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Words and Meanings: Lexical Semantics across Domains, Languages, and Cultures
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By Cliff Goddard and Anna Wierzbicka
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9780199668434 | Oxford Univ Pr, January 28, 2014, cover price $125.00

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9780198783558 | Reprint edition (Oxford Univ Pr, September 21, 2016), cover price $45.00

Language Change at the Syntax-semantics Interface
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Product Description: This volume focuses on the interplay of syntactic and semantic factors in language change. The contributions draw on data from numerous Indo-European languages and address the question of how syntactic and semantic change are linked and whether both are governed by similar constraints, principles and systematic mechanisms...read more
By Doris Penka (editor)
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9783110352177 | Mouton De Gruyter, January 1, 2015, cover price $154.00 | About this edition: This volume focuses on the interplay of syntactic and semantic factors in language change.

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9783110488074 | Reprint edition (Mouton De Gruyter, June 20, 2016), cover price $19.95 | About this edition: This volume focuses on the interplay of syntactic and semantic factors in language change.

The Oxford Handbook of Tense and Aspect
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By Robert I. Binnick (editor)
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9780195381979 | Oxford Univ Pr, May 21, 2012, cover price $195.00

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9780190621056 | Reprint edition (Oxford Univ Pr, June 1, 2016), cover price $55.00

Exploring Discourse Strategies in Social and Cognitive Interaction: Multimodal and cross-linguistic perspectives
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By M. Dolores Porto (editor) and Manuela Romano (editor)
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9789027256676 | John Benjamins Pub Co, March 31, 2016, cover price $143.00

Liberating Content
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By Ernie Lepore
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9780199641338 | Oxford Univ Pr, February 3, 2016, cover price $74.00

The Semantics of Compounding
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By Pius Ten Hacken (editor)
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9781107099708 | Cambridge Univ Pr, March 31, 2016, cover price $110.00

Semantics of Statebuilding: Language, Meanings and Sovereignty
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By Petar Bojanic (editor), Nicholas Onuf (editor) and Vojin Rakic (editor)
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9780415817295 | Routledge, November 14, 2013, cover price $155.00

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9781138650251 | Routledge, January 20, 2016, cover price $54.95 | also contains Semantics of Statebuilding: Language, Meanings and Sovereignty

The Crucible of Language: How Language and Mind Create Meaning
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Product Description: From the barbed, childish taunt on the school playground, to the eloquent sophistry of a lawyer prising open a legal loophole in a court of law, meaning arises each time we use language to communicate with one another. How we use language - to convey ideas, make requests, ask a favour, and express anger, love or dismay - is of the utmost importance; indeed, linguistic meaning can be a matter of life and death...read more
By Vyvyan Evans
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9781107123915 | Cambridge Univ Pr, February 16, 2016, cover price $89.99 | About this edition: From the barbed, childish taunt on the school playground, to the eloquent sophistry of a lawyer prising open a legal loophole in a court of law, meaning arises each time we use language to communicate with one another.

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9781107561038 | Cambridge Univ Pr, February 16, 2015, cover price $29.99

Modification
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By Marcin Morzycki
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9781107009752 | Cambridge Univ Pr, November 30, 2015, cover price $110.00

Farnsworth's Classical English Metaphor
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By Ward Farnsworth
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9781567925487 | David R Godine Pub, February 29, 2016, cover price $27.95

Communicating Through Vague Language: A Comparative Study of L1 and L2 Speakers
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Product Description: This book is a comparative study of vague language based on naturally occurring data of L1 and L2 speakers in academic settings. It explores how L2 learners have diverse and culturally specific needs for vague language compared with L1s, and are generally vaguer.
By Grace Q. Zhang
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9781137486370 | Palgrave Macmillan, August 31, 2015, cover price $100.00 | About this edition: This book is a comparative study of vague language based on naturally occurring data of L1 and L2 speakers in academic settings.

Elastic Language: How and Why We Stretch Our Words
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Product Description: Elastic language carries non-specific and stretchable meaning, as in 'He loves her, kind of'. It is used like a slingshot, targeting various strategic goals. Consolidating current research and charting new directions, this book develops a refreshing theory of elasticity, empirically attested by natural language data from tension-prone encounters between Australian Customs officers and passengers...read more
By Grace Q. Zhang
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9781107028449 | Cambridge Univ Pr, August 31, 2015, cover price $110.00 | About this edition: Elastic language carries non-specific and stretchable meaning, as in 'He loves her, kind of'.

The Unity of Linguistic Meaning
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Product Description: The problem of the unity of the proposition is almost as old as philosophy itself, and was one of the central themes of early analytical philosophy, greatly exercising the minds of Frege, Russell, Wittgenstein, and Ramsey. The problem is how propositions or meanings can be simultaneously unities (single things) and complexes, made up of parts that are autonomous of the positions they happen to fill in any given proposition...read more
By John Collins
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9780199694846 | Oxford Univ Pr, November 15, 2011, cover price $66.00

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9780198709329 | Reprint edition (Oxford Univ Pr, July 28, 2015), cover price $34.95 | About this edition: The problem of the unity of the proposition is almost as old as philosophy itself, and was one of the central themes of early analytical philosophy, greatly exercising the minds of Frege, Russell, Wittgenstein, and Ramsey.

