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Reappraising the Archaeological and Linguistic Evidence
In building up a scenario for the arrival on the shores of Alaska of speakers of languages related to Eskimo-Aleut with genetic roots deep within Sine...
This volume is the first comprehensive comparative dictionary to cover the whole of the Chukotko-Kamchatkan family. The genealogical status of this fa...
Extracting patterns in language, mind and brain
The main thesis of this book is that abstraction, far from being confined to higher forms of cognition, language and logical reasoning, has actually b...
This book is intended as counter-evidence to the perception of Linguistics as the domain of dusty schoolroom grammar, where proponents of one theoreti...
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...
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Although major cognitively based studies of SPACE and TIME in language have appeared in terms of “Frames of Reference”, these do not extend to a w...
A Whiteheadian Perspective on Linguistics
The purpose of this book is to illustrate the relevance to linguistics today of Whitehead's philosophy of organism. Although largely ignored by lingui...
An engaging study of the mental lexicon: the way in which the form and meaning of words is stored by speakers of specific languages....
With Aleut Cognates
"Compares cognates found in the modern Eskimo languages ranging from northeastern Siberia, across Alaska and Canada, to East Greenland. Includes five ...
CONTENTS: Introduction; Basic Parameters & Regions; Specific Regions; Synthesis & Diachronic Perspectives; Appendices; References....
These curious tales all have something to do with language: Does one really have to queue to be assigned a language at birth? How could one go about c...
Orientation Systems of the North Pacific Rim is an extension of the author's earlier volume Eskimo Orientation Systems (also published in the series M...
James, an IT consultant engaged in upgrading the computer system of the Brain Imaging Institute at Cambridge, discovers something strange in the insti...
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 re...
Words are escaping from the flagship project of the prestigious House of Words. Something must be done fast to get them back before a rival company is...
This volume presents the up-to-date results of investigations into the Asian origins of the only two languages families of North America, Eskaleut and...