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Comparative Eskimo Dictionary
An updated and comprehensive reference to the Eskimo-Aleut languages spoken from the northeastern tip of Siberia all the way east to Greenland, this easy-to-use volume groups …
Content, Expression and Structure
This collection of papers offers an alternative to mainstream functional linguistics on two points. Especially in American linguistics, function and structure are often viewed …
Comparative Chukotko-Kamchatkan Dictionary
This volume is the first comprehensive comparative dictionary to cover the whole of the Chukotko-Kamchatkan family. The genealogical status of this family (whether from a common …
Necker Cubes and Lost Marbles
Each of the prose poems that constitute the first part of this volume juxtaposes at least two widely different images and ways of reading them. The result - an either/or choice …
From the Writings of the Greenlanders
Strange Bedfellows
This volume is about the surprises lurking behind the genealogies of English words, often obscured by sound changes and borrowings from other languages. Though surprising - and …
Neural Network Model of Lexical Organisation
This is an engaging study of the mental lexicon: the way in which the form and meaning of words is stored by speakers of specific languages. Fortescue attempts to narrow the gap …
Space, Time, World
Although major cognitively based studies of SPACE and TIME in language have appeared in terms of "e;Frames of Reference"e;, these do not extend to a wide selection of the …
The Devolution of the Flubb
Circulating
Haloes and Shadows
In this tongue-in-cheek novel there is a diabolical plot afoot to detonate a dirty bomb on the lawn of the White House involving of all things the Little Mermaid in Copenhagen. …