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• Understanding Semantics. A Textbook for Students of Linguistics and Translation; DEDICATION; PREFACE; CONTENT; CHAPTER ONE SEMANTICS: IMPORTANT CONCEPTS; 1.1 Defining Semantics; 1.2 What does linguistic semantics deal with?; 1.3 What do semanticists do when they study meaning?; 1.4 Is semantics a separate modul?; 1.5 Semantics: A Critical & Historical background; 1.6 Can Semantics indeed be very important?; 1.7 Types and Subfields of Semantics?; 1.8 Semantics and learners' linguistic behavior; 1.9 What is Semantics in a nutshell?; 1.10 Sense Relations; EXERCISE (1).

• CHAPTER TWO SEMANTICS AND PRAGMATICS2.1 Defining Pragmatics; 2.2 Semantics and Pragmatics : Overlap; 2.3 Semiotics and Pragmatics; 2.4 History of Pragmatics; 2.5 What does pragmatics include?; 2.6 Speech Acts Theory; 2.7 Felicity condition; 2.8 Conversational Implicature; 2.9 The Cooperative Principle; 2.10 The Politeness Principles; 2.11 Principle of Relevance; 2.12 Deixis; 2.13 J.R. Searle's Classifications of Speech Acts; EXERCISE (2); CHAPTER THREE SENTENCES, UTTERANCES AND PROPOSITIONS; 3.1 Defining Sentence; 3.2 Defining Utterance; 3.3 Defining Proposition.

• 3.4 Sentence, Utterance, and Proposition3.5 Differences between a Sentence and an Utterance; 3.6 Six Aspects of Utterance Meaning; 3.7 Differences between a Sentence and a Proposition; 3.8 Analytic Sentence; 3.9 Synthetic Sentence; 3.10 Contradictory Sentence; 3.11 Entailment; 3.12 Paraphrase; 3.13 Sense and reference; 3.14 Denotations and Connotations; 3.15 The Distinction Between Denotation and Connotation; EXERCISE (3); CHAPTER FOUR AMBIGUITY; 4.1 Defining Ambiguity; 4.2 Lexical Ambiguity; 4.3 Structural Ambiguity; 4.4 Syntactic Ambiguity with Adjectives and Participles.

• 4.5 Lexical and Structural Ambiguity4.6 Types of Syntactic Ambiguity; 4.7 Other Ambiguous Constrictions; 4.8 Syntactic Ambiguity of Noun+ Noun + Modifier; 4.9 Syntactic Ambiguity of Verb + Noun + Modifier; 4.10 Ambiguity Arising out of Bracketing; 4.11 The Phenomenon of Ambiguity Persistence; 4.12 The Principal Ways to Avoid Ambiguity; EXERCISE (4); CHAPTER FIVE LEXICAL MEANING: IDIOMS, COLLOCATIONS 5.1 Defining Idioms; 5.2 Some More Examples of English Idioms & their Meanings; 5.3 Defining Collocations; 5.4 Types of Collocations; 5.5 The Three Kinds of Collocational Restrictions.

• 5.6 Proverbs5.7 Examples of some English Proverbs; EXERCISE (5); SELECTED REFERENCES.

• Intro; PREFACE; CONTENTS;
• 0. INTRODUCTION;
• 1. BIOGRAPHICAL NOTES;
• 2. FEARN'S WRITINGS
• WITH A VIEW TO PHILOSOPHICAL PROBLEMS;
• 3. GENERAL REMARKS ON PEARN'S ANALYSIS OP LANGUAGE;
• 4. COMMENTS ON SELECT CHAPTERS OF THE WORK;
• 5. BIBLIOGRAPHY.

