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Not Exactly

In Praise of Vagueness
Kees van Deemter
$21.95
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Paperback,  May 2012 ISBN13: 9780199645732ISBN10: 0199645736 A stimulating account that cuts across various disciplines--including artificial intelligence, logic, and computer science--to illuminate the nature and importance of vagueness
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Languages of the Amazon

Alexandra Y. Aikhenvald
$160.00
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Hardback,  May 2012 ISBN13: 9780199593569ISBN10: 0199593566 The first guide to Amazonia's over 300 languages
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Telicity, Change, and State

A Cross-Categorial View of Event Structure
Violeta Demonte, Louise McNally
$135.00
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Hardback,  May 2012 ISBN13: 9780199693498ISBN10: 0199693498 New work by leading researchers on central themes in the study of event structure

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Having in Mind

The Philosophy of Keith Donnellan
Joseph Almog, Paolo Leonardi
$85.00
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Hardback,  Apr 2012 ISBN13: 9780199844845ISBN10: 0199844844 A collection of the best critical essays on Donnellan's forty-year body of work.
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The Oxford Handbook of Compositionality

Markus Werning, Wolfram Hinzen, Edouard Machery
$150.00
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Hardback,  Apr 2012 ISBN13: 9780199541072ISBN10: 0199541078 Leading linguists and philosophers report on one of the most exciting and contentious fields in the study of language and mind, the notion that the meaning of an expression is determined by the meaning and syntax of its parts

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Verbs

Aspect and Causal Structure
William Croft
$60.00
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Paperback,  Apr 2012 ISBN13: 9780199248599ISBN10: 0199248591 This book examines the syntax and semantics of verbs from a crosslinguistic perspective, taking full account of diachronic and usage-based research
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The Reference Book

John Hawthorne, David Manley
$55.00
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Hardback,  Apr 2012 ISBN13: 9780199693672ISBN10: 0199693676 An original work on a set of intriguing linguistic phenomena
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Saussure

John E. Joseph
$55.00
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Hardback,  Apr 2012 ISBN13: 9780199695652ISBN10: 0199695652 The first comprehensive biography of Ferdinand de Saussure
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Verbs

Aspect and Causal Structure
William Croft
$160.00
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Hardback,  Apr 2012 ISBN13: 9780199248582ISBN10: 0199248583 This book examines the syntax and semantics of verbs from a crosslinguistic perspective, taking full account of diachronic and usage-based research
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Interpreting Motion

Grounded Representations for Spatial Language
Inderjeet Mani, James Pustejovsky
$110.00
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Hardback,  Mar 2012 ISBN13: 9780199601240ISBN10: 0199601240 An integrated perspective on how language structures constrain concepts of motion and how the world shapes the way motion is linguistically expressed

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cover The Oxford Encyclopedia of American Literature surveys the terrain of American literary history, from the 1600s to the present day, through 350 interpretive essays.


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"Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it." BGeorge Santayana
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