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Language Universals and Linguistic Typology

Syntax and Morphology

By: Bernard Comrie

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Language Universals and Linguistic Typology

Syntax and Morphology

By: Bernard Comrie

Here, Comrie (linguistics, U. of Southern Cal.) is particularly concerned with syntactico-semantic universals, devoting chapters to word order, case marking, relative clauses, and causative constructions. This second edition takes full account of new research into generative grammatical theory. Acidic paper. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

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University of Chicago Press

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0226114333

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9780226114330

Tense

By: Bernard Comrie

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Tense

By: Bernard Comrie

Bernard Comrie introduces readers to the range of variation found in tense systems across the languages of the world.

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Cambridge University Press

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0521281385

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9780521281386

A Grammar of Akabea

By: Raoul Zamponi,Bernard Comrie

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A Grammar of Akabea

By: Raoul Zamponi,Bernard Comrie

This volume is the first extensive and reliable grammatical description of any traditional language of the Great Andamanese family. Akabea died out in the 1920s, but was extensively documented in the late nineteenth century by two British administrators, Edward Horace Man and Maurice Vidal Portman. Although neither was a trained linguist, their material nonetheless provides a sufficient basis for a reliable analysis of Akabea grammar, especially its morphology and its phrasal and clausal syntax, although there are inevitable limitations on our understanding of Akabea phonology, clause combining, and discourse structure. The grammar is accompanied by an online appendix that provides a diplomatic edition with commentary and analysis of the single most valuable resource for Akabea grammatical analysis, Portman's Dialogues. Raoul Zamponi and Bernard Comrie's Grammar of Akabea offers a unique insight into the culture, history, and prehistory of the Andaman Islands, and also broadens our understanding of the human capacity for language. It highlights the typologically interesting and cross-linguistically rare traits of the language, such as a rich system of somatic (body-part) prefixes and the phenomenon of Verb Root Ellipsis, whereby under certain circumstances the root of a verb may be absent, leaving behind a grammatical word consisting solely of affixes. The project at last makes this valuable evidence accessible both to linguists and to interested scholars from other disciplines, such as anthropology, history, and genetics.

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Oxford University Press

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0192597809

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9780192597809

Tense

By: Bernard Comrie

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Bernard Comrie introduces readers to the range of variation found in tense systems across the languages of the world.

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Cambridge University Press

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Aspect

An Introduction to the Study of Verbal Aspect and Related Problems

By: Bernard Comrie

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An Introduction to the Study of Verbal Aspect and Related Problems

By: Bernard Comrie

An introduction to verbal aspect as a general linguistic phenomenon, with examples primarily from English, Slavonic and Romance languages.

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158

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Cambridge University Press

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0521290457

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Howard Aiken

Portrait of a Computer Pioneer

By: I. Bernard Cohen

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Howard Aiken

Portrait of a Computer Pioneer

By: I. Bernard Cohen

Biography of Howard Aiken, a major figure of the early digital era, by a major historian of science who was also a colleague of Aiken's at Harvard. Howard Hathaway Aiken (1900-1973) was a major figure of the early digital era. He is best known for his first machine, the IBM Automatic Sequence Controlled Calculator or Harvard Mark I, conceived in 1937 and put into operation in 1944. But he also made significant contributions to the development of applications for the new machines and to the creation of a university curriculum for computer science. This biography of Aiken, by a major historian of science who was also a colleague of Aiken's at Harvard, offers a clear and often entertaining introduction to Aiken and his times. Aiken's Mark I was the most intensely used of the early large-scale, general-purpose automatic digital computers, and it had a significant impact on the machines that followed. Aiken also proselytized for the computer among scientists, scholars, and businesspeople and explored novel applications in data processing, automatic billing, and production control. But his most lasting contribution may have been the students who received degrees under him and then took prominent positions in academia and industry. I. Bernard Cohen argues convincingly for Aiken's significance as a shaper of the computer world in which we now live.

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MIT Press

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0262531798

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9780262531795

Anniversaries and Holidays

By: Bernard Trawicky

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Anniversaries and Holidays

By: Bernard Trawicky

Completely revised and updated, with more than 3,000 listings honoring a variety of cultural traditions, this authoritative, painstakingly researched compendium is one of the most-used references in libraries and schools nationwide.

