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Selected Books--Linguistics

Philosophy for Linguists: An Introduction by Siobhan Chapman
Call Number: UNI Stacks P106 .C513 2000
Publication Date: 2000
Provides students with a clear, concise introduction to the main topics in the philosophy of language.
Language and Concepts in Action: Multidisciplinary Perspectives on Linguistic Research by Magdalena Grabowska; Grzegorz Grzegorczyk; Hadrian Lankiewicz
Call Number: Online Books
Publication Date: 2013
Offers an interdisciplinary account of linguistic research, covering such fields of study as cognitive linguistics, translation studies and glottodidactics.
Field Linguistics: A Beginner's Guide by Terry Crowley
Call Number: Online Source
Publication Date: 2007
A comprehensive, practical guide to field linguistics, dealing in particular with the problems arising from the documentation of endangered languages.
Applied Linguistics as Social Science by Alison Sealey; Bob Carter
Call Number: Online Access
Publication Date: 2004
Surveys the increasing dialogue between linguistics and social theory.
Corpus Linguistics: An Introduction by Tony McEnery; Andrew Wilson
Call Number: UNI Stacks P98 .M32 2001
Publication Date: 2001
Gives a step-by-step introduction to what a corpus is, how corpora are constructed, and what can be done with them.
Corpus Linguistics 25 Years On by Roberta Facchinetti (Volume Editor)
Call Number: Online Access
Publication Date: 2007
Offers a state-of-the-art picture of work undertaken in the field of computer-aided corpus linguistics.
Sequences in Language and Text by George K. Mikros (Editor); Ján Macutek (Editor)
Call Number: Online Access
Publication Date: 2015
Presents the diverse but highly interesting area of the quantitative analysis of the sequence of various linguistic structures.
Entrenchment in Usage-Based Theories: What Corpus Data Do and Do Not Reveal About The Mind by Alice Blumenthal-Dramé
Call Number: Online Access
Publication Date: 2013
Explores the usage-based claim that high usage frequency leads to the entrenchment of complex words in the minds of language users.
Meaning Versus Grammar: An Inquiry into the Computation of Meaning and the Incompleteness of Grammar by Crit Cremers; Maarten Hijzelendoorn; Hilke Reckman
Call Number: Online Access
Publication Date: 2015
Investigates the complicated relationship between grammar, computation, and meaning in natural languages.
Sign Studies and Semioethics: Communication, Translation and Values by Susan Petrilli
Call Number: Online Access
Publication Date: 2014
Examines the issues surrounding the problematic perpetuation of dominant sign systems through the framework of 'semioethics'; presents semioethics as a method to engage semiotics in an active rethink of our ability as humans to affect change.
Experimental Semiotics: Studies on the Emergence and Evolution of Human Communication by Bruno Galantucci (Editor); Simon Garrod (Editor)
Call Number: Online Access
Publication Date: 2012
Offers a primer to Experimental Semiotics and presents a set of studies conducted within this discipline.
Describing Morphosyntax: A Guide for Field Linguists by Thomas E. Payne
Call Number: UNI Stacks P241 .P39 1997
Publication Date: 1997
A guide for linguistic fieldworkers who wish to write a description of the morphology and syntax of an under-documented language.
Dictionaries: The Art and Craft of Lexicography by Sidney I. Landau
Call Number: UNI Stacks P327 .L3 2001
Publication Date: 2001
Offers a comprehensive description of how dictionaries are researched and written, with particular attention to the ways in which computer technology has changed modern lexicography.
Adventuring in Dictionaries: New Studies in the History of Lexicography by John Considine
Call Number: Online Access
Publication Date: 2010
Brings together seventeen papers on the making of dictionaries from the sixteenth century to the present day.

Selected Books--Language Contact

An Introduction to Contact Linguistics by Donald Winford
Call Number: UNI Stacks P130.5 .W56 2003
Publication Date: 2003
Comprehensive introduction to the study of language contact and its outcomes, as well as the social and linguistic factors involved.
Language Contact and Contact Languages by Peter Siemund; Noemi Kintana
Call Number: Online Access
Publication Date: 2008
Analyzes language contact from different perspectives and describes, explains, and elaborates on universal constraints on language contact.
Convergence and Divergence in Language Contact Situations by Kurt Braunmüller (Editor); Juliane House (Editor); Universität Hamburg, Sonderforschungsbereich Mehrsprachigkeit Staff (Contribution by)
Call Number: Online Access
Publication Date: 2009
Deals with the consequences of converging and diverging processes and their development in language contact situations; provides insights into the various forms of language contact and the conditions under which bilingual speakers master their every-day life in bilingual communities.
Introduction to Pidgins and Creoles by John Holm; S. R. Anderson (Contribution by); J. Bresnan (Contribution by); B. Comrie (Contribution by); W. Dressler (Contribution by); C. J. Ewen (Contribution by)
Call Number: Online Access
Publication Date: 2000
Examines the structure of pidgins and creoles, the social history of their speakers, and the theories put forward to explain how their vocabularies, sound systems and grammars evolved.
Emergence of Pidgin and Creole Languages by Jeff Siegel
Call Number: Online Access
Publication Date: 2008
Provides explanations for the emergence of contact languages, especially pidgins and creoles.
Issues in the Study of Pidgin and Creole Languages by Claire Lefebvre
Call Number: Online Access
Publication Date: 2004
Concerns the various issues at stake in Creole studies that are also of interest for general linguistics.
Defining Creole by John H. McWhorter
Call Number: Online Access
Publication Date: 2005
Attempts to demonstrate the place that creoles might occupy in other linguistic subfields, including typology, language contact, and syntactic theory.