types -- Particles -- Phonology -- Ideophones -- References -- Appendix -- Paumarí: Shirley Chapman and Desmond C. Derbyshire -- Introduction -- Syntax Of The Sentence Or Clause -...

Frontmatter -- Introduction / Derbyshire, Desmond C. / Pullum, Geoffrey K. -- Part I: Grammatical Sketches -- Outline of Contents for each chapter in Part I -- Apalai / Koehn, Edward / Koehn, Sally -- Canela-Krahô / Popjes, Jack / Popjes, Jo -- Pirahã / Everett, Daniel L. -- Urubu-Kaapor / Kakumasu, James -- Part II: Word Order and Typological Studies -- Verb Prominence, Verb Initialness, Ergativity and Typological Disharmony in Guajajara / Ha...

Frontmatter -- Introduction: Desmond C. Derbyshire and Geoffrey K. Pullum -- Introduction -- REFERENCES -- Part I: Grammatical Sketches -- Outline of contents for grammatical sketches -- Wai Wai: Robert E. Hawkins -- Introduction -- SYNTAX OF THE SENTENCE OR CLAUSE -- SYNTAX OF PHRASE TYPES -- Particles -- Phonology -- Morphology -- Ideophones -- Abbreviations -- References -- APPENDIX -- Warekena: Alexandra Y. Aikhenvald -- Introduction -- Lo...

Frontmatter -- Introduction: Desmond C. Derbyshire and Geoffrey K. Pullum -- Introduction -- References -- Outline of contents for grammatical sketches -- Sanuma: Donald M. Borgman -- Introduction -- Syntax of the Sentence or Clause -- Syntax Of Phrase Types -- Particles -- Phonology -- Ideophones -- References -- Appendix -- Text 2. No New Tracks -- Yagua: Doris L. Payne and Thomas E. Payne -- Introduction -- Syntax of the Sentence or the Cla...

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Phonetic Symbol Guide is a comprehensive and authoritative encyclopedia of phonetic alphabet symbols, providing a complete survey of the hundreds of characters used by linguists and speech scientists to record the sounds of the world's languages. With sixty-one new entries, an expanded glossary of phonetic terms, added symbol charts, and a full index, this book will be an indispensable reference guide.

How reliable are all those stories about the number of Eskimo words for snow? How can lamps, flags, and parrots be libelous? These and many other odd questions are typical topics in this collection of essays that present and occasionally zany, often wry, but always fascinating look at language and the people who study it.