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1	Words Words Words more books like this by Professor David Crystal add to wishlist "Words, Words, Words" is all about the wonder of words. Drawing on a lifetime's experience, David Crystal explores language in all its rich varieties through words: the very building blocks of our communication. Language has no life f its own: it only exists in the mouths and ears, hands, eyes and brains of its users. As we are guided expertly and ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $10.01! \| SVS
2	Crazy English: The Ultimate Joy Ride Through Our Language more books like this by Richard Lederer, Ph.D. add to wishlist In this revised edition of his classic book, Lederer frolics through the logic-boggling byways of the English language and unveils new chapters on misnomers, retronyms, and "The Department of Redundancy Department". see all copies from $1.99! new only from $7.29! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
3	Words in the Mind: An Introduction to the Mental Lexicon more books like this by Jean Aitchison add to wishlist This volume about words, and the extraordinary human capacity to store and retrieve them. We hold effortlessly at least 50,000 of them in our minds, the majority of which can be summoned in a split second. No computer has yet come anywhere near simulating the complexities of the internal word-store. This book provides an up-to-date introduction to ... see all copies from $2.00! new only from $46.71! \| first editions \| SVS
4	English Through the Ages more books like this by William Brohaugh add to wishlist Placing words on a timeline of English word creation and chronicling words according to when it can be confirmed they were in use. Words are organised into time groups, and into categories of words. Entrywords list changes in meaning when related words came into being and are all cross-referenced in the index. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $24.95! \| first editions
5	Defining Creole more books like this by John McWhorter add to wishlist This volume gathers the last ten years worth of published articles on creole languages and their origins by John H. McWhorter, a unique and often controversial scholar in the field. The articles fall into roughly three categories: defending his hypothesis that creole languages are synchronically distinguishable from older grammars, addressing the ... see all copies from $9.95! new only from $9.95! \| SVS
6	Predicting New Words: The Secrets of Their Success more books like this by Allan A Metcalf add to wishlist In this witty, informative look at the winners and losers in the great game of new-word creation, Metcalf shows how to spin syllabic straw into linguistic gold. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| first editions \| SVS
7	Crazy English more books like this by Richard Lederer, Ph.D. add to wishlist In this revised edition of his classic book, Lederer frolics through the logic-boggling byways of the English language and unveils new chapters on misnomers, retronyms, and "The Department of Redundancy Department". see all copies from $1.99! new only from $10.16! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
8	The Best of an Almanac of Words at Play more books like this by Willard R Espy, John M Morse (Preface by), Paul Dickson (Introduction by) add to wishlist With 366 days worth of poems, puns and puzzles, including a selection for February 29th 2000, the Best of an Alamanac of Words at Play collects Willard Espy''s best ideas from his two classic almanacs.' see all copies from $2.98! new only from $14.90!
9	Exploring the Second Language Mental Lexicon more books like this by David Singleton, Michael H Long (Editor), Jack C Richards (Editor) add to wishlist Unlike many recent books on L2 vocabulary and processing, this volume does not set out to offer a complex perspective of the L2 lexicon, but rather represents a sustained attempt to come to grips with some very basic questions clustered around the relationship between the L2 mental lexicon and the L1 mental lexicon. It provides a substantial ... see all copies from $24.33! new only from $24.33! \| SVS
10	The Word Circus more books like this by Richard Lederer, Ph.D., Dave Morice (Illustrator) add to wishlist A fun and frolicking book of wordplay. - Hundreds of acrostics, anagrams, palindromes, puns, riddles, and spoonerisms - Presented in lively prose and light verse - Features a chapter of skill-testing word games see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
11 view cover	Weaving a Lexicon more books like this by D Geoffrey Hall (Editor), Sandra R Waxman (Editor) add to wishlist The studies in Weaving a Lexicon make a significant contribution to the growing field of lexical acquisition by considering the multidimensional way in which infants and children acquire the lexicon of their native language. They examine the many strands of knowledge and skill - including perceptual sensitivities, conceptual and semantic ... see all copies from $4.00! new only from $4.98!
12	Adventures of a Verbivore more books like this by Richard Lederer, Ph.D. add to wishlist In this "rollicking romp through the bountiful world of words" (Minneapolis Star), the bestselling author of Crazy English and More Anguished English takes readers on a logoleptic thrill ride through the beauties and perplexities of the language, spiking the text with irresistible mind scramblers. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $5.00! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
13 view cover	Cognitive models of speech processing psycholinguistic and computational perspectives more books like this by Altmann add to wishlist Presents reviews of current thinking on psycholinguistic and computational topics in speech recognition and natural-language processing. Topics in this text range from lexical access and the recognition of words in continuous speech to synctactic processing. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $5.98! \| first editions \| SVS
14 view cover	Words in the Mind more books like this by Jean Aitchison add to wishlist This book deals with words, and how humans learn them, remember them, understand them and find the ones they want. It discusses the structure and content of the human word-store or 'mental lexicon' with particular reference to the spoken language of those with English as their native language. Since the first two editions of Words in the Mind were ... see all copies from $9.83! new only from $169.63!
