Showing all 70 titles.
SiHoLS 63
A Dictionary of English Normative Grammar 1700–1800 (DENG)
Bertil Sundby, Anne Kari Bjørge and Kari E. Haugland
Eighteenth-century English grammarians plead eloquently for purity, precision and perspicuity, but their method of teaching largely amounts to citing examples of impurity, imprecision and lack of clarity from contemporary writings. This book is the first of its kind to provide a detailed systematic account of such...
full descriptionJanuary 1991. x, 486 pp.
Z 39
Agrammatic Aphasia
A cross-language narrative sourcebook
Edited by Lise Menn and Loraine K. Obler
This major reference work fills a need long recognized in neurolinguistics: a source for analyzable speech transcripts from agrammatic aphasic patients that provides detailed grammatical descriptions and distributional analyses. This 3-volume set is unique in that it presents narrative speech from carefully selected...
full descriptionJanuary 1989. xxvii, 1985 pp., 3 Vols.
Z AA 3
January 1989. xx, 594 pp.
Z AA 1
January 1989. xxvii, 816 pp.
Z AA 2
January 1989. xx, 575 pp.
Z 137
Anthropology of Color
Interdisciplinary multilevel modeling
Edited by Robert E. MacLaury, Galina V. Paramei and Don Dedrick
The field of color categorization has always been intrinsically multi- and inter-disciplinary, since its beginnings in the nineteenth century. The main contribution of this book is to foster a new level of integration among different approaches to the anthropological study of color. The editors have put great effort...
full descriptionNovember 2007. xx, 485 pp.
CVS 2
Argumentation in Practice
Edited by Frans H. van Eemeren and Peter Houtlosser
Since the late 1950s the study of argumentation has developed from a marginal part of logic and rhetoric into a genuine interdisciplinary academic discipline. After having first been primarily concerned with creating an adequate philosophical perspective on argumentation, argumentation theorists have gradually shifted...
full descriptionSeptember 2005. viii, 368 pp.
Z BBI
The BBI Combinatory Dictionary of English
Your guide to collocations and grammar
Compiled by Morton Benson, Evelyn Benson and Robert F. Ilson
Speak and write perfect English!BBI teaches you how to combine words with words to form phrases (so you can say “mortgaged to the hilt; I want something badly”). BBI also teaches you how to combine words into structures to form clauses and sentences (so you can say “I want you to go = What I want is for you to go”)....
full descriptionMarch 2010. xxxix, 462 pp.
LOALL 18
Bengali
Hanne-Ruth Thompson
Bangla (Bengali), an Eastern Indo-Aryan Language, is the national language of Bangladesh with 150 million speakers and the state language of Paschim Banga (West Bengal) in India with 90 million speakers. There are sizeable communities of Bengalis scattered all over the world. Altogether, the number of native speakers...
full descriptionNovember 2012. xxviii, 384 pp.
CHLEL XXXVII
A Comparative Literary History of Modern Slavery
The Atlantic world and beyond
Edited by Karen-Margrethe Simonsen, Madeleine Dobie and Mads Anders Baggesgaard
The second volume of A Comparative Literary History of Modern Slavery: The Atlantic world and beyond explores literary memory of enslavement in post-slavery societies on four continents (North- and South America, Africa and Europe). The twenty-two contributors to this volume relate the memory work of literature to...
full descriptionExpected April 2025. vii, 416 pp. + index
CHLEL XXXVI
A Comparative Literary History of Modern Slavery
The Atlantic world and beyond
Edited by Madeleine Dobie, Mads Anders Baggesgaard and Karen-Margrethe Simonsen
The first volume of A Comparative Literary History of Modern Slavery explores literary representations of enslavement with a focus on the emotions. The contributors consider how the diverse emotions generated by slavery have been represented over a historical period stretching from the 16th century to the present and...
full descriptionExpected December 2024. xx, 334 pp. + index
Z 30
January 1987. xi, 2197 pp. (4 vols)
Z 19
A Concise Hopi and English Lexicon
Compiled by Roy Albert and David L. Shaul
A Concise Hopi and English Lexicon is a lexical research tool for persons interested in the Hopi language. An effort has been made to include the most frequent forms of basic roots. The work is designed to serve as wide-ranging an audience as possible: Hopi speakers as well as those not fluent in this language, the...
full descriptionJanuary 1985. vii, 204 pp.
