Peirce Charles S. Peirce 
Prolegomena to a Science of Reasoning [EPUB ebook] 
Phaneroscopy, Semeiotic, Logic

If among the many truths of Giambattista Vico“s New Science there is one that is deepest, it is the truth that language, mind, and society are but three modes of a common reality. In Vico“s term, t …

Kashmir boasts a language which challenges every field of linguistics. Kashmiri is spoken by approximately 3, 000, 000 people. Its syntax, similar to Germanic and other verb second languages, has rai …

Hungarian is spoken by 12-14 million people worldwide. A unique language, completely unrelated to the languages of its neighbouring countries, it boasts a grammar full of complex features and a vocab …

‚Generative Phonology‘ offers an overview of the post-SPE theory of generative phonology and is suitable for linguists not specializing in phonology, who want to keep abreast of the latest developmen …

First Published in 1998. Part of the Outstanding Dissertations in Linguistics series, this study investigates the phenomenon of polarity sensitivity. It proposes a new perspective which focuses on th …

First published in 2003. Present day Japanese has a basic word order of subject, object, , verb (SOV). As a result, it has postpositions rather than prepositions, branching is to the left. rather tha …

The first edition of this major introduction to linguistics rapidly established itself as an important student textbook, and a reference tool for those who already have some acquaintance with linguis …

Every language has its peculiar problems of meaning for the foreign learner. In the English language, some of the biggest yet most fascinating problems are concentrated in the area of the finite verb …

Cultural anthropology has always been dependent on translation as a textual practice, and it has often used “translation“ as a metaphor to describe ethnography“s processes of interpretation and cr …

The proliferation of language awareness has now led to a need for a reassessment of the nature and functions of language awareness. This accessible collection of essays addresses that need in develop …