Next of Kin
Roger Fouts, Stephen Tukel Mills
1997 · 1998 edition
432 pages
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Linguistics is the scientific study of language. How sounds, words and sentences are built, how children learn to speak, how languages change and how they shape thought are its questions. Popular introductions sit here beside textbooks for students of the field.
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Sin and Syntax
Constance Hale
Published 2001
289 pages
The Dictionary People
Sarah Ogilvie
2023 · 2024 edition
384 pages
Other-Wordly words both strange and lovely from around the world (Book Lover Gifts, Illustrated Untranslatable Word Book)
Yee-Lum Mak, Kelsey Garrity-Riley
Published 2016
64 pages
Dreaming in Chinese
Deborah Fallows
Published 2010
208 pages
Femminili singolari + Il femminismo è nelle parole
Vera Gheno
2019 · 2022 edition
233 pages
Anguished English
Richard Lederer
1989 · 1991 edition
124 pages
The Essential Chomsky
Noam Chomsky, Anthony Arnove
Published 2008
528 pages
Lonely Planet India
Lonely Planet, Sarina Singh, Joe Bindloss, Paul Clammer, Janine Eberle, Paul Harding, Abigail Hole, Patrick Horton, Amy Karafin, Matt Phillips, Simon Richmond
1987 · 2024 edition
984 pages
Word and Object
Willard Van Orman Quine
2010 · 2013 edition
312 pages
Language of the Third Reich LTI
Victor Klemperer
1996 · 2013 edition
303 pages
Introduction to the Theory of Computation
Michael Sipser
1996 · 2013 edition
458 pages
Empire of Signs
Roland Barthes
Published 1982
108 pages
The Study of Language
George Yule
1996 · 2022 edition
404 pages
Holy Sh*t A Brief History of Swearing
Melissa Mohr
2013 · 2016 edition
324 pages
Mechanically Inclined Building Grammar, Usage, and Style Into Writer's Workshop
Jeff Anderson
2005 · 2024 edition
244 pages
The Pun Also Rises How the Humble Pun Revolutionized Language, Changed History, and Made Wordplay More Than Some Antics
John Pollack, Pete Larkin
Published 2011
212 pages
Crimes Against Logic
Jamie Whyte
Published 2004
157 pages
What the F What Swearing Reveals About Our Language, Our Brains, and Ourselves
Benjamin K. Bergen
2016 · 2018 edition
304 pages
Wisdom Sits in Places
Keith H. Basso
Published 1996
171 pages
Greek Grammar Beyond the Basics
Daniel B. Wallace
Published 1996
797 pages
Mourning Diary
Roland Barthes, Nathalie Léger, Richard Howard
2010 · 2012 edition
288 pages
Film Art
David Bordwell, Kristin Thompson
1979 · 2024 edition
496 pages
A Little Book of Language
David Crystal
2010 · 2025 edition
272 pages