C&EB 1
Consciousness & Emotion
Agency, conscious choice, and selective perception
Edited by Ralph D. Ellis and Natika Newton
The papers in this volume of Consciousness & Emotion Book Series are organized around the theme of "enaction." Enactive emotional processes are not merely the recipients of information or the passive victims of input and learning. The organism first is engaged in an ongoing, complex pattern of self-organizational...
full descriptionMarch 2005. xii, 330 pp.
AiCR 61
Curious Emotions
Roots of consciousness and personality in motivated action
Ralph D. Ellis
Emotion drives all cognitive processes, largely determining their qualitative feel, their structure, and in part even their content. Action-initiating centers deep in the emotional brain ground our understanding of the world by enabling us to imagine how we could act relative to it, based on endogenous motivations to...
full descriptionApril 2005. viii, 238 pp.
SFSL 50
Dictionary of the Prague School of Linguistics
Josef Vachek
This is the first English version of a text out of print for more than 40 years, summarising the positions and key concepts of an influential stream of linguistic thought. Using quotations as entries, J. Vachek (1909-1997), a leading advocate of the Prague School, employed more than 160 sources, papers and monographs,...
full descriptionJune 2003. ix, 213 pp.
Z 171
Dizionario Combinatorio Compatto Italiano
A cura di Vincenzo Lo Cascio
Le parole di una lingua non sono mai isolate ma si usano in combinazione e non con qualunque parola ma solo con alcune. Per parlare bene bisogna usare le combinazioni appropriate. In italiano si dice un tozzo di pane per indicare un pezzo di pane, ma si dice anche un tozzo di carne? E una discussione si solleva? O si...
full descriptionJune 2012. xxvi, 642 pp.
Z 178
Dizionario Combinatorio Italiano
A cura di Vincenzo Lo Cascio
Le parole di una lingua non sono mai isolate ma si usano in combinazione e non con qualunque parola ma solo con alcune. Per parlare bene bisogna usare le combinazioni appropriate. In italiano si dice un tozzo di pane per indicare un pezzo di pane, ma si dice anche un tozzo di carne? E una discussione si solleva? O si...
full descriptionJune 2013. xxii, 1392 pp. (2 vols. set) (708+706)
LL< 16
French Applied Linguistics
Edited by Dalila Ayoun
This state-of-the-art volume on French Applied Linguistics includes two introductory chapters, the first summarizes the past, present and future of French in applied linguistics, and the second reviews the history of French from a sociolinguistic perspective. The six chapters of the first part cover the core aspects...
full descriptionJanuary 2007. xvi, 560 pp.
CAL 1
Functional Constraints in Grammar
On the unergative–unaccusative distinction
Susumu Kuno and Ken-ichi Takami
This book examines in detail the acceptability status of sentences in the following five English constructions, and elucidates the syntactic, semantic, and functional requirements that the constructions must satisfy in order to be appropriately used: There-Construction, (One’s) Way Construction, Cognate Object...
full descriptionSeptember 2004. ix, 242 pp.
Z 232
Grammar of Spoken and Written English
Douglas Biber, Stig Johansson, Geoffrey N. Leech, Susan Conrad and Edward Finegan
The completely redesigned Grammar of Spoken and Written English is a comprehensive corpus-based reference grammar. GSWE describes the structural characteristics of grammatical constructions in English, as do other reference grammars. But GSWE is unique in that it gives equal attention to describing the patterns of...
full descriptionNovember 2021. xxxv, 1220 pp.
Z HAL S
January 1979. V.1: 1979, xiv, 392pp. + 4 maps; V.2: 1981, xxiv, 427pp. + 6 maps; V.3: 1983, xxiv, 531 pp. + 5 maps
Z HAL 1
Handbook of Australian Languages
Volume 1
Edited by R.M.W. Dixon and Barry J. Blake
This handbook makes available short grammatical sketches of Australian languages. Each grammar is written in a standard format, following guidelines provided by the editors, and includes a sample text and vocabulary text. In the introduction the editors discuss some of the recurrent features of languages across the...
full descriptionDecember 1979. xviii, 390 pp. 4 maps
Z HAL 2
Handbook of Australian Languages
Volume 2
Edited by R.M.W. Dixon and Barry J. Blake
This handbook makes available short grammatical sketches of Australian languages. Each grammar is written in a standard format, following guidelines provided by the editors, and includes a sample text and vocabulary text. The contributions to this volume are salvage studies, giving all the information that is...
full descriptionDecember 1981. xxiv, 427pp. + 6 maps
Z HAL 3
Handbook of Australian Languages
Volume 3
Edited by R.M.W. Dixon and Barry J. Blake
This handbook makes available short grammatical sketches of Australian languages. Each grammar is written in a standard format, following guidelines provided by the editors, and includes a sample text and vocabulary text. The contributions to this volume are salvage studies, giving all the information that is...
full descriptionDecember 1983. xxiv, 531 pp. + 5 maps
Z HPD 1
Handbook of Perceptual Dialectology
Volume 1
Edited by Dennis R. Preston
Perceptual dialectology investigates what ordinary people (as opposed to professional linguists) believe about the distribution of language varieties in their own and surrounding speech communities and how they have arrived at and implement those beliefs. It studies the beliefs of the common folk about which dialects...
full descriptionOctober 1999. xl, 413 pp.
