This book lays the foundation for modern studies in historical and descriptive linguistics.

Ferdinand de Saussure's Cours de linguistique generale was posthumously composed by his students from the notes they had made at his lectures. The book became one of the most influential works of the twentieth century, giving direction to modern linguistics and inspiration to literary and cultural theory. Before he died Saussure told friends he was writing up the lectures himse...(展开全部)

查尔斯·弗朗西斯·霍凯特（Charles Francis Hockett,1916--2000），美国语言学家。1916年1月17日出生于美国俄亥俄州哥伦布市。1932年进入俄亥俄州立大学，硕士毕业后进入耶鲁大学攻读博士学位，在萨丕尔等著名学者的指导下进修人类学和语言学，同时经常到哥伦比亚大学参加鲍厄斯主持的美洲印第安语讨论会，1939年获人类学博士学位。1940-1942年期间，他继续从事学术研究，进行语言调查，并执教于密歇根大学，帮助弗里斯做研究工作。1942年应征入伍，在军队里做语言工作，编写供军队使用的汉语教材和词典。从1946年起，霍凯特一直在康奈尔大学教语言学和人类学，并曾主持基础汉语教学，为美国培养了一代语言学家和人类学家。1964年他曾担任美国语言学会会长。1973年被选入美国文理科学院，1974年又被选入国家科学院。1986年他曾来...(展开全部)

General relativity has become one of the central pillars of theoretical physics, with important applications in both astrophysics and high-energy particle physics, and no modern theoretical physicist's education should be regarded as complete without some study of the subject. This textbook, based on the author's own undergraduate teaching, develops general relativity and its a...(展开全部)

Clarity, readability, and rigor combine in the third edition of this widely used textbook to provide the first step into general relativity for advanced undergraduates with a minimal background in mathematics. Topics within relativity that fascinate astrophysics researchers and students alike are covered with Schutz's characteristic ease and authority, from black holes to relat...(展开全部)

Bernard Schutz is Director of the Max Planck Institute for Gravitational Physics, a Professor at Cardiff University, UK, and an Honorary Professor at the University of Potsdam and the University of Hannover, Germany. He is also a Principal Investigator of the GEO600 detector project and a member of the Executive Committee of the LIGO Scientific Collaboration. Professor Schutz h...(展开全部)

Clarity, readability, and rigor combine in the second edition of this widely used textbook to provide the first step into general relativity for undergraduate students with a minimal background in mathematics. Topics within relativity that fascinate astrophysical researchers and students alike are covered with Schutz’s characteristic ease and authority – from black holes to gra...(展开全部)

An elementary introduction to formal logic, particularly intended for linguists and others interested in languages. Concepts and theories developed within formal logic for the study of artificial languages have for some time been fruitfully applied to the study of natural languages and some knowledge of them is necessary for students of linguists (especially semantics). With th...(展开全部)

An elementary introduction to formal logic, particularly intended for linguists and others interested in languages. Concepts and theories developed within formal logic for the study of artificial languages have for some time been fruitfully applied to the study of natural languages and some knowledge of them is necessary for students of linguists (especially semantics). With th...(展开全部)