Over the past few decades, the book series Linguistische Arbeiten [Linguistic Studies], comprising over 500 volumes, has made a significant contribution to the development of linguistic theory both in Germany and internationally. The series will continue to deliver new impulses for research and maintain the central insight of linguistics that progress can only be made in acquiring new knowledge about human languages both synchronically and diachronically by closely combining empirical and theoretical analyses. To this end, we invite submission of high-quality linguistic studies from all the central areas of general linguistics and the linguistics of individual languages which address topical questions, discuss new data and advance the development of linguistic theory.
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• 1. List of contributors--
• 2. Preface--
• 3. Introduction: Clitic doubling, core syntax and the interfaces (by Kallulli, Dalina)--
• 4. Part I. Clitic doubling within the Balkan Continuum: Rise and spread--
• 5.
• 1. Balkan object reduplication in areal and dialectological perspective (by Friedman, Victor A.)--
• 6.
• 2. Towards grammaticalization of clitic doubling: Clitic doubling in Macedonian and neighbouring languages (by Miseska Tomic, Olga)--
• 7.
• 3. The genesis of clitic doubling from Ancient to Medieval Greek (by Boel, Gunnar de)--
• 8.
• 4. Clitic doubling and Old Bulgarian (by Dimitrova-Vulchanova, Mila)--
• 9. Part II. Discourse functional properties of clitic doubling--
• 10.
• 5. Romanian clitic doubling: A view from pragmatics-semantics and diachrony (by Hill, Virginia)--
• 11.
• 6. Clitic doubling from Ancient to Asia Minor Greek (by Janse, Mark)--
• 12.
• 7. Object clitic doubling constructions and topicality in Bulgarian (by Guentcheva, Zlatka)--
• 13. Part III. Morpho-syntactic properties and modelling of clitic doubling--
• 14.
• 8. Clitic doubling, agreement and information structure: The case of Albanian (by Kallulli, Dalina)--
• 15.
• 9. Clitic reduplication constructions in Bulgarian (by Krapova, Iliyana)--
• 16.
• 10. Clitic doubling, complex heads and interarboreal operations (by Cornilescu, Alexandra)--
• 17.
• 11. Rethinking the Clitic Doubling parameter: The inverse correlation between clitic doubling and participle agreement (by Tsakali, Vina)--
• 18. Part IV. Clitic doubling within the DP--
• 19.
• 12. Romanian possessive clitics revisited (by Avram, Larisa)--
• 20.
• 13. Possessive clitics in the DP: Doubling or dislocation? (by Giusti, Giuliana)--
• 21. Name index--
• 22. Language index--
• 23. Subject index.
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This volume is a collection of articles on clitic doubling, a phenomenon that has preoccupied generative linguists since the 1980s, when its theoretical importance was noted. Clitic doubling is prevalent in the Balkan languages. However, generative studies initially dealt with its properties in Romance languages, with the Balkan patterns coming increasingly into focus. Since the mid-nineties, these patterns presented a variety of challenges to the generalisations reached on the basis of Romance, while also raising new research questions. The volume deals among other things with the following aspects of the phenomenon: its extension within and outside the Balkan Sprachbund and the observed variation; its realizational possibilities and the constraints on the status of the doubled DP (direct or indirect object, pronominal or non-pronominal); its semantics (definite, specific, presupposed, neither) and pragmatics (topic or not, D-linked or not); its temporal and locational genesis; the relationship between the clitic and its associate.
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• 1. Acknowledgements for this edition--
• 2. Preface--
• 3.
• Chapter 1 William Bathe's ancestral background--
• 4.
• Chapter 2 William Bathe, 1564-1614: Courtier, diplomat and Jesuit--
• 5.
• Chapter 3 A bilingual system: the different editions of Ianua Linguarum--
• 6.
• Chapter 4 Ianua Linguarum: English translation of preface to 1611 edition--
• 7.
• Chapter 5 Ianua Linguarum: the historical and educational setting--
• 8.
• Chapter 6 Musical and theological writings--
• 9. Appendices--
• 10. List of Manuscripts--
• 11. Bibliography--
• 12. Index--
• 13. Genealogical Trees.
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William Bathe, S.J. (1564-1614) was a pioneer in linguistics. The present book deals with Bathe's family background, his life and service as a courtier, diplomat and, finally, Jesuit educator, and, in particular, his contribution to the study of language and his most important publication, Ianua Linguarum (1611).
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• Acknowledgement; Translator's Introduction: Flying Over Fertillia; Author's Preface: On Carpets; Part I; Part II; Part III; Translator's Notes.

