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New York: Oxford University Press, 2000. Book. Near Fine. Hardcover. 1st. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Hardcover 8vo with dust jacket. Book and dust jacket in near fine condition. 232 pages including six parts: "The Genesis of the Learner's Dictionary", "Phraseology and the Learner's Dictionary", "The Second Generation of Learners' Dictionaries", "The Role of the Computer in Learner Lexicography", "The Third Generation of Learner's Dictionaries", and "Focus on the Dictionary User"..

U.S.A.: Oxford University Press, 2000. Book. Near Fine. Hardcover. 1st. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. 271pp including indexs of names, topics and languages.It provides a detailed exploration of negation and negative polarity phenomena and their implications for linguistic theory. Including new, specially commissioned work from some of the leading European, American, and Japanese scholars, Negation and Polarity covers all of the main approaches to this subject--syntactic, pragmatic, semantic, and cognitive--in a variety of language contexts..

U.S.A.: Oxford University Press, 1999. Book. Near Fine. Hardcover. 1st. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. 260pp including appendix, references, furthur reading and indexs of name and subject and proposes a new theory of the origins of human language ability and presents an original account of the early evolution of language. It explains why humans are the only language-using animals, challenges the assumption that language is a consequence of intelligence, and offers a new perspective on human uniqueness..

U.S.A.: Oxford University Press, 1999. Book. Near Fine. Hardcover. 1st. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. New copy. 244pp including references and index.This book investigates the architecture of the language faculty by considering what the properties of language reveal about the mental abilities and processes involved in language acquisition. The language faculty, the author argues, must be able not only to accommodate what is general, exceptionless, and universal in language, but must also be capable of dealing with what is irregular, exceptional, and idiosyncratic. In Syntactic Nuts Peter Culicover shows that this is true not only of the lexicon, but for syntax. Marginal and exceptional cases, where there is no straightforward form-meaning correspondence, are dealt with by the language faculty easily and precisely as the general cases. In considering how and why this should be the author argues against the prevailing trend in generative grammar, which takes the learner as either… Read More