This book addresses the complex question of how and why languages have spread across the globe: why do we find large language families distributed over a wide area in some regions, while elsewhere we ... 続きを読む
Why have 1500 separate languages developed in the Pacific region? Why do Danes understand Norwegians better than Norwegians understand Danish? Is Ebonics a language or a dialect? Linguistics tends t ... 続きを読む
This book provides a historiographic study of the distinction between language and dialect, a puzzle which has long fascinated linguists and laypeople alike. It offers a comprehensive account of the i ... 続きを読む
Unlocks some of the deep mysteries of the human capacity for language
Examples are drawn from the worlds of AI, the animal kingdom, emojis, and Harry Potter
Based on research in neuro and cogni ... 続きを読む
Language, Cognition, and Human Nature collects together for the first time much of Steven Pinker's most influential scholarly work on language and cognition. Pinker's seminal research explores the wor ... 続きを読む
This book takes an idea first explored by medieval logicians 800 years ago and revisits it armed with the tools of contemporary linguistics, logic, and computer science. The idea - the Holy Grail of t ... 続きを読む
This book traces the history of language technology from writing - the first technology specifically designed for language - to digital speech and other contemporary language systems. The book describ ... 続きを読む
Provides the basic facts about the world's major families of spoken languages and their distribution around the globe
Relates to some of the big social issues facing the world today, such as bio- ... 続きを読む
This book examines the operation of laws, rules, and principles in Indo-European, the language family which includes the Celtic, Germanic, Italic/Romance, and Baltic/Slavic subfamilies as well as the ... 続きを読む
The authors of this book draw on previously unpublished archive material to explore the pioneering endeavours of the scholars who conceived the Oxford English Dictionary and, with the assistance of an ... 続きを読む