Z HPD 2
Handbook of Perceptual Dialectology
Volume 2
Edited by Daniel Long and Dennis R. Preston
The Handbook of Perceptual Dialectology, Volume 2, expands on the coverage of both regions and methodologies in the investigation of nonlinguists' perceptions of language variety. New areas studied include Canada (anglophone and francophone), Cuba, Hungary, Italy, Korea, and Mali, and most prominent among the new...
full descriptionDecember 2002. xxvi, 412 pp.
HOP 1
Handbook of Pragmatics
1995 Installment
Edited by Jef Verschueren, Jan-Ola Östman, Jan Blommaert † and Chris Bulcaen
This encyclopaedia of one of the major fields of language studies is a continuously updated source of state-of-the-art information for anyone interested in language use. The IPrA Handbook of Pragmatics provides easy access — for scholars with widely divergent backgrounds but with convergent interests in the use and...
full descriptionMay 1996. 336 pp. + Binder
HOP 2
Handbook of Pragmatics
1996 Installment
Edited by Jef Verschueren, Jan-Ola Östman, Jan Blommaert † and Chris Bulcaen
This encyclopaedia of one of the major fields of language studies is a continuously updated source of state-of-the-art information for anyone interested in language use. The IPrA Handbook of Pragmatics provides easy access — for scholars with widely divergent backgrounds but with convergent interests in the use and...
full descriptionOctober 1997. vi, 268 pp.
HOP 3
Handbook of Pragmatics
1997 Installment
Edited by Jef Verschueren, Jan-Ola Östman, Jan Blommaert † and Chris Bulcaen
This encyclopaedia of one of the major fields of language studies is a continuously updated source of state-of-the-art information for anyone interested in language use. The IPrA Handbook of Pragmatics provides easy access — for scholars with widely divergent backgrounds but with convergent interests in the use and...
full descriptionOctober 1999. 297 pp.
HOP 4
Handbook of Pragmatics
1998 Installment
Edited by Jef Verschueren, Jan-Ola Östman, Jan Blommaert † and Chris Bulcaen
This encyclopaedia of one of the major fields of language studies is a continuously updated source of state-of-the-art information for anyone interested in language use. The IPrA Handbook of Pragmatics provides easy access — for scholars with widely divergent backgrounds but with convergent interests in the use and...
full descriptionAugust 2000. vi, 342 pp.
HOP 5
Handbook of Pragmatics
1999 Installment
Edited by Jef Verschueren, Jan-Ola Östman, Jan Blommaert † and Chris Bulcaen
This encyclopaedia of one of the major fields of language studies is a continuously updated source of state-of-the-art information for anyone interested in language use. The IPrA Handbook of Pragmatics provides easy access — for scholars with widely divergent backgrounds but with convergent interests in the use and...
full descriptionMay 2001. vi, 282 pp.
HOP 6
Handbook of Pragmatics
2000 Installment
Edited by Jef Verschueren, Jan-Ola Östman, Jan Blommaert † and Chris Bulcaen
This encyclopaedia of one of the major fields of language studies is a continuously updated source of state-of-the-art information for anyone interested in language use. The IPrA Handbook of Pragmatics provides easy access — for scholars with widely divergent backgrounds but with convergent interests in the use and...
full descriptionOctober 2002. iv, 298 pp.
HOP 12
Handbook of Pragmatics
2008 Installment
Edited by Jan-Ola Östman and Jef Verschueren
This encyclopaedia of one of the major fields of language studies is a continuously updated source of state-of-the-art information for anyone interested in language use. The IPrA Handbook of Pragmatics provides easy access — for scholars with widely divergent backgrounds but with convergent interests in the use and...
full descriptionNovember 2008. vii, 200 pp.