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American Library Association

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0838910041

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9780838910047

A Grammar of Akajeru

Fragments of a traditional North Andamanese dialect

By: Raoul Zamponi ,Bernard Comrie

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A Grammar of Akajeru

Fragments of a traditional North Andamanese dialect

By: Raoul Zamponi ,Bernard Comrie

A Grammar of Akajeru describes aspects of the grammatical system and lexicon of Akajeru, a traditional dialect of the North Andamanese language, as it was reportedly used around the beginning of the twentieth century. It is based primarily on the fragments of this variety provided by the British anthropologist Alfred R. Radcliffe-Brown and scattered among the published results of his anthropological research carried out on the islands between 1906 and 1908. These are supplemented by published lists of 46 anatomical terms and 28 toponyms collected by Edward Horace Man, Officer in Charge of the Andamanese 1875–79. The book provides a linguistic analysis of all the extant Akajeru material, plus items identified by Radcliffe-Brown as ‘North Andaman’ without further specification, his few records of Akabo and Akakhora and Man’s few records of Akakhora, which together constitute all the documentation of these other traditional North Andamanese dialects. It includes a grammatical sketch of Akajeru, a list of all the words that were recorded, together with an English-Akajeru finder list, and a comparison between Akajeru and Present-day Andamanese, an Akajeru-based variety with elements from all the other traditional dialects of North Andamanese that is today remembered by only three people.

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UCL Press

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180008093X

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9781800080935

Requiem for the Santa Cruz

An Environmental History of an Arizona River

By: Robert H. Webb,Julio L. Betancourt,R. Roy Johnson,Raymond M. Turner,Bernard L. Fontana

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Requiem for the Santa Cruz

An Environmental History of an Arizona River

By: Robert H. Webb,Julio L. Betancourt,R. Roy Johnson,Raymond M. Turner,Bernard L. Fontana

Over the millennia, the drainageway we now call the Santa Cruz River has seen many ebbs, flows, and floods. Throughout its long history, the river has meandered. It has flowed on the surface. It has carved deep fissures, and it has widened and narrowed.As readers of Requiem for the Santa Cruz learn, these are events that also have taken place in historic times. Authored by an esteemed group of scientists, Requiem for the Santa Cruz thoroughly documents this river, which flows through Tucson, Arizona, as a prime example of arroyo cutting, a process where heavy rains cut down through rock to create deep channeling. Each chapter provides a unique opportunity to chronicle the arroyo legacy, evaluate its causes, and consider its aftermath. Using more than a century of observations and collections, the authors reconstruct the physical, biological, and cultural circumstances of the river's entrenchment, widening, and subsequent partial filling. Today, communities everywhere face this conundrum: do we manageephemeral rivers through urban areas for flood control, or do we attempt to restore them to some previous state of naturalness? Requiem for the Santa Cruz carefully explores the channel-change legacy, the efficacy of attempts to stabilize it, and the nascent attempts at river restoration to give a long-term perspective on management of rivers in arid lands. Tied together by authors who have committed their life's work to the study of arid-land rivers, this book offers a touching and scientifically grounded requiem for the Santa Cruz and every southwestern river"--

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University of Arizona Press

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0816530726

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9780816530724

Quantum Mechanics, Volume 2

Angular Momentum, Spin, and Approximation Methods

By: Claude Cohen-Tannoudji,Bernard Diu,Franck Laloë

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Quantum Mechanics, Volume 2

Angular Momentum, Spin, and Approximation Methods

By: Claude Cohen-Tannoudji,Bernard Diu,Franck Laloë

This new edition of the unrivalled textbook introduces concepts such as the quantum theory of scattering by a potential, special and general cases of adding angular momenta, time-independent and time-dependent perturbation theory, and systems of identical particles. The entire book has been revised to take into account new developments in quantum mechanics curricula. The textbook retains its typical style also in the new edition: it explains the fundamental concepts in chapters which are elaborated in accompanying complements that provide more detailed discussions, examples and applications. * The quantum mechanics classic in a new edition: written by 1997 Nobel laureate Claude Cohen-Tannoudji and his colleagues Bernard Diu and Franck Laloë * As easily comprehensible as possible: all steps of the physical background and its mathematical representation are spelled out explicitly * Comprehensive: in addition to the fundamentals themselves, the book contains more than 170 worked examples plus exercises Claude Cohen-Tannoudji was a researcher at the Kastler-Brossel laboratory of the Ecole Normale Supérieure in Paris where he also studied and received his PhD in 1962. In 1973 he became Professor of atomic and molecular physics at the Collège des France. His main research interests were optical pumping, quantum optics and atom-photon interactions. In 1997, Claude Cohen-Tannoudji, together with Steven Chu and William D. Phillips, was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics for his research on laser cooling and trapping of neutral atoms. Bernard Diu was Professor at the Denis Diderot University (Paris VII). He was engaged in research at the Laboratory of Theoretical Physics and High Energy where his focus was on strong interactions physics and statistical mechanics. Franck Laloë was a researcher at the Kastler-Brossel laboratory of the Ecole Normale Supérieure in Paris. His first assignment was with the University of Paris VI before he was appointed to the CNRS, the French National Research Center. His research was focused on optical pumping, statistical mechanics of quantum gases, musical acoustics and the foundations of quantum mechanics.

