The Language Organ: Linguistics as Cognitive Physiology
Added by: vicktorx | Karma: 41.03 | Black Hole | 21 October 2009
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This study treats human language as the manifestation of a faculty of the mind, which is seen as a mental organ whose nature is determined by human biology and whose functional properties should be explored as physiology explores the functional properties of physical organs. The book surveys the nature of the language faculty in its various aspects: the systems of sounds, words, and syntax, the development of language in the child and historically, what is known about its relation to the brain.
This book covers the management of all major emergencies and professional dilemmas (e.g. issues of consent) facing the gynaecologist, ranging from problems of a medical nature through to those requiring surgical intervention.
Added by: lucius5 | Karma: 1660.85 | Non-Fiction, Other | 26 September 2009
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Very Nice Ways to Say Very Bad Things: An Unusual Book of Euphemisms At a loss for words, hockey puck? You can always quote Shakespeare... Or delve into this entertaining compendium of insults and verbal abuse, all couched in language of the most uplifting nature. Filled with common and not-so-common zingers that will both shock you and make you laugh your @*#%! off.
The study of clause combining has been advanced lately by increasing interest in the study of actual language use in a typologically diverse set of languages. A number of received understandings have been challenged, among these the idea of clause combinations as being divisible into subordination and coordination in a binary fashion. Connected to this idea is the nature of conjunctions, a topic treated in several articles here.