"From the pen of one of Hong Kong's leading writers, Xi Xi (1930 - ), flying Carpet mirrors the past and present of Fertillia, an island city situated on the south-eastern coast of the huge country of Dragonland. Fertillia is of course Hong Kong, and the novel is part history and part imagination, a rich tapestry of the local material culture and a vivid portrayal of sensitive Chinese minds, a saga of the Fa family who has lived through Fertillia's development from a small village to a cosmopolitan metropolis. On top of the personal drama involving three generations of people, the author casts her narrative net over many walks of life in the city and suggests the uniqueness of Fertillia's existence within a cosmic order of rare elegance and harmony." "The book brims with the author's creativity and intellectual insight and will make good reading for all those who are familiar with the spirit and minutiae of life in Hong Kong and those who take Hong Kong seriously as a subject for historical, cultural and literary research."--Jacket.

• The revolutionary
• The language machine
• A man of his time
• The most hideous institution on this earth
• The cognitive revolution
• The Tower of Babel
• The Pentagon's 'new tower'
• Machine translation : the great folly
• A universal alphabet of sounds
• Russian formalist roots
• Incantation by laughter
• Tatlin's tower
• An instinct for freedom
• The linguistics wars
• Between colliding tectonic plates
• The escapologist
• The soul mutation
• Carburettor and other innate concepts
• A scientific revolution?
• Mindless activism, tongue-tied science
• Chomsky's tower
• Before language
• The human revolution.

A fresh and fascinating look at the philosophies, politics, and intellectual legacy of one of the twentieth century's most influential and controversial minds Occupying a pivotal position in postwar thought, Noam Chomsky is both the founder of modern linguistics and the world's most prominent political dissident. Chris Knight adopts an anthropologist's perspective on the twin output of this intellectual giant, acclaimed as much for his denunciations of US foreign policy as for his theories about language and mind. Knight explores the social and institutional context of Chomsky's thinking, showing how the tension between military funding and his role as linchpin of the political left pressured him to establish a disconnect between science on the one hand and politics on the other, deepening a split between mind and body characteristic of Western philosophy since the Enlightenment. Provocative, fearless, and engaging, this remarkable study explains the enigma of one of the greatest intellectuals of our time.
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• Frontmatter
• Acknowledgements
• Table of contents
• Tables. Figures
• Abbreviations
• Maps
• Chapter 1. Introduction
• Chapter 2. Phonology
• Chapter 3. Nominals
• Chapter 4. The noun phrase
• Chapter 5. Possession, relativization, and number
• Chapter 6. Verb classes
• Chapter 7. Expressing temporal, modal, and aspectual information
• Chapter 8. Reduplication
• Chapter 9. Clause structure
• Chapter 10. Complex nuclei
• Chapter 11. Complex cores
• Chapter 12. Complement-taking predicates
• Chapter 13. Clausal juncture and inter-propositional relations
• Appendices
• Appendix I.A. Bernard Deacon's Nesan Data (1926-1927)
• Appendix II. Neverver language vitality assessment
• Appendix III. The Neverver documentation corpus
• Appendix IV. Sample Texts
• Appendix V. Semantic relations
• References
• Index.

Neverver is an Oceanic language spoken by just over 500 people on the high island of Malekula in Vanuatu. Drawing on an extensive corpus of field recordings collected between 2004 and 2008, the analysis reveals a very interesting phonological system with six prenasalized segments, rich systems of possession, tense/aspect/mood marking, valence change, and verb serialization. The grammaris of interest to specialists in Oceanic and Austronesian linguistics, as well as to general linguists, especially those interested in linguistic typology.
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• Cover Miranda July's Intermedial Art; Contents ; 1 Introduction ; 1.1 Approaching Miranda July ; 1.2 Self-Reliance, the Individualized Society, and the Expressive Individualist ; 1.3 The Figure of the Artist, Self-Expression, and Self-Help ; 1.4 The Structure of This Book.

• 2 Healing the Audience? Virtual Community Versus Individualization in the Internet Project Learning to Love You More 2.1 Healing Through Participation ; 2.2 The Media and the Virtual Community ; 2.3 A Community of Authentic Individuals.

