What sorts of alien languages can there be? And might reality be such that some alien language represents reality better than familiar languages do? Alien languages are here languages that use different kinds of semantic tools than any familiar languages use. The question of the existence of alien languages is interesting in itself: what kinds of languages are possible? But att...(展开全部)

This book is about investigating the way people use language in speech and writing. It introduces the corpus-based approach to linguistics, based on analysis of large databases of real language examples stored on computer. Each chapter focuses on a different area of linguistics, including lexicography, grammar, discourse, register variation, language acquisition, and historical...(展开全部)

奥托•叶斯柏森（Otto Jespersen, 1860—1943）是享誉国际的丹麦语言学家，英语语法研究界的权威泰斗，同时也是英语史学家。一生著述颇丰，涵盖普通语言学、语音学、语法学、语言史、语言哲学、外语教学等众多领域，是我国读者熟悉的语言学家，其语法理论曾对汉语语法研究产生重要影响。他的代表作有《语言进化论：特别着重英语》《语音学教程》《如何教外语》《英语的成长和结构》《现代英语语法》《语言论：语言的本质、发展和起源》《语法哲学》等。

奥托•叶斯柏森（Otto Jespersen, 1860—1943）是享誉国际的丹麦语言学家，英语语法研究界的权威泰斗，同时也是英语史学家。一生著述颇丰，涵盖普通语言学、语音学、语法学、语言史、语言哲学、外语教学等众多领域，是我国读者熟悉的语言学家，其语法理论曾对汉语语法研究产生重要影响。他的代表作有《语言进化论：特别着重英语》《语音学教程》《如何教外语》《英语的成长和结构》《现代英语语法》《语言论：语言的本质、发展和起源》《语法哲学》等。

奥托•叶斯柏森（Otto Jespersen, 1860—1943）是享誉国际的丹麦语言学家，英语语法研究界的权威泰斗，同时也是英语史学家。一生著述颇丰，涵盖普通语言学、语音学、语法学、语言史、语言哲学、外语教学等众多领域，是我国读者熟悉的语言学家，其语法理论曾对汉语语法研究产生重要影响。他的代表作有《语言进化论：特别着重英语》《语音学教程》《如何教外语》《英语的成长和结构》《现代英语语法》《语言论：语言的本质、发展和起源》《语法哲学》等。

This unique three-volume survey brings together a team of leading scholars to explore the syntactic and morphological structures of the world's languages. Clearly organized and broad-ranging, it covers topics such as parts-of-speech, passives, complementation, relative clauses, adverbial clauses, inflectional morphology, tense, aspect, mood, and diexis. The contributors look at...(展开全部)

How does science work? Does it tell us what the world is “really” like? What makes it different from other ways of understanding the universe? In Theory and Reality, Peter Godfrey-Smith addresses these questions by taking the reader on a grand tour of more than a hundred years of debate about science. The result is a completely accessible introduction to the main themes of the ...(展开全部)