HOP 15
Handbook of Pragmatics
2011 Installment
Edited by Jan-Ola Östman and Jef Verschueren
This encyclopaedia of one of the major fields of language studies is a continuously updated source of state-of-the-art information for anyone interested in language use. The IPrA Handbook of Pragmatics provides easy access — for scholars with widely divergent backgrounds but with convergent interests in the use and...
full descriptionDecember 2011. vi, 303 pp.
HOP 8
Handbook of Pragmatics
2002 Installment
Edited by Jef Verschueren, Jan-Ola Östman, Jan Blommaert † and Chris Bulcaen
This encyclopaedia of one of the major fields of language studies is a continuously updated source of state-of-the-art information for anyone interested in language use. The IPrA Handbook of Pragmatics provides easy access — for scholars with widely divergent backgrounds but with convergent interests in the use and...
full descriptionJuly 2003. viii, 402 pp.
HOP 7
Handbook of Pragmatics
2001 Installment
Edited by Jef Verschueren, Jan-Ola Östman, Jan Blommaert † and Chris Bulcaen
This encyclopaedia of one of the major fields of language studies is a continuously updated source of state-of-the-art information for anyone interested in language use. The IPrA Handbook of Pragmatics provides easy access — for scholars with widely divergent backgrounds but with convergent interests in the use and...
full descriptionMay 2003. vi, 299 pp.
HOP 14
Handbook of Pragmatics
2010 Installment
Edited by Jan-Ola Östman and Jef Verschueren
This encyclopaedia of one of the major fields of language studies is a continuously updated source of state-of-the-art information for anyone interested in language use. The IPrA Handbook of Pragmatics provides easy access — for scholars with widely divergent backgrounds but with convergent interests in the use and...
full descriptionDecember 2010. 520 pp.
HOP 18
Handbook of Pragmatics
2014 Installment
Edited by Jan-Ola Östman and Jef Verschueren
This encyclopaedia of one of the major fields of language studies is a continuously updated source of state-of-the-art information for anyone interested in language use. The IPrA Handbook of Pragmatics provides easy access — for scholars with widely divergent backgrounds but with convergent interests in the use and...
full descriptionDecember 2014. viii, 270 pp.
HOP 10
Handbook of Pragmatics
2006 Installment
Edited by Jef Verschueren and Jan-Ola Östman
This encyclopaedia of one of the major fields of language studies is a continuously updated source of state-of-the-art information for anyone interested in language use. The IPrA Handbook of Pragmatics provides easy access — for scholars with widely divergent backgrounds but with convergent interests in the use and...
full descriptionDecember 2006. vi, 500 pp.
HOP 11
Handbook of Pragmatics
2007 Installment
Edited by Jan-Ola Östman and Jef Verschueren
This encyclopaedia of one of the major fields of language studies is a continuously updated source of state-of-the-art information for anyone interested in language use. The IPrA Handbook of Pragmatics provides easy access — for scholars with widely divergent backgrounds but with convergent interests in the use and...
full descriptionDecember 2007. vi, 315 pp. (incl. binder)
HOP 17
Handbook of Pragmatics
2013 Installment
Edited by Jan-Ola Östman and Jef Verschueren
This encyclopaedia of one of the major fields of language studies is a continuously updated source of state-of-the-art information for anyone interested in language use. The IPrA Handbook of Pragmatics provides easy access — for scholars with widely divergent backgrounds but with convergent interests in the use and...
full descriptionDecember 2013. xiii, 268 pp.
HOP 19
Handbook of Pragmatics
2015 Installment
Edited by Jan-Ola Östman and Jef Verschueren
This encyclopaedia of one of the major fields of language studies is a continuously updated source of state-of-the-art information for anyone interested in language use. The IPrA Handbook of Pragmatics provides easy access — for scholars with widely divergent backgrounds but with convergent interests in the use and...
full descriptionNovember 2015. viii, 240 pp.
HOP 13
Handbook of Pragmatics
2009 Installment
Edited by Jan-Ola Östman and Jef Verschueren
This encyclopaedia of one of the major fields of language studies is a continuously updated source of state-of-the-art information for anyone interested in language use. The IPrA Handbook of Pragmatics provides easy access — for scholars with widely divergent backgrounds but with convergent interests in the use and...
full descriptionDecember 2009. vi, 421 pp.
