MUFWENE, SALIKOKO S. & CONDON, NANCY

Africanisms in Afro-American Language Varieties

Athens and London: University of Georgia Press, 1993. First Edition. Hardcover. ISBN: 082031465x. A very nice bright copy in original dust-wrapper.; Of major importance to linguists and anthropologists. ; 520 pages. As New in As New dust jacket .

-- Marijana Dworski Books

Book number: 29414

Catalogue: Language: : African

Keywords: 082031465x Language Lingua Franca English Variant World English African Languages Contact Language

MUFWENE, SALIKOKO S.

The Ecology of Language Evolution

Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2001. First Edition. Paperback. ISBN: 0521794757. Explores the development of creoles and other new languages focusing on the conceptual and methodolgical issues they raise for genetic linguistics. ; Cambridge Approaches to Language Contact; 276 pages. New .

-- Marijana Dworski Books

Book number: 29052

Catalogue: Language: : Pidgins and Creoles

Keywords: 0521794757 Pidgins Creoles. Language Ecology Macroecology Population Genetics Linguistics Language Language Linguistics

MUFWENE, SALIKOKO S. ; FRANCIS, ELAINE ; & WHEELER, REBECCA S. ; EDITORS:

Polymorphous Linguistics: Jim McCawley's Legacy

Cambridge [MA], MIT Press, (2005). orig.cloth. 25x17cm, xxx,550 pp.. Small ink mark to top page-edge. Some light cover soil. VG.
¶ James McCawley (1938-1999) was one of the most significant linguists of the latter half of the twentieth century. His legacy to a generation of linguists encompasses not only his work in phonology, syntax, semantics, pragmatics, and the philosophy of language but also his emphasis on bridging research in linguistics with that in other disciplines, from anthropology and psychology to physics and biology. This book, written by his former students - all now scholars in their own right - pays tribute to McCawley by pursuing questions about language that engaged him during his career. The variety of perspectives in these essays reflects McCawley' s eclecticism as well his belief that what is important in scholarly work is not the analytic framework used but the insights reached. The book considers topics in phonology; syntax, with several essays on Indic languages (in which McCawley had a special interest) as well as one on African-American English; tense, aspect, and mood; semantics and pragmatics, with essays in these areas grouped together to reflect the intertwining of McCawley's work on these subjects; knowledge of language; and the treatment of language, with its implicit colonial biases, in the 11th edition of Encyclopedia Britannica" - Publisher's description.

-- Expatriate Bookshop of Denmark

Book number: BOOKS016473I

Keywords: Linguistics, Language, Languages, Linguistic Theory, , , , , ,