• 3 Self-Help Strategies For Disembedded Individuals: The Film Me and You and Everyone We Know 3.1 A Critique of Appropriation ; 3.2 Spiritual Materialism ; 3.3 Children and Sexuality ; 3.4 Art as Self-Help.

• 4 The Search for the Self: The Short Story Collection No One Belongs Here More Than You 4.1 Loneliness ; 4.2 Expressive Individualism ; 4.3 Sexual Inadequacy ; 5 Conclusion: The Ambivalences of Self-Help ; Works Cited ; Acknowledgements.

This first in-depth study of Miranda July's work reveals some of its major motives and consequently provides fascinating insights into the lifestyle of the contemporary white Californian middle class. Through an analysis of July's award-winning intermedial work, the author lays open how July takes individualism and self-help as constitutive for the creative class. Although a member of the creative class herself, July's voice oscillates between irony and approval. July thus paints a fascinating portrait of neurotic hipsterism, which triggers self-reflection in the general reader and critical thinking in the cultural analyst.
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• Preface Introduction
• 1. "I Have Selected Columbia"
• 2. Schools for Journalists?
• 3. "Dealing with a Wild Man"
• 4. "A Posthumous Affair"
• 5. "We Will Start Right Away"
• 6. A Building Called "Journalism"
• 7. "What Journalism Will Do to Columbia"
• 8. "If Sedition Is to Be Excluded"
• 9. Red Apple and Maraschino Cherry
• 10. The First Dean
• 11. "Ackerman Hails Stand of Press"
• 12. The Graduate School
• 13. Speaking to Cabots
• 14. "My Dear Dean"
• 15. Outpost in Chungking
• 16. "Sweat and Tears"
• 17. Postwar Ventures
• 18. The Dean and the Prizes
• 19. "Training Ground"
• 20. "The Pulitzer Mandate"
• 21. From Dropout to Dean
• 22. Short-Changed
• 23. "Why a Review?"
• 24. Era of Expansion
• 25. Edging Toward the Abyss
• 26. Fallout
• 27. Desperately Seeking a Dean
• 28. "Welcome to the Joint"
• 29. Hohenberg and the Prizes
• 30. Meeting Fatigue
• 31. "It Appears You Have a New Dean"
• 32. CJR-From New Management to Old
• 33. "Sour Apples"
• 34. Showdown
• 35. To the Exits
• 36. The Conglomerate
• 37. "Deans' Row"
• 38. Trying to Stretch the Year
• 39. "Clearly Insufficient"
• 40. Has the Pulitzer Idea Survived? On Sources Notes Index.
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Marking the centennial of the founding of Columbia University's school of journalism, this candid history of the school's evolution is set against the backdrop of the ongoing debate over whether journalism can-or should-be taught in America's universities. Originally known as "the Pulitzer School" in honor of its chief benefactor, the newspaper magnate Joseph Pulitzer, Columbia's school of journalism has long been a significant and highly visible presence in the journalism community. But at the turn of the twentieth century, when the school was originally conceived, journalism was taught either during an apprenticeship at a newspaper office or as a vocational elective at a few state universities-no Ivy League institution had yet dared to teach a common "trade" such as journalism. It was Pulitzer's vision, and Columbia's decision to embrace and cultivate his novel idea, that would eventually help legitimize and transform the profession. Yet despite its obvious influence and prestige, the school has experienced a turbulent, even contentious history. Critics have assailed the school for being disengaged from the real world of working journalists, for being a holding tank for the mediocre and a citadel of the establishment, while supporters-with equal passion-have hailed it for upholding journalism's gold standard and for nurturing many of the profession's most successful practitioners. The debate over the school's merits and shortcomings has been strong, and at times vehement, even into the twenty-first century. In 2002, the old argument was reopened and the school found itself publicly scrutinized once again. Had it lived up to Pulitzer's original vision of a practical, uncompromising, and multifaceted education for journalists? Was its education still relevant to the needs of contemporary journalists? Yet after all the ideological arguments, and with its future still potentially in doubt, the school has remained a magnet for the ambitious and talented, an institution that provides intensive training in the skills and folkways of journalism. Granted unprecedented access to archival records, James Boylan has written the definitive account of the struggles and enduring legacy of America's premiere school of journalism.
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• Boss-Busters & Sin Hounds Kansas City and Its Star; Contents; Preface; Prologue: A Puritan in River City;
• Part 1 Baron Bill;
• Chapter 1. The Daily W.R. Nelson;
• Chapter 2. City Beautiful;
• Chapter 3. Progressive Decade;
• Chapter 4. Insurgents;
• Part 2 Interregnum;
• Chapter 5. Bully Pulpits;
• Chapter 6. Main Street Paper;
• Part 3 The Sage and the Country Boy;
• Chapter 7. Changing of the Guard;
• Chapter 8. Tom's Town;
• Chapter 9. Voice of Middle America;
• Chapter 10. Busted Trust; Epilogue: Newspaper of the Future; Endnotes; A Note on Sources; Acknowledgments; Illustration Credits; Index.

