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Themes: Language • Historical & Comparative • Linguistics

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Presuppositions and Cognitive Processes Understanding the Information Taken for Granted

Filippo Domaneschi

Themes: Language • Historical & Comparative • Linguistics

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Success in Referential Communication

Themes: Language • Historical & Comparative • Linguistics

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Events and Grammar

Susan Rothstein

Themes: Language • Historical & Comparative • Linguistics

Consciousness and the Cultural Invention of Language — Filippo-Enrico Cardini

Consciousness and the Cultural Invention of Language

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Themes: Language • Historical & Comparative • Linguistics

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Language and Enlightenment The Berlin Debates of the Eighteenth Century

Themes: Language • Historical & Comparative • Linguistics

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Sociolinguistics A Sociological Critique

Themes: Language • Historical & Comparative • Linguistics

Speaking Our Minds Why Human Communication is Different, and how Language Evolved to Make it Special — Thom Scott-Phillips

Speaking Our Minds Why Human Communication is Different, and how Language Evolved to Make it Special

Thom Scott-Phillips

Themes: Language • Historical & Comparative • Linguistics

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You’re All Talk Why We are what We Speak

Themes: Language • Historical & Comparative • Linguistics

The Unfolding of Language An Evolutionary Tour of Mankind’s Greatest Invention — Guy Deutscher

The Unfolding of Language An Evolutionary Tour of Mankind’s Greatest Invention

Themes: Language • Historical & Comparative • Linguistics

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Introduction to Montague Semantics

Themes: Language • Historical & Comparative • Linguistics

Yearbook of Morphology 1994 Theme: Mechanisms of Morphological Change — Geert Booij

Yearbook of Morphology 1994 Theme: Mechanisms of Morphological Change

Themes: Language • Historical & Comparative • Linguistics

Cognitive Aspects of Bilingualism — Istvan Kecskes

Cognitive Aspects of Bilingualism

Themes: Language • Historical & Comparative • Linguistics

The Language Game How Improvisation Created Language and Changed the World — Morten H. Christiansen

The Language Game How Improvisation Created Language and Changed the World

Morten H. Christiansen

Themes: Language • Historical & Comparative • Linguistics

Rare Tongues The Secret Stories of Hidden Languages — Lorna Gibb

Rare Tongues The Secret Stories of Hidden Languages

Themes: Language • Historical & Comparative • Linguistics

Language and State An Inquiry Into the Progress of Civilization — Xing Yu

Language and State An Inquiry Into the Progress of Civilization

Themes: Language • Historical & Comparative • Linguistics

Interpretation as Pragmatics — J. Lecercle

Interpretation as Pragmatics

Themes: Language • Historical & Comparative • Linguistics

Semiotic Perspectives — Sándor Hervey

Semiotic Perspectives

Themes: Language • Historical & Comparative • Linguistics

Second Primary Language Book (1914) — Orlando Schairer Reimold

Second Primary Language Book (1914)

Orlando Schairer Reimold

Themes: Language • Historical & Comparative • Linguistics

Social Theory and Language The Construction of Meaning — Glyn Williams

Social Theory and Language The Construction of Meaning

Themes: Language • Historical & Comparative • Linguistics

The Literary Imagination in Israel-Palestine Orientalism, Poetry, and Biopolitics — H. Cohen

The Literary Imagination in Israel-Palestine Orientalism, Poetry, and Biopolitics

Themes: Language • Historical & Comparative • Linguistics

Living Words Meaning Underdetermination and the Dynamic Lexicon — Peter Ludlow

Living Words Meaning Underdetermination and the Dynamic Lexicon

Themes: Language • Historical & Comparative • Linguistics

How to Swear An Illustrated Guide (Dictionary for Swear Words, Funny Gift, Book About Cursing) — Stephen Wildish

How to Swear An Illustrated Guide (Dictionary for Swear Words, Funny Gift, Book About Cursing)

Stephen Wildish

Themes: Language • Historical & Comparative • Linguistics

I Never Knew There Was a Word For It — Adam Jacot de Boinod

I Never Knew There Was a Word For It

Adam Jacot de Boinod

Themes: Language • Historical & Comparative • Linguistics

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