HOP 9
Handbook of Pragmatics
2003–2005 Installment
Edited by Jan-Ola Östman and Jef Verschueren
This encyclopaedia of one of the major fields of language studies is a continuously updated source of state-of-the-art information for anyone interested in language use. The IPrA Handbook of Pragmatics provides easy access — for scholars with widely divergent backgrounds but with convergent interests in the use and...
full descriptionDecember 2005. 311 pp. (incl. binder)
HOP 21
Handbook of Pragmatics
21st Annual Installment
Edited by Jan-Ola Östman and Jef Verschueren
This encyclopaedia of one of the major fields of language studies is a continuously updated source of state-of-the-art information for anyone interested in language use. The IPrA Handbook of Pragmatics provides easy access — for scholars with widely divergent backgrounds but with convergent interests in the use and...
full descriptionDecember 2018. xi, 285 pp.
HOP 20
Handbook of Pragmatics
2016 Installment
Edited by Jan-Ola Östman and Jef Verschueren
This encyclopaedia of one of the major fields of language studies is a continuously updated source of state-of-the-art information for anyone interested in language use. The IPrA Handbook of Pragmatics provides easy access — for scholars with widely divergent backgrounds but with convergent interests in the use and...
full descriptionDecember 2016. viii, 220 pp.
HOP 16
Handbook of Pragmatics
2012 Installment
Edited by Jan-Ola Östman and Jef Verschueren
This encyclopaedia of one of the major fields of language studies is a continuously updated source of state-of-the-art information for anyone interested in language use. The IPrA Handbook of Pragmatics provides easy access — for scholars with widely divergent backgrounds but with convergent interests in the use and...
full descriptionDecember 2012. 248 pp.
HoT 2
Handbook of Terminology
Volume 2. Terminology in the Arab world
Edited by Abied Alsulaiman and Ahmed Allaithy
The current volume represents a revival of Arabic translation and terminology studies. These disciplines have been dominated by Western scholarship in recent decades, but in truth their historical tradition as a whole owes a great debt to Arabic scholarship. The first systematic translation activity ever organized was...
full descriptionJanuary 2019. vi, 267 pp.
HoT 3
Handbook of Terminology
Volume 3. Legal Terminology
Edited by Łucja Biel and Hendrik J. Kockaert
As a core component of legal language used to draft, enforce and practice law, legal terms have fascinated lawyers, linguists, terminologists and other scholars for centuries. Third in the series, this Handbook offers a comprehensive compendium of the current state of knowledge on legal terminology. It is the first...
full descriptionDecember 2023. vii, 622 pp.
HoT 1
Handbook of Terminology
Volume 1
Edited by Hendrik J. Kockaert and Frieda Steurs
Terminology has started to explore unbeaten paths since Wüster, and has nowadays grown into a multi-facetted science, which seems to have reached adulthood, thanks to integrating multiple contributions not only from different linguistic schools, including computer, corpus, variational, socio-cognitive and...
full descriptionMarch 2015. xix, 539 pp.
Z HTM S
Handbook of Terminology Management
2 Volumes (set)
Compiled by Sue Ellen Wright and Gerhard Budin
The Handbook of Terminology Management is a unique work designed to meet the practical needs of terminologists, translators, lexicographers, subject specialists (e.g., engineers, medical professionals, etc.), standardizers and others who have to solve terminological problems in their daily work.In more than 900 pages,...
full descriptionMarch 2001. 950 pp.
Z HTM 1
Handbook of Terminology Management
Volume 1: Basic Aspects of Terminology Management
Compiled by Sue Ellen Wright and Gerhard Budin
The Handbook of Terminology Management is a unique work designed to meet the practical needs of terminologists, translators, lexicographers, subject specialists (e.g., engineers, medical professionals, etc.), standardizers and others who have to solve terminological problems in their daily work.In more than 900 pages,...
full descriptionMarch 1997. xiv, 372 pp.
HTS 5
Handbook of Translation Studies
Volume 5
Edited by Yves Gambier and Luc van Doorslaer
Up to now, the Handbook of Translation Studies (HTS) consisted of four volumes, all published between 2010 and 2013. Since research in TS continues to grow and expand, this fifth volume was added in 2021. The HTS aims at disseminating knowledge about translation, interpreting, localization, adaptation, etc. and...
full descriptionOctober 2021. vii, 281 pp.
HTS 4
Handbook of Translation Studies
Volume 4
Edited by Yves Gambier and Luc van Doorslaer
As a meaningful manifestation of how institutionalized the discipline has become, the new Handbook of Translation Studies is most welcome. It joins the other signs of maturation such as Summer Schools, the development of academic curricula, historical surveys, journals, book series, textbooks, terminologies,...
full descriptionDecember 2013. xii, 232 pp.
