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Are Some Languages Better than Others?
This book sets out to answer a question that many linguists have been hesitant to ask: are some languages better than others? Can we say, for instance, that because German has …
Complementation
This book explores the variety of types of complementation found across the languages of the world and their grammatical properties and meanings. It shows how languages differ in …
The Jarawara Language of Southern Amazonia
This is the first account of Jarawara, a Southern Amazonia language of great complexity and unusual interest, and now spoken by less than two hundred people. It has only two open …
Words of Our Country
Progress in Molecular and Subcellular Biology
English Prepositions
This book provides an integrated account of the main prepositions of English, outlining their various forms and illustrating contrastive senses. The three chapters in Part I …
Grammars in Contact
Languages can be similar in many ways - they can resemble each other in categories, constructions and meanings, and in the actual forms used to express these. A shared feature may …
We Used to Eat People
Living in a small reed hut within a traditional village on Taveuni, the “garden isle” of Fiji, deep in the South Seas. Studying the language, how words and grammar are brought to …
Gastrointestinal Pathology
There have been many advances in the field of gastrointestinal pa thology which are of considerable clinical significance during the 13 years since the last publication of a …
Basic Linguistic Theory Volume 2
In Basic Linguistic Theory R. M. W. Dixon provides a new and fundamental characterization of the nature of human languages and a comprehensive guide to their description and …
Combustion Chemistry
Detailed study of the rates and mechanisms of combustion reactions has not been in the mainstream of combustion research until the recent recognition that further progress in …
Benign Prostatic Hyperplasia
A symposium on benign prostatic hyperplasia is appropriate at a time when new knowledge and new technology are rapidly emerging. As the age of the population has increased and …