Truth Be Told: Sense, Quantity, and Extension
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Product Description: Truth Be Told explains how truth and falsity result from relations that sentences have to the contexts in which they occur and the circumstances at which they are evaluated. It offers a precise conception of truth and a clear diagnosis of the Liar and Grelling paradoxes...read more
By John Justice
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9781433130090 | Peter Lang Pub Inc, July 29, 2015, cover price $67.95 | About this edition: Truth Be Told explains how truth and falsity result from relations that sentences have to the contexts in which they occur and the circumstances at which they are evaluated.

Use-conditional Meaning: Studies in Multidimensional Semantics
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By Daniel Gutzmann
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9780198723820 | Oxford Univ Pr, July 28, 2015, cover price $110.00

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9780198723837 | Oxford Univ Pr, July 28, 2015, cover price $45.00

Epistemic Indefinites: Exploring Modality Beyond the Verbal Domain
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By Paula Menendez-benito (editor)
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9780199665297 | Oxford Univ Pr, June 23, 2015, cover price $120.00

Word Meaning and Syntax: Approaches to the Interface
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The first volume of T.S. Eliot's criticism to be published; includes essays on Dante, Swinburne, Blake and the contemporaries of Shakespeare, on poetry, poetic drama and the criticism of poetry.
By Stephen Wechsler
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9780199279883 | Oxford Univ Pr, May 19, 2015, cover price $110.00

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9780199279890 | Oxford Univ Pr, May 19, 2015, cover price $50.00
9780415050876, titled "Sacred Wood" | 7 edition (Routledge, June 1, 1960), cover price $15.95 | also contains Sacred Wood | About this edition: The first volume of T.

The Syntax and Semantics of Pseudo-incorporation
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By Berit Gehrke (editor)
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9789004290341 | Brill Academic Pub, April 17, 2015, cover price $135.00

Freedom and the Self: Essays on the Philosophy of David Foster Wallace
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Product Description: The book Fate, Time, and Language: An Essay on Free Will, published in 2010 by Columbia University Press, presented David Foster Wallace's challenge to Richard Taylor's argument for fatalism. In this anthology, notable philosophers engage directly with that work and assess Wallace's reply to Taylor as well as other aspects of Wallace's thought...read more
By Maureen Eckert (editor)
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9780231161527 | Columbia Univ Pr, April 21, 2015, cover price $75.00 | About this edition: The book Fate, Time, and Language: An Essay on Free Will, published in 2010 by Columbia University Press, presented David Foster Wallace's challenge to Richard Taylor's argument for fatalism.

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9780231161534 | Columbia Univ Pr, April 21, 2015, cover price $25.00 | About this edition: The book Fate, Time, and Language: An Essay on Free Will, published in 2010 by Columbia University Press, presented David Foster Wallace's challenge to Richard Taylor's argument for fatalism.
9780425060742, titled "Star Slaver" | Berkley Pub Group, July 1, 1983, cover price $2.50 | also contains Star Slaver
9780425060674, titled "The Iceworld Connection" | Berkley Pub Group, May 1, 1983, cover price $2.50 | also contains The Iceworld Connection | About this edition: The Tri-System Police use a special undercover agent to infiltrate a group of pirates hijacking spaceships and smuggling drugs

Ambiguity: Language and Communication
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By Susanne Winkler (editor)
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9783110403435 | Mouton De Gruyter, March 13, 2015, cover price $140.00

Imagination and Convention: Distinguishing Grammar and Inference in Language
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By Matthew Stone
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9780198717188 | Oxford Univ Pr, February 11, 2015, cover price $49.50

Reliability in Pragmatics
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By Eric Mccready
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9780198702832 | Oxford Univ Pr, February 4, 2015, cover price $115.00

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9780198702849 | Oxford Univ Pr, February 4, 2015, cover price $50.00

The Semantics of Colour: A Historical Approach
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By C. P. Biggam
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9780521899925 | Cambridge Univ Pr, April 23, 2012, cover price $99.99

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9781107499881 | Cambridge Univ Pr, February 12, 2015, cover price $34.99

Animals Helping at Home
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By Lucia Raatma
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9780387961521, titled "The Development of Word Meaning: Progress in Cognitive Development Research" | Springer Verlag, November 1, 1985, cover price $99.00 | also contains The Development of Word Meaning: Progress in Cognitive Development Research
9780391029101, titled "Aldous Huxley and Eastern Wisdom" | Humanities Pr, June 1, 1981, cover price $25.00 | also contains Aldous Huxley and Eastern Wisdom

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9780531212851 | Childrens Pr, February 1, 2015, cover price $6.95

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9780531212585 | Childrens Pr, February 1, 2015, cover price $29.00

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9780606368490 | Turtleback Books, February 1, 2015, cover price $17.15

Semantics: From Meaning to Text
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By Alain Polguère (editor)
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9789027259332 | John Benjamins Pub Co, January 14, 2015, cover price $158.00
9789027206022 | John Benjamins Pub Co, July 15, 2013, cover price $158.00

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9780394720401, titled "American Medical Association Straight-Talk, No-Nonsense Guide to Good Nutrition" | Random House Inc, December 1, 1995, cover price $8.95 | also contains American Medical Association Straight-Talk, No-Nonsense Guide to Good Nutrition

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