"Haskell tells the tale of the Kansas City Star's rise and decline, taking readers into the city room and executive offices of one of the most respected American newspapers. This story includes Kansas City notables as Tom Pendergast, J.C. Nichols, Frank Walsh, William Rockhill Nelson, Henry J. Haskell and Roy A. Roberts"--Provided by publisher.

• Acknowledgements; Abbreviations; Note on the Text; Introduction; Part I. Authorship, Antebellum Literature, and Transatlantic Rhetoric; 1 Towards a Rhetoric of Authorship: Theoretical, Poetical, and Performative Figures of the Author; 2 "Under the Ban of the Empire of Literature": Print Culture, the Rise of the Author, and the Transatlantic Dispersal of Rhetoric, 1776-1849; Part II. The Figures of Edgar Allan Poe; 3 "Letters of Recommendation": The Transatlantic Poet-Critic between the Rules of Rhetoric and Romantic Aesthetics.

• 4 The Genius Rhetorician: The Rhetoric of "The Philosophy of Composition"5 "The Ingenuity of Unravelling": Abductive Powers and Rhetorical Inventors in the Tales of Ratiocination; 6 The Jingle-Man and the Damned Rhetorician: Poetry, Elocution, and the Political Rationale of Verse; 7 "The Only Proper Stage for the Literary Histrio": Delivery and its Dangers in the Antebellum Cultures of Rhetoric and Print; Concluding Remarks; Works Cited; Index of Names; Index of Subjects.

The Anglia Book Series (ANGB) offers a selection of high quality work on all areas and aspects of English philology. It publishes book-length studies and essay collections on English language and linguistics, on English and American literature and culture from the Middle Ages to the present, on the new English literatures, as well as on general and comparative literary studies, including aspects of cultural and literary theory.

• Dante, Florenskii, Lotman : journeying then and now through medieval space / David Bethea
• Lotman's other : estrangement and ethics in culture and explosion / Amy Mandelker
• Pushkin's Anzhelo, Lotman's insight into it, and the proper measure of politics and grace / Caryl Emerson
• Post-Soviet political discourse and the creation of political communities / Michael Urban
• State power, hegemony, and memory : Lotman and Gramsci / Marek Steedman
• The ever-tempting return to an Iranian past in the Islamic present : does Lotman's binarism help? / Kathryn Babayan
• The self, its bubbles, and illusions : cultivating autonomy in Greenblatt and Lotman / Andreas Schönle
• Lotman's Karamzin and the late Soviet liberal intelligentsia / Andrei Zorin
• Iconic self-expression : bipolar asymmetry, indeterminacy, and creativity in cinema / Herbert Eagle
• Post-ing the Soviet body as tabula phrasa and spectacle / Helena Goscilo
• Eccentricity and cultural semiotics in imperial Russia / Julie A. Buckler
• Writing in a polluted semiosphere : everyday life in Lotman, Foucault, and De Certeau / Jonathan H. Bolton
• Afterword : Lotman without tears.

