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Arabic

Shou fi ma fi? Intermediate Levantine Arabic

Chouairi Rajaa

ISBN: PB: 9780300153910, Yale University Press, July 2010
250 pp., 24.9x20.1 cm, 50 black&white illus.

"Shou fi ma fi?" will enable students to communicate orally in Levantine Arabic, the variety of Arabic spoken in Syria, Lebanon, the Holy Land, and western Jordan. The text assumes familiarity with Modern Standard Arabic (MSA), and it is highly recom...

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Linguistics

Layers of Aspect

Hofherr Patricia Cabredo, Laca Brenda

ISBN: PB: 9781575865966, ISBN: HB: 9781575865973, University of Chicago Press, Center for the Study of Language and Information, July 2010
250 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

The eight articles in this volume reexamine the syntactic and semantic analyses of aspect that have been proposed mainly on the basis of aspectual expressions in English. The authors contrast expressions sharing an analogous morpho-syntactic make-up...

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Sign Language

General

Deaf and Disability Studies Interdisciplinary Perspectives

Burch Susan, Kafer Alison

ISBN: HB: 9781563684647, Gallaudet University Press, July 2010
296 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 1 table

This collection presents 14 essays by renowned scholars on Deaf people, Deafhood, Deaf histories, and Deaf identity, but from different points of view on the Deaf/Disability compass. Editors Susan Burch and Alison Kafer have divided these works aro...

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Chinese

Learning Chinese A Foundation Course in Mandarin

Wheatley Julian K.

ISBN: PB: 9780300141177, Yale University Press, June 2010
416 pp., 25.4x20.3 cm, 48 black&white illus.

"Learning Chinese" teaches basic conversational and literary skills in Mandarin. It is designed to build language ability while stimulating learners' curiosity about the linguistic structures of the language as well as the geography, history, and cul...

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Criminology

Deadly Charm The Story of a Deaf Serial Killer

Vernon McCay, Vernon Marie

ISBN: PB: 9781563684432, Gallaudet University Press, May 2010
248 pp., 21.6x13.9 cm

From the day he was born, Patrick McCullough faced hardships and reacted with untempered anger. His mother, a soon-to-be-divorced military wife, was late to realize that he was deaf and never learned how to handle his outbursts. Eventually, she aband...

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Spanish

Transicion Hacia Un Espanol Avanzado a Traves De La Historia De Espana

Bilbao-Henry Josebe

ISBN: PB: 9780300142174, Yale University Press, April 2010
384 pp., 25.4x20.3 cm, 19 black&white illus.

"Transicion" is an intermediate to advanced Spanish language textbook which focuses on the transition to democracy in Spain after Franco's regime. The textbook helps students to build critical thinking skills and to analyze unfamiliar topics through...

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Linguistics

Meaning, Form, and Body

Turner Mark, Parrill Fey, Tobin Vera

ISBN: PB: 9781575865942, ISBN: HB: 9781575865959, University of Chicago Press, Center for the Study of Language and Information, April 2010
350 pp., 23x15 cm

"Meaning, Form, and Body" brings together renowned figures in the field of cognitive linguistics to discuss two related research areas in the study of linguistics: the integration of form and meaning and language and the human body. Among the numerou...

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Linguistics

Education

Craft of Scientific Communication

Harmon Joseph E., Gross Alan G.

ISBN: PB: 9780226316628, University of Chicago Press, April 2010
240 pp., 23x15 cm, 2 tables, 21 halftones, 12 line illus.

The ability to communicate in print and person is essential to the life of a successful scientist. But since writing is often secondary in scientific education and teaching, there remains a significant need for guides that teach scientists how best t...

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Linguistics

Reality Exploration and Discovery Pattern Interaction in Language and Life

Uyechi Linda Ann, Wee Lian-Hee

ISBN: PB: 9781575865881, ISBN: HB: 9781575865898, University of Chicago Press, Center for the Study of Language and Information, April 2010
438 pp., 23x15 cm

The twenty-five papers in this volume present current analyses of a variety of data and, more significantly, illustrate the various analytical tools available to linguists in the quest for deeper comprehension of the puzzles, questions, and problems...

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Linguistics

Fundamental Issues in the Romance Languages

Daniele Godard

ISBN: PB: 9781575865867, ISBN: HB: 9781575865874, University of Chicago Press, Center for the Study of Language and Information, April 2010
420 pp., 23x15 cm

"Fundamental Issues in the Romance Languages" compares six Romance languages – Catalan, French, Spanish, Italian, Portuguese, and Romanian – and summarizes the last thirty years of scholarship in the fields of morphology, syntax, semantics, and disco...

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