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Banana cultures : agriculture, consumption, and environmental change in Honduras and the United States
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ISBN: 0292709579 0292796838 0292712561 9780292712560 Year: 2005 Publisher: Austin : University of Texas Press,

Historical syntax in cross-linguistic perspective
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ISBN: 0521478812 0521472946 1139085166 0511620551 9780521478816 9780511620553 Year: 1995 Volume: 74 Publisher: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press,

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In this major new work Alice Harris and Lyle Campbell set out to establish a general framework for the investigation of linguistic change. Systematic cross-linguistic comparison of syntactic change across a wide variety of languages is used to construct hypotheses about the universals and limits of language change more generally. In particular, the authors seek to move closer towards describing the range of causes of syntactic change to develop an understanding of the mechanisms of syntactic change, and to provide an understanding of why some languages undergo certain changes and not others. The authors draw on languages as diverse as Pipil and French, Georgian and Estonian, and the data presented is one of the book's great strengths. Rigor and precision are combined here with a great breadth of scholarship to produce a unique resource for the study of linguistic change, which will be of use to scholars and students alike.

Morphology
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ISBN: 0521422566 0521410436 0511995040 1316039706 1139166484 9780521410434 9780521422567 9781139166485 Year: 1991 Publisher: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press,

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This is an updated and substantially revised edition of Peter Matthews's well-known Morphology, first published in 1974. It includes chapters on inflectional and lexical morphology, derivational processes and productivity, compounds, paradigms, and much new material on markedness and other aspects of iconicity. As in the first edition, the theoretical discussion is eclectic and critical: its scope ranges from the ancient grammarians to the work of Chomsky and his followers, the disintegration of the classical Chomskyan scheme, and the renewed standing of morphology and historical linguistics in recent years. The examples are drawn from English and other European languages, ancient and modern. The work will appeal both to specialists in particular languages - it contains much original material - and students of general linguistics. For this new edition much now obsolete discussion has been removed and replaced by discussion of current trends, and the further reading sections have been thoroughly updated.

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