One of the most widely read and translated theorists of the former Soviet Union, Yurii Lotman was a daring and imaginative thinker. A cofounder of the Tartu-Moscow school of semiotics, he analyzed a broad range of cultural phenomena, from the opposition between Russia and the West to the symbolic construction of space, from cinema to card playing, from the impact of theater on painting to the impact of land-scape design on poetry. His insights have been particularly important in conceptualizing the creation of meaning and understanding the function of art and literature in society, and they have enriched the work of such diverse figures as Paul Ricoeur, Stephen Greenblatt, Umberto Eco, Wolfgang Iser, Julia Kristeva, and Federic Jameson. In this volume edited by Andreas Schonle, contributors extend Lotman's theories to a number of fields. Focusing on his less frequently studied later period, ""Lotman and Cultural Studies"" engages with such ideas as the ""semiosphere, "" the fluid, dynamic semiotic environment out of which meaning emerges; ""auto-communication, "" the way in which people create narratives about themselves that in turn shape their self-identity; change, as both gradual evolution and an abrupt, unpredictable ""explosion; "" power; law and mercy; Russia and the West; center and periphery. As William Mills Todd observes in his afterword, the contributors to this volume test Lotman's legacy in a new context: ""Their research agendas - Iranian and American politics, contemporary Russian and Czech politics, sexuality and the body - are distant from Lotman's own, but his concepts and awareness yield invariably illuminating results.
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• Table of Contents; Introduction; Part I: Discourse and Procedural Meaning; Chapter One; Chapter Two; Chapter Three; Part II: Specialized Discourses and Relevance Theory; Chapter Four; Chapter Five; Chapter Six; Chapter Seven; Part III: Figures of Speech in Literary Discourse; Chapter Eight; Chapter Nine; Part IV: Humorous Discourse; Chapter Ten; Chapter Eleven; Part V: Morphological Issues and Lexical Pragmatics; Chapter Twelve; Chapter Thirteen; Chapter Fourteen; Contributors; Index.

The collection of papers discusses various applications of Relevance Theory within several areas of pragmatics and discourse analysis. It covers an array of topics, including the treatment of figurative language, pragmatic markers and lexical pragmatics within Relevance Theory. It also discusses relevance-theoretic analyses of special kinds of discourse, such as discourse emerging from the internet or from psychotherapeutic sessions. The volume will primarily interest relevance theorists and scholars working on the subjects addressed by particular chapters.

Multidirectional language contact involving more than two languages is little described. However, it probably represents the most common type of contact in the world, where colonization, rapid socioeconomic and demographic change, and society-wide multilingualism have led to dramatic linguistic change. This book presents fascinating cases of multidirectional contact and convergence between highly diverse languages in an emerging linguistic area in Suriname and the Guianas and proposes a framework for comparable studies.
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• 1. Biolinguistic investigations on the Language Faculty: Introduction (by Di Sciullo, Anna Maria)--
• 2.
• Section 1. Language faculty--
• 3. The biolinguistics program: Questions and hypotheses (by Di Sciullo, Anna Maria)--
• 4. Symbol taxonomy in biophonology (by Matamoros, Camila)--
• 5. The centrality of speech for human thought (by Rossello Ximenes, Joana)--
• 6. Electroencephalographic evidence of vowels computation and representation in human auditory cortex (by Grimaldi, Mirko)--
• 7.
• Section 2. Language variation--
• 8. Feature values and the expression of variation (by Chandra, Pritha)--
• 9. Object pronouns in the evolution of Romanian: A biolinguistic perspective (by Di Sciullo, Anna Maria)--
• 10. The interplay of silent nouns and (reduced) relatives in Malay adjectival modification (by Espanol-Echevarria, Manuel)--
• 11.
• Section 3. Language (acquisition and) impairments--
• 12. A study on an alleged case of Spanish SLI and the founder effect (by Gavarro, Anna)--
• 13. Syntax and its interfaces at the low and high ends of the autism spectrum (by Terzi, Arhonto)--
• 14. Communication in schizophrenia, between pragmatics, cognition, and social cognition (by Bosia, Marta)--
• 15. Author index--
• 16. Subject index.
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The papers assembled in this volume aim to contribute to our understanding of the human capacity for language: the generative procedure that relates sounds and meanings via syntax. Different hypotheses about the properties of this generative procedure are under discussion, and their connection with biology is open to important cross-disciplinary work. Advances have been made in human-animal studies to differentiate human language from animal communication. Contributions from neurosciences point to the exclusive properties of the human brain for language. Studies in genetically based language impairments also contribute to the understanding of the properties of the language organ. This volume brings together contributions on theoretical and experimental investigations on the Language Faculty. It will be of interest to scholars and students investigating the properties of the biological basis of language, in terms the modeling of the language faculty, as well as the properties of language variation, language acquisition and language impairments.
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This series supports the study of core topics that form substantial and identifiable parts of Linguistics degree courses as taught in the later years of undergraduate study. Each volume provides an in-depth introduction to a particular linguistic subdiscipline, while also engaging with recent research on the subject.
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• The hidden texture
• Language in the brain --The form of grammar
• Toward the source of order.

