The Evolutionary Emergence of Language: Social Function and the Origins of Linguistic Form

The Evolutionary Emergence of Language: Social Function and the Origins of Linguistic Form
Chris Knight | 2000-01-01 00:00:00 | Cambridge University Press | 440 | Languages (Other)
The Evolutionary Emergence of Language covers the origins and early evolution of language. Its main purpose is to synthesize current thinking on this topic, particularly from a standpoint in theoretical linguistics. It is suitable for students of human evolution, evolutionary psychology, linguistic anthropology and general linguistics. It is the outcome of a major international conference on the evolution of language and includes contributions from many of the best known figures in this field. Very few truly interdisciplinary volumes on this topic have previously been published.
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Portuguese Phrases For Dummies

Portuguese Phrases For Dummies
Karen Keller | 2007-01-01 00:00:00 | | 0 | Languages (Other)
I had a lot of fun with this book! Including one memorable evening chatting and laughing with locals on the beach at Salvador. I like how it fits in my pocket and is easy to read. It is well referenced, so I could easily find what I needed--from counting out money to eating out and getting around. But my favorite sections were the ones that gave me chatty things to say in social encounters and how to say things like a local. When I go to Brazil or any country, I like to make the effort to speak to the locals to get a feel for the culture and the people. I have always been repaid--but especially by the Brazilians that night on the beach.
This is a great phrase book, easy to read and use. It even has a concise overview of grammar and verbs. A great companion to my other Portuguese language books. I definitely recommend it to anyone who's visiting Brazil and wants to be able to start speaking right away.
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Pimsleur Italian Course AudioBook

Pimsleur Italian Course AudioBook
Dr. Paul Pimsleur | 2002-01-01 00:00:00 | Simon & Schusters | 1 | Languages (Other)
This is the state-of-the-art language learning course for spoken Italian.

Italian is official in Italy, Switzerland, San Marino & The Vatican
It is official in regions of Slovenia and Croatia.

It is widely spoken in Malta, Argentina, Uruguay, Brazil & Venezuela

It is a minority langauge in USA, Canada, Australia, Egypt and South Africa.

It is widely understood in Tunisia and Albania.
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Across Cultures: Culture, Literature, Music, Language (Student book, Teacher book and Audio)

Across Cultures: Culture, Literature, Music, Language (Student book, Teacher book and Audio)
Elizabeth Sharman | 2004-01-01 00:00:00 | Longman | 162 | Languages (Other)
Across Cultures is one of the best cross-cultural course books, especially for those classes that have already studied English in their first, extra year (bilingual secondaries).This book has a wide range of cultural information on topics such as civilization, literature, music, language, history, geography, society, etc of the English-speaking world. I also strongly recommend it for FCE-preparation or for the Higher Mature Exams. The book is organised into modules and there is guidance in the Teacher’s book if you only want to focus particularly on one of the countries.
Across Cultures is a new modular, flexible, user-friendly course which presents a wide variety of material on the English-speaking world. Traditional topics, such as geography and institutions, are fully covered, along with the most up-to-date themes and topics.
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Language and Problems of Knowledge: The Managua Lectures (Current Studies in Linguistics)

Language and Problems of Knowledge: The Managua Lectures (Current Studies in Linguistics)
Noam Chomsky | 1987-01-01 00:00:00 | The MIT Press | 216 | Languages (Other)
Language and Problems of Knowledge is Noam Chomsky's most accessible statement on the nature, origins, and current concerns of the field of linguistics. He frames the lectures with four fundamental questions: What do we know when we are able to speak and understand a language? How is this knowledge acquired? How do we use this knowledge? What are the physical mechanisms involved in the representation, acquisition, and use of this knowledge? Starting from basic concepts, Chomsky sketches the present state of our answers to these questions and offers prospects for future research. Much of the discussion revolves around our understanding of basic human nature (that we are unique in being able to produce a rich, highly articulated, and complex language on the basis of quite rudimentary data), and it is here that Chomsky's ideas on language relate to his ideas on politics. The initial versions of these lectures were given at the Universidad Centroamericana in Managua, Nicaragua, in March 1986. A parallel set of lectures on contemporary political issues given at the same time has been published by South End Press under the title On Power and Ideology: The Managua Lectures. Noam Chomsky is Institute Professor of Linguistics and Philosophy at MIT. Language and Problems of Knowledge is sixteenth in the series Current Studies in Linguistics, edited by Jay Keyser.
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Colloquial Hebrew: The Complete Course for Beginners

Colloquial Hebrew: The Complete Course for Beginners
Zippi Lyttleton and Tamar Wang | 2003-01-01 00:00:00 | Routledge; 1 edition | 392 | Languages (Other)
Colloquial Hebrew aims to teach Hebrew as it is spoken and written today, giving you a level of competence to be able to travel around and engage in conversation on a range of topics as well as being able to read signs, menus, posters and other basic written texts. Each unit contains dialogues of everyday encounters and situations which can be performed in the exercises which follow. The Hebrew alphabet is introduced from Unit 1, but all dialogues are given in Romanized form alongside the script until the final stages of the book.
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The Evolution of Morphology

The Evolution of Morphology
Andrew Carstairs-McCarthy | 2010-01-01 00:00:00 | Oxford University Press | 272 | Languages (Other)
This book considers the evolution of the grammatical structure of words in the more general contexts of human evolution and the origins of language. The consensus in many fields is that language is well designed for its purpose, and became so either through natural selection or by virtue of non-biological constraints on how language must be structured. Andrew Carstairs-McCarthy argues that in certain crucial respects language is not optimally designed. This can be seen, he suggests, in the existence of not one but two kinds of grammatical organization - syntax and morphology - and in the morphological and morpho-phonological complexity which leads to numerous departures from the one-form-one-meaning principle.
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