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John Wiley & Sons

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352734554X

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Developing University-Industry Relations

Pathways to Innovation from the West Coast

By: Robert C. Miller,Bernard J. Le Boeuf,and Associates,

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Developing University-Industry Relations

Pathways to Innovation from the West Coast

By: Robert C. Miller,Bernard J. Le Boeuf,and Associates,

Developing University-Industry Relations draws on the experiences of some of the most renowned research universities on the U.S. West Coast and in Canada. Each campus has a solid record of providing a vital resource for the growth of their regional economies through innovative technology transfer and commercialization initiatives with companies such as Hewlett-Packard, Google, Discovery Parks, and Cohen-Boyer. In this book, the authors offer a wealth of exemplary best practices and proven strategies from these forward-thinking institutions. They show what it takes to sustain strong university-industry collaborations that will allow for successful technology transfer.

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0470433965

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9780470433966

The Life and Work of Professor J.W. Gregory FRS (1864-1932), Geologist, Writer and Explorer

By: Bernard E. Leake

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The Life and Work of Professor J.W. Gregory FRS (1864-1932), Geologist, Writer and Explorer

By: Bernard E. Leake

Gregory's remarkable career and his scientific work are detailed and critically assessed. Accounts of his heroic 1893 expedition to the Rift Valley (a term he coined) in Kenya (now the Gregory Rift), his first crossing of Spitzbergen, and his resignation as Leader of the first British Antarctic Expedition of 1901, when racing to the Pole under Scott became the priority, draw on unpublished letters. While in Melbourne he published on mining geology and a series of geography textbooks. His 1901 Lake Eyre expedition in Central Australia initiated the phrase 'The Dead Heart of Australia' and controversy over the source of artesian water. In the Chair of Geology in Glasgow from 1904, he built up the largest first-year geology class in the UK, over 400 students. He worked in every field of geology and every continent except Antarctica. He was also involved with the search for a 'homeland' for the Jews in Libya and Angola. He shrewdly realized that Wegener's Continental Drift Theory erroneously supposed that the Pacific Ocean was wider than now before the Atlantic opened. This led to his influential rejection of Continental Drift. He drowned in Peru traversing the Andes having published over 30 books and nearly 400 articles.

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Geological Society of London

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1862393230

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9781862393233

The World Atlas of Language Structures

By: Martin Haspelmath,Matthew S. Dryer,David Gil,Bernard Comrie

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The World Atlas of Language Structures

By: Martin Haspelmath,Matthew S. Dryer,David Gil,Bernard Comrie

The World Atlas of Language Structures is a book and CD combination displaying the structural properties of the world's languages. 142 world maps and numerous regional maps - all in colour - display the geographical distribution of features of pronunciation and grammar, such as number of vowels, tone systems, gender, plurals, tense, word order, and body part terminology. Each world map shows an average of 400 languages and is accompanied by a fully referenced description of the structural feature in question. The CD provides an interactive electronic version of the database which allows the reader to zoom in on or customize the maps, to display bibliographical sources, and to establish correlations between features. The book and the CD together provide an indispensable source of information for linguists and others seeking to understand human languages. The Atlas will be especially valuable for linguistic typologists, grammatical theorists, historical and comparative linguists, and for those studying a region such as Africa, Southeast Asia, North America, Australia, and Europe. It will also interest anthropologists and geographers. More than fifty authors from many different countries have collaborated to produce a work that sets new standards in comparative linguistics. No institution involved in language research can afford to be without it.

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OUP Oxford

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0191531243

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Language Universals and Linguistic Typology

Language Universals and Linguistic Typology

Tense

Tense

A Grammar of Akabea

A Grammar of Akabea

Tense

Tense

Aspect

Aspect

Howard Aiken

Howard Aiken

Anniversaries and Holidays

Anniversaries and Holidays

A Grammar of Akajeru

A Grammar of Akajeru

Requiem for the Santa Cruz

Requiem for the Santa Cruz

Quantum Mechanics, Volume 2

Quantum Mechanics, Volume 2

Developing University-Industry Relations

Developing University-Industry Relations

The Life and Work of Professor J.W. Gregory FRS (1864-1932), Geologist, Writer and Explorer

The Life and Work of Professor J.W. Gregory FRS (1864-1932), Geologist, Writer and Explorer

The World Atlas of Language Structures

The World Atlas of Language Structures

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