The new edition of a pioneering book that examines research at the intersection of contemporary theoretical linguistics and the cognitive neurosciences. In The Boundaries of Babel, Andrea Moro describes an encounter between two cultures: contemporary theoretical linguistics and the cognitive neurosciences. As a leading theoretical linguist in the generative tradition and also a neuroscientist, Moro is uniquely equipped to tell this story. Moro examines what he calls the "hidden" revolution in contemporary science: the discovery that the number of possible grammars is not infinite and that their number is biologically limited. This will require us to rethink not just the fundamentals of linguistics and neurosciences but also our view of the human mind. Moro searches for neurobiological correlates of "the boundaries of Babel"-the constraints on the apparent chaotic variation in human languages-by using an original experimental design based on artificial languages exploiting neuroimaging techniques. This second edition includes a new chapter in which Moro extends the exploration of the boundaries of Babel in search of the source of order with which all human languages are endowed. Reflecting on the emerging methodology that obtains physiological data from awake brain surgery, Moro shifts from considering where the neurophysiological processes underlying linguistic competence take place-that is, where neurons are activated-to considering the neuronal code involved in these processes-that is, what neurons communicate to each other. This edition also features a substantive new foreword by Noam Chomsky synthesizing the major issues theoretical syntax will face in the near future.
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• The 1960s: An Editorial Voice Forged by Crisis
• The 1970s: Celebrating a New South
• The 1980s: A Conversation with the World
• The 1990s: Full Tilt, at Home and Afar
• Beyond
• 2000: Reflection but No Retirement.

Cussing Dixie, Loving Dixie: Fifty Years of Commentary by H. Brandt Ayers collects in one volume the essential writing of the legendary publisher and editor of the Anniston Star. The decades-long ribbon of prose that spilled from Ayers's pen captured the epochal milestones of our times, such as the 1965 March on Washington, the civil rights movement, the rise and decay of the New South movement, the South's transformation from a bulwark of Democratic entropy to a heartland of irascible conservatism, and the election of the republic's first black president. Cussing Dixie, Loving Dixie: Fifty Years of Commentary by H. Brandt Ayers includes Ayers's unforgettable descriptions of the political giants of Alabama's turbulent twentieth century. Of George Wallace he wrote: "He lost his way in the swamp of racial politics, squandered his great talent for leadership, and, cruelly, has made his most devoted followers bear the consequences." And Ayers memorably hymned Supreme Court justice Hugo Black as having "made of the Bill of Rights a trumpet which kept calling the nation back to its original purpose." Ayers was so known for his passionate crusade for a fair deal for "the plain people of both races" of Alabama that enemies dubbed his family's newspaper "The Red Star." A loyal son of Alabama who extolls Southern culture, Ayers unapologetically calls for Alabamians to cast off the moribund ideologies of the past. He jousts against obscurantism itself: "When fear and ignorance snuff out the brains of a man, " he thunders, "he is reduced to the level of a jungle predator-a flexed mass of instincts." Writing from a generous heart, Ayers enlivens and enlightens. Eschewing the hifalutin, his artful writing is both accessible to the people and admired by the learned. Far from provincial, his far-ranging eye landed often on global events, and he persuasively frames the state and region as an active front on which key national issues hang. Ayers ranks among the most prolific and insightful chroniclers of twentieth- and twenty-first-century Alabama. Cussing Dixie, Loving Dixie: Fifty Years of Commentary by H. Brandt Ayers is a monument to his enduring legacy and relevance.
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