HTS 1
Handbook of Translation Studies
Volume 1
Edited by Yves Gambier and Luc van Doorslaer
As a meaningful manifestation of how institutionalized the discipline has become, the new Handbook of Translation Studies is most welcome. It joins the other signs of maturation such as Summer Schools, the development of academic curricula, historical surveys, journals, book series, textbooks, terminologies,...
full descriptionOctober 2010. x, 468 pp.
HTS 2
Handbook of Translation Studies
Volume 2
Edited by Yves Gambier and Luc van Doorslaer
As a meaningful manifestation of how institutionalized the discipline has become, the new Handbook of Translation Studies is most welcome. It joins the other signs of maturation such as Summer Schools, the development of academic curricula, historical surveys, journals, book series, textbooks, terminologies,...
full descriptionDecember 2011. x, 197 pp.
HTS S
Handbook of Translation Studies
5 Volumes (set)
Edited by Yves Gambier and Luc van Doorslaer
As a meaningful manifestation of how institutionalized the discipline has become, the new Handbook of Translation Studies is most welcome. It joins the other signs of maturation such as Summer Schools, the development of academic curricula, historical surveys, journals, book series, textbooks, terminologies,...
full descriptionOctober 2021. 1450 pp.
LOALL 12
Hindi
Yamuna Kachru
This book presents the structure of Hindi keeping in view the sociolinguistic context of language use. It includes descriptions of sounds, devices of word formation, rules of phrase and sentence construction and conventions of language use in spoken and written texts incorporating the insights gained by application of...
full descriptionOctober 2006. xxi, 309 pp.
CHLEL EdR
L'Époque de la Renaissance (1400–1600)
4 vols. set
Sous la direction de Eva Kushner
Les quatre volumes de l' « Histoire comparée des littératures de langues européennes » portant sur la Renaissance incarnent une véritable gageure dans le domaine des sciences humaines, et en particulier du comparatisme. Il s'agit en effet d'observer, d'analyser et de décrire des séries de phénomènes survenues à des...
full descriptionNovember 2017. 2622 pp. (4 vols. set)
ZEB 1
Louis-Adolphe Hervier 1817–1879
Biographie et Catalogue de l'œuvre gravé
Jan W. van den Noort
L’œuvre de Louis-Adolphe Hervier se caractérise par un goût marqué et un immense respect pour la vie des gens du peuple, des paysans et des pêcheurs. Les eaux-fortes et lithographies de ce peintre et graveur constituent, dans le domaine des arts graphiques français du XIXe siècle, une contribution importante et sont...
full descriptionFebruary 2024. 488 pp.
LOALL 19
Mongolian
Juha A. Janhunen
Mongolian is the principal language spoken by some five million ethnic Mongols living in Outer and Inner Mongolia, as well as in adjacent parts of Russia and China. The spoken language is divided into a number of mutually intelligible dialects, while for writing two separate written languages are used: Cyrillic...
full descriptionNovember 2012. xv, 320 pp.
DDCS 6
Perspectives on Multimodality
Edited by Eija Ventola, Cassily Charles and Martin Kaltenbacher
This volume sign posts several paths of multimodality research and theory-building today. The chapters represent a cross-section of current perspectives on multimodal discourse with a special focus on theoretical and methodological issues (mode hierarchies, modelling semiotic resources as multiple semiotic systems,...
full descriptionDecember 2004. x, 250 pp.
Z 65
Russian-English Dictionary of Verbal Collocations
Morton Benson and Evelyn Benson
All languages are characterized by the regular cooccurrence of certain words; for example, we say in English, tall building but high mountain. These recurrent combinations or collocations are peculiar to each individual language and cannot be predicted by a learner of that language. There are thousands of striking...
full descriptionApril 1993. xviii, 269 pp.
AiCR 60
Sisyphus’s Boulder
Consciousness and the limits of the knowable
Eric Dietrich and Valerie Gray Hardcastle
Consciousness lies at the core of being human. Therefore, to understand ourselves, we need a theory of consciousness. In Sisyphus's Boulder, Eric Dietrich and Valerie Hardcastle argue that we will never get such a theory because consciousness has an essential property that prevents it from ever being explained....
full descriptionFebruary 2005. xii, 136 pp.
LOALL 3
Tibetan
Philip Denwood
The Tibetan language comprises a wide range of spoken and written varieties whose known history dates from the 7th century AD to the present day. Its speakers inhabit a vast area in Central Asia and the Himalayas extending into seven modern nation states, while its abundant literature includes much of vital importance...
full descriptionNovember 1999. xix, 372 pp.