15 view cover	Lexical Change and Variation in the Southeastern United States, 1930-1990 more books like this by Ellen Johnson add to wishlist This work analyses words used in the southeastern United States and how they have changed during the 20th century. It also describes how the lexicon varies according to various factors such as the speaker's age, race, education, sex and place of residence. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $4.63! \| first editions
16 view cover	The Unaccusativity Puzzle: Explorations of the Syntax-Lexicon Interface more books like this by Artemis Alexiadou, Elena Anagnostopoulou (Editor), Martin Everaert (Editor) add to wishlist The phenomenon of unaccusativity is a central focus for the study of the complex properties of verb classes. The Unaccusative Hypothesis, first formulated in 1978, claimed that there are two classes of intransitive verbs, the unaccusative (Jill arrived) and the unergative or agentive (Jill sings). The hypothesis has provided a rich context for ... see all copies from $18.53! new only from $31.34! \| first editions \| SVS
17 view cover	Johnson on the English Language more books like this by Samuel Johnson, Gwin J Kolb (Editor), Robert DeMaria, Jr. (Editor) add to wishlist This volume collects the most important statements on the English language by Samuel Johnson, one of its greatest expositors and speakers. The book includes scholarly, fully annotated editions of Johnson's main writings on the history, structure, and cultural importance of the English language as well as his reflections on lexicography. These ... see all copies from $8.65! new only from $25.03! \| first editions
18 view cover	Much ADO about English: Up and Down the Bizarre Byways of a Fascinating Language more books like this by Richard Watson Todd add to wishlist Did you know that 'rhinoceros' has four possible plurals or that 'silly" has had nine different meanings? Can you guess what 'zenzizenzizenzic' and 'tatterdemalion' mean? Would you talk about an 'ambush of tigers' or a 'shrewdness of apes' or, how about an 'absence of waiters'? If we say one mouse and two mice, why don't we say one house and two ... see all copies from $2.00! new only from $2.00! \| first editions \| SVS
19 view cover	Lexical Representation and Process more books like this by William Marslen-Wilson (Editor) add to wishlist How do humans understand and process language? The 18 contributions in "Lexical Representation and Process" aim to provide a coherent and well-documented frame of reference for a field of study that is becoming central to both linguistics and psycholinguistics. They include a wide variety of approaches - from the radical alternative of new ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $40.00! \| first editions \| SVS
20 view cover	The Syntax of Aspect: Deriving Thematic and Aspectual Interpretation more books like this by Nomi Erteschik-Shir (Editor), Tova Rapoport (Editor) add to wishlist This book investigates the way grammar deals with the representation of aspectual (aktionsart) concepts, focussing on issues of the lexicon-syntax interface. The authors' innovative analyses of this interface significantly advance our understanding of the role that syntax plays in determining verbal meaning, aspectual interpretation, and thematic ... see all copies from $30.59! new only from $53.46! \| first editions
21 view cover	I Love Words more books like this by Barbara Barbieri McGrath add to wishlist McGrath's simple text is paired with Necco Sweetheart candies to teach emergent readers vowels and consonants, sight words, compound words, and contractions. Full color. see all copies from $2.02! new only from $5.02! \| SVS
22 view cover	English Words: Structure, History, Usage more books like this by Francis Katamba, Katamba Francis add to wishlist How do we find the right word for the job? Where does that word come from? Why do we spell it like that? And how do we know what it means? Words are all around us - we use them every day to communicate our joys, fears, hopes, opinions, wishes and demands - but we don't often think about them too deeply. In this highly accessible introduction to ... see all copies from $31.40! new only from $31.40! \| first editions
23 view cover	Words, Meaning and Vocabulary: An Introduction to Modern English Lexicology more books like this by Professor Howard Jackson, Etienne Ze Amvela add to wishlist This textbook is a systematic and accessible introduction to the lexicology of modern English. Lexicology is the branch of linguistics that studies all aspects of the vocabulary of a particular language. The book provides an account of the sources of modern English words and studies the development of vocabulary over time. It examines: What are ... see all copies from $18.92! new only from $33.16! \| SVS
24 view cover	A History of English Words more books like this by Geoffrey Hughes (Editor) add to wishlist Why does English have so many words? Where have they all come from? Why do we now have different vocabularies for various activities?In A History of English Words, Geoffrey Hughes answers these questions in a comprehensive study of the evolution of English vocabulary which covers words as diverse as anti-disestablishmentarianism to OK, and ... see all copies from $42.89! new only from $47.29! \| SVS
25 view cover	Inheritance, Defaults and the Lexicon more books like this by Ted Briscoe (Editor), Ann Copestake (Editor), Valeria de Paiva (Editor) add to wishlist The lexicon is now a major focus of research in computational linguistics and natural language processing (NLP), as more linguistic theories concentrate on the lexicon and as the acquisition of an adequate vocabulary has become the chief bottleneck in developing practical NLP systems. This collection describes techniques of lexical representation ... see all copies from $17.35! new only from $27.00! \| first editions \| SVS

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